David Novak is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the Heyman Center, Columbia University.  (B.A., East Asian Studies, 1992. Oberlin College; M.A., Ethnomusicology, 1999. Wesleyan University; Thesis: "The National and the Transnational in the Japanese Underground." Ph.D. Columbia University 2006 ) David's dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography (based on research funded by Fulbright, The Social Science Research Council, and The Mellon Foundation) on the circulation of experimental music between North America and Japan. The project deals with the translocal distribution of media, debates about musical genre, histories of international avant-garde movements, local modes of listening and technological mediation in urban network, and shows how marginal practices can articulate critiques of globalization. He is currently revising this work for a forthcoming book contracted with Duke University Press, entitled Japanoise: Global Media Circulation and Experimental Music. David's other interests include Javanese gamelan, history of sound recording, Karnatic music, and film music. His performing ensembles include Habit Trail and Maestros (a country rock band and a live electroacoustic duo, respectively); the Anthony Braxton Ensemble; cut-up pop group Dymaxion, and Balinese angklung ensemble Chandra Bawana. Recent publications include “2.5 by 6 Metres of Space: Japanese Music Coffeehouses and Experimental Practices of Listening.” Popular Music 27(1):15-34, and “Onkyo/Oto, Chinmoku/Ma, to Impuro no Sendaitekina Disukuuru" [“Sound, Silence, and the Global Discourses of Improvisation”], in the Japanese-language volume The New Jazz Studies, ed. M.  Molasky, Ongaku no Tomosha: Tokyo.