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Georgia Rodgers

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Georgia Rodgers
OriginUnited Kingdom
Occupation(s)Composer, acoustician
Years active2010–present

Georgia Rodgers is a composer and acoustician from the United Kingdom, currently based in London.

Biography

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In 2009, Rodgers earned her bachelor's of science in physics and music from the University of Edinburgh and in 2010, she completed her master of science in digital composition and performance from the same school.[citation needed]

Rodger's work focuses on textural and spatial aspects of sound and the experience of listening, and on the physical and acoustic properties of instruments.[1]

In 2013, she pursued a year-long collaboration with Séverine Ballon after being introduced to the cellist by her PhD supervisor, Newton Armstrong. The collaboration resulted in her work, Late Lines, for cello and electronics, in which the electronic sounds are derived exclusively from simple processing of the cello.[2]

In 2014, she was a Sound and Music Next Wave artist.[3] Two of her works from the same year, Partial filter and Cut it out were performed at Cafe Oto in 2015, by Oren Marshal and Mark Knoop, respectively.[4] Partial filter also appears on the NMC Next Wave release[5]

Then, in 2016, she was selected as one of Sound and Music’s New Voices[6] and was an Embedded composer, taking part in the Quatuor Bozzini's Composers' Kitchen.[7] During this scheme she wrote her Three Pieces for String Quartet, which were later performed again by members of Apartment House at the British contemporary music series, Music we'd like to hear.[8]

Rodgers is listed in the British Music Collection.[9] An article written by her on Simon Emmerson's work, "Spirit of ‘76", also appears on the BMC website, as part of their 50 Things series, in which they ask musicians to reflect on works from the collection that have been influential on or of interest to their own work.[10]

Her 2018 work, York Minster, was recorded by the Marsyas Trio for upcoming release on NMC.[11] York Minster is one of a series of works that explore the harmonic frequencies of resonant spaces, what Rodgers refers to as 'Real Spaces'. The other two works in the series so far are Maeshowe (based on the acoustic fingerprint of the Neolithic Tomb in the Orkney Islands) and St Andrew's Lyddington.[12]

In July 2018, she was a recipient of an Oram Award, celebrating female innovators in music and sound, sponsored by PRS.[13][14][15] She is currently[when?] studying for a PhD in music composition at City, University of London, supervised by Newton Armstrong.

Works

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  • York Minster, for flute, cello and piano (2018)
  • Maeshowe, for clarinet, trombone, percussion, harp, piano and cello (2018)
  • St Andrew’s Lyddington, for violin and piano (2017)
  • Near and Far, for vocal ensemble and electronic sounds (2017)
  • Distal theories, for trombone and cello (2017)
  • Masking set for alto, viola and cello (2016)
  • Three pieces for string quartet (2016)
  • Tadoussac, electroacoustic (2015)
  • Partial filter, for tuba and electronics (2014)
  • Tuba study III, electroacoustic (2014)
  • Cut it out, for piano and electronics (2014)
  • Piano sketch, electroacoustic (2014)
  • Late lines, for cello and electronics (2013)
  • Late lines remix, electroacoustic (2013)
  • Train your body, installation (2011)
  • A to B, for percussion and electronics (2010)
  • Make it snappy, electroacoustic (2010)
  • Edinburgh flow motion, soundwalk (2010)
  • Non-real time, electroacoustic (2009)
  • Shuffleships, electroacoustic (2009)
  • Breath(e), electroacoustic (2008)

References

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  1. ^ "Georgia Rodgers on Perceptions of Sound". British Music Collection. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. ^ "City Summer Sounds: Five minutes with Georgia Rodgers | Music at City". blogs.city.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Next Wave | Sound and Music". www.soundandmusic.org. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Cafe OTO → GEORGIA RODGERS + BEAT FURRER + JULIET FRASER + MARK KNOOP + OREN MARSHELL + Fresh Klang by The Hermes Experiment, Tuesday 3 March 2015, 8pm". www.cafeoto.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Next Wave | NMC Recordings". www.nmcrec.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  6. ^ "News: Welcome to New Voices 2016/17 | Sound and Music". www.soundandmusic.org. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Composer's Kitchen 2015 — Quatuor Bozzini — string quartet". Quatuor Bozzini. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  8. ^ "music we'd like to hear - 2018". www.musicwedliketohear.com. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  9. ^ "Georgia Rodgers". British Music Collection. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  10. ^ "50 Things: Simon Emmerson's 'Spirit of '76'". British Music Collection. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  11. ^ "Gates of the Soul - Celebrating the UK's Suffrage Centenary". Kickstarter. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  12. ^ eightforty (2 January 2018), Georgia Rodgers – St. Andrew's Lyddington, retrieved 3 September 2018
  13. ^ "The Oram Awards 2018: Georgia Rodgers - PRS for Music Foundation". PRS for Music Foundation. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  14. ^ "Oram Awards 2018 Winners Announced - M Magazine". M magazine: PRS for Music online magazine. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  15. ^ "Home | The Oram Awards". Home | The Oram Awards. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
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