News and events

May 2023 // EP release // Friction

Friction EP - a sonic exploration of frictional processes at play as geological faults slide (Termote E. and Mair K.) released on soundcloud and bandcamp

December 2022 // Launch // KarenMairDesign

Launch of my freelance company KarenMairDesign, Edinburgh, Scotland

November 2022 // Installation // Land Curves: Finse

Land Curves: Finse - Interactive sound sculpture, Territories Exhibition, Lydgalleriet Bergen, Norway (Holbrook, U.A.S. and Mair, K.)

November 2022 // Album release // Murmuration 3: Species

Compilation album of field recordings, Glenshee, Scotland (curated by Jez Riley French and released on Bandcamp). Responsible for track 14, Linn of Dee Tree (Mair K. and Sturgeon J.)

2022 // Exhibition // Our Porous World

Science communication exhibition, University of Bergen Museum, Norway (provided recordings of rock crushing sounds)

April 2022 // Invited Talk // Sonification for geoscience

Invited talk on Sonification for Geoscience: Turning data into sound, in GeoWednesday (Geoønsdag) lecture series, Science library, University of Oslo, Norway

January 2022 // Invited contribution // Ramsay lecture

My fold sonification work is featured in Professor Clare Bond’s moving tribute on the life and work of the iconic geologist Professor John G Ramsay at Tectonic Studies Group Meeting, 2022

November 2021 // Degree awarded // MScR

Awarded the degree of Master of Science by Research (MScR) in Sound Design, Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh

Thesis: Fieldtrips through sound

November 2020 // Degree awarded // MA

Awarded the degree of Master of Arts (MA) in Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh

Thesis: Sounding out the environment

November 2018 // Public engagement // Interactive listening lab on rock music

Presented an Interactive Listening Lab on Rock Music during public engagement Science Saturday event as part of “Rip it up: The Story of Scottish pop” exhibition, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK, (Mair, K. and Barrett, N.)

September 2018 // Promotion //

Promotion to Full Professor in geomechanics at the University of Oslo, Norway