Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - Research Publications
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ItemFinding a discourse voice in academic research, and all that jazz(ASME, 2017-07-15)
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ItemIntercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to creative music education: An Australasian perspective.(ISME, 2018)Music education throughout the world is adopting a ‘creative turn’ in both the ways information and skill is transferred, as well as the underlying organisational ethos that complements this education. Music education is arguably resisting universal and homogenous approaches to music education, embracing increasingly differentiated perspectives, practices and local beliefs that assert against globalising trends. Organisations are confluent in their approaches to incorporating localised intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches evident in music making. This study investigates a Creative Music Intensive that brought Australian music students together with Indigenous Australian and Korean p’ansori musicians in a two-week residential exploratory and experiential music-making event. This intercultural exploration facilitated action, interplay and development of ‘possibility thinking’ relating to deep conceptualisations of inter-culturally shared music making and the wider interdisciplinary connections. Such practices offer music and music educator students institutions and communities critical and creative practices that resist centrified ideas and affirm ‘locality’ and community as the epicentre from which new knowledge, creativities, industry and bipartisanship can be found and negotiated. Intercultural collaborative music-making can promote empathy, knowledge and deep collective unity and solidarity at a critical time in music education.
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ItemSchaeffer, GRM and their influence on NES-tools for Max(The Australasian Computer Music Association, 2019)NES-Tools is a suite of audio signal processors emulating the GRM-Tools, but in the Max environment. This article provides the historical context for the creation of GRM- Tools, reaching back to the concepts developed by GRM’s founder Pierre Schaeffer, providing a summary of technological developments at GRM, then describing the details of each of the NES-Tools. The adaptability of using the Max environment is demonstrated, and recent translations to Max for Live are noted.
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ItemNES-spectrale: a suite of max tools for processing in the frequency domain(The Australasian Computer Music Association, 2019)This project’s aim was to explore the notion of “timbre processing” using Jitter matrices as the store and processing mechanism. The NES-Spectrale suite of Max/Jitter patchers is a structured set of tools for processing sounds in the frequency domain, and inverse transforming the results into the time domain, in the form of audio signals. This collection of software tools extends the work of Jean-François Charles, providing an efficient and novel approach to FFT-based processing.
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ItemEfficacy of Parkinsong Groups for improving Communication and Wellbeing in Parkinson's Disease(World Federation of Music Therapy, 2017)Communication impairment is one of the most common symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, significantly impacting quality of life (Miller, 2012). Speech characteristics may include a soft, monotone, breathy or hoarse voice quality, imprecise articulation, dysprosody and dysfluency (Skodda et al., 2013). These characteristics, combined with reduced nonverbal communication, cognitive-linguistic impairment and poor self-perception of speech, make communication difficult and lead to self-consciousness, reduced likelihood to participate in conversation, and the avoidance of social interaction that requires speaking. Communication difficulties can compound issues of depression and related social isolation (Miller et al., 2006).
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ItemMusical memories: Connecting people with dementia and their caregivers through song.(World Federation of Music Therapy, 2017)Active music participation may offer benefits for people with dementia (PWD) and their family care givers (FCG) living in the community (Baird & Samson, 2015). For the PWD, this capacity to respond to music-making activities, such as singing, may facilitate reminiscence and successful social engagement (Vanstone & Cuddy, 2010). As a consequence, FCG may experience meaningful and satisfying connection with their loved one (Baker, Grocke & Pachana, 2012). Receptive music listening interventions may also assist with the management of challenging symptoms of dementia, such as agitation and anxiety, offering FCG strategies to use in the home.
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ItemSupporting Healthy Ageing and Management of Age Related Disease in Australia(World Federation of Music Therapy, 2017)As the global population ages, more people are experiencing the privilege of growing old. By 2050, estimates suggest that over 2 billion people will be aged 60 years or over (WHO, 2016). Current buzz terms, including healthy ageing and active ageing, are used to describe the notion of optimal health, independent life participation and security required for high quality of life through the full course of life. In Australia, 2 major policies support principles of healthy ageing (AIHW, 2017): 1) Preventative health, promotes healthy lifestyle choices, such as physical activity participation; 2) Living longer better, has a strong focus on supporting people with dementia (PWD) and their family caregivers (FCG). This presentation will discuss recent music therapy research in Australia targeted to address these policies.
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ItemThe Use of Hip Hop by Indigenous Australian Artists to Celebrate Traditional Cultural Identity and Increase Social Awareness(DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Centre), 2017)This paper explores how Indigenous Hip-Hop in Australia has become a powerful force for both advocating for Indigenous issues, and expressing contemporary Indigenous identity. We argue that Australian Indigenous Hip-Hop cannot merely be understood as either an adoption or reinterpretation of a Hip-Hop culture from the USA, nor as an attempt to hark back to traditional, pre-colonial Indigenous cultures. Rather, we argue it builds on a history of contemporary Indigenous protest music, by integrating both forms of expression and narratives of resistance and political consciousness inherent in Hip-Hop culture from the USA. Using Australian Indigenous Hip-Hop group, A.B. Original, as an example, we suggest recent manifestations of this integration have provided a way to both resist colonial narratives and celebrate contemporary Indigenous identity even in the current socio-political climate of far-right nationalism in Australia and other first-world nations.
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ItemA Java-based Remote Live Coding System for Controlling Multiple Raspberry PI Units(International Computer Music Association, 2013)Cheap embedded devices create new opportunities for networked, distributed, generative or remote-controlled music. In this paper we present a simple audio programming environment designed to run realtime, remote live-coded audio on a low-cost completely wireless hardware setup consisting of a Raspberry PI, a WiFi dongle, a speaker and a battery pack. Audio is processed in realtime using the Beads library for realtime audio in Java, running on Oracle’s distribution of Java for embedded devices. Code is remotely injected in realtime by sending Java class files over a socket connection to a dynamic class loader, which instantiates and runs the classes. We describe the system and its capabilities, and give an example of a performance that utilises this system. This paper is accompanied by a musical performance at ICMC 2013.