Emily Peasgood
Emily Anne Peasgood (born 1981 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire) is an Ivors Composer Awards winning English composer and sound artist.  She is the niece of actress and television presenter Julie Peasgood. Peasgood creates research-led and site specific interactive artworks for galleries and outdoor public spaces, ranging from large-scale community events to intimate sound installations. Her work aims to transform how we perceive our environment by creating invitations to connect with people and places that are forgotten, overlooked, or surrounded by histories that can be remembered and celebrated through sound and music. Peasgood is best known for her  work in outdoor public locations with specific communities of people, often utilising innovative technology and design that visitors can interact with. Her work has been described as magical, evocative and memorable. Peasgood was profiled by the i (newspaper) as the Hip Op Composer. In 2017 Peasgood delivered the TEDx Folkestone talk "Emily! Don't do that!". Peasgood was awarded a PhD by Canterbury Christ Church University for her thesis "Leading with Aesthetic: Creating Accessible, Inclusive and Engaging Musical Artworks Through Experimental Processes in the Community". Peasgood is a composition tutor at Canterbury Christ Church University. Peasgood is a co-author  of "The Work of the Military Wives Choirs" and "The perceived effects of singing on the health and well-being of wives and partners of members of the British Armed Forces: a cross-sectional survey". Works. In 2014, Peasgood created "Landscapes" a choral work responding to the landscape artworks of J. M. W. Turner and Helen Frankenthaler. It premiered at the exhibition "Making Painting: J.M.W. Turner and Helen Frankenthaler" at Turner Contemporary. In 2016 Peasgood premiered "Lifted" at Turner Contemporary. In the same year she premiered "BIRDS", a sung and spoken word piece observing feminine ritual and behaviour through the  lens of a documentary film narrator and "Crossing Over", a piece commissioned by Turner Contemporary to premier as part of its event commemorating the Zong Massacre as depicted on J.M.W. Turner's painting "The Slave Ship" (1840). Peasgood's "Halfway to Heaven" won the prize for Sonic Art at the 2018 British Composer Awards (renamed the Ivors Composer Awards). In the same year, the "eerily evocative" "Requiem for Cross Bones" featured at MERGE Bankside and Peasgood created "The Illusion of Conscious Thought" for the East Hill Cliff Railway and West Hill Cliff Railway in Hastings as part of the Coastal  Currents Arts Festival. In 2019 "Never Again" was nominated for an Ivors Composer Award in the category of Community or Educational Project. In 2017 Peasgood was nominated in the same category for "BIRDS and other Stories" and "Crossing Over".