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New sounds: Ancient resonances: Re/presenting Lal Lal Falls in music for flute and electronics
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This project revolved around the creation of a semi-improvised composition for flute and electronics, intended as an abstract re/presentation of an experience of place. The Lal Lal Falls are located in Western Victoria, Australia, 25 kilometres southeast of the goldfields city of Ballarat. Lal Lal, meaning ‘the dashing of waters’ in the indigenous language of the Wathawurrung people, has also been known as Woringganninyoke. The Falls are situated on Lal Lal Creek, about a kilometre from the edge of the Lal Lal Reservoir. It is a significant ancient site of multiple geological, indigenous, colonial and present day interconnections. Blended dimensions of acoustic flute, electronics, imagery and live performance created a semi-improvised composition intended as a response to this landscape.
Read my article about this project in the Orpheus Institute (Ghent) online journal, ECHO, Issue 4: New Mimesis, published in February 2023 at
https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/new-sounds-ancient-resonances-re-presenting-lal-lal-falls-in-music-for-flute-and-electronics
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3 Postcards from lockdown: Translating visual art to music for flute and live electronics
3 postcards from lockdown, created in the 2020 lockdown, is a semi-improvised, original work comprising 3 miniature musical dialogues. It involves intersemiotic translations of postcard-sized visual artworks hanging in the author’s home to music for flute and electronics. the research poses questions about processes of sensation extraction, notation, instrumental and computer collaboration, and performance.
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Read my article on this project –
Postcards from lockdown: Translating visual art to music for flute and electronics in Music and Practice, Vol 9, 2021 https://www.musicandpractice.org/postcards-from-lockdown-translating-visual-art-to-music-for-flute-and-electronics-2/ |
Here is a video performance of 3 postcards from lockdown
with Jean Penny (flutes) and Andrew Blackburn (electronics) |
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Making Place
Katharine Norman: Making Place, for instrument and live electronics (2013, rev. 2016)
Version 1
– a Malaysian version created for flute and performed by Jean Penny (2019-20)
Version 2
- an Australian version created for alto flute and performed by Jean Penny (2020)
These projects are outcomes of recent research publications, one on intercultural performance of music for flute and electronics and the other exploring the quotidian, in response to COVID-19 restrictions .
More details at https://www.jeanpenny.com/making-place.html
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Katharine Norman: Making Place, for instrument and live electronics (2013, rev. 2016)
Version 1
– a Malaysian version created for flute and performed by Jean Penny (2019-20)
Version 2
- an Australian version created for alto flute and performed by Jean Penny (2020)
These projects are outcomes of recent research publications, one on intercultural performance of music for flute and electronics and the other exploring the quotidian, in response to COVID-19 restrictions .
More details at https://www.jeanpenny.com/making-place.html
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Malaysian Research Projects
The following files include examples of funded research projects untaken while living and working in Malaysia from 2011 to 2016 as Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, University Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia. The highest level of grant (FRGS) was awarded for two major projects in Malaysia, which allowed for extensive and innovative work to occur. Information on an earlier project funded by the university (GPU) follows.
The following files include examples of funded research projects untaken while living and working in Malaysia from 2011 to 2016 as Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, University Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia. The highest level of grant (FRGS) was awarded for two major projects in Malaysia, which allowed for extensive and innovative work to occur. Information on an earlier project funded by the university (GPU) follows.
The Imaginary Space: Developing models of a Malaysian/Western electroacoustic music. Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Malaysian Government 2012-14
| the_imaginary_space_frgs_2014_(july_2015).pdf |
| frgs_tis_poster.pdf |
Spectromorphological Notation - Notating the unNotatable? Modeling a new system of timbral and performance notation for ethnomusicological, musique-mixte and electroacoustic music compositions. Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Malaysian Government 2013-16
Spectromorphological Notation - Notating the unNotatable? Modeling a new system of timbral and performance notation for ethnomusicological, musique-mixte and electroacoustic music compositions. Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Malaysian Government 2013-16
| spectromorphological_notation_project_information.pdf |
New Music Creation, Development and Performances. GPU University Grant 2013
| new_music_creation_project.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 |