Eldritch Priest is Assistant Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Canada and writes on sonic culture, experimental aesthetics, and the philosophy of experience from a 'pataphysical perspective. He is the author of Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure (2013) as well as numerous journal articles. Eldritch is also a composer. His works have been performed in Canada, the United States, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.