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Amy Skjerseth
Amy Skjerseth recently received her Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago. She co-produces the sound studies podcast Phantom Power and until recently was co-organizer of the Great Lakes Association for Sound. Her dissertation, ‘Music’s visual waves: Popular music technology and audiovisual aesthetics’, examines how technological innovations influenced music and visual culture over four decades, from 1960s transistor radios to 1990s autotune. Portable music technologies inspired post-war American and British filmmakers and pop stars to give pop songs increasingly mobile and visual meanings. Magnetic tape, digital samplers and voice manipulation software, with their ability to fragment and recombine pop music, irrevocably altered how artists could remix and defy forms of representation in visual media with pre-existing pop songs. More broadly, she explores how devices from musical automata to deepfakes shape audio-visual ideologies and cultures. As of June 2022, Skjerseth has taken up the post of Lecturer (equiv. to Assistant Professor) in Audio-Visual Media and co-director of the MA Music in Audiovisual Media Program at the University of Liverpool.
Contact: School of the Arts, Department of Music, University of Liverpool, 80-82 Bedford Street South, Liverpool, L69 7WW, UK.
