Monographs
Emerson, G. (2023). Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music: Negotiating the Experimental and the Accessible in a High Art Subculture. Abingdon: Routledge. Link to publisher.
Journal Articles
Emerson, G. (2020). What Do Audiences Want? Data-Informed Curation for Diverse Audiences in New Music. OnCurating, 47, 39-43. Full Article.
Emerson, G., & Egermann, H. (2018). Exploring the Motivations for Building New Digital Musical Instruments. Musicae Scientiae. (Online First, 16.10.18). https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864918802983
Emerson, G., & Egermann, H. (2018). Gesture-Sound Causality from the Audience’s Perspective: Investigating the Influence of Mapping Perceptibility on the Aesthetic Perception of New Digital Musical Instruments. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12(1), 96-109. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000114
Book Chapters
Emerson, G. & Egermann, H. (2017). Mapping, Causality and the Perception of Instrumentality: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to the Audience’s Experience of Digital Musical Instruments. In Bovermann, T., de Campo, A., Egermann, H., Hardjowirogo, S-I. & Weinzierl, S. (Eds.). Musical Instrument Identities in the 21st Century: Identities, Configurations, Practices. Springer: Heidelberg. https://www.springer.com/book/9789811029509
Selected Presentations and Peer-Reviewed Conference Abstracts
Emerson, G. (2019). Between the ‘Experimental’ and the ‘Accessible’: Audience Diversity and Experiences with Contemporary Classical Music. GRiNM Network Conference 2019: Experiences with Gender and Diversity in Contemporary Music. Zurich, 14th-16th November 2019.
Emerson, G. (2019). Receiving the Contemporary: Investigating the Audience for Contemporary Classical Music. Audience Research in the Arts Conference. Sheffield, 3rd-5th July 2019.
Emerson, G. (2018). Developing Audiences for Contemporary Classical Music: A Comparative Study of Strategies and Audience Experiences Across New Music Institutions in Europe. Doctoral Colloquium, 11. Jahrestagung des Fachverbands Kulturmanagement. Hamburg, 17-20th January 2018.
Emerson, G., Förstel, A., & Egermann, H. (2016). Gesture-Sound Causality from the Audience’s Perspective: Investigating the Influence of Mapping Design on the Reception of New Digital Musical Instruments. Abstract Book of the 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. San Francisco, CA, 4-11th July 2016.
Emerson, G., Förstel, A., & Egermann, H. (2015). Gesture-Sound Causality from the Audience’s Perspective: Investigating the Influence of Mapping Design on the Reception of New Digital Musical Instruments. Tagungsband der Jahrestagung Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie. Oldenburg, 11-13th September 2015.
Essays, Interviews and Journalistic Work
Demografie, Werte, Erfahrungen. Was wissen wir über das Publikum Neuer Musik? Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1/2020.
Die Geschichte vergegenwärtigen: Bericht zur Maerzmusik, Berliner Festival für Zeitfragen. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 4/2019.
Die Vergangenheit noch heute: Die Performerin Elaine Mitchener im Gespräch mit Gina Emerson. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 3/2019. PDF download: NZ-03-2019_Mitchener.
New Music, New Instruments and Sonic Expectation. Blatt 3000 #1, October 2014.
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