Key details
Dr Emma Margetson
Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound
Emma Margetson is an acousmatic composer and sound artist. Her output encompasses acousmatic composition, sound art, acousmatic performance interpretation and, occasionally, live electronic music improvisation. Her research interests include sound diffusion and spatialisation practices; site-specific works, sound walks and installations; audience development and engagement; and community music practice. She studied at the University of Birmingham for master’s and doctoral degrees in electroacoustic composition. The latter was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C) and was completed in 2021. Her music has been recognised and performed extensively in concerts and festivals internationally, and has been the recipient of a special mention in the Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition Métamorphoses (Belgium, 2020), the Excellence in Sound Art & Sound Design Prize in the klingt gut! Young Artist Award (Germany, 2018), and a First prize ex æquo in the Space of Sound Spatialization Performance Competition (Belgium, 2019). She has received a number of commissions and collaborations including those from Royal Observatory (Royal Museums Greenwich), The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, and the Ikon Gallery. Emma Margetson is Programme Leader of the MA Music and Sound Design course at the University of Greenwich (England, UK), and Co-Director of the Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series. Her work is available on several recording labels, including empreintes DIGITALes, Obs, Sonos Localia, and Urban Arts Berlin. |
- Personal website: http://www.emmamargetson.co.uk
- Loudspeaker Concert Series: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/activity/las/loudspeaker-orchestra
- SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/sound-image
Responsibilities within the university
- Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound
- Programme Leader MA Music & Sound Design
- Co-Director of Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series (www.loudspeakerorchestra.org)
- Member of the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre: (www.gre.ac.uk/research/sound-image / www.blogs.gre.ac.uk/sound-image/)
Awards
- *Special mention in the Concours biennal de composition acousmatique Métamorphoses 2020 (2020)
*1st Prize in the L’espace du son 2019 international spatialisation competition by Influx (Musiques & Recherches) (2019)
*Distorted Illusions selected for Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (2019)
*Cultural Engagement Award 2019 by Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (2019)
*Young Artist Award 2018 (1st Prize) by klingt gut! (2018)
*COMPASS Prize by the Department of Music, University of Birmingham (2014)
Recognition
*Reviewer - Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press
*Reviewer - ICMC (International Computer Music Conference)
*Reviewer - SMC (Sound and Music Computing)
*Reviewer – NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression)
*Steering Group / Programming Committee for Audio Mostly 2023
*Member of the UK & Ireland Soundscape Community
Research / Scholarly interests
- Acousmatic composition
- Sound Art
- Immersion and 3D Audio
- Sound diffusion and spatialisation practices
- Site specific works, sound walks and installations
- Audience development and engagement
- Community music practice
Recent publications
- Margetson, E. (2024) Contemplations. CD and digital album publication released by Empreintes Digitales.
- Margetson, E and McArthur, A. (2024) Sound, space and the IKO loudspeaker – the apparent paradox of diversity with unity in The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space. London: Routledge.
- Knight-Hill, A and Margetson, E. (2023) Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music. London: Routledge.
- Margetson, E. (2022). Sonic Immersion: Reaching New Audiences through Sound. (PhD thesis) University of Birmingham.
- Margetson, E.M., (2021) Abstracted Objects in Métamorphoses 2020 [CD], INFLUX.
- Vasilakos, K., Wilson, S., McCauley, T., Khosravi Mardakheh, M., Margetson, E. and Winston Yeung, T. (2020) Sonification of High Energy Physics Data Using Live Coding and Web Based Interfaces. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Birmingham City University, pp. 388–393.
- Margetson, E.M., (2018)Water Waves in Experimental Sound Art [CD], URBAN ARTS BERLIN.
- Margetson, E.M., (2018)Water Waves in Loudspeaker Music for Headphones, Volume 1 [ONLINE], SONOS LOCALIA SLD 001 / 2018.
- Margetson, E.M., (2018) Dreaming Waves in Loudspeaker Music for Headphones, Volume 1 [ONLINE], SONOS LOCALIA SLD 001 / 2018.
- Margetson, E.M., (2018) Distorted Illusions in Awakenings [CD], OBS 068.