Research – han reardon-smith

May 20, 2018

Some thoughts on Gary Peters’ “Philosophy of Improvisation”

This post was originally published on my PhD blog: stay and make kin. There are definitely some salvageable insights in Peters’ Philosophy of improvisation (2009), and I will do my best to tease them out over time. I’m also aware that a lot of this will take a fair bit of thinking and engaging with some

How did I get here?

I am a classical flutist by training. How did I go from traditional orchestral ambitions to having such an interest in the anarchic self-expression of free improvisation? (A word of warning… Despite my ambitions to keep this story fairly straightforward, this has somewhat turned into an entire autobiographical ramble. I have decided for the time

Directions of New Music: Codex

A bit overdue … but earlier this year I had a paper published in the new Australian online journal Directions of New Music, and I thought I’d better share it here! Abstract: This paper examines the process of preparing Barrett’s codex V (2007) and codex XV (2015) and their performance on Saturday 18 June, 2016,