ROS BANDT

Dr Ros Bandt is an internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, musician, researcher and scholar. Since 1977 she has pioneered interactive sound installations, sound sculptures, and created sound playgrounds, aeolian harps spatial music systems, and some 40 sound installations worldwide. She has curated many sound performances, exhibitions and events. Her original works are recorded on New Albion Records (USA), Move Records (Melbourne), EMI/ABC, Wergo (Germany), Ars Acoustica, Double Moon (Turkey), Pozitif Müzik Yapim, Hearing Places, Sonic Gallery and Bedroom Suck Records. She has released over a dozen albums.

In 1990 Bandt won the Don Banks Composers Award, being the first woman to do so. Other awards include the inaugural Benjamin Cohen Peace Prize in the USA, and the Sound Art Australia Prize funded by the ABC and the Goethe Institute. She has been commissioned by the Paris Autumn festival, the Studio of Acoustic Art, WDR-Cologne, Centrum Ujadowsky Warsaw, Transit and ORF Vienna and was one of the six exquisites in the International Sound Art Festival in the USA. In 2019 she was commissioned by the Melbourne Recital Centre for their 10th birthday.

Ros Bandt is a multi-instrumentalist and has been a founding member of many ensembles and collaborations including the early music ensemble la Romanesca, the cross-cultural Back to Back Zithers, the improvisatory LIME, and the baroque trio Trio Avium. She is an expert recorder player and teacher having studied in Basel Switzerland with Andreas Küng, in Spain with Baldrick Deerenberg, and in Australia with Ruth Wilkinson. She is a passionate advocate of the long necked tarhu, a bowed spike fiddle invented by Australian luthier Peter Biffen. For a decade she has collaborated internationally with this instrument culminating in a double CD 'Tarhu Connections', available through Hearing Places website. Her CD and bandcamp catalogue is at Hearing Places.

Bandt is a prolific writer on sound and her book, Sound Sculpture: Intersections in Sound and Sculpture in Australian Artworks, (Fine Arts Press) is the first audio visual profile of Australian sound art. She is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she directs The Australian Sound Design Project, the first online sound art gallery, searchable data-base and web site merging sound art practice with academic research. Since 2019, she has taught advanced improvisation for the masters in musical composition course at Box Hill Institute. She is in demand as a keynote speaker on sound, here and internationally.

ALBUMS
'Improvisations In Acoustic Chambers' 1981 Move
'Soft And Fragile' 1983 Move 
'Stargazer' 1989 Move
'Footsteps' 1993 Move
'Glass And Clay' 1995 Move
'Stack' 2001 Move
'Isobue' 2008 Sonic Gallery
'Black Falcon' [with Erdem Helvacioğlu] 2011 Pozitif Müzik Yapım
'Bluegold' [with Leah Barclay] 2011 Hearing Places
'Jaara Jaara Seasons' 2013 Sonic Gallery
'Tarhu Connections' 2016 Hearing Places

References

bio — Ros Bandt sounding spaces