The Emergent Media & Entertainment Research Group (EMERG) are excited to announce our upcoming guest lecture. Our guest speaker is Dr Lucy Harrison, who will discuss her new book.
Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play (Routledge, 2025) provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from video games, experimental music, and participatory theatre and sound installations. Offering a practitioner’s perspective, the book places interactive sound and music within a broader aesthetic context relating to key texts and discussion within musicology and wider art practices. Each chapter takes the reader through a key debate surrounding interactive sound and music, such as:
- Is it actually interactive and does it actually matter?
- How do audience expectations change in an interactive space?
- How do you compose for multiple possibilities?
- Is interactive sound and music ever finished?
- Where now for interactive sound and music?
Lucy Ann Harrison is a composer, sound designer and academic based at the University of Westminster, UK where she currently serves as Assistant Head of School for the Westminster School of the Arts. Works include a library themed puzzle game, an interactive blanket fort complete with a musical hopscotch, motion sensitive sound created using gaming controllers and critically acclaimed music for immersive theatre.
Date: Monday 10 March 2025
Time: 1pm
Location: Creative Edge Lecture Theatre (CE 017)
