The Creative Arts Research Outputs (CARO) collection showcases non-traditional research outputs that exemplify high level creative inquiry at Edith Cowan University. These works sit alongside traditional research outputs such as scholarly books, journal articles and refereed conference publications and represent a significant category of research produced through creative practice.

CAROs encompass a wide range of creative forms and modes of production and are assessed using rigorous standards. Each output included in this collection has undergone a structured internal verification and peer review process to ensure it meets the recognised national definition of research. This process supports consistency, quality, integrity and transparency in the assessment of creative practice as research.

Accepted CAROs contribute to internal research reporting and demonstrate ECU’s commitment to creative research. The collection reflects the University’s approach to evaluating creative works with the same level of scholarly rigour applied to more traditional research outputs.

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Submissions from 2024

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Two schools, one Islam, Melanie Brooks

Pummeling, high definition cubes & beats flying beyond Dionysian Dread: A response to ATOTAL Tura Presented ATOTAL by Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt, Jonathan W. Marshall

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Hair autobiography, Donna J. Mazza

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I woke before dawn thinking of Wagin, Donna J. Mazza

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Rock, creation, night sky, Donna J. Mazza

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Dissonance in focus, Jamie Oehlers

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Refraction - melody used to develop non-functional harmony, Jamie Oehlers

The Moonlit Guitar: Historical Guitar Performance within 'Bel Canto' Arrangements, Jonathan Paget

The World in a Single Grain: Silver Sands Guitar Quartet [the CD], Jonathan Paget, Ingrid Riollot, Craig Lake, Ethan Dorrian, and D. Smallman

Boatbird, Jo Pollitt and Lilly Blue

Forecast, Jo Pollitt, Lilly Blue, Dianne Jones, and Eva Fernandez

Drumming Together: East Meets West Australia-China music collaborations in Nanjing and Guangzhou, Tim White

Hiding the mechanics and avoiding dead air: Designing a seamless, innovative and captivating WAAPA Music Gala performance, Tim White

Let There Be Light: Illuminating performances of Erik Griswold’s ‘Strings Attached’, Tim White

Submissions from 2023

Vocal Arranging for 5 part Acapella Pop Voices, Matthew Allen

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Everything went quiet, Cathy Henkel

Alluvial Gold, Stuart James, Louise Devenish, and E. Coates

Tony Yap and Diasporic Post-Butoh in Australia, Jonathan W. Marshall

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I think things are precious, Vahri McKenzie

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Catastrophes, Renee Newman and Ella Hetherington

Non-conventional approaches in improvisation: Monophonic accompaniment and negotiable harmony, Jamie Oehlers

East meets West: Cross-cultural imaginings, Jonathan Paget, Nick Abbey, Jamie Oehlers, Stewart Smith, S. Ding, L. Filipe, S. Li, T. Ye, and T. Yang

Nanjing Epiphanies, Jonathan R. Paget, Nick Abbey, Jamie Oehlers, Tim White, W. Ding, C. Huang, Geoffrey Lancaster, S. Ling, K. Ling, T. Tang, Y. Wang, and D. Ye

Silver Sands Guitar Quartet Debut: The World in a Single Grain, Jonathan Paget, Ingrid Riollot, Craig Lake, and Ethan Dorrian

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All ways fire she gives, Jo Pollitt

From Source to Performance: Seicento Italy, Stewart Smith

Interpreting Ligeti's Volumina, Stewart Smith and Cat Hope

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Celtic Baroque, Stewart J. Smith

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Encounters: Things like this happen at sea, Paul G. Uhlmann and Alex Hamilton

Drums are the new violins: interrogating the role of percussion in a world in crisis, Tim White

Submissions from 2022

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Sideffect gameplan: A gamified, branching narrative experience for alcohol and other drug education, Luke Hopper, Joanna Nicholas, Jessica Watson, L. Brook, Sara Hansen, J. Scott, Stephen Bright, and Brennen Mills

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Chick, Donna J. Mazza

Harnessing improvised piano techniques to underscore The Glass Menagerie, Tom O'Halloran

Two studies in pitch strategies for solo piano improvisation, Tom O'Halloran

Black dogs & beyond: Reimagining works for concertante guitar and string quartet, Jonathan Paget, Semra Lee-Smith, Zak Rowntree, Sally Boud, and Jon Tooby

Symphonic miniatures of the napoleonic guitar, Jonathan Paget, M. Remaj, Craig Lake, and Geoffrey Lancaster

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#FEAS Unfinished Business, Jo Pollitt, Mindy Blaise, and Emily Gray

A creative investigation of character through socio-linguistic experimentation in dialect acquisition in the play Blue Orange by Joe Penhall, Andrew Smith

Night Music in Madrid: Cimarosa Concerto, Matthew Styles

The ‘unrestricted’ saxophone ensemble, Matthew Styles

Images of Impermanence: Resistance! Paintings as Provisional Realities (group exhibition), Of Ghosts and Angels (group exhibition), Mandorla Art Award (finalist), Impact 12 International Printmaking Conference Exhibitions (Edge of Infinity), Paul G. Uhlmann

Medusoid, Lindsay R. Vickery

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Dangerous liaisons: New creative directions for the percussionist/composer in the post-COVID age, Tim White

Submissions from 2021

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Learning how to live with the unloved and disregarded: The common blowfish: Torquigener Pleurogramma, Lyndall Adams

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Abstracting 'groove' and 'melody' within the jazz organ trio, Freddie Grigson, Tom O'Halloran, and Chris Tarr

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Conversations around the kitchen table, Cathy Henkel and Sam Lara

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Laura’s choice: feature documentary and series, Cathy Henkel and Sam Lara

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2 minutes from home, Cat Hope, Tristan Parr, Aaron Wyatt, Louise Devenish, Lindsay Vickery, Stuart James, and Decibel New Music Ensemble

Contested spaces, Nicola Kaye, Stephen Terry, Lyndall Adams, and Marcella Polain

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W.F. Bach & J.G. Müthel: Complete works for two fortepianos, Geoffrey Lancaster and James Huntingford

My Voice, A Trigger for Change, Tom O'Halloran

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Axiom [studio recording], Tom O'Halloran, Pete Jeavons, and Daniel Susnjar

Earth, Sea, and Sky: Reimagining Australian Guitar Landscapes, Jonathan Paget

Grounded: Meaning, metaphor, and folksong reinterpretation in performances of works for voice and guitar, Jonathan Paget and Rachelle Durkin

The Children - Theatre Production, Andrew L. Smith

Experimental Vivaldi, Stewart Smith

Maurice Duruflé, Requiem Op 9: A New Reading, Stewart Smith

Re-imagining Plainsong – three new works, Stewart Smith

Four pictures from New York, Matthew Styles

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Mementi World Premiere performance and Studio recording, Matthew Styles, Paul Tanner, and Adam Pinto

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Peruano Canta Project, Daniel Susnjar

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Eye of a rook, Josephine Taylor

Ancient oceans: Lapetus Ocean and Mirovia Ocean, Lindsay Vickery

Shock of the New: 18 world premieres transforming the percussion ensemble through novel repertoire and new performance practices, Tim White

Submissions from 2020

What led you here?, Lyndall Adams

Snow Black Angel, Colony, The Prospectors Palette, Clive Barstow

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Hecate, Kylie Bracknell, Clint Bracknell, and Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company

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Alluvium, Erin Coates, Stuart James, and Louise Devenish

Telematic Compositions, Cat Hope

Decibel Telematic Performances, Cat Hope, Louise Devenish, and A. Wyatt

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Fauna, Donna Mazza

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The fingerprint, Donna Mazza

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The Last of its Kind, Donna Mazza

Non-symetrical sheets: A ‘flurried’ approach to rhythm, Jamie Oehlers

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Pitch set construction and application to improvised solos, Jamie Oehlers

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The dancer in your hands < >, Jo Pollitt

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The master's new governess, Elizabeth Reid Boyd

Countering Anachronistic Basso Continuo Practice, Stewart Smith

Three Colombian Scenes: Concertino for saxophone and symphonic wind orchestra by Victoriano Valencia, Matthew Styles

The Recipe - Live Afro-Peruvian Jazz with the WAAPA Mini Big Band, Daniel Susnjar and L. Iffla

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Land of smoke, Paul Uhlmann

Sea: The world is large. And Air: Silently Birds fly through us, Paul G. Uhlmann

WAAPA Live at the Rechabite and Defying Gravity Flies Solo: New performance paradigms in Pandemic Art, Tim White

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Brave the Wave : leveraging COVID isolation to create new knowledge and innovation in Pandemic Art, Jonathon Jie Hong Yang, Maddie Ivy, and Tim White

Submissions from 2018

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Variations on Bhimpalasi: Flute and classical guitar 3rd movement, Glenn Rogers, Jonathan Paget, and Mary-Anne Blades

Submissions from 2017

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Melodic Tension Balancing, Harry Mitchell, Jamie Oehlers, Daniel Susnjar, Jeremy Thompson, and Karl Florisson