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20 May 2013

Tomorrow the team at West Space will bring an international art project by Japanese artist Risa Sato to the Victorian College of the Arts.

16 May 2013

Read the May edition of the VCA & MCM e-newsletter.

9 May 2013

A world-first study will investigate if singing ability is inherited in twins.
Led by the University of Melbourne with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Australian Twin Registry, the study will explore if it is nature or nurture that most influences whether we can sing a pitch-perfect tune.

8 May 2013

Dr Robert Vincs explores the transcendental possibilities of improvisational music on Upclose. Listen to the podcast here.

7 May 2013

A newly formed alliance of Australia's senior arts educators is calling on both sides of federal politics to urgently support increased funding to the tertiary arts sector.

3 May 2013

Dr Linda Kouvaras (Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the MCM) has just published Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age through Ashgate. The book is the major outcome of an ARC Discovery Grant. After contextualizing experimentalism from its inception in the early twentieth century, the book explores the ways in which selected sound art works demonstrate creatively how sound is embedded within local, national, gendered and historical environments.

2 May 2013

Lyrebird Press, at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, celebrates the past and future of Italy’s long presence in Australia’s musical landscape in this new book, volume 12 in the monograph series, Australasian Music Research.

24 April 2013

3MBS is excited to announce InsideOut – a new conversation initiative from the broadcaster, the Vision Australia Radio Network and the Community Radio Network in partnership with the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (VCA & MCM), at the University of Melbourne.

23 April 2013

The Australian short film Tau Seru, written, directed and produced by VCA graduate Rodd Rathjen (BFTV 2008; Honours 2010), has been selected in Competition at the 52nd Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week) in Cannes, which will run 16–24 May 2013.

19 April 2013

First Contact, directed by VCA student, Matthew Richards, rose above some tough competition at the 2013 Uni Shorts International Student Film Festival last weekend in Auckland to win the Postgraduate Fiction category while also winning the coveted Best Film Overall/Audience award.

19 April 2013

Congratulations to Dr Melanie Plesch, Lecturer in Musicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, who has been awarded the 2013 Barbara Falk Award for Teaching Excellence.

18 April 2013

Read the April edition of the VCA & MCM e-newsletter.