The past two weeks I’ve had the pleasure of taking part in a marimba ensemble workshop. These marimbas aren’t orchestral marimbas, though, which I have some very minor experience playing. These marimbas are Zimbabwean: handcrafted and in four different ranges (soprano, alto, tenor, bass). It was a lot of fun to learn an unfamiliar (ie […]
Hi everyone, I’ve been very sick this week unfortunately so only a very short blog post from me. Unfortunately I came down with some kind of illness on Monday and so I spent most of this week resting up. I was even worse yesterday but once again I seem on the mend (though I recall […]
This month, Doctor Who triumphantly returned to our small screens, now on Disney+ and a new writing team. I’m a huge fan of the show, and I love how whacky and zany it can be. If you haven’t watched before, it’s a time travel show where the main character, called just “The Doctor” and their […]
My housemate recently got a record player. She’s a big Swiftie and wanted to pick up her vinyls, ahead of the release of Dead Poet’s Society. This record player is pretty interesting, it can connect out via some wires or, as is expected in this day and age, a bluetooth connection. So naturally, I got […]
Last week, I was able to attend the 46th Musicological Society of Australia (MSA) conference in Adelaide. This is one of Australia’s two largest music conferences, the other being the Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). This is, then, the place to be to see what current topics are being researched in Australian music studies.
In this post, I discuss musicology in Australia and the sorts of research currently being done in this area.