Colin Black
| Dr Colin Black is an internationally acclaimed composer and sound artist having won the
2015 New York Festivals award for sound art, the 2003 Prix Italia Award and being
shortlisted as a finalist in the Prix Phonurgia Nova (France), Prix Marulić (Croatia), Grand
Prix Nova (Romania), UK International Radio Drama Competition and the APRA
Professional Development Awards (Australia). Black has received multiple national and
international commissions to create innovative major works for installation, performance and
broadcast in Australian, USA and across Europe. Black’s curating credits include,
international festival/showcases of award winning Australian acoustic art and radio art at
London’s Resonance104.4fm, Kunstradio (ÖRF, Austria) and Toronto’s New Adventures In
Sound Art. Australian showcases include Black curating the 2016 Ear Drops: Sonic
Boundaries for ABC Radio National's (RN) Soundproof program, while in 2013 he was
invited to curate Sound Fix: Your Weekly Dose of Transmitted Audible Art series for ABC
Radio National’s Sound. Music. Word. program. Black completed his PhD at the University
of Sydney where he was a recipient of the University of Sydney Postgraduate Awards
Scholarship. More recently Black has been a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths,
University of London, guest lecturer at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, casual
academic lecturing at the University Technology, Sydney and is currently an adjunct lecturer
at Southern Cross. Black is also the founding member of The International Radio Art (and
Creative Audio for Trans-media) Research Group.
Reviews of Black’s work includes, “Enormously impressed. I’m not surprised you got gold at the New York Festivals” (Prof. Tim Crook, Goldsmiths), “Stunningly vivid and evocative sounds and voices woven together with real artistry” (John Biewen, Duke University) and "... lived up to the claim ... that here was a patchwork sonic quilt that can be passed down the generations” (Prix Italia Awards International Jury Report). Moreover, Prof. Seán Street, in his book The Poetry of Radio: The Colour of Sound, has described Black as a “key figure” in radio art and experimental sound based work. Awards, Fellowships, Scholarships (selection) • 2019 APRA Professional Development Awards, Finalist Art Music category • 2019 Prix Phonurgia Nova Award (France), Artist Residency, Finalist • 2018 UK International Radio Drama Competition, Shortlisted • 2015 New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards, Gold Medal, Sound Art Category • 2015 Visiting Research Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London • 2014 Art Music Award, Finalist in the category of Award for Excellence by an Organisation for 2013 activities contributed to Frequency Oz as curator, performer and composer  Broadcasts on ORF KUNSTRADIO: 26. 07. 2009: “Soundprints: The Prague Pressings”27. 05. 2012: „Soundprints: Sealed in Sweden” 03. 02. 2013: The Transmuted Signal - curated by Colin Black - A Frequency Oz series produced by Yanna Black 10. 02. 2013: The Transmuted Signal - curated by Colin Black - A Frequency Oz series produced by Yanna Black 03. 03. 2013: The Transmuted Signal - curated by Colin Black - A Frequency Oz series produced by Yanna Black 10. 03. 2013: The Transmuted Signal - curated by Colin Black - A Frequency Oz series produced by Yanna Black 19. 06. 2016: „Sliced and Diced“ 07. 08. 2016: „Sliced and Diced“ (REPLAY) 18. 06. 2017: „Soundprints as Memory” 15. 11. 2020: „Residue” |
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