Amanda Cole on her Lumatone midi keyboard that can be used to play microtonal tunings.

Amanda Cole is a composer of instrumental and electronic New Music. Her compositions feature microtonal structures, interference beats and fusions of electronic and acoustic timbres. She writes her own interactive software and works in collaboration with other artists for New Media projects. 

Amanda’s compositions have been performed by Synergy Percussion, Ensemble Offspring, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus, The Noise String Quartet and Kroumata (Sweden). Her music has been performed at the Sydney Opera House, Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art, Casula Powerhouse, Salamanca Arts Centre and the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona. 

In 2016 Amanda collaborated with visual artist Micheala Gleave and programmer Warren Armstrong to create A Galaxy of Suns, which is a smart phone app and associated choral performance that ‘plays’ the stars as they rise and set over 360˚ of the horizon – for any location on Earth. The choral version of this piece has been performed at Dark Mofo (2016), Bristol Biennial (2016), Melbourne Festival (2017) and the Horizon Festival (2019).  

In 2013 Amanda was awarded an Australia Council Creative Arts Fellowship. In 2019 she was awarded the Apra Professional Development Award in the Art Music category. In 2021 she was a finalist in the APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards in the Sound Art/ Electroacoustic and Choral categories. Amanda has a Bachelor of Music (Hons.1) and a PhD in Composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

https://www.amandacolemusic.com

https://www.agalaxyofsuns.net

                                                Amanda Cole