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.
Experience
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2020–presentLecturer in Contemporary Music, University of the Sunshine Coast
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2013–2020Associate Lecturer in Music, QUT
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2007–2012Sessional Academic – Music and Creative Industries, QUT
Education
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2017QUT, Doctor of Philosophy
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2013QUT, Bachelor of Music (Honours) – First Class
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2007QUT, Bachelor of Music
Publications
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2024‘Oh my god this is happening’: how Our Flag Means Death staged an empathic mutiny against the labour of queer reading practices, Media International Australia
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2022Sharing Music Vocabulary: Spotlighting Multimodal Narrative Songwriting, Songwriting Studies Journal
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2020The MacGyver Approach: Teaching economy of availability in tertiary music education during COVID-19, Social Alternatives
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2019A rhetoric of style: Eleanor Rigby and the reordering of popular music, Social Semiotics
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