Hollis Taylor
Research Fellow
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Vi, 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. She performs her (re)compositions of pied butcherbird songs on violin along with various outback field recordings, and her practice also takes in sound and radiophonic arts. She is webmaster of www.zoömusicology.com. Her concerto for recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey will have its debut performance with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra on 21 October 2017. This concerto is based on transcriptions of pied butcherbird songs, combined with field recordings and layered against the rich sound palette of the orchestra.
Research Interest
ornithologist ,olinist/composer
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
