Colin Black
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Colin Black is an Australian experimental music composer
and sonic media arts practitioner
and researcher
. Black won the 2003 Prix Italia
Award in the category of Best Radio Music — Composed Work for composing and producing The Ears Outside My Listening Room (duration 52 minutes).
Black's commissions to create major works include the following organisations: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
, Český rozhlas
, Deutschlandradio
, Parramatta Heritage Centre, Lismore City Council and Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA). His works have been selected for events including En Red O 2000 music festival
in Barcelona, Spain, the Festival Synthese in Bourges, France, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel France, 60x60
Pacific Basin Regional Concert Los Angeles USA, Zèppelin 2004-Festival de Arte Sonoro in Barcelona, Spain, Hipersonica 2004 in São Paulo, Brazil, The Literature Sound Barrier 2002 in Wien, Austria, Sydney University's Live Wires concerts '97, '98, and Melbourne's Extatic Concert for the Next Wave festival '98.
Kilian's Antipodean Dream' (2010) http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/klangkunst/1173563/
Soundprints: The Prague Pressings (2008) http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica/projekt/_zprava/490227
Soundprints: The Greek Imprints Series (2004)
Greek Imprints: The Asklepia and the Conscious Dreamer (2004)
Longing, Love and Loss (2008)
The Butter Churn Sound Sculpture (2007)
Alien In The Landscape (2007)
Dusk (2006)
The Flood (Soundscape) (2004)
Parramatta: People & Place installation (2001)
The Variety Show at The End of The World (1999)
118, 120, 122 (part one ) (1998)
“Radio Art: Broadcast or Outcast,” Music Forum. Journal of the Music Council of Australia, Vol. 15 No. 2, FEBRUARY — APRIL 2009. ISSN 1327-9300.
“Alien In The Landscape: Distillation and Filtration of Soundscapes”, Sounding Out 4 – An International Symposium on Sound in the Media, 4–6 September 2008, University of Sunderland, UK
“Is Anyone Listening”, RealTime issue #84 April–May 2008, Published by Open City Inc http://www.realtimearts.net/article/84/8967
“The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG): A Mobile Acoustic Profiling Resonating Filter”, 4th International Mobile Music Workshop, Amsterdam 2007.
“Radio Art: The age of the ‘Bunker’ Artist, Digging in Deeper, Spreading Thinner ...” Vital Signs Conference, Melbourne 2005. http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=031172368128134;res=E-LIBRARY
“Oh Dear ABC”, Limelight, January 2004
"Aussie entries stand out in broadcasting" The Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/21/1064082865444.html?from=storyrhs
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Classic FM classic/amp http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s1523799.htm
Finnish Radio (YLE) http://www.yleradio1.fi/musiikki/aaniversumi/id2612.shtml
Deutschlandradio http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/klangkunst/590676/
Sveriges Radio P2 http://www.sr.se/sida/arkiv.aspx?ProgramID=2098&formatID=116&Max=2008-06-04&Min=2004-12-08&PeriodStart=2008-06-05&Period=3&Artikel=1973213
Český rozhlas http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica/projekt/_zprava/490227
ORF, Kunstradio, (Austria) http://www.kunstradio.at/2009B/26_07_09en.html
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
and sonic media arts practitioner
Practitioner
A practitioner is someone who engages in an occupation, profession, religion, or way of life.Practitioner may refer to:* Medical practitioner* Justice practitioner* Solitary practitioner, in Wicca and Paganism...
and researcher
Researcher
A researcher is somebody who performs research, the search for knowledge or in general any systematic investigation to establish facts. Researchers can work in academic, industrial, government, or private institutions.-Examples of research institutions:...
. Black won the 2003 Prix Italia
Prix Italia
The Prix Italia is an international Italian television, radio-broadcasting and Website award. It was established in 1948 by RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana in Capri...
Award in the category of Best Radio Music — Composed Work for composing and producing The Ears Outside My Listening Room (duration 52 minutes).
Black's commissions to create major works include the following organisations: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
, Český rozhlas
Ceský rozhlas
Český rozhlas is the Czech Republic's publicly funded radio broadcasting organization.It offers the following radio channels:*ČRo 1 – Radiožurnál: news and information*ČRo 2 – Praha: talk and family programmes...
, Deutschlandradio
Deutschlandradio
Deutschlandradio is a national German public broadcasting radio broadcaster. It operates four national networks, Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Dokumente und Debatten and DRadio Wissen....
, Parramatta Heritage Centre, Lismore City Council and Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA). His works have been selected for events including En Red O 2000 music festival
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
in Barcelona, Spain, the Festival Synthese in Bourges, France, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel France, 60x60
60x60
60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section...
Pacific Basin Regional Concert Los Angeles USA, Zèppelin 2004-Festival de Arte Sonoro in Barcelona, Spain, Hipersonica 2004 in São Paulo, Brazil, The Literature Sound Barrier 2002 in Wien, Austria, Sydney University's Live Wires concerts '97, '98, and Melbourne's Extatic Concert for the Next Wave festival '98.
Major works
The Ears Outside My Listening Room (2002) http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s1523799.htmKilian's Antipodean Dream' (2010) http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/klangkunst/1173563/
Soundprints: The Prague Pressings (2008) http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica/projekt/_zprava/490227
Soundprints: The Greek Imprints Series (2004)
Greek Imprints: The Asklepia and the Conscious Dreamer (2004)
Longing, Love and Loss (2008)
The Butter Churn Sound Sculpture (2007)
Alien In The Landscape (2007)
Dusk (2006)
The Flood (Soundscape) (2004)
Parramatta: People & Place installation (2001)
The Variety Show at The End of The World (1999)
118, 120, 122 (part one ) (1998)
Written Publications
“Radio Art: An Acoustic Media Art Form,” 4th Media Art Scoping Study Symposium, 4 July 2009, Melbourne. http://mass.nomad.net.au/“Radio Art: Broadcast or Outcast,” Music Forum. Journal of the Music Council of Australia, Vol. 15 No. 2, FEBRUARY — APRIL 2009. ISSN 1327-9300.
“Alien In The Landscape: Distillation and Filtration of Soundscapes”, Sounding Out 4 – An International Symposium on Sound in the Media, 4–6 September 2008, University of Sunderland, UK
“Is Anyone Listening”, RealTime issue #84 April–May 2008, Published by Open City Inc http://www.realtimearts.net/article/84/8967
“The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG): A Mobile Acoustic Profiling Resonating Filter”, 4th International Mobile Music Workshop, Amsterdam 2007.
“Radio Art: The age of the ‘Bunker’ Artist, Digging in Deeper, Spreading Thinner ...” Vital Signs Conference, Melbourne 2005. http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=031172368128134;res=E-LIBRARY
“Oh Dear ABC”, Limelight, January 2004
External links
Colin Black website http://www.colinblack.com.au"Aussie entries stand out in broadcasting" The Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/21/1064082865444.html?from=storyrhs
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Classic FM classic/amp http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s1523799.htm
Finnish Radio (YLE) http://www.yleradio1.fi/musiikki/aaniversumi/id2612.shtml
Deutschlandradio http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/klangkunst/590676/
Sveriges Radio P2 http://www.sr.se/sida/arkiv.aspx?ProgramID=2098&formatID=116&Max=2008-06-04&Min=2004-12-08&PeriodStart=2008-06-05&Period=3&Artikel=1973213
Český rozhlas http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica/projekt/_zprava/490227
ORF, Kunstradio, (Austria) http://www.kunstradio.at/2009B/26_07_09en.html