Embosomed from Sonic Hugs by Colin Black

from Sonic Hugs, released August 17, 2024
Colin Black is an internationally acclaimed composer/sound artist, having won the 2023 Prix Phonurgia Nova (Sound Art Audience Award), 2015 New York Festivals Awards (Sound Art category), 2003 Prix Italia Award and a finalist in the Prix Marulić Awards, Grand Prix Nova and the APRA Art Music Awards for his creative major works. As a result of this acclaim, Black has received multiple national and international commissions to create innovative works for broadcast and installation in Australia and Europe.

Black curator’s credits include international festivals/showcases of award-winning Australian acoustic art and radio art at London’s Resonance104.4fm, Kunstradio (ÖRF, Austria) and Toronto’s New Adventures In Sound Art. In 2013, he also curated the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Sound Fix: Your Weekly Dose of Transmitted Audible Art series.

Black is a doctoral graduate of the University of Sydney, where he was a recipient of the University of Sydney Postgraduate Awards Scholarship, and has been a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London and Northwestern University (USA). Black has been engaged as a casual academic lecturer at Western Sydney University, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), University of Ljubljana and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Currently, Dr. Black is an Adjunct Lecturer at Southern Cross University. For more information see www.colinblack.com.au

[Photograph by Ana Uvar, Courtesy of Colin Black]