Composer and musicologist Clara Latham’s research and creative practice focuses on the relationship between sound, technology, sexuality, and the body. She has published articles in Sound Studies, Women & Music, Contemporary Modern European History, the Opera Quarterly, and the edited volume Sound, Music, Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience. She is currently working on a monograph that studies the shifts in listening both to musical tones and to the voice that took place alongside the development of sound recording. The book questions the role of sound in different technologies that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, exploring the intersections between psychoanalysis, listening, and musical instruments. Latham’s opera about the birth of psychoanalysis, Bertha the Mom, was supported by the American Composers Forum and premiered at Roulette Intermedium in 2018. She is currently working on a collaboration with the dance company Ballez on the evening length work Giselle of Lonliness that will premiere at the Joyce in June, 2021. Before joining the faculty at the New School, Clara taught at MIT, Harvard, and Dartmouth. She is currently a fellow in Sound and Music at Akademie Schloss Solitude. She has performed as a vocalist and instrumentalist with many groups including Starring, New Pope, The Fancy, Frankie Rose, and The Gongs.