Dr Ros Bandt

Lecturer
The Centre for Ideas

Ros Bandt is an internationally acclaimed sound researcher, composer and sound artist. Her sound art works and installations have been shown internationally for over 20 years. She has pioneered multi-channel audience participatory sound works including sound sculptures, sound playgrounds, audible canvases and numerous cross art collaborations. She is currently funded by the new media arts board of the Australian Council to collaborate with German sound artist Johannes S. Sistermanns on a new performance art work sonic blue red tracings in Japan. She is also honorary senior research fellow at the Australian Centre, the University of Melbourne where she is the director of the Australian Sound Design Project, an award winning nationwide website, data base and research facility dedicated to the study of sound design in public space (www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au). This cross disciplinary study crosses the boundaries of art practice and research in new ways. It was funded by an ARC grant from the Australian Government, the Australia Council, the national arts funding body, the Melbourne City Council, Move records and the City of Yarra.

Published writings on sound include four books, most recently, Hearing Places, 2007 published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in UK, co-edited with Michelle Duffy and Dolly McKinnon. Her other writings include Sound sculpture: intersections in sound and sculpture in Australian Artworks (Thames and Hudson, 2001) encyclopaedic entries, and numerous articles. She has been the recipient of many international awards grants and commissions for her pioneering work in interactive sound sculptures, installations, sound playgrounds and spatial music systems. Her new double CD Isobue, the Japanese sea whistle is the fruit of her recent composers residency with audio arts ABC radio national (www.rosbandt.com).

The Studio of Akustische Kunst WDR, Radio ORF, Transit, ABC have commissioned her original music, and her works are published by New Albion, Wergo, EMI, AMC, Allans Music, Currency Press and Move Records. She has won the Don Banks Composers award, the highest honour to an Australian Composer and the Sound Art Australia Prize. She has performed at the Paris Autumn Festival, the International Society for Contemporary Music, Warsaw and Bucharest, the Asian Arts Festival Hong Kong, throughout Europe, the UK, Canada and the USA.