Professor Holly Rogers
Staff details
Position
Professor in Music. Director of Research; Convenor MA Music (Audiovisual Cultures)
Department
h.rogers (@gold.ac.uk)
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I am interested in music's convergence with the visual arts.
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
- MA (hons) 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 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
2013: 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
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
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 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;
• Linday Kupser, a musician, writer and artist working on the concept of feminine home-building in the lives and work of women artists.