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Ros Bandt
Artist and Composer
Ros Bandt is a composer performer and sound artist, who is passionate about combining ancient and modern sonic practices. Her sound research has included building a medieval Pythagorean recorder and she directs the Australian sound design project on line at the Australian centre, The University of Melbourne. She was the first woman to be awarded the Don Banks Composers Award in 1990, and has won many international awards for installation, radio art and composition. Her innovative sound compositions, performances and environments have been constantly in demand in America, Europe and Australasia. She has a PhD in contemporary music from Monash University.
In addition to her solo work, she records and tours with two ensembles, the early music ensemble La Romanesca and the cross-cultural group Back to Back Zithers. She performs on original instruments and sculptures, as well as historical instruments, flutes, recorders, psaltery and percussion. Her compositions reflect different integrations of acoustic, live electronics and studio manipulation. Ros Bandt solo CDs are: MD 3145 Sonic Archaeologies (1992 / 1998 / 2003) MD 3245 Stack (2001) MD 3045 Glass and Clay (1983 / 1995) MD 3135 Footsteps (1993) MD 3075 Stargazer (1989) MD 3035 Improvisations in Acoustic Chambers (1981) Her CDs with La Romanesca are: MD 3206 Via Frescobaldi (1999) MD 3114 Iberian Triangle (1992) MD 3044 Medieval Monodies (1982) She also appears on: MD 3165 Phoenix Songs (1995) as composer MD 3141 Quivering String (1992) as member of Back to Back Zithers MD 3093 I am Music (1997) as member of The Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century Ros Bandt's recordings go back to the last days of vinyl. Her LP record Soft and Fragile was released in 1983 and now forms part of the CD Glass and Clay. Improvisations in Acoustic Chambers appeared in 1981. La Romanesca's Love Lyrics and Romances of Renaissance Spain was released in 1980. Visit some of Ros Bandt's many interesting websites by clicking on the links below: 1. Water Medicine 2. Pillars of Memory 3. Voicing the Murray 4. Ars Acustica (in German) 5. A Global Garden for Percy Grainger 6. Australian Sound Design Project plus the artist has a new homepage accessible by clicking here. |
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Cross Cultural Music by Australian Composers
The latest CD from Le Tuan Hung, featuring compositions by respected Australian composers and performers including Ros Bandt, Brigid Burke, Warren Burt and Deborah Kayser, was nominated for the 2005 ARIA Awards.
Australian compositions for Asian instruments and voices
This new CD features the diverse works of six Australian composers that have taken Asian instruments and voices beyond the boundaries of their own traditions. From dan tranh to sheng, from shakuhachi to erhu, this fascinating recording is cross-cultural music at its best.
Ros Bandt
In stack, composer and sound artist Ros Bandt brings to life the inner and outer sonic possibilities gleaned from the massive city stack, a fifty-five metre chimney stack designed to extract fumes from the new CITYLINK tunnel in the heart of Melbourne's underground.
La Romanesca
17th century Italian composer Girolamo Frescobaldi was conservative in style and yet an innovator in many ways. "La Romanesca" presents some of his improvisatory toccatas, imitative polyphonic instrumental music, and songs from his 'arie musicale' of 1630.
Genevieve Lacey - Music for the recorder by Australian composers.
Six contemporary Australian composers pair the recorder with piano, harpsichord, voice and live electronics.
Ros Bandt
A new CD of Ros Bandt's works including Mungo, representing archaeology of the land and Thrausmata, an archaeology of text. These award-winning compositions were created in the studios of West Deutsche Rundfunk, Cologne.
Back to Back Zithers
New Australian music which combines original ideas with musical thoughts from Vietnam, West Java, Mediaeval France and Italy.
Ros Bandt
The sound of feet traversing the earth's surface is a reminder of the impact that location has on our lives. You will never have heard anything quite like this amazing journey.
La Romanesca
La Romanesca presents a portrait of the musical diversity of Spanish song in the period immediately preceding both the great expulsion and Columbus' great voyages. Music of christian, moorish, jewish Spain before 1492.
Ros Bandt
Explores the resonance of a large hollow concrete cylinder five stories underground in the Collins Place car park, Melbourne.
Ros Bandt
Ros Bandt, internationally acclaimed sound artist: composer, performer and sound sculptor, explores the subtle, shimmering, and sonorous sound qualities sculpted from glass and clay instruments.
La Romanesca
Music from 12th and 13th century Spain. Features songs by Martin Codax, Marcabru and other unknown composers.
Ros Bandt
Environmental composer Ros Bandt first vinyl LP is now available on CD. She uses the sonorities of man-made chambers - a water tank and a wheat silo. A bamboo flute, recorders, a lute, and the human voice reverberate in large acoustic chambers. It may sound electronic, but is in fact entirely natural.
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