I’m currently working on the creative work for my thesis. It’s a theatrical work, with both a script and music which accompanies this script. It’s my first time scriptwriting, and it’s something I’m really enjoying. The problem is, I’m adapting a sequence of real-life events – a “based on a true story” type script. And […]
I’ll be honest: no-one reads this blog. Maybe you are, right now, reading these words. But I have access to the numbers, and I can tell you: no-one is reading this blog. Or at least, that’s how it feels. Because of course, some people read this blog: just not many, not many at all. Less […]
Since the start of this year, I’ve been tracking my time. The way I do this is in my journal, which has a weekly section, with 30-minute intervals running in boxed-paper down the pages. These columns start at 5am, and while some people use them to plan their week, I’ve been using my digital calendar […]
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about music education. This has something to do with my university, ANU, choosing to save money by integrating the school of music into a broader school combined with the art and design school and the centre for museum and heritage practice and making several staff redundant, but it’s also […]
Last week, I had the pleasure of assisting with a wayang gamelan performance for the 60th anniversary of the Indonesia Project at ANU. If you’ve never seen wayang before, a form of Indonesian (mainly Javanese and Balinese) theatre. It uses shadow puppets, which has a big screen with a light projected onto it, with the […]