Mr John Encarnacao
LECTURER,
Communications (SoHCA)
Personal
Qualifications
- BMus University of Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Communications (SoHCA)
Contact
| Email: | J.Encarnacao@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 2875 |
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| Location: | O.G.09 Penrith (Kingswood) |
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Biography
John Encarnacao is a performer, composer and educator. He was awarded a Master of Arts in 2009 for his thesis on punk aesthetics in 'new folk'. This work is currently being expanded to book form for UK publisher Ashgate. Research interests include popular music history and innovation, composition, and music education. Notable recent projects include Haiku 1 (2009) for violin and harpsichord, the debut album by his free improvisation trio Espadrille, First Wave (2010), Spider and Lamb (2011), the third album by his song-oriented project Warmer, and ongoing collaborations with new media artist Ryszard Dabek. Warmer has been described as folk pop, psychedelic pop, and folk rock, but one of their most downloaded tracks is a Björk cover. With Warmer bass player Peter Marley, John has formed new project The Nature Strip, whose first album Stars Turn Inside Out will be released in 2012. John still buys CDs, but not as much as he buys vinyl. His songwriting and composition output is published by Mushroom Music.In 2011 and 2012 John's Honours and post-graduate supervisions include art music composition fusions with art rock and Japanese anime; a recording project testing heavy metal's relationship with improvisation; a study of Jon Lord of Deep Purple as a rock innovator; a photographic investigation of Sydney's 'irregular' venues; an autoethnographic/musicological look at performance in Sydney's drag scene; and a study of a particular Sydney punk milieu of the late 1970s.
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Publications
Chapters in Books
- Encarnacao, J. (2008), 'Bastard Country, Bastard Music: an alternate history of Australian punk', Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, ACYS 9781875236602.
Journal Articles
- Blom, D. and Encarnacao, J. (2012), 'Student-chosen criteria for peer assessment of tertiary rock groups in rehearsal and performance: what's important?', British Journal of Music Education, 19.
- Blom, D. and Encarnacao, J. (2012), 'Student-chosen criteria for peer assessment of tertiary rock groups in rehearsal and performance : what's important?', British Journal of Music Education, 19.
- Encarnacao, J. (2011), 'Musical Structure as Narrative in Rock', Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, .
- Encarnacao, J. (2008), 'Melbournes by the dozen: Four rock albums and the evocation of place', Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, 16.
- Encarnacao, J. (2007), 'Cult Musicians Versus Technology: Transcending Notions of Popular Music as Commodity', The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, .
Conference Papers
- Blom, D., Stevenson, I. and Encarnacao, J. (2012), 'The assessment rubric as institutional culture : evaluating creative music processes and outcomes at undergraduate level', ISME Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician. International Seminar, Athens, Greece.
- Blom, D. and Encarnacao, J. (2012), 'Assessing undergraduate jazz and rock group music-making : adding to the classic(al) recipe', International Society for Music Education. World Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Blom, D. and Encarnacao, J. (2012), 'What does jazz group assessment offer the undergraduate music environment?', International Conference on Popular Music Studies, Grahamestown, S.A..
- Blom, D. and Encarnacao, J. (2010), 'Peer assessment of tertiary group music-making: vocational training?', International Society for Music Education, Education of the Professional Musician, Shanghai, China.
- Blom, D. and Encarnacao, J. (2010), ''Valuing group interaction: student chosen assessment criteria in tertiary popular music education'', What's it worth? 'Value and Popular Music - International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Auckland.
- Encarnacao, J. (2005), 'Cult Musicians Versus Technology: Transcending Notions of Popular Music as Commodity', CEASS Conference: Scholarship and Community UWS 2005, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown.
Exhibitions
- 2012, 'Score for theatrical production 'Tarantula''
- 2010, 'Harmonic Territories (performed as part of group Espadrille)'
- 2010, 'Harmonic Territories (performed as part of group Espadrille)'
- 2010, 'Creative Animals forum (performance by Espadrille & Ryszard Dabek)'
Other Publications
- 2008, 'Music CD - Unfenced - 6 Degrees of Tension', Recorded Work
- 2009, 'Creative Explosion', Recorded Work
- 2011, 'Warmer: Spider and Lamb', Recorded Work
- 2011, 'History Australia - DIY History', Published Work
- 2012, 'Tarantula (play)', Published Work
Supervision
Mr Encarnacao BHons and Cosupervision for MHons
Current Supervision
| Title: | Temporal Space; An Investigation of Sydney's Irregular Performance Spaces |
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| Title: | Nonsense as Musical Structure: Lewis Carroll's Nonsense Aesthetic as a Catalyst for 'Nonsense-Structure' via the Intersection of Art Music and Vernacular Sounds. |
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| Title: | Ethnography of Early Sydney Punk Culture |
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