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July 2022

 

  • 7th-9th - Embodied Music Theory/ies: Decolonising an Australian undergraduate music theory and aural skills curriculum, conference paper with Rachael Thoms and Roya Safaei, Music and the University Conference, City University of London

 

June 2022

 

  • ​​8th-10th - MIDI Controllers and Magic Lanterns: Contextualising a Performative Approach to Media Archaeology, conference paper with Charles Martin and Martyn Jolly, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology - CIM22 'Participation', The University of Edinburgh

  • 17th - ᐊᐧᓂᐦᑕᒼ (wanihtam): Hearing it the wrong way - Indigenising a pair of Métis ears, conference paper at the Legacies of Violence Roadshow, ANU, Canberra, ACT

 

April 2022

 

  • 24th - premiere of 'I Would Not, If I Could, Forget' new work for live and prerecorded electronics and fretless electric bass, 2 magic lanternists and narrator - Lumière Festival, Mount Victoria, NSW

  • 28th - Composition as Synchronised Action - research seminar paper on current collaboration with Charles Martin - AI and music notation, ANU School of Music, Canberra, ACT

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February 2022

 

  • 4th-6th - premiere of a new work for voice, electric guitar, live electronics, narrator and 2 magic lanternists as part of the Local Jinni Dynamo Hub performance, Gorman House, Canberra, ACT

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May 2021

 

  • 25th - invited talk on Disability and the Arts, ANU's Bruce Hall, Canberra, ACT

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March 2021

 

  • Recording session with Canberra Experimental Music Studio - the works of Chloë Hobbs

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February 2021

 

  • J. W. Newland’s ‘Beautiful Scientific Exhibition of Dissolving Views (2021) 30min performance at PhotoAccess, Canberra - new magic lantern performance with Rachael Thoms and Charles Martin

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December 2020

 

  • Paper on Requiem for a Reef co-delivered with Ngaio Fitzpatrick at the ANU Network on the History and Legacies of Violence Roadshow, ANU

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November 2020

 

  • Sci-Fi Theremin Jukebox, 10min collaborative video work with Kit Devine and Charles Martin, commissioned and premiered at Zoomposium: Performance, Science and Technology, conference hosted by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

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August 2020

 

  • New version of Requiem for a Reef premiered and livestreamed as part of National Science Week, hosted and supported by the Canberra Glassworks

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June 2020

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  • Dissonance, a collaborative multimedia installation with visual artist, Ngaio Fitzpatrick; glass, video, two-channel audio, projections; Civic Square, Canberra Museum and Gallery, funded by artsACT - ran through October

 

April 2020

 

  • Suburban Apparitions (2020) – 30min magic lantern performance at Calthorpe’s House, ACT Historic Places

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December 2019

 

  • 7th-9th - Sounding Canberra: A community sound art and acoustic ecology project Conference paper given at the Musicological Society of Australia conference, Monash University

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November 2019

 

  • Requiem for a Reef a collaborative multimedia performance with visual artist, Ngaio Fitzpatrick; glass sculptures, two vibraphonists, amateur percussion ensemble - premiere at Mt Stromlo

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October 2019

 

  • 4th - Musical Director for 'The Australian Object', a multimedia performance at the National Art School, Sydney

  • 26th/27th - 2-day ANU New Music Festival, Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres, Canberra

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September 2019

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  • 21st - Premiere of 'Figheadaireachd', a new work for orchestra, commissioned by the Canberra Youth Orchestra

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August 2019

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  • 6th - Premiere of a series of new multimedia collaborative works with the Canberra Experimental Music Studio and Diana Scarborough (artist/engineer based in Cambridge), ANU School of Music

  • 21st - Performance with Soft Hollow and Andromeda is Coming... - Sideway, Canberra

  • 29th - Performance with Tony Osbourne and Richard Johnson at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

  • 31st - ANU Laptop Ensemble at ANU Open Day

  • 31st - Performance at Precipice, Gorman Arts Centre (Canberra), improvised music and dance collaboration

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July 2019

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  • 31st - Canberra Experimental Music Studio performance with Chayla Ueckert-Smith at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery

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May 2019

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  • 3rd-6th - Grus Jerrabomberra (2019) installation; BARK Exhibition, Gold Creek Station, Hall, ACT

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April 2019

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  • 30th - Screening of the film 'A Lightness of Being' (produced/directed by Ngaio Fitzpatrick, with a soundtrack I composed) at an ANU event: Climate Change Adaptation in Aisia and the Pacific: Is Gender Relevant?

 

February 2019

 

  • 2nd - Performance: Music Mentor with Stellar; Australian Talented Youth Project; Mount Stromlo Observatory and Gorman House Arts Centre

  • 8th-17th March - Grus Jerrabomberra (2019) installation; Gaia Hypothesis, Belconnen Arts Centre

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January 2019

 

  • 11th - Making Music with Arduinos - workshop for year 11 students with the National Youth Science Forum, Australian National University

  • 25th - Making Music with Arduinos - workshop for year 11 students with the National Youth Science Forum, Australian National University

  • 28th-2nd February - Music Mentor with Stellar; Australian Talented Youth Project; Mount Stromlo Observatory and Gorman House Arts Centre

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December 2018

 

  • 19th-21st - Wwise 101 Course at ANU School of Music

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November 2018

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  • 22nd - Canberra Experimental Music Studio - live at the Nishi Gallery

  • 26th-28th - Wwise 101 Course at ANU School of Music

 

October 2018

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  • 5th - Sounding Canberra performance, premiere of Gungahlin to Mount Ainslie (2019); ANU Laptop Ensemble performance, Ainslie Arts Centre

 

August 2018

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  • 10th - Performance at National Science Week Opening Night, ANU Experimental Music Studio, Laptop Ensemble, Canberra

 

May 2018

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April 2018

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  • 4th - Opening of Genius Loci, a collaborative exhibition at the Canberra Glassworks - I have a new multimedia installation with glass/video artist Ngaio Fitzpatrick in the smokestack of the historic glassworks building

 

March 2018

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  • 8th-11th - Composer for dancer/choreographer, Liz Lea's, new one-woman show 'RED', Quantum Leap Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre, Canberra

  • 10th - Canberra Experimental Music Studio with projection artist, John Carolan at Enlighten Festival, Canberra

 

January 2018

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  • 22nd - Making Music with Arduinos - workshop for year 11 students with the National Youth Science Forum, Australian National University

  • 15th - Making Music with Arduinos - workshop for year 11 students with the National Youth Science Forum, University of Queensland

  • 8th - Making Music with Arduinos - workshop for year 11 students with the National Youth Science Forum, Australian National University

 

November 2017

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  • 3rd - Premiere of Age. Old. Story. (2017) a multimedia collaboration with performance artist Janet Meaney, poet Brian Hinksman, and the Canberra Experimental Music Studio, Fitters' Workshop (Canberra)

  • 4th - EMS performance and workshop at Electrofringe, Sydney

  • 9th - Premiere of a new live soundtrack to Ngaio Fitzpatrick's short film Oblivion, featuring members of the EMS, at an Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.

 

October 2017

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  • 21st - Premiere of a new multimedia collaboration with Martyn Jolly and Elisa deCourcy (magic lanterns), Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

 

September 2017

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  • 7th-10th - Premiere of 'FUSE' Gorman Arts Centre (Canberra) - multimedia collaboration with dancer/choreographer, Jack Riley

  • 12th - Premiere of a new multimedia collaboration (I acted as composer, musical director and performer - electric guitar) with indie band 'Helena Pop', Martyn Jolly (magic lanterns), and other faculty of the ANU School of Art and Design, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

  • 12th - Premiere of the film 'A Lightness of Being' (produced/directed by Ngaio Fitzpatrick, with a soundtrack I composed) at an ANU Climate Change Institute event

  • 25th - Performance and workshop (graphic score composition and performance for children) with the EMS at the FLORIADE Festival, Canberra

  • 29th-30th - Collaboration with a group of Canberra-based dancers from Australian Dance Party at FLORIADE 'NightFest'

  • 30th - Performance with Simone de Haan (trombone), Rhys Butler (alto saxophone), Benjamin Drury (double bass) and Richard Johnson (reeds) - Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

 

July 2017

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June 2017

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  • 16th - Workshop with the Canberra Experimental Music Studio at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre (assisting participants - aged 16-25 - in creating interactive installations utilising found objects)

 

May 2017

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  • 21st - In Flux - The Canberra Experimental Music Studio at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

  • 24th - The Canberra Experimental Music Studio at Smith's Alternative, Canberra

 

April 2017

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  • 7th - New multimedia collaboration with Ben Swift, the Canberra EMS and Andrew Quinn, ANU School of Music

  • 9th - Violist da gamba in Benjamin Drury's Water's Edge (2017) for violin, vibraphone, bass viol and double bass, You Are Here Festival, Canberra

  • 20th - Premiere of New South Wales Gothic (2017) with the Canberra EMS, Martyn Jolly (magic lanterns) and Rowen Conroy (drone footage of Lake George)

 

March 2017

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  • 18th - 5-hour collective installation/performance with the Canberra EMS at the Art, Not Apart Festival, Canberra

 

February 2017

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January 2017

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  • 27th - The Sixth Mass Extinction (2017) collaborative performance piece with Ngaio Fitzpatrick (ANU Climate Change Institute), funded by artsACT, Fitters Workshop, Canberra

 

December 2016

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  • 11th - OUR EARS FELT LIKE CANYONS (2016) for four-channel tape - premiered at 'Teach Yourself to Fly: A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros', Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

 

November 2016

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  • 16th - Some Words and Music (2014) performed (Australian premiere) at Collected Resonances at the Ainslie Arts Centre, featuring four local writers, and members of the ANU Experimental Music Studio

  • 23rd - Roundtable (with Will Christie, Larry Sitsky and Ken Lampl) on Creative Practice as/and Research at the ANU School of Music Research Student Symposium 'Where the Ocean Meets the Land'

  • 25th - Emmy Noether (2013) performed (Australian premiere) by Jack Bochow and Padraig Parkhurst at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music

 

October 2016

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  • 9th - Collaboration with Walter van Hauwe, Amy Power and Andreas Böhlen at the Ainslie Arts Centre

  • 13th - Lecture entitled 'Re-composing Mike Parr's Alphabet/Haemorrhage' to be given at an ANU School of Music public research seminar

  • 15th -Premiere of a new version of Mike Parr's collaborative work 'Alphabet/Haemorrhage' for composer and tenor, National Gallery of Australia (commissioning body)

  • 19th - Collected Resonances at the Ainslie Arts Centre

  • 22nd/23rd - The ANU Experimental Music Studio (workshop and performance) at the Electrofringe festival, Sydney

 

September 2016

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  • 21st - New collaborative live soundtrack work with Ngaio Fitzpatrick at Collected Resonances, Ainslie Arts Centre, Canberra

  • 22nd - Lecture entitled 'Re-composing Mike Parr's Alphabet/Haemorrhage' given at the University of Canberra as part of 'Grace Notes: A Symposium on Musical Heritage and Creative Practice'

  • 24th - Premiere of new multimedia collaboration with Martyn Jolly (Head of Photography, ANU) at 'Siteworks', Bundanon with the ANU Experimental Music Studio

  • 26th - Children's graphic score and experimental performance workshop and performance by the ANU Experimental Music Studio at the Floriade Festival, Canberra

 

August 2016

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July 2016

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  • 29th - 14th August - Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik

 

June 2016

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  • 9th - Pre-concert talk at the Musica Viva presentation of the Ensō Quartet (Beethoven, Ginastera, Turina, Broadstock), Llewellyn Hall, Canberra

  • 15th - Collected Resonances at the Ainslie Arts Centre

  • 26th - Guest appearance with the Canberra Youth Orchestra on tenor banjo in 'Rhapsody in Blue', Llewellyn Hall, Canberra

 

May 2016

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  • 6th - ANU Experimental Music Studio at the Canberra International Music Festival

  • 8th - ANU Experimental Music Studio at the Canberra International Music Festival

  • 12th - Faculty & Friends concert at the ANU School of Music

  • 13th - ANU School of Music celebrates Erik Satie's 150th Birthday

  • 14th - ANU School of Music 'Vexations' marathon performance at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

  • 17th - ANU School of Music celebrates Erik Satie's 150th Birthday (concert featuring Stephanie McCallum)

  • 18th - Collected Resonances at the Ainslie Arts Centre

  • 20th - Ensemble Offspring concert of student works at the ANU School of Music

  • 25th - Keynote lecture and concert of my works at the 'Music, Creative Practice-Led Research and the Academy' symposium, Macquarie University, Sydney

  • 26th - ANU Composers Concert

  • 28th - Andromeda is Coming... and Martyn Jolly (Head of Photography, ANU) Magic Lantern performances at the Ainslie Arts Centre as part of 'Canberra Obscura'

 

April 2016

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  • 1st - Conference paper entitled, 'Intersectionality and Experimental Music' given at the Australian Women's History Network conference in Melbourne

  • 15th - ANU Experimental Music Studio at the You Are Here Festival, Canberra

  • 16th - ANU Experimental Music Studio at the You Are Here Festival, Canberra

  • 20th - Collected Resonances at the Ainslie Arts Centre

  • 22nd - Set at the National Press Club with guitarist Greg Stott

 

March 2016

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  • 3rd - 'Grasping things at the root' - live soundtrack event featuring faculty and students from the ANU Experimental Music Studio, ANU School of Music Big Band Room

  • 5th - 'nature forms' - Lindsay Vickery with the ANU Experimental Music Studio, ANU School of Music Big Band Room

  • 19th - 'Apocalyptic and Integrated' - 3 hour multimedia event featuring Andromeda is Coming... and the ANU Experimental Music Studio, Kendall Lane Theatre, Art, Not Apart Festival, Canberra

  • 23rd - Collected Resonances at the Ainslie Arts Centre

  • 24th - ANU Prepared Piano Ensemble performing in the Nishi Grand Stair, Canberra

 

February 2016

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  • 13th - Groove Warehouse Steel Band performance at the Canberra Multicultural Festival

  • 24th - Collected Resonances at the Ainslie Arts Centre, featuring student performances, and a collaboration between Dr Martyn Jolly (Head of Photography, ANU) and Andromeda is Coming...

  • 26th - Magic Lantern performances at the National Portrait Gallery, collaboration between Dr Martyn Jolly (Head of Photography, ANU) and Andromeda is Coming...

 

December 2015

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  • 12th - Groove Warehouse Steel Band performance at The Street Theatre, Canberra

 

November 2015

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  • 28th - Ensemble Metatone/Andromeda is Coming... performance at Electrofringe Festival

 

October 2015

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  • 1st - Conference paper entitled, 'Why does Pitchfork love David Lang's Pierced?' given at the MSA Conference in Sydney

  • 6th - ANU EMS set at the Floriade Festival, Canberra

  • 9th - Set at the National Press Club with guitarist Greg Stott

  • 17th - ANU EMS performed two sets of improvised and open form works to the films of Jacques Cousteau at the Ainslie Arts Centre, Canberra

  • 20th - ANU Student composers concert with the ANU Chamber Choir

  • 22nd - ANU NME concert 'Feminine Endings: Celebrating Women Composers'

  • 28th - ANU student composers recording session with the ANU Chamber Orchestra

 

September 2015

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  • 1st - Concert with the Johannes Luebbers Quintet at The Gods (Canberra) with Miroslav Bukovsky, John Mackey and Mark Sutton

  • 3rd - ANU New Music Ensemble concert at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra - featuring works from 7 women composers

  • 18th - Andrew Quinn guest concert/installation (LED Installations)

  • 21st - ANU New Music Ensemble feature concert as part of the ANU School of Music 50th Anniversary Weekend

  • 25th - Andromeda is Coming... set at Skyspace, Canberra

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August 2015

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  • 27th - Andromeda is Coming... performance at an ANU School of Music Lunchbox Concert

  • 27th - Concert with the Johannes Luebbers Quintet at The Gods (Canberra) with Anthony Cotter, Andrej Thompson and Alec Brinsmead

  • 29th - ANU New Music Ensemble performance of works from Cat Hope and Lauren Redhead at the ANU Open Day Main Stage

 

July 2015

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  • 21st - Premiere of the live version of 'Avoidance Behaviour', a film by Elyse Howe with live and pre-recorded soundtrack by myself and Charles Martin

 

May 2015

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  • 7th - The ANU Experimental Music Studio presented two sets in the Canberra International Music Festival's 'Forrest Music' in the National Botanic Gardens

  • 8th - I attended the ANU's 'Flesh and Blood: A Feminist Symposium on Embodied Histories'

  • 21st - The ANU New Music Ensemble presented a concert of my chamber works

  • 28th - the ANU composers concert

 

April 2015

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  • 2nd - ANU student composers works workshopped at a Lunchbox concert featuring Ensemble in Residence 'The Noise' (string quartet)

  • 8th - Paper at the 'Modernist Musics and Political Aesthetics' conference at the University of Nottingham entitled: 'Open Music with Early Instruments in an Electroacoustic Environment: An exploration of innovative anarchic small ensemble performance practice'

  • 12th - Premiere of 'Lise Meitner' (2014) for soprano, electric guitar and sustaining keyboard instrument, given by Pesedjet (members of Ensemble Dal Niente) in Chicago

 

March 2015

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  • 5th - ANU New Music Ensemble one day Christian Wolff feature (lunchbox and evening concert)

  • 14th - HHM and the ANU NME at the Art Not Apart festival in Canberra

  • 20th - HHM and the ANU NME at the You are Here festival in Canberra

  • 22nd - ANU Toy Ensemble at the Street Theatre, Canberra

 

February 2015

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  • 12th - ANU NME performed as part of O-Week in the School of Music Big Band Room

  • 18th - Paper at the 'Music for All: Ownership in Composition, Improvisation and Performance' conference at the Orpheus Instituut, Ghent, Belgium entitled: 'Open Music with Early Instruments in an Electroacoustic Environment: An exploration of innovative anarchic small ensemble performance practice'

  • 20th - Paper at the 'Compositional Aesthetics and the Political' conference at Goldsmiths in London entitled: 'Open Music with Early Instruments in an Electroacoustic Environment: An exploration of innovative anarchic small ensemble performance practice'

  • 26th- Roundtable at the 'Reflective Conservatoire' conference the Guildhall in London entitled: 'Reinvigorating piano pedagogy of canonical works through contemporary music performance practice and free play'

 

January 2015

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  • 27th-30th - ANU Experimental Music Studio Summer Camp

  • 30th - ANU Experimental Music Studio Summer Camp concert at the ANU School of Music

 

December 2014

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  • A group of musicians at the SoM took part in a worldwide project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley’s ‘In C’.  http://www.worldwideinc.org/

 

November 2014

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  • 14th - ANU School of Music Graduate Symposium

 

October 2014

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  • 30th - I organised Soundproof, a one-day festival featuring ANU student composers and performers (the ANU New Music Ensemble & guests)

  • 31st - ANU EMS Lunchbox concert

 

September 2014

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  • 4th - An open rehearsal featuring the ANU EMS' faculty ensemble, a new research/performance project 'Helyard, Hunter & Martin' - new and improvised electroacoustic works featuring early and electronic instruments

  • 7th - The ANU EMS' faculty ensemble, HMM, presented a set of new and improvised works featuring early instruments and live electronics at the Drill Hall Gallery as part of the COLOUR MUSIC exhibition

 

August 2014

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  • 5th-9th - I was the resident double bassist at the ANU Winter Jazz Festival, performing with local and guest artists including Miroslav Bukovsky, Mike Price, Mark Sutton, Wayne Kelly, Trish Delaney-Brown and Christian Howes

  • 21st and 22nd - Double bassist in the ANU production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607)

  • 30th - The ANU Composition Studio featured three student presentations on their works as part of ANU Open Day

  • 30th - The ANU Experimental Music Studio presented a one-hour set of new music as part of ANU Open Day

  • 31st - The ANU Experimental Music Studio performed a set of new and improvised works as part of the Drill Hall Gallery's COLOUR MUSIC exhibition

 

July 2014

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  • 5th - Mabel Kwan and Jesse Langen of Chicago-based supergroup, Ensemble Dal Niente, performed Emmy Noether (2013) for piano and electric guitar, written for them last year. 7:30pm at Musical Offering in Evanston, IL http://themusicaloffering.org/

  • 24th - I performed at Smith's Alternative Bookshop in Canberra, with local saxophonist, and colleague at ANU, John Mackey - free jazz improvisation

 

June 2014

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  • I performed (double bass) as part of a tribute to the Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley album at Smith's Alternative Bookshop in Canberra

  • Premiere of Percussion Ensemble (2010) given in Canberra by Uncut Percussion and the ANU New Music Ensemble

  • An arrangement of mine of a traditional Klezmer melody was premiered by the Foster Quintet (a youth ensemble, part of the ANU Open School of Music) at a Gala concert at the Hungarian Embassy in Canberra

 

May 2014

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  • Presentation on the history of avant-garde composition given to the Creative Arts Learning Community at the Australian National University

  • Talk on my work as a composer to be given as part of the Canberra International Music Festival (ANU School of Music - Lecture Theatre 3, 3pm)

  • Judge at the ANU 'Big Night Out' popular music competition

 

April 2014

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  • Performance (viola da gamba) with Dr David R.M. Irving and Dr Erin Helyard of Handel's Violin Sonatas at the Australian National University

  • Performance (viola da gamba) with the ANU chamber choir (Prof Peter Tregear conducting) of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri (1680)

 

March 2014

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  • Two 45 minute sets of improvised and open works given by myself (prerecorded electronics, double bass, violone) and six other faculty and students at the Australian National University (trumpet, saxophones, piano, electronics, percussion), with silent abstract videos by Glasgow-based visual artist, Lauren Davis

 

December 2013

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October 2013

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  • Four Female Voices (2011-'13) premiered by Glasgow-based ensemble Scottish Voices as part of the 'Beyond the Semitone' Symposium at the Aberdeen Sound Festival, University of Aberdeen

 

August 2013

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  • 22nd - Emmy Noether (2013) for electric guitar and piano premiered by Mabel Kwan and Jesse Langen at the Dixon Chapel in Chicago

 

April 2013

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  • For Eric and Sue Ellen (2008) for piano and 'cello performed by ensemble a.pe.ri.od.ic, Chicago

 

November 2012

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  • For a Number of Musicians (2010) for variable instrumentation premiered by Cork-based Quiet Music Ensemble as part of the Sonic Vigil Festival, Cork

 

May 2012

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  • For a Number of String Players (2011) premiered by the Chimera Ensemble as part of the University of York's Spring Festival, John Cage Collaboration Day, York

 

April 2012

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  • Paper entitled Openness in Musical Notation given at a research student event, InSpace, University of Edinburgh

 

January 2012

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  • Paper entitled Openness in Musical Notation given at the Royal Musical Association Annual Research Student conference, University of Hull

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