News from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Dr Alan Dilnot discusses the use of music in fiction on The Book Show, ABC Radio National.
A podcast of the program may be download from the ABC site: The role of music in novels.
The recordings of first and second year students from the School of Music – Conservatorium Jazz Studies program are now available on a new CD, ‘Sound Series 2008′.
In 2008, the students performed concerts at many venues including the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club and Paris Cat Jazz Club. The culmination of these performances was the recording and releasing of the CD. The production of the CD was an important part of the learning process, industry experience and the documentation of the student’s development.
Copies of the ‘Sound Series 2008′ CD are available from Jazzhead.
The following is a call for papers for the following seminar sponsored by the Performance and Social Aesthetics Research Unit (PASA)
Creative processes in the arts have been under renewed scrutiny over the last decade in a variety of ways. These have included the increasing links made between ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ that also involve the blurring of business and artistic work; how creativity is measured or ‘captured’; and tensions between older, Romantic notions of the creative process that stress the individual artist, and more contemporary theories that emphasise group/systematic processes.
Creative partnerships are common in music. They can be poisonous, vexed, tragic, difficult, strange, mercurial, placid, business-like, un-emotive, sadistic and masochistic. They are also essential. Twentieth-century music is inconceivable without the partnerships of Jagger and Richards, Plant and Page, Stravinsky and Balanchine, Cage and Cunningham, Warwick and David, Reed and Cale, or Davis and Evans. We welcome explorations of music creativity and collaboration across all music genres and contexts of production. By ‘collaboration’ we mean loose or tight associations between artists and surrounding personnel; and the forms of artistic endeavour which involve co-operation, partnerships, strategic alliances, and/or a group aesthetic as the basis for music production.
Collaborative contexts for papers might include famous and infamous collaborations between songwriters; studio producers and artists, or musical directors and artists – Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle); artist managers and artists, such as Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols); inter-family partnerships; or collaborations that challenge legal, political, artistic or social convention (for example, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn).
A key subtext of the seminar is to explore/discuss why partnerships are important in musical creativity, what makes them work and why they fail.
Submission deadline: 15th April
Music conservatorium students.
Twenty-six jazz and popular music students from the Monash University School of Music Conservatorium had the time of their lives on a recent trip to the Monash Prato Centre in Italy.
A new book by Monash University musicologists, which examines youth orchestras within Australia and throughout the world, will have its official launch next week.
Mr Iwan Amir
The enigmatically-named sitting dance tradition of the Indonesian province of Aceh has been highlighted in the first ever documentary on the subject.
Merantau Tanpa Melangkah, by Monash PhD student Mr Iwan Amir was recently screened at Monash University’s Clayton campus.
Arts Victoria has announced funding for Melbourne-based composer Philip Czaplowski’s Birrarung Marr for chamber orchestra, a work commissioned by Australia Pro Arte. Philip is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Music , Monash University , under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Reiner.
The new work will be premiered on Sunday 19 th/Monday 20 th June 2005 , during the opening concert of Australia Pro Arte’s 2005 season at BMW Edge, Federation Square .
“Birrarung Marr is the first new major public park created in Melbourne for over 100 years. My new composition will be a personal response to the landscape of this significant new Melbourne parkland, as well as to the area’s Aboriginal history and significance to the Wurundjeri people who originally inhabited the area.”
Over the last 5 years, Philip Czaplowski has emerged as one of Melbourne’s most respected and widely performed composers.
Performers of Philip’s music include the Melbourne SO, Christchurch SO, Australia Pro Arte, the Canberra Wind Soloists, the Chamber Strings of Melbourne, Geelong Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Soloists, Australia Felix, the Monash Festival Orchestra, Kazimierz Dawidek, Harry Sparnaay, Jeffrey Crellin, and many of Australia’s leading soloists.
In addition to numerous Australian performances, Philip’s music has been performed in the USA , England , Poland , Austria , Holland , Germany , Argentina , Brazil , Ireland , Romania , and New Zealand , and his works have been broadcast by ABC Classical FM, ABC Radio National, 3MBS FM, and Radio Adelaide.
Monash PhD Music candidate, Anthony Pateras has had two of his composition selected for the International Guadeamus Music Week 2004 in Amsterdam. Read the rest of this entry »
Anthony Pateras gets honourable mention at Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam.
Arts Victoria has announced funding for Melbourne-based composer Philip Czaplowski’s Birrarung Marr for chamber orchestra, a work commissioned by Australia Pro Arte. Philip is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Music , Monash University , under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Reiner.
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