Colin Black is an Australian experimental music composer, sonic media arts practitioner, radio artist and researcher. Black won the 2003 Prix Italia Award in the category of Best Radio Music – Composed Work for composing and producing The Ears Outside My Listening Room (duration 52 minutes). Black’s commissions to create major works include the following organisations: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Český rozhlas, Deutschlandradio, Parramatta Heritage Centre, Lismore City Council and Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA). His works have been selected for events including En Red O 2000 music festival in Barcelona, Spain, the Festival Synthese in Bourges, France, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel France, 60×60 Pacific Basin Regional Concert Los Angeles USA, Zèppelin 2004-Festival de Arte Sonoro in Barcelona, Spain, Hipersonica 2004 in São Paulo, Brazil, The Literature Sound Barrier 2002 in Wien, Austria, Sydney University’s Live Wires concerts ’97, ’98, and Melbourne’s Extatic Concert for the Next Wave festival ’98. In 2010 he was artist in residence at WORM, a Rotterdam based institute for avant garde music and art.
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