Please accept this friendly reminder that you are cordially invited to Quorum this Wednesday 20 March from 17:30 to 19:30. Our guests will be sound artists and researchers Julie Rose Bower (she/her) and Alicia Jane Turner (they/them), who will discuss their practices, consider how their professional practice informs their research, and share the germinations of their current research project Exquisite Body Horror, which explores how fear, disgust and pleasure entwine and intersect in affective encounters with sound.

Drawing on their respective research into the sonic realms of horror, ASMR, touch and sensory sonic experience through an intersectional feminist lens, this collaborative research uses sonic experience to explore intimacy and corporeal vulnerability. Sharing thoughts and concerns around the impacts, affects and ethics of visceral aurality they will demonstrate a tingling, satisfying and occasionally hair-raising palette of ASMR close-miked sounds placed within formal composition practice. At this practice sharing, you will listen to sounds installed in surround and directly experience the objects used by the sound artists within this research. Followed by a Q&A /discussion. This research project has been supported by Arts Council England and BLOC, QMUL.


Speaker bios:

Julie Rose Bower

Julie Rose Bower is a sound artist, designer and researcher working with Foley sound effects and ASMR performance. She gathers a distinctive palette of up-close found sounds in artworks that centre the body, feelings and sensations via sensory experiences at a first-person scale.

Using sound as a tool to map across the physical and the digital Julie Rose’s artworks promote heightened intimacy, relaxation and intersubjectivity. These works produce pleasurable qualities of texture, heft and ergonomic sensibility through staging sonic interactions that act as strangely satisfying connections between audience and performance. Her work takes place across theatre, dance, gallery, site-specific and online spaces and involves creating custom libraries of ASMR sound effects.

Julie Rose regularly speaks and teaches about multisensory and inclusive sound practice and was featured on BBC Radio 4’s 21st Century Relaxation Tape. She is in the final stages of her practice-based research PhD in the gender politics of sound in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London and is the maker of ASMR at the museum for V&A.

Alicia Jane Turner

Alicia Jane Turner is a composer, sound designer and performer working across contemporary theatre, live art and experimental music. Their work in theatre has toured internationally and across the UK, they have performed at venues including the Barbican, Southbank Centre, The Almeida, Schaubühne (Berlin), Carriageworks (Sydney) and at Dark Mofo Festival (Tasmania), and they have been commissioned by organisations including the London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, National Sawdust (New York) and Spitalfields Music. They were a Bang on a Can (New York) Composer Fellow in 2018, and a London Sinfonietta Writing the Future Composer from 2020 to 2022. They are a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London researching the affective, atmospheric and immersive potentials of sound and light in performance.


About the event:

This hybrid event takes place in person at Queen Mary University of London’s Mile End campus in the White Box, BLOC, ArtsOne, and simultaneously online. If you want to join us, please book a free ticket. For those attending online, we will send you a Zoom link on the day of the event. For those joining in person, you are welcome in ArtsOne from 17:30.

The event kicks off promptly at 18:00 and wraps up around 19:00, when in-person attendees are cordially invited to stay and chat over drinks and nibbles.

To join us, please book a free ticket at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quorum-julie-rose-bower-and-alicia-jane-turner-tickets-860756886017

More on Quorum here: https://quorumqmul.wordpress.com

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