Internationally acclaimed composer/sound artist Colin Black won the prestigious Prix Italia Award (2003) in the category Best “Music Radio - Composed Work” for composing and producing his major work The Ears Outside My Listening Room.  BBC radio 3 described this work as "a haunting evocation of Australia", while the Prix Italia Award’s International Jury Report states that it, "...lived up to the claim … that here was a patchwork sonic quilt that can be passed down the generations."

In 2008 Black was invited by Czech Radio’s Radiocusticaprogram to create Soundprints: The Prague Pressings for broadcast. Black's sound installation Alien In The Landscape: The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG) was selected for the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008 which was held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Australia). In 2007 Black composed and produced a major musical/soundart hybrid work entitled Longing, Love & Loss for performance and broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network. He also created the Butter Churn sound sculpture installation for the Wilsons River Experience Walk in Lismore's Heritage Park. While in 2006 Black was commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur's Klangkunst program to create a major radio art work entitled Alien In The Landscape.

 

In previous years Black was commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to co-produce & compose two major audio/musical works with a Greek theme for their Olympic programming. Black’s sound installations include the Parramatta Heritage Centre’sParramatta: People & Place exhibition and for the NORPA 2004 production of The Flood Black created a dynamic multi-site soundscape and the Starcourt Theatre Space sound installation “Floodscape”. A finalist in the Australian National Digital Arts Awards ‘98, his experimental composition 118, 120 122 was exhibited at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art. Black's works have also been selected for performance at events including En Red O 2000 music festival Barcelona Spain, the Festival Synthese Bourges France, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel France, 60x60 Pacific Basin Regional Concert Los Angeles USA, Zèppelin 2004-Festival de Arte Sonoro Barcelona, Spain, Hipersonica 2004 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, The Literature Sound Barrier 2002 in Wien, Austria, Sydney University's Live Wires concerts '97, '98, and Melbourne's Extatic Concert for the Next Wave festival '98.

 

Black is a graduate of the UNE Contemporary Music Degree and has an Honorary Graduate Diploma of Musical Directing and Composing for TV from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.  He has presented his research paper on Radio Art at the 2005 Vital Signs conference, which was organised by RMIT University’s, School of Creative Media, Melbourne. Black was also invited to talk about radio art and his work on London's Resonance 104.4FM, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Technische Universität Berlin and the Victoria University of Wellington.

Black’s work has been selected for broadcast and podcast on stations including Deutschlandradio Kultur, the BBC, YLE Radio, Sweden’s Sveriges Radio as well as many other European stations and in South Africa, New Zealand and numerous times across Australia.

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Website url: http://www.colinblack.com.au
Facebook url: http://www.facebook.com/people/Colin_Black/587567737

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