Photo of Julia performing at Sound Junction 2023 by Boyi Bai
Biography.
Julia Schauerman is an electroacoustic composer, improviser and community artist. In 2021, she completed a composition MA, with distinction, at The University of Sheffield and is now undertaking an AHRC-funded practice-led research PhD on collaborative acousmatic storytelling at the University of the Arts London.
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Schauerman’s interests include composing ecologically themed works and exploring the use of electroacoustic techniques within community arts practice. Her compositions have been presented internationally, including in Mexico, Canada, Italy and Chile.
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Working with others is central to her practice and includes: co-creating sound designs with digital art group Genetic Moo for their immersive digital ecosystem exhibitions; co-composing works with writer Dr Joanna Dobson; and, co-researching acousmatic storytelling as a participatory activity with the Music, Dementia, Technology team, The University of Sheffield and Sheffcare Ltd, a care provider for people living with dementia.
Activities 2020-2025
Recordings
- Forthcoming: Sounds of the Wetlands, Gruenrekorder, Germany, 2025
- aUDIOMAPS_Synthesis collection, Sheffield, UK Aug 2023
- Lucky No_5, co-composed with Stephen Carley, Zestworld Retreat Compilation CD, Hatch & friends, Bandcamp, May 2022
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Concerts
- Exploding cinema, Margate, UK, June 2025
- Sounds of the Wetlands, London, UK, May 2025
- Sounds of the Wetlands, Chile, May 2025
- Sound Junction, University of Sheffield Sound Studios, Dec 2024
- In the Dark – Live listening event, Host Lucy Dearlove, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings, UK, Sept 2024
- with Gayle Brogan (Pefkin), Bishops House, Sheffield, UK, April 2024
- with Theo Tomking, The Tree House, Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, York, UK April 2024
- Headline act (Sat) Sound Junction, University of Sheffield Sound Studios, Dec 2023
- aUDIOMAPS_Synthesis, Interworld Media, the Fly Tower, Abbeydale Picture House, Sheffield, Jun 2023
- Exploding Cinema, Cinema Museum, London, UK, Nov 2022
- Interworld Micro, Interworld Media Event, DINA, Sheffield, UK, Nov 2022
- Nine Circles of Hell Halloween event, Hatch and Delicious Clam, Sheffield, UK, Oct 2022
- Holiday in Zestworld, Tramlines at Hatch, Sheffield, UK, Jul 2022
- Where have all the Rivers Gone, Yorkshire Artspace Gallery, Sheffield, UK, Jun 2022
- Sound Junction, University of Sheffield Sound Studios, UK, May 2022
- Sound Junction, University of Sheffield Sound Studios, UK, Nov 2021
- Sound Junction (online), University of Sheffield Sound Studios, UK, Apr 2021
- Sound Junction (online), University of Sheffield Sound Studios, UK, Nov 2020
- Sound Junction (online) University of Sheffield Sound Studios, UK, Apr 2020
Festivals & screenings
- Primeyarc, Yarmouth, UK, Jun 2021
- Margate Film Festival, Kent, UK, Oct 2021
Radio/online
- miaaw.net, Ways of Listening: Reflective & Responsible. In conversation with Lainy Malkani & Samantha Dick, London, UK May 2025
- Collections Uncovered: Echoes from the Museum, Cambridge, UK, Feb 2025
- CRiSAP, Listening Together: Practices for Community Centred-Listening, London, UK, Feb 2025
- Featured on Two Foot Left, Sheffield Live, UK, April 2022
- Old Head Post Office Radio, Sheffield, UK, June 2021
- Acoustic Frontiers, Ottawa, Canada, Feb 2021
- Two Foot Left, Sheffield, UK, Nov 2020
- Soundart Radio, Devon, UK, Sept 2020
- Radio Classica RTVE, Spain, May 2020
- SITE Projects in.oscilation, Sheffield, UK April 2020
Exhibitions
- Genetic Moo: Microworld, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull HU1 3RA. May-Sept 2025
- Re_Surfacing, with Mireia Ludevid i Llop and Gaia Crocella, London, UK, Mar 2025
- Genetic Moo: Microworld Coventry Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK, Oct 2024-Feb 2025
- Sonic Sculptures 3, with Mireia Ludevid i Llop and Gaia Crocella, Nottingham, UK, Sept, 2024
- Genetic Moo: Microworld at The Word, South Shields, UK, Jul 2024-Jan 2025
- Genetic Moo: Microworld at The Jetty Museum, Cumbria. UK, Feb 2024-Jan 2025
- Unfolding Narratives 4, London College of Communication, London, UK, April 2024
- The Anthropocene Project, The New Museum of Networked Art, online, July 2024
- In The Field 2, with Mireia Ludevid i Llop and Gaia Crocella, Centre of Research in Sound Art Practice, UAL, London, UK, July 2024
- Sonic Triptych 2020 Installation at Sound Junction, University of Sheffield Sound Studios, Dec 2023
- Genetic Moo: Microworld Wolves, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK, Jul-Sept 2023
- Genetic Moo: Microworld Amelia, The Amelia Scott, Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK, May-Sept 2023
- Unfolding Narratives 3, PGR Students Work-in-Progress Show, LCC, London, UK, April 2023
- Cath Acons: Voyages Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield, UK, Feb–Mar 2023
- Genetic Moo: Microworld: Lincoln, The Collection Museum, Lincoln, UK, Jul–Oct 2022
- Genetic Moo: InterPlaces, Wabash Valleyart Spaces Indiana, USA, May 2022-May 2023
- Earth Day – Listening Room, London College of Communication, UAL, London, UK, April 2022
- Geometry & Gesture, Sheffield, UK, Feb-Mar 2022
- Genetic Moo: Daisyworld, Phoenix, Leicester, UK, Jan-Feb 2022
- Audiovisual Frontiers (online), UCR ARTS, California, USA, Dec 2021
- Genetic Moo: Reflection (group show) The Cello Factory, London, UK, Oct 2021
- Genetic Moo: Microworld Kristiansand, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway, May-Sept 2021
- Genetic Moo: Virtual Microworld on SKMU Virtual, Jul-Sept 2021
Conferences
- Co-organiser, Listening Together: Practices for Community-Centred Listening. Techne AHRC and CRiSAP, London, UK Feb 2025
- Co-organiser, Listening Beyond: Developing Listening Practices. Techne AHRC & CRiSAP, London, UK Feb 2025
- Co-chair, Techne January Congress 2025: Techne for Living and Making. Techne AHRC & the University of the Arts London, London, UK Jan 2025
- British Society of Gerontology conference. Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK July 2024
- SOUNDSTAINABILITY Making future from listening XI FKL Symposium on Soundscape, Lugano, Switzerland Oct 2023.
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BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Jan 2023
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Sentient Performativities, Art Earth, UK, June 2022
- Wild Energies- Live Materials, CRiSAP, online, April 2022
- BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, Plymouth, UK, Jan 2022
- Earth(ly) Matters, Online, Aug 2021
- The European Union Anthropocene Forum, Portugal (Jun 2021)
- RED Ecologia Acustica, Mexico, Dec 2020
- Mapping Music for Wellbeing, Online, Nov 2021
- Earth(ly) Matters, Online, Aug 2020
Publications
- Forthcoming: Schauerman, Julia. and Tomking, Theo. Collaborative Acousmatic Storytelling: Telling Entangled Stories. Proceedings of the Forum Klanglandschaft “SOUNDSTAINABILITY” symposium. Lugano. 2023
- Forthcoming: Chua, Soonyi, Christensen, Justin, Timmers, Renee, Schauerman, Julia. and Rawling, Kathryn. Using Acousmatic Storytelling to Facilitate Communication and Social Interactions in People Living with Dementia: An Iterative Exploratory 12-Week Study. Australasian Journal on Ageing.
- ‘Transcending Boundaries: The acousmatic story in the Anthropocene’. Dobson, J. and Schauerman, J. (2021) Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. Vol 10 No. 2 pp17-33
- ‘Collaborative Acousmatic Storytelling’. Schauerman, J. and Tomking, T. (2024) Sonic Ideas Sonicas, no. 31 July – Dec pp.45-54
Artist Workshops and Residencies
- Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York with LCAB researcher Theo Tomking on a work about sustainable food production.
- Free form Improvisation Key of She, Theatre Deli, Nov 2023, Sheffield, UK
- Microworld@HOME Mar 2020 – Jan 2021
Twenty-five 2-hour programmes, broadcast on Genetic Moo’s YouTube channel, documenting their digital ecosystem experiments and virtual collaborations. As Artist-in-residence, I responded to given themes on a weekly basis, producing fixed compositions and/or prepared audio material for live improvised mixing, which were then transmitted via OBS and ListenTo software.
Links
Genetic Moo geneticmoo.com
Jean Hogg jeanhogg.co.uk
Stephen Carley stephencarley.co.uk
Joanna Dobson joannaclaredobson.com and acousticallotment.com
Lorenzo Prati lorenzoprati.com
