Professor Holly Rogers

Holly is interested in music's convergence with the visual arts.

Staff details

Position

Professor of Music, Director of Research

Department

Music

Email

h.rogers (@gold.ac.uk)

I am interested in the convergence of music with the visual arts, film, new media, architecture and literature and work on the use of sound in video art, experimental film, social media, documentary and cinema. Threading through all of this is a focus on intermedia, transmedia and participatory culture.

Academic qualifications

BA (hons), University of Oxford
MA, University of Oxford
MMus, King's College London
PhD, University of Cambridge (AHRC funded)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University College Dublin
Fulbright Scholarship, DocFilm Institute San Francisco
Senior Research Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin
Teaching Diploma, University of Liverpool

Teaching and supervision

Taught Degrees
At undergraduate level I teach film musicology and music and screen media. At Masters level, I convene the MA Music (Audiovisual Cultures) pathway, teach the core module and supervise the major projects.

Research Degrees
I welcome PhD applications in any area of audiovisual research and am happy to work with theorists and practitioners.

Featured publications

2013: Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music
An OUP monograph about the convergence of music and the visual arts

2014: Music and Sound in Documentary Film
A Routledge collection covering various aspects of nonfiction filmmaking

2017: The Music and Sound of Experimental Film
A volume for OUP that charts the role of sound in artist film and expanded practice

2020: Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics
The flagship volume for my Bloomsbury book series, New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media

2022: Twentieth-Century Music in the West
A CUP textbook that charts pop, jazz, art, rock and other musics across the century

Grants and awards

2023: Knowledge Unlatched Award: YouTube and Music

2023: Goldsmiths Strategic Fund: Future Sounds

2017: AHRC - Learn to Play: Computational Assessment of Musical Playability for Users' Practice

2013: Trinity College Dublin Research Fellowship: Documentary Sound

2012: Film Music Foundation Grant, Research Centre for Audiovisual Media University of Liverpool

2012: Fulbright Scholarship: Sounding the Gallery

2006: Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship: Visualising Music

Publications and research outputs

Book

Re/Sounding Spaces: Listening Across Audiovisual Culture Rogers, Holly. 2024. Re/Sounding Spaces: Listening Across Audiovisual Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Twentieth-Century Music in the West Perchard, Tom; Graham, Stephen; Rutherford-Johnson, Tim and Rogers, Holly. 2022. Twentieth-Century Music in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108481984
New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media Rogers, Holly; Vernallis, Carol and Perrott, Lisa. 2016. New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media. Bloomsbury.

Edited Book

Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music Rogers, Holly; Freitas, Joana and Porfírio, João Francisco, eds. 2023. Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501387340
YouTube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life Rogers, Holly; Freitas, Joana and Porfírio, João, eds. 2023. YouTube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501387272
Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision Rogers, Holly; Vernallis, Carol; Kara, Selmin and Leal, Jonathan, eds. 2021. Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501357053

Edited Journal

Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture Rogers, Holly, ed. 2020. Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture, Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture, .

Book Section

“The Shock of Time”: Hauntological Echoes of La Folia in Max Richter’s Woolf Works Rogers, Holly. 2024. “The Shock of Time”: Hauntological Echoes of La Folia in Max Richter’s Woolf Works. In: Delphine Vincent and Holly Rogers, eds. Max Richter: History, Memory, Nostalgia. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, pp. 181-196. ISBN 978-2-503-61185-3
“I feel like I’ve heard it before”: The Audiovisual Echoes of YouTube Rogers, Holly. 2023. “I feel like I’ve heard it before”: The Audiovisual Echoes of YouTube. In: Holly Rogers; Joana Freitas and João Francisco Porfírio, eds. Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-34. ISBN 9781501387326
Listening Through Social Media: Soundscape Composition, Collaboration and Networked Sonic Elongation Rogers, Holly. 2023. Listening Through Social Media: Soundscape Composition, Collaboration and Networked Sonic Elongation. In: Holly Rogers; Joana Freitas and João Francisco Porfírio, eds. Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 113-144. ISBN 9781501387326

“Welcome to your world”: YouTube and the Reconfiguration of Music’s Gatekeepers Rogers, Holly. 2023. “Welcome to your world”: YouTube and the Reconfiguration of Music’s Gatekeepers. In: Holly Rogers; Joana Freitas and João Francisco Porfírio, eds. YouTube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 1-38. ISBN 9781501387272
Music and the Moving Image Rogers, Holly. 2022. Music and the Moving Image. In: Tom Perchard; Stephen Graham; Tim Rutherford-Johnson and Holly Rogers, eds. Twentieth Century Music in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 295-318. ISBN 9781108481984
Recording and Production Rogers, Holly. 2022. Recording and Production. In: Tom Perchard; Stephen Graham; Tim Rutherford-Johnson and Holly Rogers, eds. Twentieth Century Music in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 229-252. ISBN 9781108481984
Instruments Rogers, Holly. 2022. Instruments. In: Tom Perchard; Stephen Graham; Tim Rutherford-Johnson and Holly Rogers, eds. Twentieth Century Music in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 202-226. ISBN 9781108481984
Canons Rogers, Holly. 2022. Canons. In: Tom Perchard; Stephen Graham; Tim Rutherford-Johnson and Holly Rogers, eds. Twentieth Century Music in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 104-128. ISBN 9781108481984
Terence Nance: Random Acts of Flyness Rogers, Holly and Vernallis, Carol. 2021. Terence Nance: Random Acts of Flyness. In: Holly Rogers; Carol Vernallis; Selmin Kara and Jonathan Leal, eds. Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 311-328. ISBN 9780190853617
Ben Salisbury: Scoring Science for Alex Garland. Rogers, Holly; McGrath, John; Vernallis, Carol and Chapman, Dale. 2021. Ben Salisbury: Scoring Science for Alex Garland. In: Holly Rogers; Carol Vernallis; Selmin Kara and Jonathan Leal, eds. Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 130-137. ISBN 9780190853617
Sonic Elongation and Sonic Aporia: Two Modes of Disrupted Listening in Film Rogers, Holly. 2021. Sonic Elongation and Sonic Aporia: Two Modes of Disrupted Listening in Film. In: Carlo Cenciarelli, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 427-449. ISBN 9780190853617
The Audiovisual Eerie: Transmediating Thresholds in the Work of David Lynch Rogers, Holly. 2019. The Audiovisual Eerie: Transmediating Thresholds in the Work of David Lynch. In: Carol Vernallis; Holly Rogers and Lisa Perrott, eds. Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and the New Audiovisual Aesthetics. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 241-270. ISBN 9781501341007
Audio-visual Collisions: Moving Image Technology and the Laterna Magika Aesthetic in New Music Theatre Rogers, Holly. 2019. Audio-visual Collisions: Moving Image Technology and the Laterna Magika Aesthetic in New Music Theatre. In: Robert Adlington, ed. New Music Theatre in Europe: Transformations Between 1955-1975. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 79-100. ISBN 9781138323018
‘Audio-Visual Dissonance in Found Footage Films’ Rogers, Holly. 2017. ‘Audio-Visual Dissonance in Found Footage Films’. In: Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham, eds. The Sound and Music of Experimental Film. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190469900
‘Beethoven’s Myth Sympathy: Hollywood’s Reconstruction’ Rogers, Holly. 2015. ‘Beethoven’s Myth Sympathy: Hollywood’s Reconstruction’. In: Michael Spitzer, ed. Beethoven. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 509-521. ISBN 978-1-4724-4030-3
‘Twisted Synaesthesia: Visual Artists and the Music Video’ Rogers, Holly. 2014. ‘Twisted Synaesthesia: Visual Artists and the Music Video’. In: Germano Celant, ed. Music or Art. Milan: Fondazione Prada, pp. 281-288.
‘Music, Sound and the Nonfiction Aesthetic’ Rogers, Holly. 2014. ‘Music, Sound and the Nonfiction Aesthetic’. In: Holly Rogers, ed. Music and Sound in Documentary Film. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-19.
‘Spatial Reconfiguration in Interactive Video Art-Music’ Rogers, Holly. 2013. ‘Spatial Reconfiguration in Interactive Video Art-Music’. In: Karen Collins; Bill Kapralos and Holly Tessler, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 15-30. ISBN 9780199797226
Multimedia Art: Video Art-Music Rogers, Holly. 2013. Multimedia Art: Video Art-Music. In: Tim Shepherd and Anne Leonard, eds. Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Art. New York: Routledge, pp. 367-375. ISBN 9780415629256
‘“Betwixt and Between” Worlds: Spatial and Temporal Liminality in Video Art-Music’ Rogers, Holly. 2013. ‘“Betwixt and Between” Worlds: Spatial and Temporal Liminality in Video Art-Music’. In: Claudia Gorbman; John Richardson and Carol Vernallis, eds. The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 525-542. ISBN 9780199733866
‘Death for Five Voices: Gesualdo’s “poetic truth”’ Rogers, Holly. 2012. ‘Death for Five Voices: Gesualdo’s “poetic truth”’. In: Brad Prager, ed. A Companion to Werner Herzog. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 187-207. ISBN 978-1-4051-9440-2
‘“Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs”: Singing the Film Space in Prospero’s Books’ Rogers, Holly. 2008. ‘“Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs”: Singing the Film Space in Prospero’s Books’. In: David Cooper, ed. Cinemusic: Constructing the Film Score. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar's Publishing, pp. 141-164.

Article

Contemporary Audiovisualities, Intermediality and Remediation Rogers, Holly; Alvim, Luíza and Paiva Chaves, Renan. 2022. Contemporary Audiovisualities, Intermediality and Remediation. Revista Eco-Pós, 21(1), pp. 320-341. ISSN 2175-8689
The Spaces Beyond: Experimenting with the Theory of Audiovisual Concrète Rogers, Holly and Britton, Heather. 2022. The Spaces Beyond: Experimenting with the Theory of Audiovisual Concrète. [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 9(1), ISSN 2469-4312
Locked Down Listening / Communal Re-Imagination Rogers, Holly. 2020. Locked Down Listening / Communal Re-Imagination. Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture,

Thesis

Alternative Models of Music-Image Interaction in Film Rogers, Holly. 2005. Alternative Models of Music-Image Interaction in Film. Doctoral thesis, Magdalene College, Cambridge University
Beethoven on Film Rogers, Holly. 2000. Beethoven on Film. Masters thesis, King's College, London

Other

Sound and Vision Rogers, Holly. 2013. Sound and Vision. Wire Magazine, London.

Professional projects

Along with my colleagues Carol Vernallis (Stanford) and Lisa Perrott (University of Waikato), I edit Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Music, Sound and Media series, a collection of exciting research monographs dedicated to changing our understandings of sound, image, and their relations across media. I am also the founding director of Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture, a student-run peer-reviewed journal published by Goldsmiths Press and MIT Press and edited by postgraduate students from the department. I currently sit on the editorial board for Goldsmiths Press, Routledge’s Music and Visual Culture book series, Bloomsbury’s Ex:centrics book series and Intellect’s journal, “The Soundtrack”.

Conferences and talks

2025: Music and Online Cultures, NOVA University, Portugal
Keynote Address

2024: IASPM D-A-C-H, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Keynote Address

2024: Audiovisually Mediated Conspiracy Theoretical Discourse, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Keynote address

2023: ‘Internet Music’, University of Salford, Manchester
Keynote address

2023: Italian Musicological Society, University of Bologna, Italy
Keynote address

2022: Max Richter Conference, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Keynote Address

2022: London Experimental Film Conference, Queen Mary’s University London
Keynote Address

2021: Spanish Society of Musicology, XIII Symposium, Oviedo University, Spain
Keynote Address

2021: The 24th Annual Symposium of Music Scholars in Finland, University of Turku & Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Keynote address

2020: Like, share and subscribe, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Keynote address

2019: Dangerous Mediations, University of Oslo, Norway
Keynote address

2017: Audiovisuality Symposium, Aarhus University, Denmark
Keynote address

2017: Sound/ Image Symposium, Greenwich University, London
Keynote address

2017: Graz Impuls Festival, Austria
Keynote address

2013: Digitized Reality Symposium, Zurich School of Film, Switzerland
Keynote address

2012: Documentary Film Conference, San Francisco State University, USA
Keynote address

2010: Institute of Musical Research
Keynote address

PhD research students

Recent graduates from Goldsmiths include author and filmmaker Adam Scovell (AHRC funded) and composer Sarah Westwood.

My current PhD students are:
• Jilliene Sellner, a sound artist working as part of the Heya collective (AHRC funded);
• Midori Komachi, a sound artist and composer researching the Takemitsu Pavilion in Osaka (AHRC funded);
• Galina Juritz, a composer, performer and filmmaker developing a participatory documentary filmmaking practice (AHRC funded);
• Regan Bowering, an improvisor, musicologist and editor exploring the links between city soundscapes and musical rhythm (Fulbright Scholar);
• Shelley Calhoun-Scullion, a fine artist creating a sonic history of Detroit (DAAD funded);
• Janell Yeo, a professional violinist creating music videos for her performances (Chinese State funding);
• Raymond Sookram, a ludomusicologist researching the idea of sonic paracosms in video games;
• Lee Scott Newcombe, an instrument-maker and composer exploring musical temporality and circularity;
• Shane Dabinett, a media theorist exploring the visual layouts of digital audio workstations;
• Liangchen Sui, a visual artist working on ecosemiotics, acoustics and sound art;
• Márcio Cruz, a filmmaker developing an afro-futurist practice-based research methodology to theorise Black experimental filmmaking;