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Violinist/composer, zoömusicologist, and author Dr. Hollis Taylor performs her (re)compositions of avian songs on violin alongside her environmental field recordings, and she also reimagines pied butcherbird repertoire for other human instruments and voices. She has held research appointments at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin), the Museum of Natural History (Paris), the University of Technology Sydney, and Macquarie University. She received the 2025 Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music. In addition to her CD Absolute Bird, she is author of Is Birdsong Music?, Post Impressions, and Music from Another Species: Australian Birdsong Transcriptions.


The theme music for Creative Conversations: Research in Music is \"Gleam\" by Helen Svoboda.


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