Boyd
Musician, Composer, Sound Artist curriculum vitae
www.burragorang.org boyd@burragorang.org
Ph. + 61 2 4888 9266 Mobile Ph. +61 427 275 389
Instruments: Bass, Baritone, Alto and Soprano Saxophones Bass and B Flat Clarinets
Selected Education and Training
1987 Diploma of Jazz Studies, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Selected Employment
1988- 2009, Music teacher, saxophone and clarinet, Normanhurst Boys High School and Mosman Church of England Preparatory School, Sydney
2009 Lecture, School of Art, Australian National University
2008 Guest lecturer, University of Newcastle
Selected installations with visual Artist Alison Clouston
2009 “Beaming” for “Wandering the Wollondilly” Goulburn NSW; “Adrift” The Muse, TAFE Institute, Sydney; BIRD CRY from the Grassy Box Woodlands Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
2008 BIRD CRY from the Grassy Box Woodlands, Goulburn Regional Gallery
2007 The World Tree for “Climate Changing Climate”, Goulburn Regional Gallery
& University of Sydney
2007 Adrift for “Grounded: Arts, Activism, Environment” Campbelltown Arts Centre
and Murray Darling Palimpsest, Mittagong
2005 Dawn Light International Artists Exhibition and Symposium (Installations Wake and Potamology) Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
2004-5 Ossature, Space3 Gallery, Sydney, & Bowen Galleries, New Zealand & Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
2002 Backburn. Radio broadcast commissioned by ABC Radio National
Selected Collaborative projects
2009 Spring Concert of original music by the Monday Club: Tony Gorman, Steve Morley and Boyd at Kammadhenu Sydney
2005 Performance and improvisation of live soundtrack with Jan Preston for silent film The Lost World (dir.Harry Hoyt, 1925) for The New Zealand Film Festival
2003 Sound of Bamboo 2 with visual artist Sue Pedley for the exhibition Reverb at Mai's Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Snake Sounds with artists Sue Pedley and Maureen Lander, Burragorang International Artists Workshop, NSW
2002 Sound of Bamboo 1 with Sue Pedley, Gallery 4A, Sydney
2001 Performance and improvisation of live soundtrack with Jan Preston for silent film The Lost World (dir.Harry Hoyt, 1925) for The 48th Sydney Film Festival 2001
1998 Workshopped and performed music for the play My Vicious Angel by playwright/ composer Christine Evans, Vitalstatistics Theatre Company, Adelaide Festival
& Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney 1999
1991 Performance and improvisation of live soundtrack with Jan Preston for silent film, So This Is Paris (director Ernst Lubitsch 1926), for 38th Sydney Film Festival
1995 Performance and improvisation of live soundtrack with Jan Preston for silent film A Girl of the Bush (directed by Franklyn Barrett, 1921) Hyde Park Barracks, for Historic Houses Trust NSW
Selected commissions
2002 Backburn sound piece with Alison Clouston, for ABC Radio National
2000-01 Magical Golland. Composition and sound installation for Historic Houses Trust, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney
1995 Co-composed and performed music with Jan Preston for silent film Aelita (dir. Yakov Protazanov, 1924), for the Australian Film Institute
1990 Co-composed and performed music with Jan Preston for silent film The Spy (dir. Fritz Lang, 1925) for the Australian Film Institute
Original compositions for Concert performances
2007 An Afternoon of Boyd Music performed by members of Mara! Sydney Conservatorium of Music
2004 S-Bend Brass and Accordion quartet.
1988 The Original Otto Orchestra saxophone quartet, Sydney venues & 1992 Melbourne Festival.
1994-2000 Brassov, group performing original music by Boyd and Kim Sanders
Original Composition for Theatre and Dance
2007 Wind Prayer Dance performance by Ji-eon Lee, with Boyd and Sam Golding
2005 The Mouse and His Child an adaptation of Russell Hoban’s novel as a puppet/music production (in development).
2000 Drum Horn Moot Performance combining live sculpture & music featuring The Original Otto Orchestra, Dhamor Percussion and artists Alison Clouston and Joris Everaerts.
2000 Decay music theatre with playwright Christine Evans
1990 Frankenstein's Shadow a theatre production by The People Next Door with seasons at the Canberra Playhouse and Sydney's Performance Space.
1988 Something Short Of A Picnic , performance with the Unley Youth Theatre & Alison Clouston, Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide Festival
1980's Music/Theatre productions with Sax and Violins Sydney venues & Adelaide Fringe Festival
Selected recordings of Boyd compositions
2002 Backburn Anthology of Australian Music on Disc My World, This Time CD ANU
1997 Chronic Rhythmosis, Brassov, CD Rufus Records
1996 A Recent Find Near The Glebe Point Road, The Original Otto Orchestra, CD Rufus Records
1989 The Original Otto Orchestra self titled Album/Cassette, Rufus Records
1990 The Spy (dir. Fritz Lang, 1925), original soundtrack for silent film, National Film and Sound Archives.
Other recordings
1997 Deep Down and Out, Jacky Orszacczky Budget Orchestra, CD Rufus Records
Selected Awards
2003 Australia Council for the Arts, NSW Ministry for the Arts, Grants for Burragorang International Artists' Workshop
Published Music scores
2009 The Martian National Anthem Reed Music, Australia
Original Soundtrack for Film
2001 Saying Goodbye short film director Terje Brand.
2000 The Brides of Khan, feature film directed by Safina Uberoi, commissioned for SBS TV.
Selected Bibliography
Tracey Clement “Sounds of Extinction” Sydney Morning Herald Metro, 28 Aug 2009
Tracey Clement “Profit and Loss” catalogue essay, Goulburn Regional Gallery, 2008
Clare Lewis “World Tree: sounds of a bigger picture” Alison Clouston and Boyd interviewed, Artlink, “Fuel for Thought” Volume 28, no. 1, 2008
‘Two Up, Alison Clouston and Boyd’, Australian Art Review, July – October 2007, pp 58–60
James Hancock, ‘Space3; An Australian Independent Creative Network 2000 – 2005’, Space3 Gallery, Sydney 2005 pp. 146 – 151