Research
Research interests
- Contemporary composition
- Notions of artistic voice
- Music theatre, including performance-lectures
- Neoclassicism and polytonality?
- Instrumental music with recorded sound
Current research
Written with librettist Vid Simoniti, I have I have recently created The Big Idea, a one hour monodrama for mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean and Rubiks Collective, which will be peformed in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra in September 2025.
With lyricist Harry Blake, I wrote Four Songs, for soprano Nina Guo and pianist Joe Houston, and I am currently working with Harry on a second set of songs for Nina and Joe.
Over the past few years working on a series of pieces called "Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders". Each of the volumes that I have made so far features a suite of short pieces. Each piece investigates a technical approach within music composition (e.g., polytonality, metric modulations); historical textures (e.g., organum, heterophony); and historical forms (e.g. rondo, round). The project investigates new potentialities for these techniques, textures, and forms, with particular focus on approaches out of circulation within contemporary music making.
With lyricist Harry Blake, I wrote Four Songs, for soprano Nina Guo and pianist Joe Houston, and I am currently working with Harry on a second set of songs for Nina and Joe.
Over the past few years working on a series of pieces called "Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders". Each of the volumes that I have made so far features a suite of short pieces. Each piece investigates a technical approach within music composition (e.g., polytonality, metric modulations); historical textures (e.g., organum, heterophony); and historical forms (e.g. rondo, round). The project investigates new potentialities for these techniques, textures, and forms, with particular focus on approaches out of circulation within contemporary music making.