Ella Finer’s work in sound and performance spans writing, composing, and curating, with a particular interest in how women’s voices take up space and how bodies acoustically disrupt, challenge, or change occupations of space. She is currently finishing her first book, Acoustic Commons and the Wild Life of Sound, for Errant Bodies Press. Silent Whale Letters, a correspondence project with Vibeke Mascini, will be published in early 2023 by Sternberg Press.
Poetry
Winter 2023
The Night, like the Bridge, Another Kind of Arc for Her to Cross
Beside a firelight described by moonlight, a line quivers to complete the whole. The figures reaching, night-workers sifting glowing particles from smoke—as the line descending into black water loses its […]
Winter 2013
“The composition is different, that is certain”
—Ophelia Composing Herself
A paper first delivered at Shakespeare and the Senses International Conference, as part of P.A. Skantze’s “Auratic Persona – Sonic Characters” Panel, Shakespeare’s Globe, London. 5 November 2011. Thinking about […]