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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....
Delta Technique: Advancing Recordist Agency via Dual-Output Microphone Technology (2022)
Music technology
The research project by Matthew Barnes identified several advantages to recordist agency when using dual output microphone technology. Within this, a novel 'Delta Technique' allows the recordist to simulate the shape of first order polar patterns changing over time. The technique subsequently broadens available timbre, and enables the phenomenon...
Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies (2022)
Music technology
Professor Samantha Bennett is currently working on a large-scale research project with co-investigator, Associate Professor Eliot Bates (CUNY). Entitled Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies, the project investigates the materialities, design, manufacturing, consumption, and heritigization of professional audio technologies. Through...
Historical Instrument Showcase Concert (2022)
Performance studies including Historical performance
On the stage of Llewellyn Hall on 10 August, five of the School of Music’s instruments from the Keyboard Institute Collection were arranged for performance in a practical presentation of our research in Historically Informed Performance. The Historical Instrument Showcase Concert served primarily as the launch of our newest instrument, a copy of a...
Knowing Where to Belong (2022)
Performance studies including Historical performance, Composition
Knowing Where to Belong (2022). A Song Cycle for Solo Voice and Chamber Ensemble, by Frank Millward. This work is a recorded album with score. A contemporary song cycle, with text and music by the composer, additional text by Heather Keens, Lisa Gasteen and Janis Balodis. This work consists of nine songs for female voice, accompanied by a chamber...
Ngarra-burria First Peoples Composer's Program (2018-)
Australian Indigenous music
Ngarra-burria is a program that builds bridges for First Peoples musicians to step forward, further develop their composing skills, and connect with the art-music sector. The program was initiated by Dharug composer Chris Sainsbury, and is delivered by a partnership between Moogahlin Performing Arts, the Australian Music Centre, ANU School of...
Rachmaninoff Performance Diary (2006-)
Historical musicology
The Rachmaninoff Performance Diary is an ongoing project by Scott Davie. Spanning almost two decades, the project incorporates original research undertaken in Moscow and Washington, published sources in English and Russian, and the unpublished research of Dr Sophia Satina, Rachmaninoff's sister-in-law. Available as an online database since 2009,...
Space to Create (2022-)
Australian Indigenous music
Space to Create is an intensive music residential program. The delivery of the program is flexible to adapt to each of the participants’ requirement. The aim of the program is to create a dedicated space so each of the participants can take the time to sustain and grow creative ideas, and to provide professional development opportunities for the...
Sunconscious (2022)
Music in Health and Science
This is the third album by the Sounds of Space Project, a collaboration between Dr Nigel Meredith, Diana Scarborough and Professor Kim Cunio. Ten new tracks have been created for this project featuring music inspired by and including space 'sounds' from the Sun, Like their previous albums 'Aurora Musicalis', and ‘Celestial Incantations’, this...
The Politics of Analogue Aesthetics and High Fidelity in Contemporary Music Production (2016-)
Music technology
In this project, Pat O’Grady considers the socio-cultural dimensions of analogue recording technology within contemporary music production. He examines how attitudes towards analogue hardware signal processors and mixing consoles shapes cultural capital within the field. The project investigates how a fetishization towards exclusive and expensive...
Aurora Musicalis (2020)
Music in Health and Science
How do we define Aurora Musicalis? It is partly a soundscape drawn from our most mysterious continent, partly a response to the exquisite ‘sounds’ derived from the Very Low Frequency receiver at Halley Research Station. It is partly an imagining of what it would be like to stay at the Halley station with a grand piano, in this case to listen to a...
Brian & Banksy (2020)
Performance studies including Historical performance, Composition
Brian & Banksy an Odyssey (2020). Animated film with soundtrack by Frank Millward, performed live by Saxophone Quartet (Premiered 2020 by Delta Saxophone Quartet - London). Watch here. Brian and Bansky is an animated film with a soundtrack performed live by saxophone quartet, commissioned by the Delta Saxophone Quartet. The work presents a...
Celestial Incantations (2021)
Music in Health and Science
This is the second album by the Sounds of Space Project, a collaboration between Dr Nigel Meredith, Diana Scarborough and Prof. Kim Cunio. Ten new tracks are digitised for this project, featuring a “spectrum” of space “sounds” from the Earth, the solar system, the galaxy and beyond, together with voice, western and non-western instruments. Like...
Ngarra-Burria Piyanna (2020)
Performance studies including Historical performance, Australian Indigenous music
In 2020, Scott Davie and School of Music Indigenous Convenor, Chris Sainsbury, developed a research project based on the oldest piano in the Keyboard Institute collection. The square piano, built circa 1770 by Henri Henrion, is a cultural artefact created at the time Cook charted the eastern coast of Australia. Given the significance of the date,...
