Hollis Taylor
Research Fellow
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studi
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Violinist/composer, zoömusicologist, and ornithologist Hollis Taylor is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University. She previously held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, and the University of Technology Sydney. Taylor has an abiding interest in animal aesthetics, particularly vis-à-vis Australian songbirds. Her monograph, Is Birdsong Music? Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird, and her double CD, Absolute Bird, were both released in 2017.
Research Interest
Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies
Publications
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Temporal regularity increases with repertoire complexity in the Australian pied butcherbird’s song Janney, E., Taylor, H., Scharff, C., Rothenberg, D., Parra, L. C. & Tchernichovski, O. 14 Sep 2016 In : Royal Society Open Science. 3, 9, p. 1-15 15 p., 160357
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Can George dance? Biosemiotics and human exceptionalism with a lyrebird in the viewfinder Taylor, H. 18 Aug 2016 (Accepted/In press) In : Social Semiotics. p. 1-17 17 p.
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Marginalized voices: zoömusicology through a participatory lens Taylor, H. 2017 Participatory research in more-than-human worlds. Bastian, M., Jones, O., Moore, N. & Roe, E. (eds.). London; New York: Routledge, p. 38-53 16 p. (Routledge studies in human geography; vol. 67)
