Published Writings

books


Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity

Michael Atherton and Bruce Crossman (eds.), publisher: Australian Music Centre, 2008                             


Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation

Sally Macarthur, Bruce Crossman, Ronaldo Morelos (eds.); publisher: Australian Music Centre, 2006


articles/chapters/thesis

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‘Confucian Lateral Thinking and Daoist Flow in the Sonic Fire Gardens of Beijing – ISCM World New Music Days/Beijing Modern Music Festival 2018’ World New Music Magazine, edition 2018 Vol. No. 28 CHINA: “World New Music Days Comes to Beijing,”ed. Frank J. Oteri. Wien, Austria: International Society for Contemporary Music, 2018. Published: May 1, 2019: 59-69.

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‘Living Colours: An Asian-Pacific Conceptual frame for Composition’   Sally Macarthur, Judy Lochhead and Jennifer Shaw (eds), Music’s Immanent Future: The Deleuzian Turn in Music Studies, London: Routledge, 2016: 125-138.

Download: Living Colours

‘Spiritual Essences: Sounds of an Asian-Pacific Place, Personality and Spirit in Double Resonances,’  Atherton, M. and B. Crossman (eds.). Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity. Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 2008: 20-32.

Download: Spiritual Essences

‘Spiritual Essences: Sounds of an Asian-Pacific Place, Personality and Spirit in Double Resonances,‘ Davis, J. and P. Horn (eds.). World New Music Magazine: Australia: International Society for Contemporary Music, 2010.20: 6-17

‘Moving Between Things: Heaven and Hell, Visual and Sonic Gestures Towards Transcendent Oneness,’ Macarthur, S., B. Crossman and R. Morelos (eds.). Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation. Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 2006: 45-50.

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‘Asian-Australian Interactions: Personal Compositional Voice and After-Resonance Renewal,’ CAESS Conference: Scholarship & Community (CD-ROM), University of Western Sydney, pp. 1-6, Michael Atherton (ed.), Sydney: UWS, 2005.

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‘The Artist’s Viewpoint: Asian-Australian Resonances,’ TAASA Review (The Journal of The Asian Arts Society of Australia) 14.2 (2005): 16-17                             

‘Sounding the Ritual of Sensual Rebellion: Pacific-European Resonances,’ Leonardo Music Journal 12 (2002): 63-65 

‘Personal Creative Process Towards a Pacific-European Identity,’ Diss. Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA), University of Wollongong, 1999          

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online blog publications/reviews

Online Blog Publications:

Mulgoa Bush reserve, ancient Asian-Pacific gongs, Hong Kong
Mulgoa Bush reserve, ancient Asian-Pacific gongs, Hong Kong

Crossman, Bruce. “Living Breath, Juxtapositional Flow and Emergent Spirit: Asian Music Festival 2014 in Yokohama and Tokyo,” Resonate Magazine, 19 Nov 2014, ed. Anni Heino, Australian Music Centre.

Crossman, Bruce. Living colours – from Chinese opera to an Australian music theatre work,” Resonate Magazine, 12 Jun 2013, ed. Anni Heino, Australian Music Centre.

Crossman, Bruce.Space, Silence and Sound: Asian Music Festival 2010 in Tokyo,” Resonate Magazine, 2 Nov 2010, ed. Anni Heino, Australian Music Centre.

Crossman, Bruce. Ring of Fire: Six Australians in Tongyeong and Seoul,” Resonate Magazine, 8 May 2009, ed. Anni Heino, Australian Music Centre.

Reviews:

Bennett, Gwen. “Living Colours: Pacific Sounds and Spirit – Music by Bruce Crossman,” The Music Trust, Loud Mouth, Australia, July 3, 2017.

Download: Living Colours CD review The Music Trust Australia

Applegate Edwards, Grego. “Bruce Crossman, Living Colours: Pacific Sounds & Spirit,” Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review, USA, May 18, 2017.

Download: Living Colours CD review Gapplegate USA

Noble, Alistair. “Shadows and Silhouettes: new piano compositions celebrating a Chinese-Western confluence,” The Music Trust, Reviews, Dec 1, 2014.

Download: The Music Trust Review 2014

Nightingale, James. Gentleness-Suddenness, Bruce Crossman,” Partial Durations, Realtime, e-dition, Jul 4 2013.

Download: Realtime Review 2013

Harriet Cunningham. “A Brilliant showcase of the piano’s range,” Sydney Morning Herald, Classical, May 3 2010

Download: SMH Review 2010