Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Dr Louise Devenish is a contemporary percussionist whose creative practice blends performance, collaboration and artistic research.
As a soloist and with ensembles including Decibel, The Sound Collectors Lab and Intercurrent, she develops new works exploring notation, post-instrumental practice and collaborative creativity, performing around Australasia, Europe, North America and UK, performing at festivals including MONA FOMA, Nagoya and Shanghai World Expos, Ojai Music Festival, Tage für Neue Musik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Perth Festival, and Tongyeong International Music Festival. Louise has commissioned over 50 works, and her performances are acknowledged for their ‘dazzling vitality’, ‘interpretive flair and technical brilliance’. She has collaborated on international recordings with these ensembles and others including Speak Percussion and Synergy Percussion, released on Hat[now]art, Listen/Hear, Immediata, Innova and room40, as well as her debut album music for percussion and electronics (Tall Poppies).
Louise is Senior Research Fellow (ARC DECRA), Honours Coordinator and Percussion Coordinator at Monash University. She is a Churchill Fellow, and recently published her first book Global Percussion Innovations: An Australian Perspective (2019). Her academic writing focuses on Australian music, gender and music, notation and performance practices in new music.
www.louisedevenish.com.au
Research interests
Contemporary music performance practice
Percussive arts
Australian music
Notation
Improvisation
Music and gender
Collaborative creativity
Monash teaching commitment
Honours Coordinator
Percussion Coordinator
Research Supervision
Community service
Percussive Arts Society: New Music/Research Committee
Perth Symphony Orchestra: Artistic Advisory Board
Education/Academic qualification
Music performance, DMA
External positions
Artistic Advisor, Perth Symphony Orchestra
2020 → …
Co-director, Intercurrent
2016 → …
Core artist, Decibel New Music
2013 → …
Senior Lecturer, Chair of Percussion, University of Western Australia
2013 → 2019
Research area keywords
- Music Performance
- Australian music
- Percussion
- Post-instrumental music
- Experimental music
- Contemporary music
- Artistic research
- Graphic notation
- Practice-led research
Network
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Climate Notes: national tour of Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Tasmania
9/01/22 → 1/02/23
Project: Research
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Diversifying Music in Australia: Gender Equity in Jazz and Improvisation
Burke, R., S. Barrett, M., Hall, C., Hope, C., Devenish, L. & Canham, N.
23/11/20 → 22/11/23
Project: Research
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The role of post-instrumental practice in twenty-first century music
Australian Research Council (ARC)
17/02/20 → 19/06/23
Project: Research
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Decibel as part of the Australia/UK Season
Hope, C., Devenish, L. & Wyatt, A.
1/08/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Instrumental infrastructure: sheet materials, gesture and musical performance
Devenish, L., Apr 2022, Embodied Gestures. Vienna: TU WienResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other
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Cosmic Time
Devenish, L., Gleave, M. & Coles, A., 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Composition › Research
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Instrumental infrastructure, instrumental sculpture and instrumental scores: A post-instrumental practice
Devenish, L., 2021, In: Music and Practice. 9, 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
Substrate Surface
Devenish, L., Hui-Hsin Hsieh, A. & Cottrell, C., 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
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Decibel telematic performances
Hope, C., Devenish, L. & Wyatt, A., 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Music Performance › Research
Prizes
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ABC Classic FM 'Forty Under Forty'
Devenish, Louise (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards: Performance of the Year
Devenish, Louise (Recipient), 8 Sep 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards: WA Performance of the Year
Devenish, Louise (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards: WA Performance of the Year
Devenish, Louise (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards: WA State Luminary
Devenish, Louise (Recipient), 8 Sep 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Perth Symphony Orchestra: Artistic Advisory Panel
Louise Devenish (Fellow)
2020Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
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Percussive Arts Society: New Music/Research Committee member
Louise Devenish (Fellow)
2020Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
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WAM Con
Louise Devenish (Invited speaker)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Day of Percussion
Louise Devenish (Director)
2012 → 2020Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event