Sound AND touch

Julie Rose Bower is a sound artist, designer and researcher working with Foley sound effects and ASMR performance. She gathers a distinctive palette of up-close found sounds in artworks that centre the body, feelings and sensations via sensory experiences at a first-person scale.

Her practice reaches out to centre bodies, objects and spaces in motion. Using sound as a tool to map across the physical and the digital Julie Rose’s artworks promote heightened intimacy, relaxation and intersubjectivity. These works produce pleasurable qualities of texture, heft and ergonomic sensibility through staging sonic interactions that act as strangely satisfying connections between audience and performance. Her work takes place across theatre, dance, gallery, site-specific and online spaces and involves creating custom libraries of ASMR sound effects.

Julie Rose regularly speaks and teaches about multisensory and inclusive sound practice in talks, panel discussions and masterclasses. She is in the final stages of her practice-based research PhD in the gender politics of sound in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London.

PRESS

Featured in:

21st century Relaxation Tape, Radio 4, presented by Jennifer Walshe: One of a group of ‘gurus of gentle sound’, programme contributor

Elephant magazine: Featured artist in These Are The Artists You Need to Know for “carving out space to reflect on the world today.”

The Quietus: Tickling In My Head: ASMR At The Design Museum

“Julie Rose Bower takes the opportunity for somatic exploration further… it can feel empowering to experiment with sound and texture. Children seem to revel in this participatory element, as do many of the adults.”

The Herald on Foley Explosion as part of the award-winning Cameo Live programme:

“It is in the telling that makes Bower's show so special. Amplified heels, slamming doors and metronomic toys are looped in such a way as to create a found sound symphony.”

★★★★

REEL

CONTACT

• Email: j.r.bower@qmul.ac.uk

• Twitter: @julierosebower

• Instagram: julierosebower

• Facebook: @RoseBowerDesign