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Julian Knowles is a composer, performer and media artist specialising in new and emerging technologies. His creative work spans the fields of composition for theatre, dance, film and television, electronic music, sound design and media arts, popular music and record production. His practice-based research demonstrates a long-standing, high-level engagement with technologically-mediated music and sound practices and the relationships between audio-visual media. This has resulted in the creation of more than 50 innovative works that have been disseminated by high profile record labels, broadcasters and art institutions internationally. In the course of his career Julian has worked with many of Australia’s best-known musicians in the experimental music scene and has been a member of the Australian electro-environmental audio group Social Interiors since the mid 1990s. As a solo artist, Julian’s music and audio/visual works have been presented at events and venues such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Experimental Intermedia in New York City, STEIM Holland, the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Seoul international Performance Art Festival, What is Music?, Australian Perspecta, Liquid Architecture, the Melbourne International Film Festival, VIVID Sydney and the Sydney Opera House. Current creative projects include an Australia Council funded audio-visual work in collaboration with Tim Bruniges and David Trumpmanis from The Dead Sea, and a collaboration with Wade Marynowsky to develop a robotic opera, to be presented by Carriageworks and Performance Space in Sydney in October 2015. Julian is the co-founder of the mediatized performance group Macrophonics. He is a Professor of Music and Media at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where he is also the Research Leader for the Creative Ecologies Lab

Writers:

Julian Knowles

Date written:

2015

Last updated:

2015