Publications

Books

Devenish, L., Hope, C. (Eds.). (2024). Contemporary Musical Virtuosities, Routledge, United Kingdom. Available here. Book review here.

Book chapters and essays

Devenish, L. (2025). ‘Speak Percussion at 25’, Silent Hand Catches Silver Bell. Grainger Museum, Melbourne, pp.5-11. Available here (open access)

McMillan, K., Hope, C. & Devenish, L. (2025). ‘Never at Sea: An Examination of Collaboration and Translation in a Creative Project About Women’s Experiences of Forced Migration’. In Vidal, R. & Campbell, M. The Translation of Experience: Cultural Artefacts in Experiential Translation. Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 209-228. Available here (open access)

Devenish, L., Hope, C. (2024). ‘On the New Virtuosity Manifesto’, in Devenish, L., Hope, C. (Eds.), Contemporary Musical Virtuosities, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp.89-94.

Devenish, L., Torrence, J. (2024). ‘Virtuosity, post-instrumental practice and collapse: A correspondence’, in Devenish, L., Hope, C. (Eds.), Contemporary Musical Virtuosities, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp.146-153.

Devenish, L., Goh, T. (2024). ‘New directions in Australian art music: The curatorial, creative and conceptual’, in Harris, A., Bracknell, C. (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia, Cambridge University Press.

Devenish, L. (2022). ‘Instrumental infrastructure: sheet materials, gesture and musical performance’, in Tomás, E., Gorbach, T., Tellioğlu, H., & Kaltenbrunner, M. (Eds.) Embodied Gestures. TU Wien Academic Press.

Articles

McAuliffe, S., Devenish, L. (2023). ‘Exploring sonic worlds: The significance of instrumentality’, Performance Philosophy (available here).
Media-rich companion article ‘Exploring sonic worlds’, ECHO, Vol. 5 (available here).

Devenish, L. (2021). ‘Digital Phasing: Using latency as an agent for metric change’, DRUMMINGat50 (online) (PDF)

Devenish, L. (2021). ‘Instrumental infrastructure, instrumental sculpture and instrumental scores: A post-instrumental practice’, Music & Practice, Vol. 9. ISSN: 1893-9562. DOI: 10.32063/0906

Creative works (NTROs)

Devenish, L., Humphries, A., Coates, E. (2023). We’re Always Touching Underwater [creative work].

Devenish, L. (2023). Sonic Possible Worlds [creative work].

Johnson, N., Dubler, C., Dubler, N. (2023). Shock Lines [creative work].

Devenish, L., James, S., Coates, E. (2022). Alluvial Gold [creative work].

Devenish, L., McMichael, A., Sheldon, J., Moore, K. (2022). The Bloodwood Series [creative work].

Devenish, L., Gleave, M, Cole, A. (2021). Cosmic Time [creative work].
Studio album available here.

Devenish, L., Chyon, G., Johnson, N. (2021). The SoundCatcher [creative work].

Devenish, L., Hsieh, A.H.H., Cottrell, C. (2021). Substrate Surface [creative work].

Hope, C., Devenish, L. (2020). ‘The New Virtuosity: A Manifesto for Contemporary Sonic Practice’, ADSR Zine, Issue 11 Republished: Hope, C., Devenish, L. (2021). Tempo Vol. 75, Issue 298

Devenish, L., Milligan, K., Wyatt, A., Constantinou, N. (2025). Dark Oceanography. For three percussionists and spatialised audio.
Media article: ‘What would a climate model made from music sound like? This team of artists and scientists has created one’, The Conversation, 5 August 2025

Devenish, L., Wyatt, A. (2024). Preservation Reference Area. For prepared bass drum, waterphone and electronics, with accompanying film by Olivia Davies.

Devenish, L. and James, S. (2023). Liquidities. For prepared vibraphone and electronics.