Professor Richard Vella
Honorary Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (Music)
- Email:richard.vella@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5995
Exporting Australian songs that make the whole world sing
As Professor of Music in the School of Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle, Professor Richard Vella, is investigating the economic and cultural value of Australian music exports.
"From a cultural perspective Australia is a 'third world', in the sense that most of the cultural products we consume are imported," Richard explains.
He points to figures showing that trade in music related products - recorded media, music services and music instruments - accounts for 6.3% of Australian imports of cultural goods, yet realises only 2% of the $540 million of total cultural goods exports.
"Technological, economic and cultural changes necessitate a re-examining of the tangible and intangible value chains and their impact on the music industry export," Richard asserts.
A recent Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant, in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australasian Performing Rights Association, will allow Richard and his team to identify factors and functions that give music value, and aid music creation and export.
Richard will be working on this project with fellow chief investigators, Professor Stephen Chen from the Newcastle Business School and Associate Professor Shane Homan from Monash University, in league with an expert project team. The project will be managed by singer songwriter Tracy Redhead, project manager for the research group Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research (CeCAR).
"This is the first formal study of how Australian artists are developed internationally, be it through government, industry programs or their own initiative."
THE PUZZLE PIECES
The project has four aims. The first is to map and assess the value and efficacy of current Australian music export programs in relation to similar programs internationally.
The second aim is to assess trends and changes in music industry business models, which have resulted from changes in new media technologies that influence current and future models of artists' development.
Providing insight into the growth of local markets in Australian music within globalised processes and markets.
While the fourth aim is to analyse cultural and economic value creation in the global value chain of the music industry.
This massive project, which Richard refers to as 'complex', will begin with mapping out the role of the different participants in the Australian music industry value chain, plus the economic and cultural value of music exports.
The second stage, led by Richard, will document the strategies and practices of Australian artists, managers and industry as entrepreneurs.
A combination of secondary and primary data analyses will be used during the third stage to create a comparative analysis of international export organisations and models.
COMPOSING TALENT
A review of Richard's formidable experience in both the commercial music industry and tertiary music programs leaves little doubt that he will be an invaluable addition to the project team.
"I taught myself to play guitar when I was 16 or 17, after my mother won a guitar in a raffle. I realised pretty quickly that I like writing songs instead of learning other people's music," Richard recalls.
A successful career as a composer followed, with his diverse and award winning output including works for orchestra, large ensemble, choir, film, chamber music, burlesque cabaret, music theatre, site-specific performances, and popular music genres.
Richard went on to direct the music publication program with the commercial publisher Currency Press, Sydney, and was founding artistic director of Calculated Risks Opera Productions which developed innovative performance forms for music and theatre.
His own book 'Musical Environments: A Manual for Listening, Composing', has become a recognised text for secondary and tertiary music courses throughout Australia and has been reprinted for the northern hemisphere by publishers Boosey & Hawkes (UK).
TERTIARY TRIUMPHS
In the early nineties, Richard devised and implemented a groundbreaking inter-disciplinary music program in the arts and sciences at Macquarie University. Unfortunately it was ahead of its time as can be seen by the recent emergence of research platforms in arts and science across Australia.
Substantial positions within the music faculties at La Trobe University and Queensland University of Technology followed.
Richard came to Newcastle as Chair and Professor of Music in 2007. He was head of the school for creative arts from 2008 to 2013.
His experience in both the commercial music industry and tertiary education sector made him the perfect candidate to overhaul the music program, bringing a clear focus on musical diversity whilst maintaining excellence. Music is fundamentally a social and performance activity. These two attributes underpin communication, creativity and the development of new technologies in music. Our BMus students have the opportunity to explore any of these for a career in music.
"The program is modelled on three skills that the The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said that every graduate would need to have, regardless of their qualification," he explains.
"And that is to be creative, to be collaborative and to work with technology. The students love it. We now have one of the lowest attrition rates across the University."
These student experiences provide an important reference to understanding the link between an undergraduate music degree and the production of a viable export music industry product.
From 2008 – 2013 Richard was Chair of the National Council of Tertiary Music Schools (NACTMUS) and in that position he had a privileged overview to the state of the tertiary education sector in Australia and internationally. He is currently Director of Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research at the University of Newcastle.
CeCAR brings together national and international researchers in the creative arts, humanities, sciences, health and social sciences with external collaborators in the community, industry, other universities and institutes.
As well as creating and initiating collaborative projects in pure and applied research, CeCAR is a production and publishing house environment in which projects are facilitated, developed and disseminated.
REASSESSING SUCCESS
Despite his intensive experience in so many facets of the music industry, Richard is open to this new project challenging his beliefs in what creates export success.
"I don't claim to understand it all, it's just that I come from that background and want to work out what can we identify," Richard clarifies.
"There are so many factors and questions to consider. Is it based on luck? Is it about the people that you know? What are and how do the new business models via the internet, increase markets?"
"What is the role and function of a venue now? What is the function of an audience, how do all those things lock in?"
"And if you only talk about economic value, what does that mean? It's also important to look at the role of cultural value and what makes people put money into something."
Richard is well aware that most innovations in music result from process and experimentation. Musicians "just love playing and exploring new sounds" in the first instance. Finding a purpose and context for these sounds comes second.
"How effective is our government at nurturing cultural and economic talent through funding the development, support and promotion?"
"How favourably does that compares to other countries using other models, and how can we make people from overseas want to buy Australian?"
The project will provide the empirical and cultural evidence of how such forms of cultural funding assist musicians, labels and related networks. This is why the collaboration with the Australian Council for Arts is important.
Outputs will include a detailed picture of the interrelationships between industry sectors, state governments and federal government inputs; and related recommendations on how to best promote national artists.
"This covers all types of music, not just the rock, but classical, all kinds. We can make educated guesses, but this project will identify if there is a mechanism, or formula, that leads to success."
"And if there is a mechanism, policy can be built around it."
Exporting Australian songs that make the whole world sing
As Professor of Music in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Newcastle, Professor Richard Vella, is investigating the economic and cultural value o
Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research
Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research (CeCAR) is a newly launched research group within the Faculty of Education and Arts at The University of Newcastle.
CeCAR brings together national and international researchers in the creative arts, humanities, sciences, health and social sciences with external collaborators in the community, industry, other universities and institutes.
CeCAR Director, Professor Richard Vella, said CeCAR provides an interface for artists outside the university to collaborate with researchers in the creative arts, sciences, social sciences, humanities and health.
"From an interdisciplinary perspective, expertise from diverse disciplines combined with the creative arts can produce new outputs and models of understanding in the science, technology and humanities disciplines. They can also generate exciting new art works based on this research, "Professor Vella said.
"Research in haptics, interactivity, digital environments, robotics, communication and cognition are just some examples of fields that can include creative arts research."
Two successful projects already undertaken by CeCAR include:
- Supanova, a rich media peer review annotation software environment for the presentation and discussion of research in the creative arts.
- The Space Time Concerto competition featuring an internet-linked ensemble spanning five countries.
For more information visit CeCAR.
Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research
Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research (CeCAR) is a newly launched research group within the Faculty of Education and Arts
Career Summary
Biography
Born in Melbourne, 1954, Vella's diverse output includes works for orchestra, large ensemble, choir, film, chamber music, burlesque cabaret, music theatre, site-specific performances, and popular music genres.
Many of his works are now recognised as set repertoire such as his 'Tango', for clarinet, and the guitar solos 'Between Earth and Air' and 'Mirrors of Fire'. His film credits include 'Light Years', 'Parklands', 'Renzo Piano: piece by piece' (for which he won the 1999 Australian Screen Composer's Award for best music for a documentary) and 'Mr. Strehlow's Films'. His feature film music score 'Travelling Light' (2003) received the nomination 'Best Music for a feature Film' by the Australian Film Institute. Recent works have been 'The A to Z of Spiritual Music: a user's guide', commissioned by The Seymour Group (2006) http://www.abc.net.au/classic/spiritual his co-production of the Warners international release of the Ten Tenor's album 'Larger than Life' (2003) and a revised version of his music theatre work 'Tales of Love' (2002). Vella was founding artistic director of Calculated Risks Opera Productions.
Calculated Risks has premiered three of his major works, 'Tales of Love' (1991/2002), 'The Last Supper' (1993) and 'Bodysongs: the Fatman Tour' (1998). These works have toured nationally and internationally in various formats. Publications discussing his performance work are 'Arias: Recent Australian Music Theatre' (Redhouse Editions, 1997) and 'The Oxford Dictionary of Australian Music' (Bebbington Warren (Ed), Oxford University Press, 1998). He has been invited to be Visiting and Consulting Professor of Music to many institutions in the areas of research and undergraduate curriculum development.
Between 1992 and 1996 Vella devised and implemented an interdisciplinary postgraduate and undergraduate music program within the School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics at Macquarie University. From 1989 to 2001, Richard was director and commissioning editor for music with Currency Press, Sydney. In this capacity he solicited and oversaw many books and publications on print music,recordings, manuals, and scholarly works. His own book 'Musical Environments: A Manual for Listening, Composing', originally published by Currency Press, has become a recognised text for secondary and tertiary music courses throughout Australia. In 2003, a new edition of this book entiltled 'Sounds in Space Sounds in Time' was published by Boosey and Hawkes, UK. He is currently Chair and Professor of Music and Head of School, Drama, Fine Art and Music at the University of Newcastle. Richard Vella is Chair of the National Council of Tertiary Music Schools (NACTMUS) and sits on many advisory groups concerned with tertiary education in the creative and performing arts.
Research Expertise
- Drama, Theatre and Performance studies - Music Composition - Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Collaborations
Richard Vella's research interests are interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary. His main research focus is on modelling, metaphor, hermeneutics and creative thinking across diverse knowledge domains. In particular he is interested in the role of creative practice in the construction of models.
Qualifications
- Master of Arts (Music), La Trobe University
Keywords
- Music composition
- Performing arts
- Theatre
- film music
- hermeneutics and creative practice
- music theatre
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
Title | Organisation / Department |
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Professor - Music | University of Newcastle School of Creative Arts Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/5/2006 - 1/12/2006 | Acting Head of Music and Sound Discipline | Queensland University of Technology Australia |
1/1/2002 - 1/7/2007 | Adjunct Professor in Music | Queensland University of Technology Australia |
1/7/1996 - 1/2/1997 | Professor and Chair of Music | La Trobe University Australia |
Membership
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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Member - National Council for Tertiary Music Schools (NACTMUS) | NACTMUS (National Council for Tertiary Music) Australia |
Professional appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/1/2000 - | Professional Composer | Freelance Music Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (2 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | |||||
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2021 |
Chen S, Homan S, Redhead T, Vella R, The Music Export Business: Born Global, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 228 (2021) [A1]
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Nova | ||||||
2003 | Vella R, Sounds in Space, Sounds in Time, Boosey and Hawkes, London, UK, 240 (2003) [A4] | Nova |
Chapter (3 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | |||||
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2015 |
Vella R, English H, 'Embedding Creative and Critical Thinking in Performance Studies - The Challenge', Assessment in Music Education: From Policy to Practice, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland 141-151 (2015) [B1]
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Nova | ||||||
2012 | Vella RJ, 'Thoughts on the training of a music student at university level', Sound Musicianship: Understanding the Crafts of Music, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 357-368 (2012) [B2] | |||||||
2003 | Vella R, 'Tertiary Music Education since 1988', , Currency Press, Sydney, NSW Australia (2003) [B2] |
Journal article (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2018 | Vella R, 'Tertiary music education in a post-digital world', NTRO: Non Traditional Research Outcomes, (2018) |
Conference (6 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||||||||
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2019 | Vella R, 'The creative arts in higher education: 6 provocations', The creative arts in higher education: 6 provocations, Conference was on line (2019) | ||||||||||
2018 |
Studley T, Vella R, Scott NB, Nesbitt K, 'A Definition of Creative-Based Music Games', ACSW '18 Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (2018) [E1]
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Nova | |||||||||
2015 |
Vella R, Scott NB, 'Making Music Beyond Their Time: Training Musicians for a Future Workforce', ASME XXth National Conference Proceedings, Adelaide (2015) [E1]
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Nova | |||||||||
2013 |
Vella RJ, Walsh L, Scott NB, Redhead T, 'A Report on Collaborative Music Making at the University of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music', Redefining the musical landscape: Inspired learning and innovation in music education - XIX National Conference Proceedings, Canberra (2013) [E1]
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Nova | |||||||||
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Creative Work (20 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||||
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2016 | Vella RJ, Let's Dance (with Handel), Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music (2016) [J1] | Nova | |||||
2016 | Vella RJ, Let's dance (with Handel), Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle (2016) | ||||||
2015 | Vella RJ, The A to Z of Spiritual Music, a user's guide (concert version), St Ignatius Catholic Church, Toowong, Qld (2015) | ||||||
2013 | Vella RJ, Eluard P, Rabindranath T, Hildegard, Unending Love, The Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2013) [J2] | Nova | |||||
2013 | Vella RJ, Vella RJ, Let's Dance, Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2013) [J2] | Nova | |||||
2012 |
Vella RJ, Gabrielli G, Scott N, Redhead T, In Ecclesiis - a global performance, Harold Lobb Concert Hall, University of Newcastle & Deep Space, Ars Electronica, Linz, Australia (2012) [J1]
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Nova | |||||
2008 | De Aragon C, Moore I, Vella RJ, Scott-Mitchell A, Scott N, Wasted: Back to the City, backtothecity.com.au, Newcastle, NSW (2008) [J2] | ||||||
2008 |
Vella R, Hendrix J, Purple Haze (Vocal arrangement), Australia, Sydney (2008) [J1]
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Other (6 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2014 | Vella RJ, 'Metaphor, Analogy, Music and the Interdisciplinary', . Melbourne: Musicological Society of Australia (2014) | ||||
2012 | Vella RJ, 'The Rhapsode goes to University: a discussion of Plato s Ion in relation to creative arts research.', . Canberra (2012) | ||||
2012 |
Vella RJ, Drummond J, 'Mathematics, Music, Visualisation & Creative Thinking', . Canberra (2012)
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Report (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2019 | Vella R, Chen S, Homan S, Redhead T, 'Born Global: Australian Music Exports', Australia Research Council, 309 (2019) |
Thesis / Dissertation (3 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2020 | Cummings K, Wiring the Singer. Classical Voice and the Microphone, The University of Newcastle (2020) | ||
2019 | Besseny A, Folksonomy vs. Taxonomy in the Celestial Jukebox: What Does Folksonomy Achieve in Music Streaming?, The University of Newcastle (2019) | ||
2014 | Tracy D, Acoustic Phenomena as a Model for Music Composition, The University of Newcastle (2014) |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 5 |
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Total funding | $421,845 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20201 grants / $70,000
Media and Entertainment Research Centre (MERCury) establishment program$70,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr Simon Weaving (Lead); A/Prof Craig Hight; Dr Simone O'Callaghan; Dr Jane Shadbolt; Dr Ben Matthews; Dr Stuart McBratney; Mr Jack McGrath; Dr Zi Siang See; Claire Pasvolsky; Karen Nobes; Prof Richard Vella. |
Scheme | Research Programs Pilot Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20153 grants / $326,845
The economic and cultural value of Australian music exports$236,845
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Professor Richard Vella, Professor Stephen Chen, Associate Professor Shane Homan, Ms Millie Millgate, Homan, Shane, Millgate, Millie |
Scheme | Linkage Projects |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | G1401340 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
The economic and cultural value of Australian music exports$60,000
Funding body: Australasian Performing Rights Association Ltd
Funding body | Australasian Performing Rights Association Ltd |
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Project Team | Professor Richard Vella, Professor Stephen Chen, Associate Professor Shane Homan, Ms Millie Millgate, Homan, Shane, Millgate, Millie |
Scheme | Linkage Projects Partner Funding |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | G1401498 |
Type Of Funding | C3100 – Aust For Profit |
Category | 3100 |
UON | Y |
The economic and cultural value of Australian music exports$30,000
Funding body: Australia Council for the Arts
Funding body | Australia Council for the Arts |
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Project Team | Professor Richard Vella, Professor Stephen Chen, Associate Professor Shane Homan, Ms Millie Millgate, Homan, Shane, Millgate, Millie |
Scheme | Linkage Projects Partner Funding |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | G1401499 |
Type Of Funding | C2200 - Aust Commonwealth – Other |
Category | 2200 |
UON | Y |
20141 grants / $25,000
ERF Teaching Relief - English$25,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Helen English, Professor Richard Vella |
Scheme | Equity Research Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | G1301347 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2023 | Masters | The Session Guitarist as a Collaborator and Arranger in the Analogue and Digital Eras of Recording | M Philosophy (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2023 | PhD | Appropriating Classical Music in Popular Music | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Revelations of Composer Self: A Hermeneutic Study of Fifteen Australian Composers | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Collaboration in Experimental Art: Case Studies in Co-creation, Transdisciplinarity and Art-Science Practice at Ars Electronica Futurelab | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Wiring the Singer. Classical Voice and the Microphone | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | The Piano Works of Raymond Hanson: Discovery, Exploration and Reflection | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Dynamic Music the Implications of Interactive Technologies on Popular Music Making | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | “We Need to Put the Arts on the Map!”– Exploring the Perspectives of Primary Educators about the Teaching of the Arts in Australian Primary Schools | PhD (Education), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | Folksonomy vs. Taxonomy in the Celestial Jukebox: What Does Folksonomy Achieve in Music Streaming? | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | ORI* On the Aesthetics of Folding and Technology | PhD (Fine Art), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | An Extravagant Burlesque: 19th-Century Blackface Minstrelsy and Its Contemporary Revival | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | An Interpretive Model for Conceptual Music | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Interpretation and Aporias: Perspectives from a Classical Musician in the 21st Century | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2016 | PhD | Music as a Resource for World-Building in Newcastle, NSW and its Townships, 1869-1879 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2016 | PhD | The Indigenous Music of East Timor and its Relationship to the Social and Cultural Mores and Lulik Worldview of its Autochthonous People | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Symmetry and Symmetry Reduction in Music | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Towards Maximal Convergence: the Relationship Between Composition, Performance, and Production in Realtime Software Environments | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | Masters | Towards an Aesthetic of Groove | M Philosophy (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | The Polysynchronous Film Score: The Relationship between Music and Image/Narrative in Contemporary Scores for Silent Film | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2014 | Masters | Acoustic Phenomena as a Model for Music Composition | M Philosophy (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2014 | PhD | Music in Context: An Exploration of Music and Dramaturgy | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2013 | Masters | A Study Examining the ICT Literacy Levels of Music Educators in the New South Wales Department of Education and Training | M Arts (Music) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2009 | Masters | Developing Twenty-First Century Art Music Repertoire | M Creative Arts (Music) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2008 | Masters | The Maturing Trumpeter: An Insight to the Physicality, Mentality and Practicality of the Twenty First Century Performing Trumpeter | M Creative Arts (Music) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Research Projects
The economic and cultural value of Australian Music Exports 2016 - 2019
This research project investigated the nature and characteristics of Australian music exports within the context of globalization and digitization, and the contexts and processes involved in the creation of a music export’s cultural value and economic value, using qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Some of the questions and objectives of the research include the following:
(i) To map and assess the value and efficacy of current Australian music export programs in relation to similar programs internationally;
(ii) To assess trends and changes in music industry business models resulting from changes in new media technologies that influence current and future models of artists’ development;
(iii) Provide insight into the growth of local markets in Australian music within globalised processes and markets; and
(iv) Analyse cultural and economic value creation in the global value chain of the music industry.
Research collaborators include Prof. Richard Vella, School of Creative Arts, University of Newcastle and Associate Prof. Shane Homan, School of Film, Media and Journalism, Monash University. Research partners are Sounds Australia (the national music export scheme), APRA (the Australasian Performing Rights Association) and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Stage 1 of the project led by Professor Stephen Chen will assess the economic and cultural contribution of the Australian music export industry and map the role of the different participants in the Australian music industry value chain using data from a survey and interviews with music industry participants.
Interim Report to Parliamentary Inquiry
An interim report of the project findings has been provided to the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Australian Music Industry :
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Communications/Australianmusicindustry/Report
Report to Industry
A report of the key findings from the research has been published and distributed to key music industry professionals and government.
A copy is available on the website of the Australia Council for the Arts: https://australiacouncil.gov.au/research/born-global/
Grants
The economic and cultural value of Australian music exports
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Homan, Shane, Millgate, Millie, Professor Richard Vella, Professor Stephen Chen, Associate Professor Shane Homan, Ms Millie Millgate |
Scheme | Linkage Projects |
Collaborators
Name | Organisation |
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Shane Homan | Monash University |
Professor Richard John Vella | University of Newcastle |
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Research Collaborations
The map is a representation of a researchers co-authorship with collaborators across the globe. The map displays the number of publications against a country, where there is at least one co-author based in that country. Data is sourced from the University of Newcastle research publication management system (NURO) and may not fully represent the authors complete body of work.
Country | Count of Publications | |
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Australia | 15 | |
United Kingdom | 1 |
News
News • 12 Jul 2019
New research highlights Australian music’s global export value and strong international success
The Australian music industry makes an estimated $195 million from international markets each year according to a ground-breaking report led by researchers from the University of Newcastle, which examines the cultural and economic value of Australian music exports.
News • 17 Jul 2015
ARC project to assist Australian music industry
The University of Newcastle (UON) has been awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project funding to research the economic and cultural value of Australian music exports.
News • 6 Mar 2014
Research Seminar Series
The University of Newcastle's Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research (CeCAR) is proud to present an exciting new Research Seminar Series featuring cutting-edge research and creative perspectives on social and aesthetic issues.
Professor Richard Vella
Position
Honorary Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
Music
Contact Details
richard.vella@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 5995 |
Fax | (02) 4921 8958 |
Office
Room | CON.3.17 |
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Building | The Conservatorium |
Location | The Conservatorium Cnr Laman and Auckland Street Newcastle, NSW 2300 Australia |