Ian Stonehouse, British artist, educator, and researcher and experimental Music Archivist and former Head of the Electronic Music Studios (2004–2017) at the Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he has taught since 1999. Trained in Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton, he previously worked at London Electronic Arts (later the Lux Centre), collaborating with artists including Jane & Louise Wilson and Gillian Wearing. Since 2004, he has directed the EMS, focusing on electroacoustic composition, sound design, and media arts. This conversation with Ian Stonehouse (Head of EMS, Goldsmiths) explores the legacy of Lily Greenham (1924-2001), a pioneering sound poet, composer, and visual artist. It focuses on her invention of lingual music-a voice-based sound art form-and her collaborations with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, notably the award-winning piece Relativity (1974). Stonehouse highlights Greenham's multilingual performances, her technical mastery of tape editing, and her later shift toward electroacoustic composition in works such as Polar Polaris and Borges. The discussion also addresses her wide network of collaborators, challenges in archival preservation, and her lasting influence as an interdisciplinary artist who fused poetry, performance, and studio innovation.
Dorothea Schürch (2024) studied this question.