Collaborations Conference: Program

Keynote Address

Being Geniuses Together: What Yoko Ono Taught John Lennon
Dr Janine Burke, Monash Fellow, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies

Session 1: Multiple Collaborative Platforms

Creating the chamber opera Voicing Emily: Successful Collaborations in Music Theatre
Jane Hammond and Helen Noonan

Composer/performer collaboration: Elliott Carter and David Starobin for the guitar solo Changes (1983)
Nena Beretin, King’s School, Sydney

The patron, the master and the acolyte: Creative collaborations around the Pfitzner violin concerto Op 34 (1924)
Dr Kay Dreyfus, School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University

Session 2:  Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Dorga dao (Singing our own songs): How kam village singers negotiate creative and collaborative possibilities in the performance of Kam songs
Catherine Ingram

Recent cross-cultural collaborations East and West
Dr Ros Bandt, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne

The Collaborative War-time Composition of ‘Gending Sriwijaya’
Professor Margaret Kartomi, School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University

Session 3: Tensions and Harmonies

When Presupposition Impedes on Praxis: Lessons Learned from James Brown
Dr John Scannell, Macquarie University

‘I and I’: Collaboration and the Double Act of Musical Creation
Associate Professor Peter Murphy, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University

Keynote Address

‘Working for the man’: figuring the artist-producer (or artist-agent, artist-manager, artist-entrepreneur, artist-hustler) relationship

Dr Peter Doyle, Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University

Session 4: (In)Famous Collaborators

When the music’s over: Collaboration gone wrong
Geoff King, RMIT University

Collaboratively Crafting the Recorded Soundscape
Dr Becky Shepherd, Macquarie University

Feeling The Flow
Stuart Grant, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University

Session 5:  Challenging Traditions

Wrocking Collaboration: Wizard Rock and the Work of J.K. Rowling
Dr Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University

Sean O Riada and Ceoltoiri Chualann: The collaboration that changed the sound of Irish music
Dr Helen O’Shea, Monash University

Singers and Songwriters in Australian Country Music
Graeme Smith

Session 6: Collaborative Models

Joseph Schillinger: Pioneering Antihero in the American Cultural Revolution
Ken Taylor, University of Newcastle

Follow the Leader: A Rotating Leadership Model for Ensemble Collaboration
Katrina Dowling and Tony Toppi, School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University

aMassing Gold; Delivering Hope
Stephanie Rocke, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, School of History, Monash University.

Session 7: Religion and Politics

Alan Bush and the GDR: the commissioning of the Byron Symphony
Julie Waters, Monash University

Collaboration in the past, cooperation in the present: the musicological minefield of memory and the ‘outing’ of Romanian composers active during the communist regime
Dr Joel Crotty, Associate Dean, Graduate Research, School of Music, Monash University

Session 8: Pop/Rock and National/International Contexts

`I'm Looking Through You': An Historical Case Study of Systemic Creativity as seen in the Partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Philip McIntyre, University of Newcastle

Hirst, Moginie and Midnight Oil
Shane Homan, Monash University

Ian Drury and the Kilburns – Disgracefully Disabled
Anthea Skinner, Monash University

The Bee Gees
Clinton Walker, La Trobe University

Session 9: Playing with form and time

Australian Jewish musician Miriam Rochlin and her collaboration with immediate post-WWII immigrant Jewish performers to reconcile times past, with times present
Bronia Kornhauser

French Mèlodie through the partnership of Poulenc and Bernac
Elizabeth Scarlett

Who won the Pulitzer Prize? Robert Ward and Bernard Stambler – The composer and librettist relationship in 1960s New York
Julia Cornwell McKean

Final Thoughts: ‘Collaborations’ Roundtable