Louise Devenish Bio
Louise Devenish is a percussionist whose creative practice blends performance, artistic research and collaboration with composers, visual artists, designers and improvisors. As a soloist, collaborator, and ensemble musician (Decibel, The Sound Collectors, and others), she performs internationally at festivals such as MONA FOMA, Nagoya and Shanghai World Expos, Tage für Neue Musik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Tongyeong International Music Festival. Louise's ‘interpretive flair and technical brilliance’ is recognised by APRA AMCOS Art Music Performance of the Year awards and Luminary Award, Churchill Fellowship, and an Australian Research Council Fellowship. Her performances can be heard on international labels HatArt, ezz-thetics, Immediata, Navona, Tall Poppies, Huddersfield Contemporary Records, and room40. Louise is Graduate Research Program Director (Music) and Percussion Coordinator at Monash University, and director of artistic research group The Sound Collectors Lab. Her writing on music is published in books, journals, and zines, encompassing Australian music, new performance practices, virtuosity, digital notation, music and gender.
