Research

Artists: Madeleine Flynn (PhD, University of Melbourne in progress) Tim Humphrey (PhD, Monash University 2003)

Our research and publication complements our artistic practice hence our interests in cultural exchange, systematic exploration of performance contexts and choreo-musical research.

We have delivered papers at several conferences in Australia and internationally and have a published chapter in a book. The following is a list of our articles and publications to date:

2007 Jesse Stevens, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, "Wireless Audio Networks in a Travelling Art Work", Refereed paper delivered to the World Linux Audio Conference, Köln, 2008. 

2006 Tim Humphrey, “Enculturated Ontologies of Trumpet Performance”. Paper delivered to HCSNet Summerfest Conference, University of Sydney, November 2006.

2006 Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey and Wang Zheng Ting, “Chinese Community Choirs in Melbourne, Australia: the Intangible Heritage of cultural migration in a western society” Paper presented at the 11th International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society

2006 Tim Humphrey, Madeleine Flynn and Adam Hutterer, “Developing sensors and sensibilities for an absurdist theatre piece at Malthouse Theatre: Homunculus and the functioning of a complex educational and theatre project. An evaluation using narrative res

2005 “Contemporary Music for Ancient Dance: Ethno/musicological?” Paper presented at 10^thInternational Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Ethno-musicology , October 2005

2004. “Contemporary arts research as devotional performance” . Paper co-presented at SIMS 2004, hosted by Monash University and Victorian College of the Arts, Australia.

2004 “When a military band learned Vietnamese music: the Experience of the Band of the Fifth Battalion Royal Australian Regiment in Vietnam 1966 - 1967” , in Music Research: New Directions for a New Century, Buckinghamshire: Cambridge Scholars Press, published 2004.

2003 ˜Experiential categories in dynamic descriptions of trumpet performance”. Paper presented at the MSA Performance and Experience Workshop, University of Queensland, October 2003.

2003 “Interesting shifts of focus: appealing choices in improvised performance” . ProximityVolume 6, Edition 1. 2002.

2003 “Dynamic Categories of experience for an improvising trumpet player in Melbourne”. Paper presented to MSA National Conference, University of Melbourne.

2002. “The Experience of Trumpet Performance: Emic and Etic Observations in Five Case Studies of Professional Musicians” PhD Thesis, Monash University.

2001. “Observing change in an improvising trumpet player: a dynamic systems model”. Paper presented to Seminar program, Monash University Department of Music/Conservatorium

1996. “New Directions in Performance Research” Paper presented to Seminar program, Monash University Department of Music/Conservatorium.

1992. “An electro-myographic interface for trumpet musicians” Thesis submitted for the Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Music Technology, La Trobe University