Rachael Finney is a musician, composer, artist, and cultural theorist whose work examines histories and cultures of popular music, recording technologies, and the arrangements of sonic and musical space. Her practice frequently deals with the relationship between listening, voice and the body. Her work makes extensive use of reel-to-reel tape whereby she uses players to both process and present her work. Finney’s work has been utilised for both exhibitions and recorded media. This interest in sound and specifically voice originates from her background in DIY music where she continues to release work under the moniker R Elizabeth.
Rachael completed her PhD in the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths where her thesis focused on the phonic space of the background seeking to both question and realise modes of listening that occupy the edges of attention and the sounds, and specifically voices, that have occupied this aural site.
She teaches at University of the Arts London where she is Course Leader and Senior Lecturer for MA Music Production