Film Theory and Synchronization

Joanna Bailie was born in London and now lives in Berlin. She studied composition with Richard Barrett, electronic music at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Holland, and won a fellowship to study at Columbia University in 1999. She completed her PhD at City, University of London in 2018. Her recent work includes chamber music and installation and is characterized by the use of field recordings together with acoustic instruments. She is also interested in the interplay between the audio and visual, as evidenced by her works for camera obscura, which include the installation The Place You Can See and Hear and the music theater piece Analog. She has taught composition at City, University of London, the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, and at the 47th edition of the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music. In 2016, she was a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.