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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...
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...
