creative musings & reflections
After the Sermon—Quiet: Easter Sunday
Blurring Resonances of Compositional Creativity: The Keyboard in the 21st Century at HKBU
My Story: Pacific Journeying
Tokyo in Spring: Sonic Resonance
Garden of Breath for the Renewal of Love—Gallipoli Response
Twisting Blues Rhythms Nestled amongst Brickwork
Kunqu Intersections: Undulating Resonances of Living Colours
Resonances of Culture: Place, Spirit and Sound
Drifting Emergence and Sudden Colours: Shy Like Blushing Flowers at The JOAN
Fragrant Blossoms: Brutal-Shy Resonances and Unfolding Sonic-Visual Colour Cacophony
Payton in New York: Curvaceous Cacophony
Energy-filled Joy of a Western Sydney Juke Joint of Sonic Riotousness—The Australian-US Turner Brown Band hit Town
Creative Resilience in a Time of Crisis: Hidden Stillness
Materiality and Creativity: Local Materials and Creative Flow towards Interior Senses of Spirit
books
Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity
Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation
articles/chapters/thesis
A Korean-Australian Aesthetic within Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being (in-press)
Confucian Lateral Thinking and Daoist Flow in the Sonic Fire Gardens of Beijing – ISCM World New Music Days/Beijing Modern Music Festival 2018
Living Colours: An Asian-Pacific Conceptual frame for Composition
Spiritual Essences: Sounds of an Asian-Pacific Place, Personality and Spirit in Double Resonances
Moving Between Things: Heaven and Hell, Visual and Sonic Gestures Towards Transcendent Oneness
Asian-Australian Interactions: Personal Compositional Voice and After-Resonance Renewal
The Artist’s Viewpoint: Asian-Australian Resonances
Sounding the Ritual of Sensual Rebellion: Pacific-European Resonances
Personal Creative Process Towards a Pacific-European Identity
Online Blog Publications & Reviews
Online Blog Publications:
Crossman, Bruce. “Living Breath, Juxtapositional Flow and Emergent Spirit: Asian Music Festival 2014 in Yokohama and Tokyo”
Crossman, Bruce. “Living colours – from Chinese opera to an Australian music theatre work”
Crossman, Bruce. “Space, Silence and Sound: Asian Music Festival 2010 in Tokyo”
Crossman, Bruce. “Ring of Fire: Six Australians in Tongyeong and Seoul”
Reviews:
“Bruce Crossman: Heaven to Earth Border House,” Take Effect Review (USA), rating: 9/10, December 3, 2021
Jalet, Claudy. “Bruce Crossman: Heaven to Earth Border House,” JazzMania (Belgium), 21 January 2022
Bennett, Gwen. “Living Colours: Pacific Sounds and Spirit – Music by Bruce Crossman,” The Music Trust, Loud Mouth, Australia, July 3, 2017
Applegate Edwards, Grego. “Bruce Crossman, Living Colours: Pacific Sounds & Spirit,”Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review, USA, May 18, 2017
Noble, Alistair. “Shadows and Silhouettes: new piano compositions celebrating a Chinese-Western confluence”
Nightingale, James. “Gentleness-Suddenness, Bruce Crossman”
Harriet Cunningham. “A Brilliant showcase of the piano’s range”
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