Rate My Professor Louise Harris

Professor Louise Harris is the Professor of Audiovisual Composition in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow, where she also holds key administrative positions including Dean of Graduate Studies for Arts & Humanities Administration, Deputy Dean of Graduate Studies for the College of Arts, and Deputy Head of School for the School of Culture and Creative Arts. Specializing in audiovisual composition, her research focuses on the creation and exploration of audiovisual relationships utilizing electronic music, recorded sound, and computer-generated visual environments. Her creative practice encompasses fixed media works, live performances, and large-scale installation pieces, with a particular emphasis on Expanded Audiovisual Formats (EAF). Harris's works have been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including commissions from Cryptic, The Lighthouse, Sanctuary, and the Plenty? Festival. Key compositions include Eira (2025), DyingHaunts (2022), Ether (2020), Alocas (2017), axial (2015), ilsonilus:1 (2015), AllEco (2015), plette (2014), plavi (2014), ic2 (2014), Indusium (2013), intervention:coaction (2013), cs2 (2013), sys_m1 (2010), and fuzee (2010). Notable exhibitions are filigree traces (2021), Visaurihelix (2018), and Auroculis (2017), with performances such as NoisyMass (2018) and ic2 (formerly intervention:coaction) (2012).

Harris has contributed significantly to scholarship in audiovisual practices through her publications. She edited Composing Audiovisually: Perspectives on Audiovisual Practices and Relationships (Routledge, 2021, ISBN 9780367346928). Other publications include "Exploring Expanded Audiovisual Formats (EAFs) – a practitioner’s perspective" in Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices (Focal Press, 2020, pp. 281-293, ISBN 9780367271473), "The teaching of creative practice within higher music education: guerrilla learning objectives (GLOs) and the importance of negotiation" in Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2017, pp. 155-169, ISBN 9781472467324), "Thinking, making, doing: perspectives on practice-based, research-led teaching in higher music education" in Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education (Routledge, 2016, pp. 65-78, ISBN 9781472455918), and "Audiovisual coherence and physical presence: I am there, therefore I am [?];" in eContact! 18(2) (2016). She supervises postgraduate students including Rhobet Blackburn, Donna Matthews, Jennifer Wicks, and Bowen Wu, and teaches undergraduate sonic arts courses such as Sonic Arts: Interacting with Sound (MUSIC2023), Sonic Arts: Sound for Narrative Film (MUSIC4087), Sonic Arts: Interactive Audiovisual Media (MUSIC4054), and Sonic Arts: Individual Creative Project (MUSIC4052).