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What sparks creativity for you?
The exploration of emergent structures through improvisation and composition.
Dr. Martin Kay is a saxophonist, clarinetist and composer based in Brisbane. He performs in many ensembles creating original music. Some of these groups are Continuum saxophone quartet, The Fantastic Terrific Munkle, Song Fwaa, and his most recent project, Forage, which explores the intersection of through composition and improvisation, drawing on modern classical forms and individual performer styles.
Martin currently teaches classical saxophone at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. His compositions are published at Reed Music. in 2020, He graduated with Doctor of Musical Arts (composition) from Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Claire Edwardes
Ember Sounds | My Medium: Percussion | My Hometown: Sydney
Daniel Holland
Ember Sounds | My Medium: Piano | My Hometown: Sydney, Australia
Andrew Scott
Ember Sounds | My Medium: Jazz Piano | My Hometown: Sydney
Paul Mac
Ember Sounds | My Medium: Over the years I have focussed on techno and dance/pop as a songwriter, remixer and producer. More recently this has expanded to contemporary dance and theatre scores and writing more abstract, electronic music. I enjoy bringing a techno sensibility to whatever medium it works within | My Hometown: Newtown, Sydney
Martin Kay
Ember Sounds | My Medium: My background is eclectic, though practically governed by things involving plenty of saxophone, like saxophone quartet and modern improvisation. My composition welds these diverse interests together to frame my playing | My Hometown: Brisbane
Hamed Sadeghi
Ember Sounds | My Medium: Music | My Hometown: Tehran, Iran
Sam Golding
Ember Sounds | My Medium: Music-making | My Hometown: Sydney, Australia
Erin Helyard
Ember Sounds | My Medium: Music | My Hometown: Gosford, NSW
Bukhu Ganburged
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: A morin Khuur ( Horse head fiddle ) and Khuumii ( Throat singing ) | Hometown: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Julia Russioniello
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: Historical violin | Hometown: Nundle
Jason Noble
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: Music | Hometown: Sydney
Jane Sheldon
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: Music. Specifically voice (channelled most often into contemporary chamber opera) and composition | Hometown: Sydney. My sense of home is a confusing split between Australia and the US
Ian Cleworth
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: I’m a musician with percussion and taiko at/in my heart | Hometown: Sydney is home, but a small place called Kadina is my hometown (long time ago, though)
Murilo Tanyoue
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: I’m a guitarist and a lover of all things guitar related | Hometown: Raraquara is a small town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Andrew Goodwin
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: Music | Hometown: Sydney
The Tango Saloon
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: Music | Hometown: Sydney
Jessica O'Donoghue
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: contemporary opera, new music and dramatic pop | Hometown: Sydney
Dan Russell
Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: The violin & artistic director of Phoenix Collective | Hometown: Canberra though previously lived and worked in Sydney, Central Coast and Perth
Richard Cilli
SPACE ACTION, Ember Sounds, Behind Doors | My Medium: My body and the space it occupies | Hometown: Perth, WA
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