Jonathan Mustard : Associate Artist
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Jonathan Mustard was born in Sydney in 1959. He studied at the NSW Conservatorium of Music from 1978 with teachers such as Martin Wesley-Smith, Warren Burt, Don Banks, Gillian Whitehead and Graham Hair.
Since leaving the Conservatorium, he has gained a reputation as a composer with a wide variety of composition interests, ranging from standard concert works to 'guerilla music' - hit and run performances in public places.
Multi-media works, and works involving non-standard instruments form an important part in his repertoire, as does music theatre, dance and ideas from other disciplines.
He has been involved in exploring different applications of 'chaos theory' in music with a body of work under the general heading Chaos Works. Dynamical systems continue to inform many of the formal processes underlying pieces written since these earlier ones, such as the Robosax trilogy - performer/computer interactive, Sensorplay - audience participation pieces using computer synthesis and electronic/digital sensors.
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