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1:1 Concerts (2019-)
Performance studies including Historical performance
1:1 Concerts. Sally Walker actively participates in socially driven projects including organising 1:1 CONCERTS in Australia (her series curated for the Adelaide Festival gained a 5-star Limelight review), teaching for the Equal Music program (Illumina Festival) and being Ambassador for the Symphony for Life Foundation and findings from these...
African Popular Music and the Politics of Belonging in Australia (2016-)
Music in Health and Science
Through ethnographic research with African-born musicians across Australia, this project examines musical performance as a resource for negotiating ideas about cultural identity, race, and belonging in Australia. One of the fastest growing minority groups in Australia today, people of African descent face high levels of racial discrimination....
Boccherini's Gold (2022-)
Performance studies including Historical performance
Bocherini's Gold (2022-). Boccherini’s Gold is an ongoing project by Sally Walker. Focussing on the seldom performed/recorded but wonderfully inventive chamber works of Luigi Boccherini for flute, the project has incorporated private recording preview concerts at the Adelaide Baroque Hall prior to its public opening with Boccherini’s Opus 19...
CHIME: Music for Perinatal Mental Health (2019-)
Music in Health and Science
CHIME (Community Health Intervention through Music Engagement) is an interdisciplinary, collaborative project working to investigate how music can be used to support perinatal mental health in Africa and Australia. Mental health problems during and after pregnancy remain a serious women’s health issue with consequences not only for the affected...
History of Live Sound (2013-)
Music technology
This research is undertaken by Jos Mulder with an international group of collaborators. Systematic exploration of the history of ‘making music loud’ is leading to better understandings of this common mediation in music performance that shapes not just the musical experience, but also the music. ANU researchers: Jos Mulder. View Researcher page....
Kats-Chernin 'Night and Now' Concerto (2015-2021)
Performance studies including Historical performance
Kats-Chernin “Night and Now” Concerto: Composer/performer collaboration resulting in a new creative work (2015 – 2021). Through their long-standing collaborative partnership, Dr Sally Walker has commissioned and premiered many new works of composer Elena Kats-Chernin, the largest scale work being Night and Now Flute Concerto, premiered by the...
Music and the Mind (2018-2019)
Performance studies including Historical performance
Music and the Mind (2018-2019). This project was led by Dr Sally Walker, together with Prof. Eckart Altenmüller (Director of the Music Medicine Institute, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media) and Ass. Prof. Bronwen Ackermann (University of Sydney), as well as organist Peter Guy and composer Elena Kats-Chernin. The creative output was a...
Music, Health, and Power: Singing the Unsayable in The Gambia (2006-)
Music in Health and Science
This project draws on collaborative ethnographic research in the Gambia (2006-present) to examine the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. Focusing in particular on Muslim women performers, the research explores the way women have adapted indigenous musical healing practices to address contemporary public health challenges. In...
Musical Care International Network (2020-)
Music in Health and Science
The aim of this international network is to bring people together to explore examples of musical care from different disciplinary and cultural perspectives. We invite discussion of a broad range of musical care practices, from private experiences (including informal singing between caregivers and infants or formal music therapy sessions) to public...
Sound Level Management in Music Venues (2014-)
Music technology
This interdisciplinary project is undertaken by Jos Mulder with a number of international collaborators in Europe and the USA. The research aims to inform evidence-based practice for live sound engineers (and other stakeholders such as musicians) to reduce the risks of hearing damage at (amplified) concerts and dance events. The main body of...
Stolen Goods (Stocketus) (2017-)
Music technology
"Stocketus, stolen goods" is a composition for ensemble, digital electronics and ‘pile of loudspeakers’. The work was designed to spatially juxtapose acoustic musical instruments and the loudspeakers (and microphones) that are so often used to project performances to the audience. By structuring the composition around the insertion of a descending...
Switching Between Modern and Historical flutes (2008-2021)
Performance studies including Historical performance
Switching between Modern and Historical Flutes: Pedagogical and Neurophysiological Implications (2008 – 2021). Decades after the initial intensive debate between advocates and critics of Historically Informed Performance Practice (HIP) following its inception, the modern and HIP arenas are now more musically interactive. There are players who...
Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodphur (2010-2018)
Global Music
This project was a partnership with the Art Gallery of NSW, and later the Vivid Festival, to accompany paintings of the Rathores. These were expressed in an exquiste artistic catalogue that toured in the Smithsonian, the British Museum, and the AGNSW. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the region of Jodphur produced a distinctive and inventive...
Music and the Gyuto Monks of Tibet (2014-2018)
Global Music
In 2014, Prof. Kim Cunio commenced work with this landmark Tibetan Buddhist ensemble, who express one of the greatest musical lineages of the world. The Gyuto monastery has trained its practioners for close to 1,500 years, in what is widely regarded as the most significant extant tradition of harmonic chanting. The project has comprised a new...
The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D Khalili Collection (2007-2015)
Global Music
Ishq is a CD, music installation, film, and scholarly paper to accompany The Arts of Islam: Treasures of the Nasser D Khalili Collection, which toured to the Art Gallery of NSW. This collection contains 20,000 items, many priceless and unique. The music responds to 350 of the finest works of the collection. Significant works in this project...
