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Climate Vocabularies: New Methodologies for Music and Science Communication Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2026-2029)
Through an artistic research practice grounded in percussion, this project explores the identity, terminology and methods associated with post-instrumental practice, in order to understand how these practices are manifesting in new musical work. Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Project (2020-2025)
Alluvial Gold is a 50-minute performance-installation work for percussion, sculptural instruments, field recordings, electronics and projection that draws audiences into the often-forgotten and changing worlds below river surfaces.
Dark Oceanography fuses climate science and experimental music to model ocean eddies through spatial audio and percussion. Set in a sunken realm off Australia's east coast, it sonifies ocean datasets from the Eastern Australian Current.
A sonic exploration of underwater disturbance and noise pollution using percussion instruments including waterphone, bass drum, electronics, and film.
Where all is blue explores the scientific phenomena of how colours seem to disappear the deeper you go underwater.
Originally devised by Anna McMichael (lead CI) and in collaboration with Louise Devenish, Climate Notes is a multimedia installation and performance work building on Joe Duggan’s Is This How You Feel collections of handwritten letters.
A performance-installation for voice, violin, percussion, electronics and porcelain, light and sound sculptures.
A workshop series connecting artists and scientists working with experimental methodologies in their research practice.
Twenty-first century concepts of musical virtuosity are continually evolving, and are the subject of much debate in the academy and in the field.
Cosmic Time considers time on a cosmological scale.
Nine musicians distributed across the southern hemisphere in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia explore the use of latency as an agent for metric change when performing online.
What does the MPavilion sound like? The SoundCatcher is an instrumental sculpture built in response to the 2021 MPavilion (The LightCatcher), using recyclable materials.
Self-World is a new 50-minute performance work for six musicians and electronics performed within a sound installation of textural sheet materials, currently in development.
