Graham Steinman is a Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) based composer, researcher, and MA student in Concordia University’s Department of Anthropology, beginning Fall 2026.

His research aims to explore how ecological environment shapes the way cultures hear, know, and make meaning through sound, tracing the connections between landscape, cosmology, and musical practice. Working under the supervision of David Howes, his project pairs ethnographic fieldwork with a research creation component, using immersive spatial audio.

Steinman holds a BA (Honours) in Music with a minor in Anthropology from the University of Guelph, where his thesis focused on ethnocentricity in Western music theory, recommending an expanded theoretical language.

Since graduating, he has worked in research, production, and audio engineering across documentary, festival, and multi-sensory museum exhibition contexts. Alongside this research work, his creative practice moves between folk, jazz, experimental songwriting, and field recording. He is currently working in spatialized compositions for the audiovisual fulldome medium, including his recent collaborative productions UNDERSKY (2026), and Flicker and Gambol (2025), the latter of which won the “Most Innovative” category of the FullDome Festival Jena 2026.