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Lindsay Vickery is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

and performer.

Early life and education

Lindsay Vickery was born in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

. He studied composition with John Exton

John Exton

-Life:Exton was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1619-30, M.A. 1623, LL.D. 1634. In 1649 he was appointed by the parliament judge of the court of admiralty, and in this office he was confirmed and reappointed by the Duke of York after the Restoration...

and Roger Smalley

Roger Smalley

Roger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,...

at the University of Western Australia

University of Western Australia

The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...

. He has written much ensemble and interactive electronic music, exploring readymades and collage

Collage

A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....

(notably interrogating the work of Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....

) as well as improvisation, nonlinear writing and computer-performer pieces. His chamber opera

Chamber opera

Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.The term and form were invented by Benjamin Britten in the 1940s, when the English Opera Group needed works that could easily be taken on tour and performed in a variety of small...

Rendez-vous: An Opera Noir is based on the Nouveau Roman

Nouveau roman

The nouveau roman is a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres. Émile Henriot coined the title in an article in the popular French newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957 to describe certain writers who experimented with style in each novel, creating an essentially new...

DJINN: un trou rouge entre les pavés disjoints
Djinn (novel)
Djinn is a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. It was written as a French textbook with California State University, Dominguez Hills professor Yvone Lenard using a process of grammatical progression. Each chapter covers a specific element of French grammar, which becomes increasingly difficult over the...

by French author Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet , was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on March 25, 2004, succeeding Maurice...

Career

His interactive electronic music often employs experimental interfaces such as the Yamaha MIBURI

Miburi

The Miburi is a 'wearable musical instrument' which was released commercially by the Yamaha Corporation’s Tokyo-based experimental division in 1994.- Categorisation and functions of the Miburi:...

and other self-devised alternative controllers.

He has performed on reed instruments, electronics or as a conductor in the groups alea new music ensemble, Magnetic Pig, HEDKIKR, SQUINT, Candied Limbs and Decibel, and with artists such as Jon Rose

Jon Rose

Jon Rose is an Australian violinist born in the UK in 1951. Rose began playing violin at age 7 after winning a music scholarship to King's School in Rochester. For over 35 years, Rose has been at the sharp end of new, improvised, and experimental music and media...

(Music in the Age of Shopping, The People’s Music), Stelarc

Stelarc

Stelarc is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centred around his concept that the human body is obsolete...

, Amy Knoles and Cat Hope

Cat Hope

Cat Hope is an Australian musician and academic, based in Perth, Western Australia. She is best known as a noise, installation and performance artist. She was a founder of the legendary Perth noise duo Lux Mammoth; was a singer, songwriter and bassist in dark indie band Gata Negra, and she also...

. His works have been performed by groups such as The California Ear Unit, Topology, Clocked Out, Ensemble Scintilla Divina, the MATA Ensemble, The Collective and artists such as Michael Kieran Harvey

Michael Kieran Harvey

Michael Kieran Harvey is an Australian pianist whose career has been notable for its diversity and wide repertoire. He is renowned for commissioning and performing new music. He has especially promoted the works of Australian composers, such as Carl Vine, all of whose piano music he has recorded...

, Ross Bolleter

Ross Bolleter

Ross Bolleter is an Australian avantgarde composer and improviser notable for his experimentation on ruined pianos. He has been a member of The Blackeyed Susans and he is a co-founder of the WARPS Music label....

and Hiroshi Chu Okubo.

He has performed at the Shanghai International Arts Festival, Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival is Australia's largest and most attended annual cultural event running every January since it was first held in 1977. Its program features around 80 events including contemporary and classical music, dance, circus, drama, visual arts and artist talks...

, Perth International Arts Festival

Perth International Arts Festival

The Perth International Arts Festival is Australia's longest running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia between February-March. The program features contemporary and classical music, dance, theatre, opera, visual arts, large-scale public works, Lotterywest Festival Films and the...

, Adelaide Festival of Arts

Adelaide Festival of Arts

The Adelaide Festival of Arts is an arts festival held biennially in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Although locally considered to be one of the world's greatest celebrations of the arts, that is internationally renowned and the pre-eminent cultural event in Australia, it is actually...

, Music at the Anthology, Totally Huge New Music Festival, Scintilla Divina Festival, Audio Art Festival, NWEAMO

NWEAMO

Founded by composer Joseph Waters in Portland, Oregon, U.S. in 1998, the New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization ' produces an annual international festival of electro-acoustic music...

, REV01, BEAP, the NowNow, What is Music

What Is Music

What Is Music is an experimental music festival held in Australia. It originally emerged in Sydney in 1994 as a platform to expose unusual contemporary musical forms that were otherwise unknown to the general public at that point in time...

, The Knitting Factory, Make-it-Now, DC 8th International Dance+ Improvisation Festival, ACMI, SDSU, University of Illinois, STEIM

STEIM

STEIM is a center for research and development of new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic music in STEIM's context is always strongly related to the physical and direct actions of a musician...

, HarvestWorks, CEMI and Kyoto Seika University.

Honours and awards

Honours include a Sounds Australian Award (1989) and a Churchill Fellowship (1995) to study electronic music in the United States and Europe.

Selected works

Twilight's Last Gleamings (1986): in Reeds (Ed. Ross Hazeldine) Red House Editions RH943
Savoy Trifle (1988): Alto Saxophone, Percussion and Piano
Blackpool Tower: Elegy for John Lennon (1989): Clarinet, Guitar, Percussion and Piano
Leo Szilard (1990): Soprano, Tenor and Baritone Saxophone, Piano, Marimba, Cello and Bass Guitar
cyphers of the obscure gods (1991): Tenor Saxophone, Cello, Synthesizer and Percussion
Zealous Activity (1992): in Australian Piano Miniatures (Ed. Ross Hazeldine) Red House Editions RH947
Web of Indra (1993): Soprano Saxophone, Cello, Percussion and Keyboard
[descent of the celestial monkey wrench] (1997), 2 Sopranos, saxophone, cello, piano and percussion
strange tides (redraw my boundaries) (1997): solo soprano saxophone and digital delay
Oubliette (1998): in Australian Guitar Miniatures (Ed. Ross Hazeldine) Red House Editions RH947
whythisandnotanother? (1999): score-film, interactive audio, saxophone, cello, and KAT
noir (1999): MIBURI, Roland 505, tenor saxophone, piano, samplers and MIDI controlled lights
horology (1999): flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and marimba and percussion
delicious ironies series (2001-): live instrument(s) and electronics
rendez-vous: an opera noir (2001): after the Novel Djinn by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Libretto by the Composer: 2 Sopranos, Mezzo, Baritone, Boy Actor and Male Actor, Violin, Cello, Saxophone, Piano,
Splice (2002): soloist and Max/MSP software
invisible symmetries (2002): violin, soprano saxophone, double bass, percussion and piano
InterXection (2002): percussion and electronics
your sky is filled with billboards of the sky (2002): MIBURI, Max/MSP and Image-ine.
Scan (2002): MIBURI and interactive video/sound
Kreuz des Suedens (2003): violin and cello
Hey Jazz Fans! (2003): solo alto saxophone and MAX/MSP
Parallel Trajectories (2003): ensemble
Exit Points (2003): soprano saxophone, violin, viola, double bass, piano
éraflage (2007): flute, harp, string quartet, double bass and percussion
Tectonic (2007), wind, brass, string, percussion and piano groups and electronics
corridors, stairways, night and day (2009): bass clarinet and interactive electronics
Antibody (2009): alto flute, clarinet, viola, cello, keyboard and electronics

Additional reading

Broadstock, Brenton, (1995). Sound Ideas: Australian Composers Born since 1950, Australian Music Centre ISBN 0646224972 ISBN 978-0646224978 pp. 237–8
Burt, W. (1991). “Experimental Music in Australia using live electronics” in New instruments for the performance of electronic music (Ed. Nelson P. and Montague, P.), CRC Press/Taylor and Francis: London.
Burtt, J., Lavers, K., and Vickery, L. (2004). “Representations of recombinant memory in interactive performance works”, in Proceedings of Qi + Complexity Consciousness reframed Conference 2004, Beijing China.
Dean, R.T., (2003). Hyperimprovisation : Computer Interactive Sound Improvisation, A-R Editions, Madison, WI. P. 161
Hope, C. (2008). “Cultural terrorism and anti-music: Noise music and its impact on experimental music in Australia”, in Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia, (Gail Priest Editor), University of New South Wales Press; p. 63
Lieberman, D., (2006). “Game Enhanced Music Manuscript”, in GRAPHITE '06: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and * South East Asia, ACM Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 245 – 250.
MacQueen, B. (ed.)(1993). “Lindsay Vickery”, in Lowdown magazine Volume 16 No. 3 (JUNE)
Mustard, J. (2002). “Correlating Movement In Space To The Parameters Of Sound” in Proceedings of the 2002 Australasian Computer Music Conference.
Mustard, J. (2005). “Invisible Symmetries: A retrospective of the work of Lindsay Vickery”, in SOUND SCRIPTS: Proceedings of the Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference 2005, pp. 33–41
Mustard, J. (2005). “Invisible Symmetries: A retrospective of the work of Lindsay Vickery”, in SOUND SCRIPTS: Proceedings of the Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference 2005, pp. 33–41 p. 33
Robbe-Grillet, A., 1981-85. DJINN: un trou rouge entre les pavés disjoints. Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit
Slater, D. (1998). “The Sound of Movement”, in CIO Magazine 15 July 1998
Vickery, L. (1991). “Two Pieces and an Overview”, in New Music Articles 9 (Guest Ed. Ross Bolleter).
Vickery, L. (2001). “The Western Edge: some recent electronic music from Western Australia”, in Organised Sound issue 6/1 Music Technology in Australasia/South East Asia (Ed. Leigh Landy and Tony Myatt), Cambridge University Press.
Vickery, L. (2002). “The RoboSax Project (1991-2001): forms of performer/machine interaction in works by Jonathan Mustard and Lindsay Vickery”, in Proceedings of the Australian Computer Music Conference 2002, RMIT Melbourne.
Vickery, L. (2002). “The Yamaha MIBURI MIDI jump suit as a controller for STEIM’s Interactive Video software Image/ine”, in Proceedings of the Australian Computer Music Conference 2002, RMIT Melbourne.
Vickery, L. (2003). “Non-linear structures for real-time interactive musical works”, in Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2003, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University Perth.
Vickery, L. (2004). “Interactive control of higher order musical structures”, in Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2004, Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand.
Vickery, L. (2005). “Western Electric: a survey of recent Western Australian Electronic Music”, in SOUND SCRIPTS: Proceedings of the Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference 2005, pp. 24–32
Willett, A. (2006). Rendez-vous: an Opera Noir, Honours Thesis, Edith Cowan University

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