Hollis Taylor

Research Affiliate, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney

Hollis Taylor is a violinist/composer, zoömusicologist, and ornithologist. She is an ARC Future Fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Previous research fellowships include the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin), Museum of Natural History (Paris), University of Technology Sydney, and Macquarie University. Her work confronts and revises the study of birdsong, adding the novel reference point of a musician’s trained ear.

Experience

2015–present

Research Fellow, Macquarie University
2012–2015

Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
2011–2012

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
2010–2011

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris

Education

2009

University of Western Sydney, PhD

Publications

2014

Whose bird is it? Messiaen's transcriptions of Australian songbirds, Twentieth-Century Music
2013

Connecting interdisciplinary dots: Songbirds, “white rats,” and human exceptionalism, Social Science Information
2013

A little flute music: mimicry, memory, and narrativity, Environmental Humanities
2011

Composers’ appropriation of pied butcherbird song: Henry Tate’s ‘undersong of Australia’ comes of age, Journal of Music Research Online
2011

The Australian pied butcherbird and the natureculture continuum, Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
2011

Anecdote and anthropomorphism: Writing the Australian pied butcherbird, Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
2011

A taste for the beautiful, Leonardo Journal
2010

Blowin' in Birdland: Improvisation and the Australian pied butcherbird, Leonardo Music Journal
2008

Decoding the song of the pied butcherbird: An initial survey, Transcultural Music Review
2007

Post Impressions: A Travel Book for Tragic Intellectuals, Twisted Fiddle

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