Jessica

Argo

Programme Leader, BDes Sound for Moving Image
School of Innovation and Technology
Personal Details

Email: J.Argo@gsa.ac.uk

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biography

Dr. Jessica Argo composes for improvising ensembles and is an experimental filmmaker/sound artist, drawn to music for community world-building - improvisation to bridge international distance and sustain intergenerational learning; improvising for queer affirmation, deep listening, emotional expression, mood regulation and liberation from inequality oppression. Argo uses embodied synthesis (theremin, contact microphones, voice) to conjure alien sound, extended from her physical body or cello. She composed spatial audio for neuroscience research, installed film in white cube galleries, dance clubs. Argo's work in collaborative creativity in musical improvisation, filmmaking, hybrid room-and-ZOOM orchestra theatre performance, composing for global orchestras, embedding EDI in creative education and musical performance on Glasgow’s radical history has had notable social, economic and cultural impact, nurturing a huge global network of intergenerational and diverse knowledges communities in celebrated venues: the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, the Museum of Old and New Arts, Tasmania, Soja Art House, Okayama Japan.

Research interests

Spatial audio for neuroscience research, collaborative creativity in musical improvisation, filmmaking, large scale experimental theatre, composing for global orchestras, performance art, Equality Diversity and Inclusion in creative education, user testing, telematic music, intergenerational/diverse knowledges

PGR supervision interests

Sound and neuroscience, musical improvisation, experimental film, radical film/documentary, sound art, deep listening, collaborative creativity, bio-sonification, immersive sound, synthesis, performance, community,

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