This paper addresses the music compiled by William Hamilton Webber for use in the early sound films of Australian filmmaker Ken G. Hall. Webber’s music, though primarily, but not exclusively, compiled from film library ...

Photography’s Material Medium explores the way technological developments in image production can extend the potential for photography to open up as a material and a medium. In the studio-based component of this project, ...

This completed folio comprises five works, including two orchestral, two small ensemble and one solo for voice and electronics. The compositions concern colour, timbre, gesture, and alternative notation such as time-space, ...

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 ...

This research has taken a practice-led form. The questions and issues are those arising in and through the practice of an artist working in live performance and were formed in and through personal, practical experience. The ...

The study of the philosophical origins of Richard Meale's Viridian, as compared with those of the main-stream of the avant-garde and with those of the Symbolists and Debussy, draws the conclusion that Meale has, in the ...

And Their Lungs Reflect What the Sun Means to Them is a personal exploration of the words, sounds and thoughts that make up a man. Engaging with the musical, cultural and linguistic, the piece and it's parallel exegesis ...

This thesis presents a synchronic case-study of J. C. Williamson’s business activities for the year 1893 while he was in partnership with George Musgrove. The year 1893 was a year of severe financial depression in Australia ...

The interpretation and performance of new Australian solo piano music 1980-2010 are both under-researched. The ten representative solo piano works upon which this thesis is based were written by two distinct generations ...

This thesis delivers a functional software model for sound design that explores the ideas of agency, immersion and transformation in dramatic process in the context of human-computer interfaces. It seeks to examine the ...