Website under construction
Hello and welcome to my website! I’m spending some time this year preparing new posts for this site, so please stay tune
Unpeeled 1: SONA + Ryoko Akama
Ryoko Akama is a sound artist/composer/performer who approaches listening situations that magnify silence, time and space. To
Unpeeled 0: SONA at YSWN CIC launch
As part of the Yorkshire Sound Women Network CIC: Launch gig on Friday 14th September 2018, we’ll be holding a SONA open stu
SONA: Unpeeled
SONA: Unpeeled consists of a series of live events showcasing women in electronic music. Each event contains a performance by
Shortlist for Health Humanities Medal 2018
Well done to Alinka and Harriet! The Hearing aids for Music project has propelled them into the “Inspiration Award̶
Scholarship at The New Centre for Research & Practice
I’m very grateful to the New Centre for Research & Practice for a scholarship to join Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s se
Timbre is a many-splendored thing!
Well, that was refreshing! It was an enormous relief to get out of the Montreal heatwave this week and shelter deep in the bow
Workshop on Intelligent Music Production
I’ve been invited to talk at this year’s Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, taking place in Huddersfield on
Composer-Curator award from Sound and Music
With massive appreciation for my collaborators Lucy Cheesman and Deborah Egan, I’m very excited to announce that our cre
Thank you iZotope!
I’d like to say a huge thank you to iZotope for funding my membership of the Audio Engineering Society this year. ItR
Survey: Music listening with hearing aids
Calling all hearing aid users! Our ‘Hearing aids for Music’ project at University of Leeds (UK) is looking for peo
An artist residency in motherhood
An Artist Residency in Motherhood is the reframing of parenthood as a valuable site for creative practice, rather than an obst
YSWN networks meetup 2018
Sun 25th March, 2018 Yorkshire Dance, Leeds Info link (at YSWN website) Booking via eventbrite
UK Psychoacoustics meeting
I travelled to Bristol earlier this week for an EPSRC/MRC meeting on Changing perceptions: Hearing, Psychoacoustics and ICT,
Guest blogpost for WiMIR
I was invited to write a blogpost for the Women in Music Information Retrieval (WiMIR) community. I’ve titled my post &#
Carpentries instructor
I’ve completed my ‘instructor training’ and am now a qualified member of the Software Carpentry team, teachi
Audio Engineering Society talk
I’ve just received a link to the video of my AES in York – many thanks to Mariana Lopez and Cleo Pike for inviting and
Institute of Acoustics talk
I was invited to present some recent work and current thoughts to my local meeting of the Institute of Acoustics. A. V. Beesto
Unmaking Acoustics
I always love this calm spot around the Winter solstice – a moment to reflect on the year drawing to a close… I’m re
Field studies 2017: Listening after Pauline Oliveros
I’ve been invited to reflect on machine listening in the Field Studies 2017: Listening After Pauline Oliveros event whi
Fun Palace (and more)
Along with several other SONA members, I’ll be helping families explore the sense of hearing with a Makey-Makey fruit or
Guest blogpost for Software Sustainability Institute
A blogpost I wrote earlier this month after attending the Carpentries Instructor Training course has just gone live. In it I r
Culture and the City
I’ve been asked to talk on behalf of – and about – SONA at the upcoming Sheffield Creative Guild Culture and the Cit
Hearing aids for music conference
Next week we are hosting our international conference on Hearing Aids For Music in Leeds. Our project site contains a blogpost
Improvised Photographs Exhibition
I was commissioned to simulate a pinhole camera exposure for two screen-based works in Mark Summers’ Improvised Photogr
Perception of isolated chords
It’s felt very restoring to immerse myself fully in music psychology topics this summer. I’m pleased that our pap
Hearing aids for music
This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Research from the field of music psychology – a sub-disc
University of Leeds
I am a Research Fellow in the School of Music at University of Leeds, working on the following projects Bioacoustics for poll
Everything flows exhibition
Rose Butler’s digital installation “Come and Go”, with audio by Mark Summers and yours truly, has been selec
Machine listening in artistic contexts
Much research effort is spent worldwide on speech, education and medical applications of machine listening. On a personal leve
Survey: Room awareness and sound adaptation
Here is the link to my new survey which investigates approaches to room adaptation in live music and sound art: http://tinyurl
YSWN networks meetup 2017
Sat 4th March, 2017 Heritage Quays, Huddersfield Info link (at YSWN website) Booking via eventbrite I contributed the followin
Science while you sleep
Researchers’ Night opens our doors to the public so you can find out about the research that goes on at the University of Sh
Survey: Sound awareness and listening habits
Since it’s World Listening Day today it seems a good time to share the link for our new survey of sound awareness and li
Collaborations workshop: PeerJ Preprint
Our paper from the Software Sustainability Institute’s ‘Collaborations Workshop’ is now out at PeerJ Preprin
Catalyst: Festival of Creativity
Please visit sonawomen.co.uk for full details of this project, including workshop info and video documentation. Our project ev
SONA
Born out of regular Sheffield meet-ups of the Yorkshire Sound Women Network, SONA is a Sheffield-based group which fosters ski
Come and Go at The Lowry, Salford Quays
Along with Mark Summers (improviser ± computer), I have been working on sound design for a new dual-screen installation by R
Come and Go
I was pleased to work on the audio design and mix for the dual-screen installation Come and Go by Rose Butler. Shown in The Lo
Yorkshire Sound Women Network
I’m a member of the working group of the Yorkshire Sound Women Network, a community formed this summer with the gloriou
Academic mentor
I am a firm believer in the benefits of mentoring, and have really enjoyed supporting PhD students through their thesis submis
Acoustic detection of snoring
This project is funded by means of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant from Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy B
Sound in mind
Sound in Mind was formed in 2014 as a multidisciplinary collective exploring, researching and promoting education, health and
Simultaneous talk for cochlear implant users
This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under its Follow on Fund for Impact and Engagement scheme w
Expressive timing in music
This project is funded by a Sheffield University ‘wider participation’ grant which supports the development of an
Speech technology for language learning
In collaboration with our industrial partners, we develop computer-assisted pronunciation training tools for Dutch learners of
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
I’m working with Dr Harriet Crook, Lead Clinical Scientist for Complex Hearing Loss at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS
Perceptual constancy in audition
My PhD research was funded within an EPSRC project on perceptual constancy in audition. Reverberation poses a problem for arti
University of Sheffield
I have been affiliated with the University of Sheffield since beginning my PhD in 2008, and am currently a visiting academic i