Melanie
Chilianis
has an
interest in both the performance and
creation of contemporary sound. As a
performer with re-sound she has recorded
three CDs, including Terry Riley's In C
as well as many new Australian works.
Several of her live performances have been
broadcast on ABC Classic FM. In 2001, she
presented the first Australian performance
of Thomas Reiner's Oblique (for solo
flute) at the Federation Music Week:
Contemporary Music of Australia and the Asia
Pacific. As an improviser, Melanie has had
airplay on Radio National, Triple J FM, SBS
radio, RTR-FM (Perth) and 3PBS (Melbourne).
She completed improvisation workshops with
Jim Denley in Sydney in 1999 and with Tim
O’Dwyer in 2001. In 2001 she performed as
electronic artist (laptop) as part of the
Make It Up Club's Electrofest. In 2002 she
completed a suite of web-based sound design
pieces for an online magazine,
sleepybrain.net. She authored the sound
design for a video art piece that was
released on a DVD compilation, NeoPoetry,
as part of the Next Wave Festival, 2004.
Melanie’s electroacoustic composition
breath stain appears on re-sound’s
recently released CD ephemeral densities.
In August 2005, the Italian trio, Trio
Altrove 1.3, performed her composition
Kappa at the Iwaki Auditorium in a
live ABC FM broadcast. Her article on
drum’n’bass was published in Currency Press’
Australian Encyclopedia of Music and
Dance. Melanie has an honours degree in
music performance from Monash University and
a graduate diploma in education from the
University of Melbourne.
Read Sleepy Brain Magazine's
with Melanie Chilianis
http://www.sleepybrain.net/sonic-boom-the-world-of-re-sound/
.
Katrina
Dowling (recorders) studies
recorder with Genevieve Lacey. She is
currently undertaking a Bachelor of Music at
Monash University and is Director of Music
at St Luke's Uniting Church, Mt Waverley.
As director of Oakhill Ensemble, Katrina
commissioned and premiered new music for
recorders by Australian composer Greg
Hurworth at the 2004 Stratford Shakespeare
Festival.
Helen
Eadie (violin) is a founding member of
re-sound and has performed numerous new works
by Australian composers, as well as works
by Karlheinz Stockhausen (Sonatine) and Hans
Werner Henze (Serenade). Helen has appeared
at the Brunswick Music Festival where she
presented Peter Myers’s violin solo
Vex and a new work by Melbourne guitarist
Ken Murray. For the Melbourne Fringe Festival,
she performed works by Brendan Colbert, Joseph Giovinazzo, and Paul Moulatlet. Her recordings
include two re-sound CDs and sessional recordings
with local bands and singers (Allen and his
Scratch Orchestra and the Ken Murray Ensemble).
Her performances of Brendan Colbert’s
Spiel and Thomas Reiner’s Journey and
Contemplation have been broadcast on ABC FM.
Helen plays violin and viola with the Hill String Quartet.
She currently has a teaching studio and
conducts the music program ensemble at
Alphington Primary School and the Canterbury
PS String Ensemble.
Kim
Lajoie is an established composer who has
been working in computer music for over a
decade. Whilst currently composing film
scores and pop music, he has significant
experience in composing electronic and
electric abstract music for recording and
live performance. A selection of his work is
available on his website at kimlajoie.com.
At the end of the day, he hopes to utilise
re-sound as a platform moving forward for
establishing a framework for delivering live
semi-improvised performance and value-adding
to co- composers' collaborative projects.
With synergy.
Eddy Markovican
has completed in 2002 a Bachelor of Music
degree at Monash University. Majoring
in composition and performance, Eddy has
studied harmony, counterpoint, 12-tone
serialism, and Shenkerian analysis with
Thomas Reiner, composition with Peter
MacIlwain, classical guitar studies with
Jochen Schubert and Ken Murray. In
2003, Eddy completed the Honours Degree of
of Bachelor of Music at Monash University
specializing in composition, particularly
process composition. Eddy currently
teaches the classical guitar at various
locations and is in the process of
completing his first major compositional
project that includes the release of a CD.
Paul
Moulatlet gained a
Master of Arts in composition after studying
under Thomas Reiner. Paul’s ongoing
collaboration with re-sound has provided him
with both a rich source of compositional
ideas and a performance platform for his
works. Other noted exponents of contemporary
music, including Italy’s Trio Altrove 1.3,
UK-based trombone virtuoso Barrie Webb, and
prominent Australians Robert Chamberlain,
Peter Neville, Carl Rosman and Paul Todd
have also interpreted his compositions.
Paul’s music has been performed in Europe,
the USA, and numerous local music events
including the Brunswick Music Festival, the
Melbourne Fringe Festival, the Melbourne
International Festival of the Arts, and
Federation Music Week: Contemporary Music of
Australia and the Asia Pacific. His works
have been included on several CD releases
and have been broadcast nationally and
internationally by ABC Classic FM and
Melbourne stations 3MBS and 3PBS. Paul is
also a music educator who has taught at
primary, secondary and tertiary levels and
is currently classroom music teacher and
coordinator of music at Merri Creek Primary
School in Melbourne.
Thomas
Reiner is the founder and
artistic director of re-sound. He is an
award-winning composer with prizes in the
International Witold Lutoslawski Composers'
Competition, the ALEA III International
Composition Competition at Boston
University, and the International Boswil
Composers' Competition. Locally, he received
the Dorian Le Gallienne Award for
Composition and the Albert H. Maggs
Composition Award. His prolific
compositional output consists of solo
pieces, chamber works, orchestral
compositions, works for music theatre, vocal
works, concept pieces, electroacoustic and
electronic works. His music has been
performed, broadcast and recorded in many
countries and by some of the leading
exponents of contemporary music. Most of his
works are published with the Australian
Music Centre.
In 1996 he was awarded the Doctor of
Philosophy at the University of Melbourne
for his research into the semiotic nature of
musical time. The New York publisher Peter
Lang published his book Semiotics of Musical
Time in 2000. He has written the entries on
techno music, DJ culture, and dance parties
for the Currency Companion to Music and
Dance in Australia. In 2003, Move Records
released Hard Chamber, a compilation of his
chamber music (MD 3280), which was launched
at the Monash University Centre in Prato by
the Italian trio Altrove 1.3. In 2004 he was
invited to become a councillor with the
Music Council of Australia and was
subsequently elected for the Individual
Member Position Computer Music and
Multimedia. In 2005 he was elected to the
Board of Directors of the Australian Music
Centre. He is a Senior Lecturer at Monash
University in Melbourne where he coordinates
music composition and where he has designed
a PhD program in research-based composition.
Rhys
Richards
is a new member to re-sound. The upcoming
Ungrounded project in November will be his
first performance with the group. Rhys
studies flute with Peter Bartels and he is
currently undertaking a Bachelor of
Music/Bachelor of Arts at Monash University.
Rhys also plays analog synthesizers in a
four-piece Melbourne-based band called
World's End Press.
Paul
Todd (clarinets)
is a freelance musician and educator based
in Melbourne. He graduated with a Bachelor
of Music from the Elder Conservatorium of
Music (Adelaide) in 2000, and with a Master
of Arts (Music Performance) from the School
of Music - Conservatorium at Monash
University in 2005. His research at Monash
was concerned with devising accessible
methods of communicating the philosophies of
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen
through performance. He has performed with
the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide
Symphonia, Libra ensemble, Elder New Music
Ensemble and with re-sound since 2002. Paul
is a contemporary music specialist with many
performance highlights including
collaborations with internationally
acclaimed contemporary music conductor
Lorraine Vaillencourt and her Ensemble
Modern from Montreal, leading British
composer Peter Maxwell Davies, and the
creation and performance of a collaborative
music theatre work entitled When In Doubt
Do Not Use Your Knife under the
direction of performance artist Joanna
Dudley. With re-sound he has contributed to
several boundary-pushing events and has
premiered works by Thomas Reiner, Paul
Moulatlet and Brendan Colbert among others.
Paul appears on the re-sound CD ‘ephemeral
densities’ and Thomas Reiner’s CD ‘hardchamber’,
on which his performance of Fleeting
(2002-3) has earned critical acclaim.
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