Philippa Cullen: Dancing the music

Leonardo Music Journal

Volumn 14, Issue , 2004, Pages 64-73

  Jones, Stephen ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

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EID: 29144439477     PISSN: 09611215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0961121043067307     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Michael Nyman, Experimental Music, Cage and Beyond (London: Studio Vista, 1974)
2. Cullen graduated in '1970 with a Bachelor of Arts. Jilba Wallace, "Philippa Cullen: A Life's Work," Writings on Dance 4 (Spring 1989) p. 9
3. Jacqui Carroll, in Jilba Wallace, Philippa Cullen: A Life's Work (videotape, 1976)
4. Philippa Cullen, "Application to the Australian Council for the Arts for assistance in 1971 / 1972" (1971), the Cullen Archive, College of Fine Arts (COFA) Library, Sydney
5. Philippa Cullen, "Towards a Philosophy of Dance," privately published (June 1973)
6. republished in Writings on Dance 4 (1989) pp. 19-25
7. A theremin circui t by Leo Simpson was published in Electronics Australia (June 1969)
8. Philippa Cullen, "Electronic Projects, 1970," in "Project 1973 Holland," report to the Australian Council for the Arts, dated 31 May 1973, the Cullen Archive, COFA Library
9. Philippa Cullen, manuscript notebook including her choreographic notes for Electronic Aspects, 1969. The Cullen Archive, COFA Library
10. Philippa Cullen, "Lecture/Demonstration Delivered to Rotterdam Dance Academy," November 1972. The Cullen Archive, COFA Library
11. Jacqui Carroll, "Philippa Cullen" (obituary), Sydney (September 1975), in Art Almanac (September-December 1975) (Ewing Gallery, Melbourne). In the University of Adelaide Archives, series 200
12. Maria Prerauer, "Probing into New Dimensions," review of AZ Music's Sound Ventures series performance by the group Teletopa, which included a perfor mance of Utter, in The Australian (23 April 1972) p. 22
13. Geoffrey Barnard, conversation with the author, Bondi Junction, 21 November 2003
14. Geoffrey Barnard, "AZ It Was," New Music Articles 7 (1989);
15. The name derives from the Greek, roughly: the distant source of ideas; see Barnard [20]
16. David Gyger, "Silhouettes on the Very Edge of Musical Experience," review of AZ Music's Sound Ventures I & II in The Australian (18 April 1972) p. 10
17. Greg Schiemer, "Greg Schiemer," biographical note in John Jenkins, ed., 22 Contemporary Australian Composers (Melbourne: NMA Publications, 1988). Also available at
18. Philippa Cullen, "Philippa's Electronic Dance Ensemble," report to the Australian Council for the Arts (1972), the Cullen Archive, COFA Library. Note: The pedestal aerial theremin very much resembles Theremin's Terpsitone, although it is unlikely that anyone in Cullen's ensemble would have known of it
19. Beth Dean, "Experiments in the Sound of Body Movement," Sydney Morning Herald (28 July 1972) p. 20
20. review of Philippa's Dance Ensemble presentation of Homage to Theremin II at International House, 26 July 1972
21. Cullen in Schiemer [29]
22. Philippa Cullen, draft copy of the Report to the Australian Council for the Arts (1973), the Cullen Archive, COFA Library
23. A variation of this idea reappears some years later in the development of 3DIS and its use by Warren Burt. See Warren Burt, "The 3DIS System," Sounds Australian 19 (1988) pp. 27-33
24. Michael Kurtz, Stockhausen: A Biography, Richard Toop, trans. (London: Faber & Faber, 1992) p. 196
25. Philippa Cullen, "A Programme for Dance," catalogue, programme of the seminars, One Central Street, Sydney, 1-11 July 1974, the Cullen Archive, COFA Library
26. Manford L. Eaton, Bio-Music (Barton, VT: Something Else Press, 1974)
27. See Stephen Jones, "Synthetics: A History of the Electronically Generated Image in Australia," Leonardo 36, No. 3, 187-195 (2003)
28. I.D.G. MacLeod and C.J. Ellyard, "The Computer Arts - Reflections on 'Australia 75,'" Proceedings of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (Digital Equipment Computer Users Society) Melbourne, Australia, August 1975
29. See MacLeod and Ellyard [49]
30. Philippa Cullen, "Activities and Impressions," in her report to the Australian Council for the Arts on the "City for Sculpture," the 6th Mildura Sculpture Triennial (1975), the Cullen Archive, COFA Library