Gordon Monro : Represented Artist
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Gordon Monro's early education was in mathematics and science; he
became a mathematician and taught at the University of Sydney for
many years, retiring in 2006.
Monro's first engagement with music was as a chorister. He began
composing seriously in 1989, working with Ian Fredericks, the
then director of the Sydney University Experimental Sound Studio.
He undertook formal study at the University of Sydney with Kirsty
Beilharz, also attending the composition workshop of Peter
Sculthorpe and Anne Boyd, and subsequently completed an M.Mus at
the Sydney Conservatorium with Anthony Hood.
Monro's work for his Master's had a substantial audiovisual
component, and since 2008 he has been working in visual art,
completing a PhD in Fine Art at Monash University in 2016 under
the supervision of Karen Burns, Bernard Hoffert and Vince
Dziekan.
Monro's main interest in both music composition and visual art
has been in writing computer programs to set up algorithmic and
generative processes, which create either a complete work or a
fragment of a larger work. His inspirations come in large part
from mathematics and science, realms with their own logic and
autonomy, transcending everyday human concerns. Monro's
compositions include pieces for instrument and tape, for tape
alone, and for live electronics, and a number of videos with
sound. His work in visual art has resulted in digital prints and
computer-based installations that run in real time.
Monro's musical works have been performed in Europe, Asia, North
America, Australia and New Zealand, and broadcast nationally on
ABC Radio. His tape piece Dry Rivers was awarded an
honourable mention in the 1996 Prix Ars Electronica (Linz,
Austria); his piece The Voice of the Phoenix (2) for
bass flute or contrabass flute and tape was joint prize-winner at
the First Australian Flute Composition Competition (Brisbane,
1999) and was selected as an ISCM recommended work for the ISCM
World Music Days in Romania in 1999. In 2007 his video
Dissonant Particles was selected for the inaugural
Visual Music Marathon in Boston, U.S.A.
In visual art Monro has held a number of solo exhibitions in
Melbourne and Ballarat (where he is based) and twice been a
finalist in the Fremantle Print Award. In 2016-17 his real-time
installation Nanocosm was shown at Stephen McLaughlan
Gallery, Melbourne, at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and at the
2016 International Generative Art Conference, Florence,
Italy.
Gordon Monro — current to January 2018