Katharine Norman
"I have been enthralled with sound as a means of expression ever since I discovered my violin playing made my parents cry (for all the wrong reasons). I started composing not long after, and in the last ten years or so have become more and more interested in the sounds that surround us, and what they can mean in different contexts. Although I remain fascinated by what computers can help me to do with sounds, technology is the least of my concerns - I'm trying to get somewhere, although happily the goal keeps moving. I'll take whatever transport seems appropriate at the time, whether that's works for sound alone, or piano pieces, or words on paper. But I will probably never write for solo violin."
Katharine Norman composes instrumental music, computer and electroacoustic music and audio art.
Her music is performed and broadcast internationally. Her awards and commissions include the Arts Council of England, Fulbright Fellowship, Wingate Fellowship ... Her book of experimental writings, 'Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions through Electronic Music', is published by Ashgate.
After eight years as an academic in the UK, most recently as Director of the Electronic Music Studios, Goldsmiths College, University of London, she now works as a freelance composer, teacher and writer, and lives on a small island near Vancouver, Canada.
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