Linda Barwick is a musicologist, specialising in the study of Australian Indigenous and immigrant musics and in the digital humanities (particularly archiving and repatriation of ethnographic field recordings as a site of interaction between researchers and cultural heritage communities). Linda has studied community music practices through fieldwork in Australia, Italy and the Philippines. Themes of her research include analysis of musical action in place, the language of song, and the aesthetics of cross-cultural musical practice. She also publishes on theoretical issues, including analysis of non-Western music, and research implications of digital technologies.
Andrea L. Berez is an assistant professor in the department of linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where she teaches in the language documentation and conservation track. She is also the director of Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai‘i digital language archive, and the current president of DELAMAN, the Digital Endangered Languages and Music Archiving Network. Her current linguistic fieldwork is in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Catherine Bow is a linguist with experience in both descriptive and applied linguistics, currently working as project manager for the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages at Charles Darwin University.
Rona (Googninda) Charles (Ngarinyin/Nyigina) is a cultural, natural-resource and research consultant and advisor based in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia. Rona has worked extensively on the Junba Project as a facilitator and researcher, and has presented the results of the project in arts, health, and language forums in Australia and Canada.
Michael Christie worked between 1972 and 1982 at Milingimbi School in East Arnhem Land, where he was the first teacher linguist in the bilingual program. He was teacher linguist at Yirrkala School from 1986 until 1994, when he moved to Darwin to set up and coordinate the Yolngu Studies program at Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University). He is currently professor of education, heading up the Contemporary Indigenous Knowledge and Governance Research Group at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, and is a chief investigator in the development of the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages.
Brian Devlin has worked in two bilingual schools in East Arnhem Land: as teacher linguist at Yirrkala and as principal at Shepherson College on Elcho Island. He has been guest professor of Australian and Indigenous studies at the University of Köln, Germany, and visiting foreign expert at Xinghua University in Beijing. Designated an ‘expert of international standing’ by the Australian Research Council College of Experts in 2007, he is currently associate professor of bilingual education and applied linguistics at Charles Darwin University.
Andrea Emberly is an ethnomusicologist whose work focuses on the study of children’s musical cultures. She is currently assistant professor of children’s studies at York University in Toronto, Canada and honorary research fellow at the University of Western Australia. At present she is focused on two major research projects, one on initiation schools in Vhavenda communities in South Africa (SSHRC Insight Development) and another on language, music and education in remote communities in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (ARC Linkage).
Lelia Green is professor of communications in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, and director of the Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications (CREATEC). She is an active ethnographer with a range of nationally funded research projects. Lelia is a co-chief investigator on the Australian Research Council Linkage Grant that established the Western Australian New Music Archive.
Amanda Harris is research associate on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Intercultural Inquiry in a Trans-National Context’ at the University of Sydney and has worked with PARADISEC since 2003. Her current work focuses on intercultural Australian history, with a focus on cultural and gender histories. Her edited book Circulating Cultures: Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and Media was published by ANU Press in 2014, and other publications have appeared in Women and Music, Life Writing, Women’s History Review, History and Anthropology, and Lilith: A Feminist History Journal.
Cat Hope is an academic with an active profile as a composer, sound artist, soloist and in music groups based in Western Australia. She is the director of the award winning new music ensemble Decibel and has toured internationally. Her’s composition and performance practices focus on low-frequency sound, drone, graphic notation, noise and improvisation. Her works have been performed at festivals internationally and broadcast on Australian, German and Austrian radio. In 2013 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study digital music notations internationally. She is an associate professor at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.
Daniela Kaleva is a lecturer in music at the University of South Australia. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to music research, including research within the performative paradigm. Her main interests are plurimediality in opera and theatre, and the performance and production of baroque opera. She has co-edited a special issue of Musicology Australia on music performance and performativity (Vol. 36/2). Kaleva has qualifications in information management and systems and has worked in information roles at the ABC Sound Library and the State Library of Victoria, and research support roles at the University of Sydney and Deakin University.
Lisa MacKinney is a musician and historian who lived in Perth for eight years. During this time she was actively involved in the Western Australian experimental music community and worked as a project officer with ARC Linkage Partner the State Library of Western Australia. Lisa also liaised and collaborated with the other Western Australian New Music Archive industry partners (the National Library of Australia, ABC Radio Classic FM and Tura New Music) and laid the foundations for turning the Tura collection into an accessible new music archive.
Tos Mahoney is the founder and artistic director of Tura New Music and principal convenor of the Totally Huge New Music Festival, both based in Western Australia with a statewide reach. Tura’s music recordings and ancillary collections, stretching back over a quarter century, form the basis of the Western Australian New Music Archive. A musician himself of many years’ standing and a long-time colleague and collaborator with Cat Hope, Tos is a central figure in new music in Western Australia.
David Nathan is the language co-ordinator at the Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics at Batchelor Institute. Formerly the director of the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS University of London, he has 20 years’ experience in educational and computing support for Indigenous and endangered languages. He developed digital platforms and applications for language research, education and publication and has taught computing, linguistics, cognitive science, multimedia, language documentation and archiving. His publications include the textbook Australia’s Indigenous Languages, and papers on archiving, language documentation, audio, multimedia, lexicography and the internet. He has co-produced multimedia apps for several languages, and was co-author (with Peter Austin) of the web’s very first dictionary, for Gamilaraay in New South Wales.
Jennifer C. Post is an ethnomusicologist whose current work focuses on the production and use of musical instruments and on traditional ecological knowledge and music in Inner Asia. Her archival training has also enabled her to complete in-depth projects on the conservation, organisation, and representation of music and musical instruments in the United States, the Pacific and Africa. Currently teaching at the School of Music, University of Arizona, she is also honorary senior research fellow at the University of Western Australia.
Nicholas Thieberger wrote a grammar of South Efate, a language from central Vanuatu. In 2003 he helped establish the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures and is now its director. He is interested in developments in digital humanities methods and their potential to improve research practice for creation of reusable data sets from fieldwork on previously unrecorded languages. He is the editor of the journal Language Documentation and Conservation. He is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Meg Travers works as a digital archivist and is also a PhD candidate at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, researching the preservation of early electronic musical instruments and the role of archives and museums in this area. She is an active composer and performer of electronic music with her ensemble MotET.
Sally Treloyn is a research fellow in ethnomusicology at the University of Melbourne with expertise in the song traditions of the Kimberley and Pilbara, applied ethnomusicologies, musical analysis, and an interest in collaborative intercultural research methodologies. Sally currently leads three ARC-funded projects discovering ways to sustain the vitality of song traditions in northwestern Australia.
Peter Withers is a scientific software developer at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, where he developed the software applications Arbil and KinOath. He has also worked at the Radboud University Nijmegen, developing scientific mobile apps and experiment software within the artificial intelligence department and the, Centre for Cognition, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.