Projects
Current and Recent Projects
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(2026–2029) NWO Veni Funded Project — From Protest to Podcast: The Sonic Politics of Queer Netherlands. In this project, I bring radio archives into conversation with today’s community to develop forward-looking media policies and production practices. Learn more ↗
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(July 2026) Book Manuscript + Audio documentary companion — Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork. Under contract with University of Michigan Press. Learn more ↗
Past Projects
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July 2026 Lavender Sounds
Lavender Sounds delves into lesbian radio history and its evolution into queer feminist podcasting today, exploring the politics, aesthetics, and cultural activism embedded in queer feminist soundwork.
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January 2026 Amplify Podcast Network
Amplify Podcast Network aims to encourage collaboration and experimentation via the medium of scholarly podcasting. Copeland is the supervising producer and project manager of Amplify Podcast Network. She also hosts the network’s monthly audio blog Amplified.
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December 2025 Sound + Text Experiments
Here you will find various Text + Sound Experiments I’ve conducted over the years. They range from binaural soundscapes to short stories, to poetry and collective experimentation. I truly believe in play and in vulnerability as key to a better creative practice and to a better world. I offer here a bit of both in good spirit.
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December 2024 3QTL Three Questions About Teaching and Learning
Copeland was a consulting producer for 3QTL. 3QTL podcast is a series of short interviews designed to inspire creativity and innovation in post-secondary education. Through conversations with experts from across disciplines, each season of 3QTL tackles a different, timely topic related to teaching and learning in post-secondary.
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December 2022 The SpokenWeb Podcast
The SpokenWeb Podcast – What does literature sound like? What stories will we hear if we listen to the archive? This is Spokenweb, a podcast about how literatures sounds. Part of the SSHRC Funded SpokenWeb partnership.
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July 2022 This is The Sound of My Voice
Based on Copeland’s Master’s Thesis research in Communication & Culture, This is the Sound of my Voice is a three-part audio documentary exploring the experiences and voices of Toronto radio women, sonified.
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August 2020 SSHRC Storytellers Finalist
The collaborative audio storytelling short “Sound Is Not A Waste Product” is a finalist for the SSHRC Storytellers competition 2020/2021. It is part of Dr. Milena Droumeva’s SSHRC funded research project “Soundscapes of Livability: Exploring the design of the livable city”.
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June 2020 Speaking In and Listening Out
Speaking In and Listening Out is a soundscape project centered on voice, as extension of the body through sound. The plurality and uniqueness of voice, becomes re/materialized through on-site recording and on-demand re/amplification at AMAS16.
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May 2020 Livable Soundscapes
Under the supervision of PI Dr. Droumeva, Livable Soundscapes proposes that listening to the city can be an intervention into both the narratives of liveability and the processes by which community is formed in terms of sensory design.
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September 2019 FemRadio
FemRadio is a feminist radio show based in Toronto, Canada. Hosted and produced by CJRU staff and volunteers. FemRadio aims to tell stories of rad women making a difference in our community.
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April 2019 The Stiegl Hidden Studio Sessions
The Stiegl Hidden Studio Sessions feature intimate ‘live’ sessions in a secret Toronto location. Studio engineering and audio post by Copeland, the sessions are produced by Indie88.1, an award-winning radio station in Toronto, Canada.
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February 2019 Untold Noise
Untold Noise explores Toronto’s noise punk community and the city’s place within the music industry as an emerging mecca of creativity and art. Stacey Copeland led audio production as audio director and executive producer.
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December 2018 The (Re)sound Archive
What if the history of sound recording was based on the ‘voice’ of the machine, the sound technology, rather than the content produced? The (Re)sound project looks to archive the voices of recording technologies through the audio capture of their electromagnetic and mechanical noise.