The Western Australia New Music Archive: 1970 - today: finding, accessing, remembering, performing. This project sees the creation of the Western Australian New Music Archive, a digital repository of and interface to Western Australian music composed from 1970 to the present day. A partnership between peak state and national bodies, the project will also involve the performance and recording of works from the archive.
The French Baroque Music Project: from Scholarship to Performance. This project will conduct performance-oriented research into unresolved issues of French baroque performance practice and little-known French baroque repertoire. In addition to research resulting in scholarly publications, the project will comprise the editing and publishing of scores in modern notation, and the realisaton of the results of research in live performance and CD recordings. The holistic approach of this project is ....The French Baroque Music Project: from Scholarship to Performance. This project will conduct performance-oriented research into unresolved issues of French baroque performance practice and little-known French baroque repertoire. In addition to research resulting in scholarly publications, the project will comprise the editing and publishing of scores in modern notation, and the realisaton of the results of research in live performance and CD recordings. The holistic approach of this project is highly innovative as it involves a team of research personnel including musicologists and scholar-performers with complementary expertise, and ABC Classics as the industry partner. This will enable research results to be communicated not only by journal articles and publication of scores, but also by the production of four commercially distributed and marketed CDs.Read moreRead less
Making Music Work: Sustainable Portfolio Careers for Australian Musicians. This project plans to explore the conditions and strategies needed for musicians to sustain successful portfolio careers. Most musicians have ‘portfolio careers’, combining aspects of performance, recording, creation, music direction, teaching, community activities, health, retail and a presence in online environments. This phenomenon — often across music genres — is widespread but not well understood. The project involve ....Making Music Work: Sustainable Portfolio Careers for Australian Musicians. This project plans to explore the conditions and strategies needed for musicians to sustain successful portfolio careers. Most musicians have ‘portfolio careers’, combining aspects of performance, recording, creation, music direction, teaching, community activities, health, retail and a presence in online environments. This phenomenon — often across music genres — is widespread but not well understood. The project involves surveys and 12 in-depth case studies of individual musicians or ensembles that will aim to identify key success factors and obstacles. This information is intended to inform opportunities for training, development and support.Read moreRead less
Evaluating and developing music-based strategies for teaching and learning in remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. This project examines music-based teaching and learning employed by Aboriginal stakeholders in their efforts to sustain endangered cultural practices in remote communities in the Kimberley. Community and University-based researchers and teacher/practitioners will develop strategies to improve cultural teaching and learning in a variety of contexts.