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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
