You are very talented and have a good ear for this! I went to Bandcamp but only found a handful of tracks on compilations. I hope you put out a lot more in the future.

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Image: Froanna by Percy Wyndham Lewis, 1940, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. 

This is an 8-channel composition in response to the sketch, Froanna by Wyndham Lewis. Considering the lines colours, shapes and shading of the sketch this composition uses close-up microphone recordings of chalk on paper with blue noise and electronic sounds to transport the listener to an abstract interpretation of the emotive content of the work... a portrait of Lewis' wife, Froanna. Follow the gestural strokes of chalk on paper... What do you hear?  What do you see?
 
... a perpetual gaze... 
... a clasped posture... 
... a wife who was hidden from view... 
... intensity...
... a sense of strain...
... an unfolding from the colour... blue... 
 
Sketching Froanna was realised in the Electroacoustic Music Studios (BEAST) at the University of Birmingham between March and May 2019, with support from the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership and AHRC.

This work was commissioned by The Barber Institute of Fine Arts for the #BarberLates event, Nocturnes: A Woman Refigured held on 14 May 2019.

May 2019

Sketching Froanna [Binaural Version]

Emma Margetson (1993) is an acousmatic composer and sound artist with extensive experience in multichannel composition, sound diffusion and interpretation. She has received a variety of awards and special mentions for her work including, first prize in the prestigious L'Espace du Son International Spatialisation Competition by INFLUX (Musiques & Recherches), klingt gut! Young Artist Award in 2018 and Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2019.

Emma’s compositional work is focused on developing novel compositional approaches that are actively geared towards increasing engagement with acousmatic/electroacoustic composition in order to reach wider audiences, in particular disadvantaged segments of the community, and younger people. Having recently completed a PhD in Musical Composition funded by the AHRC Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership titled ‘Sonic Immersion: Reaching New Audiences through Sound’, Emma has collaborated with a variety of organisations including the IKON gallery, Research & Cultural Collections at the University of Birmingham and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts.

Her works have been performed and exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (CH), University of Birmingham (UK), The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (UK), 5to Festival de Música Electroacústica (CL), BEAST FEaST (UK), SEAMUS (USA), CEMI circles (USA), EMAS (UK), Festival Ecos Urbanos (MEX), BULO (UK), RMA (UK), SPECTRA (CO), NYCEMF (USA), Birmingham Hippodrome (UK), Audior Acusmonium (ITL), Sound-Image Colloquium (UK), Delian Academy of New Music (GD), Noisefloor Festival (UK), [ ex_nihilo ] (MEX), MAtera INtermedia (ITL), Sound Junction (UK), Musica Electronic Nova (PL) and Electric Spring (UK).

She has compositions released with labels Urban Arts Belin, Sonos Localia and Obs.

Sketching Froanna [Binaural Version]

Emma Margetson

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