Dr David Salisbury

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Curriculum vitae

Teaching Responsibility

• Curriculum Coordinator Digital Sound

• Lecturer Digital Sound

General Interest Areas

• Development a cultural atlas of North Queensland musics such as local Aboriginal and Torres Straight artists performing contemporary and traditional music and cultural Diaspora such as North Queensland Italian communities.

• A continued interest in Southeast Asian music both traditional and contemporary particularly West Sumatra and Vietnam.

• Article submitted to the Yearbook for Traditional Music for the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM) titled “Mapping the Cultural Atlas of Tropical Queensland: Ronald “Tonky” Logan a Case Study”.

• Article submitted to Ethnomusicology Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology titled “Embedded Meaning in the Talempong Pacik Tradition of the Payakumbuh Region, West Sumatra: Pak Islamidar a Case Study”.

• Converting his PhD dissertation into a monograph with an interactive DVD featuring video recorded performances, photo gallery, cultural atlas maps and high quality digital recordings. The book is titled “The Talempong Tradition of West Sumatra: A Survey of the Highlands and Surrounding Regions”.

Biography

David Salisbury, is a composer, arranger, performer and ethnomusicologist with a background that includes international jazz and world music performances. As an ethnomusicologist his expertise is in Talempong, a form of indigenous music in West Sumatra. His performing highlights include opening and support act for US jazz artist Stanley Turrentine, folk performer Jim Stafford as well as famed bassist, Chuck Israel of the Bill Evans Trio. In 2004 he performed with his 18 piece jazz ensemble at the Manly International Jazz Festival performing his own compositions and arrangements and in 2005 & 2006 performed at the Palmer Street Jazz Festival with his current JCU based 12 piece Jazz ensemble Captain Nemo and the Golden Mean Jazz Regime.

what new media art means to me

“The output of musical creativity via digital technology particularly in conjunction with other creative artists and mediums. The ability of musical artists to express themselves outside 'traditional' presentation outputs such as the "concert hall" or "pub gigs" and utilize virtual, online and multimedia formats as an output result.”