Flute - Performance - Research
Welcome to my webpages. Here you can read about my work as a flutist, researcher and writer and find links to recordings, videos and publications.
Current projects:
Creating, performing and writing about musical responses to place through developing dialogues between music, sounds, and environments, reflexivity and transformative awareness.
Latest publication:
Creating, performing and writing about musical responses to place through developing dialogues between music, sounds, and environments, reflexivity and transformative awareness.
Latest publication:
Circles of breath : The interplay of intercultural space and reflective awareness in the creation and performance of new music for flutes and electronics
In Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, Vol. 6, Number 4, pp. 340–363. Electronic ISSN: 2688-
0113 © 2025 by The Regents of the University of California.
This essay explores multiple aspects of music making relating to intercultural engagement, the creation of a shared cultural space, and the power of performance to articulate lived experience. It is based around a semi-improvised work, Circles of Breath for 5 flutes and electronics.
Online at https://online.ucpress.edu/res/article-abstract/6/4/340/214304/Circles-of-BreathThe-Interplay-of-Intercultural?redirectedFrom=fulltext
You can also read it here
Listen to the piece Circles of breath for 5 flutes and electronics here
Recent publications:
Performing intercultural music for flute and electronics: Reflections on heterotopian (s)p(l)ace in The Routledge Companion to Music, Autoethnography and Reflexivity. Eds Wiley, C. and Gouzouasis, P. London and NewYork, Routledge, 2025
Coastline Project: Tracing a flutist’s unfolding practices and transitions
Published by The Babel Flute
20 June 2023
https://thebabelflute.com/coastline-project/
Listen to the new work for flute and electronics, Gadubanud Coastlines, created for this project here.
Watch the video here
New sounds – ancient resonances: Re/presenting Lal Lal Falls in music for flute and electronics. Publication for the Orpheus Instituut (Ghent) journal, ECHO - a journal of music, thought and technology, Issue 4 NewMimesis (ed. Jonathan Impett), February 2023
https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/new-sounds-ancient-resonances-re-presenting-lal-lal-falls-in-music-for-flute-and-electronics
doi.org/10.47041/EMHV4304
Performing the Ecstasis: An interpretation of Katharine Norman’s Making Place for instrument/s and electronics in JOURNAL FOR ARTISTIC RESEARCH Issue 27, October 2022 https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1260967/1753737
One of my earliest publications:
Doctor of Musical Arts Thesis (2009, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University)
The extended flautist: Techniques, technologies and performer perceptions in music for flute and electronics
penny_the_extended_flautist.pdf
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Doctor of Musical Arts Thesis (2009, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University)
The extended flautist: Techniques, technologies and performer perceptions in music for flute and electronics
penny_the_extended_flautist.pdf
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