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Joshua Robinson

Composer

Opinion

Brisbane’s Secret World War 2 Museum

Hidden within Brisbane’s rather unassuming industrial suburb of Wacol is a secret. Half of this secret is grown-over bushland, with the only hint of its past some concrete foundations out by the side of the road that leads to the local prison. The other half is a collection of army buildings at the former Wacol […]

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Music Communication

When Composing becomes Research

For a long time, artistic practice (think performing, composing, panting, etc.) was not considered research. Research, traditionally, has always been in written form. We might even think of the scientific methods: hypotheses and experiments and results and the write-up of these results as the most traditional research, and it’s something most people are exposed to […]

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Reviews

Why I love ‘Whiplash’ (2014)

When people ask me what my favourite movie is, I usually go for Whiplash (2014). It’s an oddball choice for sure — and it’s definitely not one because it’s a feel-good movie. Indeed, I think it gets to the heart of what a favourite film is: this is undoubtedly the film that I think is […]

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