Katharine Norman
Katharine Norman is an internationally recognized composer of work for instruments and digital resources, often inspired by people’s experience of place and landscape. Over the past 10 years she has developed a concurrent profile as a writer. Computer programming forms an essential part of her creative work and she is a skilled programmer in a number of areas.
Recent performance works exploring interactive image, text and sound include Making Place, commissioned by pianist Kate Halsall, A walk I do, for Carla Rees; and Paul’s Walk, for Paul Roe. Fuga Interna (begin), for piano and digital sound is based on her experience of her mother’s Alzheimer’s, and has been performed widely, in particular by Xenia Pestova. As a writer, her digital fiction and non-fiction have featured in various festivals, publications and conferences. Window (for John Cage), an interactive ‘sound-essay’, won the 2012 New Media Writing Prize.
Katharine Norman received her PhD in composition from Princeton, and for some time worked in academia before deciding to find other strategies for continuing as a composer and writer. She lives in BC, Canada.
Katharine Norman is an internationally recognized composer of work for instruments and digital resources, often inspired by people’s experience of place and landscape. Over the past 10 years she has developed a concurrent profile as a writer. Computer programming forms an essential part of her creative work and she is a skilled programmer in a number of areas.
Recent performance works exploring interactive image, text and sound include Making Place, commissioned by pianist Kate Halsall, A walk I do, for Carla Rees; and Paul’s Walk, for Paul Roe. Fuga Interna (begin), for piano and digital sound is based on her experience of her mother’s Alzheimer’s, and has been performed widely, in particular by Xenia Pestova. As a writer, her digital fiction and non-fiction have featured in various festivals, publications and conferences. Window (for John Cage), an interactive ‘sound-essay’, won the 2012 New Media Writing Prize.
Katharine Norman received her PhD in composition from Princeton, and for some time worked in academia before deciding to find other strategies for continuing as a composer and writer. She lives in BC, Canada.
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