Dr Briony Luttrell is a musician, researcher, and educator whose expertise sits at an intersection of creative, technical, and theoretical approaches. A classically trained cellist who developed a passion for audio engineering and math rock at university, Briony has extensive experience in both live and recorded contexts working as a performer, writer, producer, and consultant. Briony’s PhD contributes a new model for understanding and writing string arrangements for recorded popular music.
Currently a Lecturer in Contemporary Music at UniSC, Briony has been a tertiary music educator since 2007 and is passionate about crafting educational experiences that use transdisciplinary perspectives and locate music making practices in their historical, sociocultural, and technological contexts. Briony’s areas of expertise include: cultural semantics, listening, cello, strings, multimodal analysis, popular music, songwriting / arranging / production, musicianship, social semiotics, and creative collaboration.