I’ve been umming and aahing about what to do with this for a while, and as it’s been a year and I haven’t gotten around to trying to get the sucker published, I feel like I should share it here, just so that anyone interested can glean what they can from it.
This dissertation examines the creative output of Jack Ellitt, a unique Australian
composer and extraordinary musical thinker and experimentalist who has been largely
forgotten by Australian history.
The circumstances of Jack Ellitt’s life are described and events in it crucial to the
development of his craft and aesthetic traced, providing a context for analysis of three
landmark works of Ellitt’s career: Light Rhythms (1930), Journey #1 (c.1930), and
Homage to Rachel Carson (part 2) (1983).
Video montage of the Eastment St Billy Cart Derby put together by Dave Rusanow, featuring footage of yours truly performing my traditional annihilation of the Australian national anthem.
The sound design I made for the Australia’s Muslim Cameleers exhibit will be reincarnated later this year as part of the online component of a documentary series for SBS produced by The Chocolate Liberation Front. Airing dates and online go live TBA…
Many thanks to all of my performers who did an exceptional job under difficult circumstances, to Russ Anderson for his logistical magic, and to everyone who came to watch and listen. Audio will be forthcoming…
This was a project I worked on in the first half of 2009 with fellow students from the VCA, including people from the Music, Film & TV and Art schools. The brief for the project was as follows:
To investigate the idea of automation in art/music/performance practice, ways to do this could include…
Look back with a historical perspective to the futurists, investigate their ideas.
Investigate one’s own practice for examples of automation, look for opportunities for automation in one’s own practice.
Design and build machines that make Art and/or music. Manipulate an artist or performer to create works. Is who makes the art as important or more important than the art itself?
Automate yourself out of existence – design/build a machine that replicates your creative process exactly.
Make yourself into an automaton – make art using a strict pre-defined set of rules/principles, outside which you cannot stray.
We began to explore these pathways in a number of discussions and practical creative exercises which culminated in an exhibition/installation in the VCA Art School building. Evidently from the brief there’s a lot of scope for continued work and a lot more could be done in this area than we could cover in a part-time project over one semester. A project I’ll be coming back to in the future…
I’ve been neglecting this blog since I first put it up but I now have a motivation to turbo-charge it…uni assessments! (Hi David) I was going to use one of my creative projects but none of them are panning out to be terribly uni-assessable so here we are, documenting all my projects… I’ll be including all the stuff I’m currently working on here, as well as past projects and bands.
I’ve been neglecting this blog since I first put it up but I now have a motivation to turbo-charge it…uni assessments! (Hi David) I was going to use one of my creative projects but none of them are panning out to be terribly uni-assessable so here we are, documenting all my projects… I’ll be including all the stuff I’m currently working on here, as well as past projects and bands.
