RESEARCH - Publications - Text - Music Scores - Soundtracks - DVDs - Major Awards, Grants & Commissions

Current Project

The Visual Voice - A collaborative research project involving Dr Frank Millward & Dr John Rubin - The Visual Voice

The Visual Voice project explores the connections between scientific visualization processes, artistic visualization processes and their relationships to sound, knowing that each informs the other and that the blurred divide between technical and artistic is interdisciplinary territory where innovation and new knowledge is created.

This research produces interactive multimedia outcomes that appeal directly to the senses, beyond verbal language, it explores the dilemma between reality and representations of reality and promotes the idea that such work can facilitate knowledge exchange between creative compositional processes, emotional well being and other related issues.

Publications - Text

"Visiosonics - The Creation of Sound / Image Works" - Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition - Leeds Collede of Music in association with Journal for Music, Technology and Education forthcoming paper 2010
"Emotions Constrained - Voicing The Sounds of Sighs" Kiosk, Kingston University Publication forthcoming 2010
"Developing Moving Images for the Multimedia Performance 'From Anger To Sadness'" Cambridge Scholars Publishing - Book Chapter in 'Performing Technology: User Content and the New Digital Media' 2009
Theatre Noises Conference Central School of Speech and Drama Paper - 'Emotive Utterance As Moving Image' 2009
'Music Sound and Interdisciplinary Collaborations in the Digital Arts' - Public Lecture Griffith University Brisbane 2008
'Music and The Art Business' - Public Lecture QMusic - Queensland Music Network 2005

Publications - Music Scores, Soundtracks and DVDs

'Uneasy Dreams' - Designed and produced the visual component of this DVD (collaboration with Dave Orwell) - Delta Saxophone Quartet featuring compositions by Mike Searby, Tim Ewers, Steve Goss, Paul Barry and Michael Finnissy - FMR Records - forthcoming 2010
Scores & Recordings Wirripang Publishing & Australian Music Centre

Major Research Awards, Grants and Commissions - (also see Full List Of Works)

Conflux Festival 'Used To Be Slime' Festival performance piece to be staged in Glasgow summer 2010
Arts Council Kingston "The Visual Voice" Picker Gallery installation performance piece - Festival Of Voice 2009
National Review of Live Art Glasgow "From AngerTo Sadness #3" Multimedia interactive performance work 2009
Goldsmiths University 'Intimacy' Conference "From Anger To Sadness #2" Solo performance work 2007.
NetVoTech "From Anger To Sadness #1" Ensemble performance work York University 2007.
Arts Council Kingston "The Lament of Lucy Vaughan-Harding" Song cycle - Festival Of Voice 2007.
NetVoTech "Vocal Folds In Motion" York University PAS3 Conference performance work 2006.
Arts Council London - Theatralia - Camden Peoples Theatre (CPT) “Misterioso” (Jazz Theatre) 2006.
Arts Council London - Theatralia - CPT “U 238 Work in Progress"(Political Theatre) 2006.
Queen’s Trust - Golden Jubilee Commission. “ 50 Year Parrade” (Site Specific) 2002.
British Arts Council - Salisbury Cathedral Commission. “A Perfect Day” (Site Specific) 2000.
ARC and ABC-TV - “A Fair Go” (Documentary Film Score) 2000.
British Arts Council - Salisbury Festival Commission “Dining With Alice” (Site Specific) 1999.
ARC (Australian Research Council) – Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) 1997-99 .
Queenland Railways - “Jazz Train to the Tropics” (Site Specific) 1997.
Brisbane Festival - “The Housewives’ Homepage” (Cyber Work) 1997
ARC and ABC-TV - “The Legend of Fred Patterson” (Film) 1997.
Australia Council - “Supermarket Pavane” (Music Theatre) 1996.
Australian Government - Brisbane Festival & ABC-TV “The Flame of Freedom” (Multimedia) 1995
ARC & ABC-TV - “Red Ted & the Great Depression” (Film Score) 1994.
Southern Cross University - Internal Research Award. 1992.

Past Research Grants awarded for - composition, sound design, installation and/or mixed-media works:

"The Flying Fruit Fly Circus". Australia Council, 1989-90.
"Heart For The Future". Australia Council – Melbourne Theatre Co, 1989.
"Tip Top Condition". Expo 88, 1988.
"Vulture Culture". Australia Council, 1987.
"Circus Lumiere". British Council and Australia Council, 1983.

Sponsored by the British Arts Council to work in the U.K. as composer in residence with Lumiere and Son Theatre Company. The following works were written during this period: "Entertaining Strangers", 1986."Vulture Culture". Henley Festival U.K. 1984. "Brightside", Edinburgh Festival, 1984-85. "Senseless", 1983. "Beauty and the Beast", 1983."Slips", 1981-82

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