In OUR MUSIC there are various groupings of collaborating subjects :
This process is clearly demonstrated in the collaborations of Paul Grabowsky and the Indigenous Waligah singers in their Crossing Roper Bar486 projects.
The Stuart sound was my ‘transformative’ instrument. My use of the Stuart piano mediated my internalised conventions of playing the modern piano, into the new externalized output. My internalised playing styles and methods of analysis of the new instrument’s sound qualities enabled me to identify particular new sounds in the Stuart soundscape. These sounds are used in the externalized pianistic collaboration with the Indigenous conventions culminating into the new form of the collaborative output. The inherited cultural conventions that belong to the Indigenous musicians of meeting and sharing music as a system of exchange 487 are internalized cultural practices. The collaborations with my pianistic discoveries affects a change in theirs, and a new form of Indigenous music eventuates.
The collaborating students are directed by internalized teaching philosophies and education systems. Their cross-cultural exchange produces new outcomes that change their musical outputs and experiences. The teaching philosophies are also informed and changed by the new music produced by the collaborations.
486Renaissance on the Roper: April 30 2009 http://www.news.com.au/national/renaissance-on-the-roper/story-e6frfkp9-1225705191868; http://www.aao.com.au AAO Crossing Roper Bar performer profiles.
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487Lancelot E.Threlkeld, (Reverend) An Australian Grammar, Comprehending the Principles and Natural Rules of the Language as Spoken by the Aborigines in the Vicinity of Hunter’s River, Lake Macquarie and New South Wales (Sydney: Stephen & Stokes,1834 ),90. and see : Skinner, G. (2011)”Toward a General History of Australian Musical Composition- First National Music 1788-1860.” The University Of Sydney,p.66 ; andThe Sydney Gazette (16July1836),2:http://nla.gov.au/nla.newsSarticle2205490O!The!Perth!Gazette!(3December1836),1810:http://nla.gov.au/nla.newsSarticle640187.
