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Emergent Media Practices with Shelley Brunt
Senior Lecturer in Music and
Media at RMIT – and leader
of DERC’s Emergent Media
Practices node – Shelley’s
background in popular music
ethnomusicology keeps Shelley
interested in music as culture,
music in culture, and how
and why people make music.
Shelley’s main area of expertise
is Japanese popular music and
song contests, but after seven
years living and working in New
Zealand, Shelley also explores
New Zealand’s popular music
scenes and diasporic musicmaking communities.
As a musician, Shelley’s
research is deeply informed
by her practice. Over the
last decade Shelley’s initial
University studies in cello and
her extensive choral experience
have expanded to encompass
electric guitar, synths, vocals
in bands and an array of
percussion – from Japanese
taiko to Javanese gamelan.
Shelley was also the director
of a touring gamelan ensemble
in New Zealand, performing
wayang kulit (shadow puppet
theatre and percussion) all
around the country.
For Shelley, DERC is a
supportive
and
inspiring
community and Shelley is
a big advocate of DERC’s
ongoing guest speaker series,
its access to fantastic minds
and ongoing opportunities for
collaboration. One such pairing
has emerged between Shelley
and Dr Wendy Hsu (a guest of
DERC in 2014); the two are cowriting a paper – complete with
digital toolkit – about online
ethnographic techniques that
music researchers can use for
their own projects.
Shelley is also co-editing a
book about popular music in
Australia and New Zealand,
and writing a chapter about
a fundraising concert and
CD that brought together
musicians from around New
Zealand for earthquake relief
in Christchurch. If that isn’t
enough, Shelley is intrigued
by Australia’s official entry
in the 2015 Eurovison Song
Contest and plans on cowriting an article analysing the
representations of Australian
culture in the song performance
once it happens later in the
year. In true DERC fashion,
Shelley is keen to document
the social media accounts of
Australia’s participation too…
EV E NT S
N EWS AN D LI N K S
N EWS AN D LI N K S
March 24th
Jessica Noske-Turner’s latest article
Evaluating the impacts of media assistance:
problems and principles is now available
online at http://www.globalmediajournal.
de/2015/01/16/evaluating-the-impacts-ofmedia-assistance-problems-and-principles/
Tripta Chandola has made a BBC
documentary about her ethnographic
work in an Indian slum. For more
information head to http://www.bbc.
co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2015/05/
govindpuri-sound
Andrew Glover has joined DERC! Andrew
will be working on Work-life ecologies:
lifestyle, sustainability, practices alongside
Tania Lewis & Yolande Strengers
DERC PhD Candidate Lucy Chen is now
on Youtube. To find out more about Lucy’s
research go to https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Aa6O_UMac0I
The Sensorization of Listening (Jason Stanyek)
March 26th
Technologies and Cultures of Posthumous
Performance (Jason Stanyek)
Configuring Light/Staging the Social: A new
research agenda (Don Slater/Mona Sloane)