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Brief Biography

Donna Hewitt is a composer/performer working with voice, environmental and computer processed sound. Much of her work involves re-processing audio via various digital processes to produce complex textures. As a PhD scholarship student and lecturer in the Music Area at UWS, she is working with multi-channel audio and has completed a number of studio pieces in the Dolby 5.1 surround format. Recently she has been exploring real time digital performance systems and custom interfaces in object/patcher environments.

 

Musical activity, performances, screenings, compositions, installations

2002

December ‘Liquid Extrusion II’ Performance /’Fluid Form’ Dance company ARTHOUSE, Sydney. Composer/Sound Designer

October ‘Autopilot’/'Fluid Form Dance' Arthouse, Sydney. Composer/Sound Designer

October 6th Voice Symposium of Australia, Performance and Workshop

August Arthouse ‘Crashing’ 'Fluid Form Dance'

August ‘Impermanent Audio’ Performance

July ACMC Conference performance of multi-channel work ‘Cracking’

June ‘Crystal Clear’ Commissioned to write two works for an ‘Environmental Education through Performance’ project which was a Partnership between Sydney Catchment Authority and the University of Western Sydney

May ‘Liquid Extrusion’ 'Fluid Form Dance' Arthouse Composer/Sound Designer

February ‘Beyond the Depths of Silence’ Dance Collaboration The Edge Theatre, Newtown. Composer/Sound Designer/

 

2001

May Conference Phillip Island Southern Hemisphere Marine Mammal Conference Performance

‘Peep Show’ Most Significant Bytes Concert Series, Ohio USA Screening of work and presentation on website

July ‘Waveform’ UWS ACMC 2001Performance and installation

July ‘Impermanent Audio’ Imperial Slacks Gallery Performance

August ‘Electric Antiphony’ Monash University, Melbourne Performance of multi-channel work

 

2000

2000 November ‘Sonic Residues 02’ Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Performance and Installation

2000 October ‘The Request of Spring’ Carnivale 2000 Bangarra Theatre Duong Le Quay Composer/Sound Designer

 

1999

Llewers Gallery FUSE exhibition ‘Peep Show’ Installation and Performance Cairdean

The Mill on the Floss (Sydney Theatre Company/Babylon Productions) The Wharf Theatre Composer/Sound Designer. 4 Channel dispersion

 

1988

 ‘Drowning’ Watt concert 1998 Multi-channel work

 

CD releases and production

Engineering and mastering

Biodiversity Volume 1 popular Australian Piano Music written since 1970 Pianist - Elizabeth Green

Biodiversity Volume 2 Australian Piano Music written since 1970 Pianist -Elizabeth Green (Double CD)

'SHHHH!’ Compilation of music composed, performed and recorded by Music Students, School of Contemporary Arts University of Western Sydney.

Works on CD

‘Drowning’ appears on the following compilation releases:

‘Time Space and the Roaring Silence’ Post West Journal UWS

‘SHHHH!’ Compilation of music composed, performed and recorded by Music Students, School of Contemporary Arts University of Western Sydney.

 

Awards

Awarded a grant from the Australia Councils Contemporary Australian Instrument Builders Initiative – Sounding Out for a collaboration with Ian Stevenson to develop an interface for contemporary vocal performance and electronic processing.

Awarded a grant from the Australia Councils Buzz Program, Young and Emerging Artists Initiative 2002 for a collaboration with dancer/choreographer Nell Andrew.

Recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award and University of Western Sydney, Penrith Stipend

 

Other musical activities and experience

Donna performs regularly in various Sydney based duos and bands and was the lead singer in the Big Big Band in 1997-98. She currently sings with Revive and has worked with the accapella trio ‘Cairdean’ who focussed on gaelic music and traditional folk songs from Scotland and the Hebrides.

Cairdean

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She completed a Bachelor of Science at Sydney University majoring in Biochemistry and Pharmacology and she still manages to incorporate aspects of science into her music.

 Academic qualifications

Bachelor of Arts Music 1st Class Honours, University of Western Sydney

Bachelor of Science, Sydney University