Composing Audiovisually

Louise Harris is an audiovisual composer and Senior Lecturer in Sonic and Audiovisual Practices at The University of Glasgow. In her creative work, she specialises in the creation and exploration of audiovisual relationships utilising electronic music, recorded sound and computer-generated visual environments in fixed media, performance and large-scale installation contexts.

• IntroductionSection 1 - Thinking AudiovisuallyThinking AudiovisuallyChapter One - Discourse on Audiovisual ExperienceChapter Two - Analysis of questionnaire resultsChapter Three - Defining Transperceptual AttentionCoda - some terminology for Transperceptual AttentionSection 2 - Composing AudiovisuallyComposing AudiovisuallyChapter Four - the elements of audiovisual compositionChapter Five - Teaching AudiovisuallySection 3 - Analysing AudiovisuallyAnalysing AudiovisuallyCase Study 1 - For TashiCase Study 2 - CinechineCase Study 3 - pebblesCase Study 4 - Hitchcock EtudesCase Study 5 - Close to be close to meCase Study 6 - A Love StoryCase Study 7 - Open AirReflectionsEpilogue - Final Reflections

Situating practice firmly at the heart of her discourse, Dr. Harris unpacks the creative process from a composer's perspective, revealing valuable insights which challenging traditional media hierarchies and elaborate nuanced understandings of audiovisual composition. This text will be of importance to students, fellow composers and auiodvisuolologists, providing a desperately needed injection of new perspectives into the topic.Andrew Knight-Hill, University of Greenwich, London.Harris courageously crafts transdisciplinary inroads into difficult territory, providing teachers, composers, students and theorists multi-perspectival approaches to a broad range of audiovisual practice and identifying and challenging limits of current language and conceptions.Bret Battey, De Montfort University, Leicester