Briony Luttrell

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Dr Briony Luttrell is a musician, researcher, and educator whose expertise sits at an intersection of creative, technical, and theoretical approaches. A classically trained cellist who developed a passion for audio engineering and math rock at university, Briony has extensive experience in both live and recorded contexts working as a performer, writer, producer, and consultant. Briony’s PhD contributes a new model for understanding and writing string arrangements for recorded popular music.

Currently a Lecturer in Contemporary Music at UniSC, Briony has been a tertiary music educator since 2007 and is passionate about crafting educational experiences that use transdisciplinary perspectives and locate music making practices in their historical, socio­cultural, and technological contexts. Briony’s areas of expertise include: cultural semantics, listening, cello, strings, multimodal analysis, popular music, songwriting / arranging / production, musicianship, social semiotics, and creative collaboration.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Lecturer in Contemporary Music, University of the Sunshine Coast
  • 2013–2020
    Associate Lecturer in Music, QUT
  • 2007–2012
    Sessional Academic – Music and Creative Industries, QUT

Education

  • 2017 
    QUT, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 2013 
    QUT, Bachelor of Music (Honours) – First Class
  • 2007 
    QUT, Bachelor of Music

Publications

  • 2024
    ‘Oh my god this is happening’: how Our Flag Means Death staged an empathic mutiny against the labour of queer reading practices, Media International Australia
  • 2024
    A New Philosophy of Songwriting: Cakes, Constellations, and Other Obtuse Metaphors to Help Your Practice, Lexington Books
  • 2022
    Sharing Music Vocabulary: Spotlighting Multimodal Narrative Songwriting, Songwriting Studies Journal
  • 2020
    The MacGyver Approach: Teaching economy of availability in tertiary music education during COVID-19, Social Alternatives
  • 2019
    A rhetoric of style: Eleanor Rigby and the reordering of popular music, Social Semiotics

Contact Briony for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision