partial/dispersion (2016)
for swarming flutes of all ages/levels
Winner, Unbound Flute Festival

your ears are appreciated (2017)
community workshop & piece for 11 musicians

commissioned by Kim Williams for Ensemble Offspring, supported by Reverse Garbage, Marrickville

I love creating curious music experiences that can involve audiences as active listeners/makers. in particular, I love working in this way with younger audiences in mind - thinking about how they can get messy with music. thanks to Ensemble Offspring, I have had the opportunity to explore this kind of work as part of their annual event at Petersham Bowlo “Sizzle". your ears are appreciated saw audiences building instruments for their ears in preparation for a game like piece performed by Ensemble Offspring & Sirens Big Band musicians. in 2018, i returned to Sizzle with sound parcels where i built little parcels of sound live for two people at a time - the tiny sounds of constructing these parcels amplified for audiences to hear.

I have also translated this way of making/sharing in music for workshops in schools and youth music organisations such as Sydney Youth Orchestras and hope to continue to create this kind of work with audiences of all ages! I’m also slowly working on a book that collates a lot of these games/community composition scenarios that i hope would encourage teachers to introduce whacky, fun and messy music-making scenarios in the classroom.

in 4 (2015)
participatory work curated by the music box project

In 2015, ‘the music box project’ facilitated the creation of a new work by 40 composers around the world ‘in 4’ inspired by Terry Riley’s ‘in C’. this was our first participatory focused project and it was exciting to have the resulting work premiered by a quartet of quartets made up of upcoming Sydney musicians. I’ve used ‘in 4’ as a model work for collaborative composition workshops in high schools - creating similar works with students contributing small musical ideas to form something bigger, then guiding students through the exciting process of performing/presenting the world premiere of their work! as a keen collaborator myself, i love working with others (musicians, other composers, directors, poets, visual artists, software developers, etc). in the classroom, i love creating learning situations for students to create work together and opening up the composition process to not just be the lonely process it often can be. more-so, i have loved working with students to consider how they can share this way of working outside of the music classroom and creatively engage their peers/school communities in music. some examples of these projects include: creating a graphic ‘donut’ shaped score at lunchtime in the playground, releasing albums of piano music performed and composed by quartets of students and creating sound installations in school hallways.