This episode features performer and researcher Louise Devenish. Louise is a contemporary percussionist whose creative practice blends performance, collaboration and artistic research. Louise has commissioned over 50 works for percussion, she develops new works exploring graphic notation, post-instrumental practice and collaborative creativity, and she has performed all over the world with ensembles such as Decibel, Speak Percussion and Synergy Percussion. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Percussion Coordinator at Monash University. In 2021 she published her first book, called Global Percussion Innovations: The Australian Perspective.
\tLouise talks about career paths for young musicians, about creating new music, about the necessity of developing skills connected to writing, project presentations and grant applications, about how she merges a career as a performer, artistic researcher and an educator, how music can lead to change and contribute to current discourses in society, and about the texts of writer Rebecca Solnit.
The musical excerpts are taken from her solo album music for percussion and electronics (Tall Poppies 2018).
For further reading, you may find the study on portfolio musicians Louise discusses here; as well as her recent article on the developments in the field of instrumental practices here.
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