Category: Research papers (by Jonathan Marshall)

Dynamic Collages: A curatorial essay for the Perth 2006 Reel Dance screening, ‘Body Cuts,’ 5 Nov 2006

by Dr Jonathan Marshall
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

DYNAMIC COLLAGES:
A WORD FROM THE CURATOR
The following is the catalogue entry composed to accompany a screening of dance film organised by Edith Cowan University in association with Artrage Perth, entitled “Body Cuts”, Cinema Paradiso, 5 Nov 2006. See www.artrage.com.au for details (under Reel Dance).
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MASTER CRAFTSMAN: An interview with Paco Peña

by Dr Jonathan Marshall
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

MASTER CRAFTSMAN:PHONE INTERVIEW WITH PACO PENA (CORDOBA) BY JONATHAN MARSHALL (MELBOURNE), APPROX. 20/8/1998, FOR THE SHOW FLAMENCO PASSION, MELBOURNE CONCERT HALL, 24/9/1998.[1] 
Introduction: 
Paco Peña at first seems an unlikely figure to be an international star. But it is this slight, softly spoken man who has wowed audiences all across the world with his masterful interpretation of [...]

A New Historicism? Sound, music and ruined pianos

by Cat Hope and Dr Jonathan Marshall
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Using this link, you can download this paper, which is the introduction to the publication “Sound Scripts”  Proceedings of the Totally Huge New Music Conference 2005.
2hopemarshallsoundscripts.pdf

Classical Sampling?
An interview with Elena Kats-Chernin (1999)

by Dr Jonathan Marshall
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Talking to composer Elena Kats-Chernin it is easy to see why she describes herself as a “subconscious sponge”. Her speech is somewhere between a gushing stream-of-consciousness and highly evolved critical reflection. The words pour out as does the self-analysis. This personal characteristic replicates the style of her compositions – a flowing progression of themes which [...]

Territories of Sound: Travel, place and sound

by Dr Jonathan Marshall
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

During a recent trip to Europe and America I mused on the sonic experience of travel. A low, white noise buzz permeates the hermetically sealed cabin, a windy physical and sonic tremor which one can cover (but not altogether escape) by judicious use of the head phones. The dialectic between the intermittent tremor of the [...]