A Sensation Never Yet Known: Symposium

With contributions from:

• Prof Louise Harris (University of Glasgow)
• Dr Claire M. Holdsworth (University of Glasgow)
• Dr Frances Morgan (University of Huddersfield)

Through presentations and discussion, this event will consider the complex histories at stake in A Sensation Never Yet Known, including the role of women musicians in electronic music.

Louise Harris is an electronic and audiovisual composer, and Professor of Audiovisual Composition at The University of Glasgow. She specialises in the creation and exploration of audiovisual relationships utilising electronic music, recorded sound and computer-generated visual environments. Louise’s work encompasses fixed media, live performance and large-scale installation pieces, with a recent research strand specifically addressing Expanded Audiovisual Formats (EAF). Her work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent commissions from Cryptic and The Lighthouse, Sanctuary and the Plenty? Festival. Harris’s book Composing Audiovisually, a monograph on audiovisual composition, was published by Routledge in July 2021.

Claire M. Holdsworth is a writer, archivist and audio-maker. Specialising in sound theory, artists’ moving image (1960s to late 1980s), and technology-based art, her research considers the voice, investigating narration, historiography, archives, and social collectives, with a focus on feminist and queer subjects. Claire was an Early Career Research Fellow at Kingston School of Art (Kingston University London) and prior to that completed an AHRC-funded PhD at Central Saint Martins (UAL) based in the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection in the CSM Museum.

Frances Morgan is a writer and researcher with a focus on auditory culture, instrument studies and histories of electronic sound and music. Morgan's doctoral research addressed the historiography of electronic music through a study of the EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer, and was supported by the Science Museum, London, through the AHRC's Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme. Morgan’s professional background is in music and arts journalism, including for publications such as The Wire, Sight & Sound and the London Review of Books

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