Research
Research interests
- Contemporary composition
- Notions of artistic voice
- Music theatre, including performance-lectures
- Neoclassicism and polytonality
- Instrumental music with recorded sound
Current research
Written with librettist Vid Simoniti, I have I have recently created The Big Idea, a one hour monodrama for mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean and Rubiks Collective, which will be peformed in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra in September 2025.
With lyricist Harry Blake, I wrote Four Songs, for soprano Nina Guo and pianist Joe Houston, and I am currently working with Harry on a second set of songs for Nina and Joe.
Over the past few years working on a series of pieces called "Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders". Each of the volumes that I have made so far features a suite of short pieces. Each piece investigates a technical approach within music composition (e.g., polytonality, metric modulations); historical textures (e.g., organum, heterophony); and historical forms (e.g. rondo, round). The project investigates new potentialities for these techniques, textures, and forms, with particular focus on approaches out of circulation within contemporary music making.