Sophie Rose : Associate Artist
Photo: Kate Cameron
Dr Sophie Rose is a composer-performer, sound artist, maker and researcher working at the intersections of contemporary performance, sound, and music. Her practice spans extended vocal techniques, wearable and gestural technologies, live electronics, musical coding, and multichannel sound, with a focus on how bodily constraint, effort, and attention can organise musical and performative form. Her work is grounded in slow, materially attentive inquiry, and in a sustained commitment to feminist, gender-aware, and trauma-informed approaches to making and thinking through performance.
She completed her PhD in Interactive Composition in 2024. Her research developed trauma-informed, body-centred movement practices as compositional systems, drawing on feminist approaches, Human-Computer Interaction, embodied cognition, and practice-based research. Rather than treating gesture as an expressive overlay, her work positions the body as a structuring agent, shaping sonic behaviour, spatial distribution, and temporal pacing. She is interested in how sound carries memory, pressure, and resistance - and in how myth, storytelling, and ritual function within her trauma-informed, radically vulnerable practice.
Rose's performance works combine voice with bespoke and commercial wearable interfaces, translating physical effort, balance, and bilateral coordination into sound and spatial form. Her work has been presented internationally across experimental music, sound art, and contemporary performance contexts. Rose was a finalist in the APRA Art Music Awards for Electroacoustic and Sound Art 2025.
In addition to presenting research and creative work in public and academic spheres, she has organised and coordinated conference activity, including ACMC2024 and NIME2025, contributing to community-building, peer exchange, and the visibility of interdisciplinary and feminist practices within music technology. Other community work includes her executive member roles with the Australasian Computer Music Association and MCing for the Make It Up Club.
Biography provided by the composer