SHORT Jean Penny is a flautist/scholar with an intense interest in performing new music and writing about performance. Her work mainly revolves around performance of music for flute and electronics; her writing delves deeply into this experience. Research topics include interculturality, heterotopian performance spaces, phenomenological aspects of performance, place and space – (s)p(l)ace, and technology and performance as they have arisen within various creative/performance projects.
LONG Australian flautist/scholar, Dr Jean Penny, works at the intersection of flute performance, artistic research, writing and new music creation. As a flautist, she has extensive experience in performance with major Australian symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, and recitals which she has given throughout Australia, in Malaysia, the UK, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Spain. She has been curator and director of numerous festivals and concert series in Australia, and has worked extensively in educational spheres as teacher, examiner, adjudicator and lecturer. She graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University with a Doctor of Musical Arts in 2009. Her doctoral research investigated the performative nexus of flute with digital technologies. In 2011, Dr Penny was appointed Senior Lecturer in music at U.P.S.I. Malaysia, where her work included leading major research projects, curating and presenting performances, developing curriculum and courses, ensemble direction and teaching at multiple levels: Post-graduate, degree and diploma. Related activities have included national and international conference presentations, guest lectureships, journal article publications and reviews, international postgraduate examining, international collaborations and consultations, international teaching engagements, membership of academic forums, committee memberships, academic talks, postgraduate seminars, book editing and the Chief Editorship of the peer reviewed Malaysian Music Journal from 2012-2015. Under her chief editorship, this journal achieved SCOPUS ranking. Reflecting her interest in interculturality through music, in 2013 Dr Penny was invited to become a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge to contribute to the Commonwealth Intercultural Arts Network (www.educ.cam.ac.uk/networks/cian/team.html). She has served on many conference committees and reviewing panels, and has won numerous awards, research and arts grants, sponsorships and awards for outstanding service. She returned to Australia in 2016 following four years as Senior Lecturer in Music at the Fakulti Muzik dan Seni Persembahan, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia and her subsequent appointment as a Fellow at the UPSI Education Research Laboratory. Dr Penny’s performance and research activities have included explorations of technology and performance, intercultural and heterotopian perspectives of the performance space, and aspects of place and space in music performance, composition, improvisation, and writing. In 2018 she was appointed as Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Arts, Federation University Australia. She is currently collaborating on and writing about new works for flute with electronics.
Conference Presentations Cultures, Chance, Electroacoustic Spaces: Exploring performance aspects of Cage’s ________, ________ ________ CIRCUS ON ________. EMS2018 Conference, Villa Finaly, Florence, Italy (June 2018)
A Flautist’s Voice: Intercultural perspectives of performance, context and process. Ninth International Conference Music / Sonic Art: Practices and theories. MuSA2018. Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe, Germany (June 2018)
Cultures, Chance, Electroacoustic Spaces: Exploring performance aspects of Cage’s ________, ________ ________ CIRCUS ON ________. Ninth International Conference Music / Sonic Art: Practices and theories. MuSA2018. Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe, Germany (June 2018)
Real or virtual? Revealing cultural identities through heterotopian constructs in musique-mixte. ACMC 2017, University of Adelaide, South Australia (September 2017)
(Re)notating cultural identities through musique-mixte: A reflection of heterotopian constructs in performance. EMS2017 Conference, University of Nagoya, Japan (September 2017)
The mediated space: Voices of interculturalism in music for flute. Performers(’) Present Symposium, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore (October 2016)
Timbral Notation From Spectrograms : Notating The Un-Notatable? TENOR 2015 – First International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation. Sorbonne Université, Paris, France (May 2015)
Scripted performances: Tracing new notational representations of music for flute and electronics International Music and Performing Arts Conference 2014, UPSI, Malaysia (November 2014)
Unraveling intercultural knowledge through performative contexts: A flautist’s perspective. International Music and Performing Arts Conference 2014, UPSI, Malaysia (November 2014)
Unraveling intercultural knowledge through performative contexts: An insider’s account. Performance Studies Network International Conference, University of Cambridge, UK (July 2014)
Symbolic Exchanges – Creating Contexts for Understanding Interculturality. MusPA Conference, UPSI, Malaysia (Nov 2013)
Within and Beyond the Flute Cage: Performing Ryoanji. JOHNCAGE101 International Conf., UPSI, Malaysia (Aug 2013)
Electroacoustic Music as Intercultural Exploration: Synergies of Breath in Extended Western Flute and Malaysian Nose Flute Playing. Performance Studies Network International Conference, University of Cambridge, UK (April 2013)
Electroacoustic Music as Intercultural Exploration: Synergies of Breath in Extended Western Flute and Malaysian Nose Flute Playing Seminar Presentation: The Institute of Contemporary Music, London, UK (April 2013)
The Imaginary Space: Performing new ‘mixed music’ works as intercultural exploration. The Performer’s Voice Symposium, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, Singapore (October 2012)
Embodying intercultural identities: A flautist’s perspective of East/West electro-acoustic performance. Sonorities Festival And Two Thousand + Symposium. Queens University, Belfast, UK (March 2012). Performance.
Practice-led Artistic Research: A Flautist’s Perspective. 4th Malaysian Music Education Conf., UPSI, Malaysia (Feb 2012)
Concurrent Realities: Performative Readings for Flutes with Digital Technologies, The Embodiment of Authority: Perspectives on Performance Conference, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland (September 2010)
Inside-Out Flutes: The Emergence of the Transformative Meta-flautist. Australian Flute Festival, Adelaide (Oct 2009)
Inside-Out Flutes: The Emergence of the Transformative Meta-flautist. Apple University Consortium CreateWorld09 Conference, Brisbane, Australia (December 2009)
Mind map explorations: searching for the self in the performance of music for flute and electronics. Music and Auto-ethnography Conference, Brisbane, Australia (September 2009)
Amplified breath – (dis)embodied habitat: exploring sonic interfaces of performance, electronics, space and flautist identity. CMMR Re-New Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark (May 2008)
Amplified breath – (dis)embodied habitat: exploring sonic interfaces of performance, electronics, space and flautist identity. Australian Computer Music Conference, Sydney, Australia (July 2008)
Transformed gesture – visible and invisible interactive sonology: Exploring the performative interface of sound, space, physicality and identity in two works for flute and electronics. Musicological Society of Australia, Melbourne, Australia (December 2008)
Flutescapes: exploring the sonic interface of performance, electronics, space, and identity. Musicological Society of Australia, Islands Conference, Brisbane, Australia (November 2007)
Past Research Projects
The Imaginary Space: Developing models for an emergent Malay/Western Electroacoustic Music. Code 2012-0028-107-02 (2012-14) Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (Malaysian Ministry of Education) - leader [link below]
New Music Creation, Development and Performances. Code 2012-0063-107-01 (2012-13) GPU (Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Grant) - leader
SpectromorphologicalNotation – Notating the Unnotatable?Modeling a new system for timbral notation of ethnomusicological, musique-mixte and electroacoustic music compositions. (2014-16) Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (Malaysian Ministry of Education) - co-researcher
Documenting Pipe Organs in Malaysia for Heritage and Sustainability. (2014-15) GPU(Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Grant) - co-researcher
The extended flautist: Techniques, technologies and performer perceptions in music for flute and electronics. Doctor of Musical Arts (2005-9) https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/184782/penny_the_extended_flautist.pdf
