Victorian College of the Arts - Theses
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ItemAnton Webern : variationen fur klavier, OP.27 : an analysis(University of Melbourne, 2002)
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ItemThe semper eadem : salting flesh shoreline project(University of Melbourne, 2007)
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ItemWynton Kelly: his life and music( 2001)This thesis explores the music of jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. Wynton Kelly was a mainstream hard bop stylist who made a significant mark on the jazz world through the 1950s and 60s. Although most famed for his five-year tenure with the Miles Davis band from 1959 to 1963, Kelly is most respected amongst musicians for his formidable sideman abilities, and his compelling time feel - his swing. The great challenge of this thesis is that the most alluring aspect of Kelly's music, his swing, is not a ready subject for academic analysis. (From introduction)
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ItemAttending to silence( 2009)It may seem ironic or even slightly absurd to discuss silence in a context where the sound is art. Perhaps even more absurd is the fact that we are engaging in a kind of dialectical exchange about silence which inevitably materialises in sound. Paradoxes and contradictions aside, for a musician to ask, ‘what is silence?’ is for a painter to ask, ‘what is a canvas?’ or an actor to ask, ‘what is an empty stage?’ Silence has a necessary interrelationship with sound be it music, speech or noise. It also has potential to be translated to space, body and existence – our physical being in the world. Silence has often been construed as nothing, a void or completely disregarded. Instead of speculating the is-ness of silence, by objectifying it as a thing in the world that has positive or negative ontology and dismissing it as merely no-thing, the attempt here is to investigate the experience of silence in music and music performance, as it is as much an expressive gesture as music and sound and it gives light to the experience of listening and performing. An awareness of silence will hopefully be an invitation to a different perspective, regard and respect for its place and space in music and our own minds.