Visualising Music explores alternative models of music-image relationship in film and video art, investigating how the boundaries of cinema can be challenged, both practically and theoretically, by a redefined audio-visual interaction. The first half of the book considers the significance of music in several types of non-Hollywood film, including the work of Werner Herzog and Derek Jarman. Building from here, the second half explores the expanded spaces of video installation art, with close reference to the immersive musical sites of Bill Viola.

Holly studierte Musik an der University of Oxford und am King's College London, bevor sie am Magdalene College der University of Cambridge promovierte. Anschließend hatte sie ein IRCHSS-Postdoktorandenstipendium am University College Dublin, wo sie auch Musikwissenschaft unterrichtete. Holly ist derzeit Dozentin an der School of Music der University of Liverpool.