Research projects
1:1 Concerts (2019-)
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…
African Popular Music and the Politics of Belonging in Australia (2016-)
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…
Boccherini's Gold (2022-)
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…
CHIME: Music for Perinatal Mental Health (2019-)
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…
Delta Technique: Advancing Recordist Agency via Dual-Output Microphone Technology (2022)
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…
Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies (2022)
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…