Emily Peasgood

In 2023 British Library commissioned Peasgood to create a listening desk as legacy for Unlocking Our Sound Heritage.{{Cite web |title=Listening Desk by Emily Peasgood at The British Library |url=https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2023/10/listening-desk-by-emily-peasgood-at-the-british-library-.html |website=British Library Sound and Vision Blog |access-date=3 April 2024}}

In 2014, Peasgood created Landscapes{{Cite web|title=Landscapes|url=https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/cpbra/projects/Projects-2016-2017/landscapes-2014.aspx|website=Canterbury Christ Church University}}{{cite web|title=Landscapes|url=http://soundslikeart.co.uk/projects/landscapes|website=Sounds Like Art}}{{Cite web|title=Landscapes|url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/landscapes-8|website=British Music Collection|date=August 2016}} 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{{cite web|title=Lifted|url=https://www.turnercontemporary.org/news/lifted-at-turner-contemporary|website=Turner Contemporary}}{{cite web|title=Lifted|url=http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/choir_organ/archive-2608/|website=Rhinegold Publishing|date=16 November 2023 }}{{Cite web|title=LIFTED|url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/lifted|website=British Music Collection|date=August 2016|language=en}} 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{{Cite web|title=BIRDS|url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/birds-15|website=British Music Collection|date=August 2016|language=en}} and Crossing Over,{{cite web|title=Crossing Over|url=https://ivorsacademy.com/nominee/crossing-over|website=Ivors Academy|date=22 March 2019 }} 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{{Cite web|date=23 October 2017|title=English Coastal Town of Folkestone Transformed by 4th Art Triennial|url=https://observer.com/2017/10/english-coastal-town-folkestone-transformed-by-4th-art-triennial/|website=Observer|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Folkestone Triennial Review – beach bungalows and giant jelly mould pavilions|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/01/folkestone-triennial-review-antony-gormley-bob-roberta-smith-jelly-mould-kent-seaside|website=Guardian|date=September 2017|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|last=Buck|first=Louisa|date=8 September 2017|title=Folkestone Triennial 2017 highlights: artists shine a light on the town's past and present|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/folkestone-triennial-2017-beyond-gold-rush/|issn=0307-1235}}{{Cite news|last=Durrant|first=Nancy|title=Review: Folkestone Triennial|newspaper=The Times|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/art/article/review-folkestone-triennial-s67jpz8b5|issn=0140-0460}}{{Cite web|date=1 September 2017|title=Skull cakes, seaside sculpture and a Renaissance dream team – the week in art|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/01/week-in-art-antony-gormley-tate-modern-notre-dame|website=Guardian|language=en}} won the prize for Sonic Art at the 2018 British Composer Awards{{Citation|title=2018 in British music|date=26 November 2020|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2018_in_British_music&oldid=990723837|work=Wikipedia|language=en}}{{Citation|title=2018 in classical music|date=30 December 2020|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2018_in_classical_music&oldid=997190483|work=Wikipedia|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=British Composer Awards 2018 winners revealed|url=https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/classical_music/british-composer-awards-2018-winners-revealed/website=Rhinegold|language=en|website=Rhinegold| date=16 November 2023 }} (renamed the Ivors Composer Awards). In the same year, the "eerily evocative"{{Cite book|last=Bedford|first=Kristina|title=Secret Southwark and Blackfriars|year=2019|publisher=Amberley |isbn=9781445676586}} Requiem for Cross Bones{{Cite web|title=Requiem for Cross Bones|url=https://www.illuminateproductions.co.uk/crossbones|website=Illuminate Productions}}{{cite web|title=Things to do Today in London: Friday 8 June 2018"|url=https://londonist.com/london/things-to-do/things-to-do-today-in-london-friday-8-june-2018|website=Londonist}} featured at MERGE Bankside{{cite web|title=An immersive sound installation on the site of a post-medieval burial ground with an extraordinary history|website=Merge Festival|date=8 June 2018 |url=http://mergefestival.co.uk/merge-events-2018/2018/6/8/requiem-for-crossbones-emily-peasgood}}{{Cite web|last=Sims|first=Alexandra|title=4 utterly unusual ways to spend this weekend in London|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/news/4-utterly-unusual-ways-to-spend-this-weekend-in-london-060718|website=Time Out London|date=7 June 2018 |language=en-GB}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://coastalcurrents.org.uk/|title=Coastal Currents|website=Coastal Currents}}

In 2019 Never Again{{cite web|title=Sea Folk Sing(2018)|url=https://www.sparkedecho.org/never-again.html|website=Sparked Echo}} was nominated for an Ivors Composer Award in the category of Community or Educational Project.{{Cite web|title=Ivors Composer Awards nominations announced|url=https://completemusicupdate.com/article/ivors-composer-awards-nominations-announced/|website=Complete Music Update}}{{cite web|title=Never Again|url=https://ivorsacademy.com/nominee/never-again|website=Ivors Academy|date=28 October 2019 }} In 2017 Peasgood was nominated in the same category for BIRDS and other Stories and Crossing Over.{{Cite web|title=Nominees announced for British Composer Awards 2017|url=https://www.prsformusic.com/m-magazine/news/nominees-announced-british-composer-awards-2017/|website=www.prsformusic.com|language=en}}

• Sound at Sea,{{cite web|url=https://hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/grants/grants-in-progress/grant-to-a-space-arts/grant-to-aspace-arts-update-nov-2019|title=Sound at Sea|website=Hampshire Archives Trust|date=4 April 2019 }} God's House Tower, Southampton, UK. Commissioned by a space arts, date TBC.
• Living Sound{{cite web|title=Living Sound|url=https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture/event-details.aspx?instance=25080|website=Canterbury Christ Church University}} and Sidney Cooper's Living Room, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, Kent, UK. A collection of recent works including a new commission Sidney Cooper's Living Room to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the gallery. 12 January – 23 February 2019.

• I would rather walk with you,{{cite web|title=I would rather walk with you|url=https://www.dadonline.uk/projects/fort_burgoyne_artist_commission|website=Dover Arts Development}}{{cite web|url=http://culturalplacemaking.com/2020/01/11/new-art-work-commissioned-for-fort-burgoynes-west-wing|title=New Art Work Commissioned for Fort Burgoynes West Wing|website=Cultural Placemaking|date=11 January 2020 }} West Wing Battery at Fort Burgoyne, Dover, UK. Commissioned for Pioneering Places by the Land Trust. Permanent, available from August 2021, date TBC.
• Katherine,{{cite web|title=Sound and Performance at Art in Romney Marsh|url=https://www.artinromneymarsh.org/sound-in-romney-marsh|website=Art in Romney Marsh}}{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/katherine-2019|title=Katherine|website = Emily Peasgood}} St Clement's Church, Old Romney. A murder mystery in sound and music. Commissioned by Art in Romney Marsh. 21 September – 13 October 2019.
• Smack Boys,{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/smack-boys|title=Smack Boys|website=Emily Peasgood}} Sailor's Church, Military Road, Ramsgate, Kent, UK. Sound installation commissioned for Ramsgate Festival of Sound. 21–28 July 2019.
• The Illusion of Conscious Thought,{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/the-illusion-of-conscious-thought-2018|title=The Illusion of Conscious Thought|website=Emily Peasgood}}{{cite web|url=http://coastalcurrents.org.uk/|title=Coastal Currents|website=Coastal Currents}} East Hill Cliff Railway, West Hill Cliff Railway, Hastings, Sussex, UK. Two-part sound installation 'up' and 'down' movements that comment on social mobility and regeneration in contrasting parts of Hastings. Commissioned by Greig Burgoyne and Sweet and Dandy for Coastal Current Arts Festival. 1–30 September 2018.
• Requiem for Cross Bones,{{Cite web|title=Requiem for Cross Bones|url=https://www.illuminateproductions.co.uk/crossbones|website=Illuminate Productions}}{{cite web|title=Things to do Today in London: Friday 8 June 2018"|url=https://londonist.com/london/things-to-do/things-to-do-today-in-london-friday-8-june-2018|website=Londonist}} Crossbones Garden, Redcross Way, London Bridge, London, UK.{{cite web|title=An immersive sound installation on the site of a post-medieval burial ground with an extraordinary history|website=Merge Festival|date=8 June 2018 |url=http://mergefestival.co.uk/merge-events-2018/2018/6/8/requiem-for-crossbones-emily-peasgood}} Interactive sound installation on a post-medieval burial site. Commissioned by Illuminate Productions and Better Bankside for MERGE Bankside in partnership with Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST) and Tate Modern. June – July 2018.
• Halfway to Heaven,{{Cite web|title=Halfway to heaven|url=https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/cpbra/projects/projects-2017-2018/halfway-to-heaven.aspx|website=Canterbury Christ Church University}}{{Cite web|date=23 October 2017|title=English Coastal Town of Folkestone Transformed by 4th Art Triennial|url=https://observer.com/2017/10/english-coastal-town-folkestone-transformed-by-4th-art-triennial/|website=Observer|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Folkestone Triennial Review – beach bungalows and giant jelly mould pavilions|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/01/folkestone-triennial-review-antony-gormley-bob-roberta-smith-jelly-mould-kent-seaside|website=Guardian|date=September 2017|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|last=Buck|first=Louisa|date=8 September 2017|title=Folkestone Triennial 2017 highlights: artists shine a light on the town's past and present|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/folkestone-triennial-2017-beyond-gold-rush/|issn=0307-1235}}{{Cite news|last=Durrant|first=Nancy|title=Review: Folkestone Triennial|newspaper=The Times|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/art/article/review-folkestone-triennial-s67jpz8b5|issn=0140-0460}}{{Cite web|date=1 September 2017|title=Skull cakes, seaside sculpture and a Renaissance dream team – the week in art|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/01/week-in-art-antony-gormley-tate-modern-notre-dame|website=Guardian|language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/halfway-to-heaven/|title=Halfway to Heaven|website=Emily Peasgood}} Bradstone Road Burial Ground, Folkestone, Kent, UK. Interactive synchronised sound installation and choral work. Commissioned by The Creative Foundation for Folkestone Triennial, 2017, curated by Lewis Biggs. 2 September – 5 November 2017.
• LIFTED,{{cite web|title=LIFTED|url=https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news-centre/university-news/2016/singers-to-fill-the-turner-contemporarys-big-lift-with-music.aspx|website=Canterbury Christ Church University}}{{cite web|title=Lifted|url=https://www.turnercontemporary.org/news/lifted-at-turner-contemporary|website=Turner Contemporary}}{{cite web|title=Lifted|url=http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/choir_organ/archive-2608/|website=Rhinegold Publishing|date=16 November 2023 }}{{Cite web|title=LIFTED|url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/lifted|website=British Music Collection|date=August 2016|language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/lifted|title=LIFTED|website=Emily Peasgood}} Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK. Choral work performed inside public lifts, with different movements for each floor. Funded by Arts Council England in partnership with Turner Contemporary. 17 January 2016.
• Landscapes,{{Cite web|title=Landscapes|url=https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/cpbra/projects/Projects-2016-2017/landscapes-2014.aspx|website = Canterbury Christ Church University}}{{cite web|title=Landscapes|url=http://soundslikeart.co.uk/projects/landscapes|website=Sounds Like Art}}{{Cite web|title=Landscapes|url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/landscapes-8|website=British Music Collection|date=August 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/landscapes|title=Landscapes|website=Emily Peasgood}} Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK. 4-part accessible song cycle and synthesis of art forms for community choir, visitors and deaf audiences. Inspired by the art of Helen Frankenthaler and J. M. W. Turner. Created in partnership with Turner Contemporary for the exhibition Making Painting: Helen Frankenhaler and J.M.W. Turner. 16 April 2014.

• Cambridge North Folk Song Project,{{cite web|title=Cambridge North Folk Songs Project|url=https://cambridgefolkclub.co.uk/pages/cambridge-north-folk-song-project|website=Cambridge Folk Club}} Cambridge. Commissioned by Brookgate and Network Rail. Community art project resulting in the creation of 36 folk songs and verses published in a copyright free songbook available at no cost, date TBC.
• Never Again,{{Cite web|title=Ivors Composer Awards nominations announced|url=https://completemusicupdate.com/article/ivors-composer-awards-nominations-announced/|website=Complete Music Update}}{{cite web|title=Never Again|url=https://ivorsacademy.com/nominee/never-again|website=Ivors Academy|date=28 October 2019 }}{{cite web|title=Sea Folk Sing(2018)|url=https://www.sparkedecho.org/never-again.html|website=Sparked Echo}}{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/neveragain|title=Never Again|website=Emily Peasgood}} Strood Railway Station, Southeastern (train operating company) and Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent, UK. 9-part song cycle for community choir, speaking voice and archival sound recordings. Commissioned by Ideas Test for Sea Folk Sing, a SparkedEcho production to commemorate the WW1 centenary of Armistice Day. Various performances on 10,11, 16 and 17 November 2018.
• VOICE100,{{cite web|url=https://www.strangelovefestival.com/2019-programme/emilypeasgood|title=Emily Peasgood|website=Strangelove Festival|date=20 March 2019 }}{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/voice100|title=VOICE 100|website=Emily Peasgood}} Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK. Beat poem featuring the recorded voices of 100 women, men and children aged 5 – 98 in Thanet, Kent. Commissioned by POW! Festival for International Women's Day, 7 March 2018.
• BIRDS and other Stories,{{Cite web|title=Nominees announced for British Composer Awards 2017|url=https://www.prsformusic.com/m-magazine/news/nominees-announced-british-composer-awards-2017/|website=www.prsformusic.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/birds-and-other-stories|website=Emily Peasgood|title=BIRDS and other Stories}} Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK. Collaborative community project resulting in an experimental choral work and graphic score, and an exhibition of stories from 30 members of the public. Commissioned by POW! Festival to celebrate International Women's Day. 11 March 2017.
• Crossing Over,{{cite web|title=Crossing Over|url=https://ivorsacademy.com/nominee/crossing-over|website=Ivors Academy|date=22 March 2019 }}{{cite web|title=CISA Research Unit: Postgraduate Student Emily Peasgood's Crossing over|url=https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/mpa/postgraduate-student-emily-peasgoods-crossing-over|website= Canterbury Christ Church University}}{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/crossing-over|title=Crossing Over|website=Emily Peasgood}} Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK. Part of an event commemorating the Zong massacre as depicted in J. M. W. Turner's painting The Slave Ship (1840). 29 November 2016.
• BIRDS,{{cite web|url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/birds15|title=BIRDS|website=British Music Collection}} Turner Contemporary and Resort Studios, Margate, Kent, UK. Commissioned by POW! Festival to celebrate International Women's Day. March 2016.

• 2021: Beacons,{{cite web|url=https://alisonneighbourdesign.com/work-in-progress/beacons|title=Work In Progress|website=Alison Neighbour Design}} Sunny Sands Beach, Folkestone, Kent, UK. Collaborative and interactive experimental choral performance ritual to celebrate the end of a treasure-hunt that invited members of public to collect sea gooseberries to bring along. Collaboration between scenographer Alison Neighbour, interactive technologist Tarim and Peasgood as composer. March 2021, date TBC.
• Jeremy Deller's English Magic ft. Emily Peasgood, Melodians Steel Orchestra and the Big Sing.{{cite web|url=https://soundslikeart.co.uk/projects/jeremy-deller|title=Jeremy Deller|website=Sounds Like Art}}{{cite web|url=https://emilypeasgood.com/jeremy-dellers-english-magic-ft-emily-peasgood-melodians-steel-orchestra-and-the-big-sing|website=Emily Peasgood|title=Jeremy Deller's English Magic ft Emily Peasgood, Melodians Steel Orchestra and The Big Sing}} Arrangements of popular songs for community steel orchestra and community choir. Commissioned by Sounds Like Art and Turner Contemporary for the exhibition Jeremy Deller's English Magic. 11 October 2014.
• Collective Spirit – The Boat Project, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK. Collective Spirit is a boat created for the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad, made from donated family heirlooms and parts of UK history. To celebrate its arrival at Margate Harbour, Peasgood was commissioned by Parrabbola to create an arrangement of Megan Henwood's song Collective Spirit for Regents Brass Band and The Big Sing community choir. 14 July 2012.

• Emily Peasgood official website: https://emilypeasgood.com

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