The Artists Involved

Serena Armstrong | composer/sound artist/musician
Serena Armstrong is a professionally trained composer and lawyer. She graduated from the University of Wollongong in 2002 with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (honours) and Bachelor of Law (honours). Serena majored in music composition and throughout her career she has worked collaboratively with visual artists, writers, journalists and actors.

Danielle Carey | writer/musician/visual artist
Danielle Carey is a musicologist, writer, musician and visual artist currently based in the Blue Mountains. A graduate from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, she writes for various national music publications and is editor of resonate - the Australian Music Centre's new web magazine. She self-publishes music reviews, interviews and other writing in her blog and is currently creating a series of mixed-media art works inspired by the township and natural setting of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, NSW.

Rhiannon Cook | composer/writer/musician
Rhiannon Cook creates music, writes about it, and educates others about these processes. She has worked collaborated on numerous creative projects, has worked at the Australian Music Centre, and has taught music and composition in schools and at the Wollongong Conservatorium. She writes program notes for the Sydney Omega Ensemble and her articles have been published in most of Australia's print and online music magazines.

Julian Day | composer/writer/radio presenter
Julian Day is a composer and arts presenter based in Sydney. A former winner of The Australian Voices Young Composer of the Year Award, Julian studied composition with Gerard Brophy at the Queensland Conservatorium and with Louis Andriessen, Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe at the 2003 Bang On A Can Summer Institute of Music in Massachusetts, USA. From 1997 he co-directed COMPOST, a group of emerging composers that presented large-scale music events around the country. He has also worked extensively in sound, installation and performance art, presenting work at the Queensland Art Gallery, the Brisbane Powerhouse, the Arts Theatre in Canberra and RMIT in Melbourne. Julian also maintains a successful career as a radio broadcaster and writer. Since 2001 he has presented for ABC Classic FM, hosting the award-winning New Music Australia and New Music Up Late. In this role he has interviewed many of the world's best-known composers, including Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Anderson and Gavin Bryars.

Benjamin Millar | photographer/writer/sound artist
Benjamin Millar is a Sydney-based journalist, writer and photographer. He works as a journalist and editor for a stable of community newspapers, produces experimental sound pieces and has written extensively on music, arts and entertainment for a range of on-line and print publications. He keeps a blog of his creative writing and music reviews as well as his photography. He is currently working on a radio play and a novel.