Sounding Emerging Media

“Starting with the question, ‘What might Emerging Media become?’, Claire Fitch explores the possibilities of sound creation through the triple lens of electroacoustic composition, electronic literature, and games. With a strong creative practice in music performance and underpinning in DeleuzoGuattarian concepts, she provides case studies and a tool box for others to consider and utilize their own creative output. This is an important book about practice-based research processes that relate to any artistic field.”

Dene Grigar, Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor, Washington State University, Vancouver

Claire Fitch is a sound artist, an electroacoustic composer, a creator of electronic literature and transmedia, cellist and lecturer. Claire completed her PhD at Queen’s University Belfast, Sonic Arts Centre in 2019 with Professor Michael Alcorn. Between 1995 and 2012 she was a cellist in the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 Claire began teaching digital audio, joining the staff of Dundalk Institute of Technology in 2015, where she is now Programme Director, MA/MSc in Music Technology. Her artistic practice is motivated by the investigation of the convergence of digital technology, audio, visuals, and text. Producing original works inspired by and responding to the voices of women is a particular focus.