Journal articles

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Activating the teaching-research nexus in smaller universities: case studies highlighting diversity of practice (with William E. Boyd, Meg O'Reilly, Daniel J. Bucher, Kath Fisher, Anja Morton, Peter Lynton Harrison, Elaine Nuske, and Karyn Rendall), Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (2010)

The teaching-research nexus (TRN) has become an important process in the modern University, providing both...

 

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Bastardising the Waterfront Dispute: production and critical reception of the Bastard Boys mini-series (with Lisa Milner), Communication, Politics & Culture (2010)

This article examines the production and reception of Bastard Boys, a television mini-series broadcast on...

 

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Point of audition: sound and music in Cloverfield, Science Fiction Film and Television (2010)

Cloverfield (Reeves US 2008) employs an amateur hand-held-camera styled conceit to narrate a love story...

 

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Hearing screen animation, Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine (2009)

Animation has become a lucrative and contemporary screen medium. As a film form, animation increasingly...

 

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Orchestrating the Waterfront dispute: music and discourse in Bastard Boys, Perfect Beat (2009)

Bastard Boys is a historically-inspired mini-series broadcast on ABC TV in May 2007. It dramatizes...

 

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Special issue: Thwack! Hearing the motion in animation (editorial), Animation Journal (2009)
 

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Priscilla's performances: songs and national identifiers in Australian cinema, Music and the Moving Image (2008)
 

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Daniel Goldmark, tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon' (book review), Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (2007)
 

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Showing some fight: Kemira’s challenge to industrial relations (with Lisa Milner), Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine (2007)

Inspired by the ‘Work Choices’ policies initiated by the Coalition-led Australian Federal Government in 2006,...

 

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Ether to 01: digitising radio, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2006)
 

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Marking time in the Barry McKenzie films' music (with Michael Francis Hannan), Screening the Past: Popular Music and Film (2005)

This article examines aspects of the music of the Barry McKenzie films directed by Bruce...

 

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Light from shadow: the legacy of Chiaroscuro in spacial imaging, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, 22 October - 29 November 2003, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2004)
 

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Pop goes the sound track, Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine (2004)
 

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Sounding rural Australia: analysing documentary sound tracks, Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine (2003)
 

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Digitising the wireless: observations from an experiment in ‘internet radio’, Convergence : The Internatioanl Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2000)

Terms such as 'internet radio', 'internet Broadcasting' and 'Web Radio' or 'webcasting' crop up relatively...

 

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More than meets the eye: music and sound performance, perception and interactivity, Convergence : the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (1997)
 

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Review: Is it art yet? Art in Holography 2, The International Symposium 1996, Nottingham, UK, 14-17 September 1996, Convergence: the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (1997)
 

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Aloha Australia: Hawaiian music in Australia (with Jackey Coyle), Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research Into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture (1920-1955) (1995)
 

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Sound music noise: music and sound art in Australia, Sounds Australian: journal of Australian music (1995)
 

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Sound and speed in convocation: an analysis of The Listening Room programs on Paul Virilio, Continuum: Radio-Sound and Film Culture (1992)
 

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Radio speleology: mapping the radio cave, Independent Media (1990)
 

Books

Drawn to sound: animation film music and sonicity, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2009)

Animation films are widely consumed in the general population and the study of animation films...

 

Reel tracks: Australian feature film music and cultural identities, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2005)

Over the last decade popular cinema has employed a variety of forms of music. These...

 

Screen scores: studies in contemporary Australian film music, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (1998)
 

Apparition: holographic art in Australia (with Philip Hayward), School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (1995)

Long before virtual reality captured the imagination, holography provided artists with a new, challenging, three-dimensional...

 

Sound in space: adventures of Australian sound art, 26 May - 22 August 1995 / curated by Rebecca Coyle, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (1995)

Sound in Space features both new and extant works. The exhibition aims to present exemplary...

 

Book chapters

Are you there?, Virtual encounters: Paula Dawson - holograms (2010)
 

Disney does Broadway: musical storytelling in The Little Mermaid and The Lion King (with Jon Fitzgerald), Drawn to sound: animation film music and sonicity (2010)
 

DreamWorking Wallace & Gromit: musical thematics in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (with Peter Morris), Drawn to sound: animation film music and sonicity (2010)
 

Memory Theatre 1, Virtual encounters: Paula Dawson - holograms (2010)
 

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'Now you blokes own the place': representations of Japanese culture in recent Australian cinema, Diasporas of Australian cinema (2009)
 

Spooked by sound: The Blair Witch Project, Terror tracks: music, sound and horror cinema (2008)
 

Texas chainsaws: audio effect and iconicity (with Philip Hayward), Terror tracks: music, sound and horror cinema (2008)
 

Introduction: film, music mnemonics: Australian cinema scores in the 1990s and 2000s, Reel tracks: Australian feature film music and cultural identities (2005)

Summary: "Over the last decade popular cinema has employed a variety of forms of music....

 

Nashville and back: country music and film representation in Doing Time for Patsy Kline, Australian Country Music (2005)
 

Untangling Lantana: a study of film sound production, Reel tracks: Australian feature film music and cultural identities (2005)

Summary:
"Over the last decade popular cinema has employed a variety of forms of music. These...

 

Country folk: the 'voices' of John Williamson and Sara Storer, Australian Country Music Volume 2 (2004)
 

Sound and music in the Mad Max trilogy, Off the planet: music, sound and science fiction cinema (2004)

Over the last decade, music and sound have become an increasingly recognised aspect of film...

 

Hawaiian-style music, Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia (2003)
 

Sound Art, Currency companion to music and dance in Australia (2003)
 

Speaking strine: locating ‘Australia’ in film dialogue, Cinesonic: experiencing the soundtrack (2000)
 

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Sound in space: adventures in Australian sound art (1995), Sound In Space: Adventures in Australian Sound Art (1995) (1995)
 

The genesis of Virtual Reality, Future visions: new technologies of the screen (1993)
 

Holography: art in space of technology, Culture, technology and creativity in the late twentieth century (1990)

Contents: Preface / Rodney Wilson -- Foreword / Will Bell -- 1. Introduction. Technology and...

 

Theses

Scoring Australia: film music and Australian identities in Young Einstein, Strictly Ballroom and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, PhD thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW (2002)
 

Conference publications

Spectacular synchronisation: songs, animation and Happy Feet (with Philip Hayward), Music on the edge : selected papers from 2007 IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference (2008)
 

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Radio Norfolk: community and communication on Norfolk Island, 2nd International Small Island Cultures Conference (2006)

Introduction
My interest and research into the radio service on Norfolk Island commenced with a three-month...

 

Bazza's bawdy ballads...and other aspects of the Barry McKenzie film musics (with Michael Francis Hannan), Proceedings of Credits rolling: Selected papers: 12th Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (2004)
 

Calling Australia home: Australian film music, Changing sounds: new directions and configurations in popular music, IASPM 1999 Conference (2000)
 

Reports

Radio VL2NI on Norfolk Island: finding the 'community' in 'community radio', Report to Norfolk Island Administration (2000)