Balance and resonance: navigating your life in the current environment

Published

26-5-2019

Type of Work

Book Chapter

Lay book

Advisors and Contributors

Nil

Project Affiliation

This chapter represents the self-making and meaning-making portion of a Professional Doctor of Creative Industries (DCI) degree at Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Abstract

This chapter represents the self-making and meaning-making portion of my emergent HDR study journey across the Project 1 Pilot study, and the observations I have made to date. I am encouraging the other disciplinary practitioner readers to proactively engage in self-referential proactive tasks in order to more affectively authentically connect to their practice.

The original aim of this professional Doctor of Creative Industries (DCI) Research Project was to investigate music–making practice and Self as a practitioner in the process of creating and producing a DIY music artifact. Specifically: to investigate why I as the practitioner felt a connection with one form of music-making (acoustic instrument-based), and not a connection with another form of music-making (digital virtual-based).

I situated Self into this autoethnographic study in the dual roles of researcher and practitioner; developing first-person narratives of my personal journey, critical reflection and reflexive practice. The holistic and multi-dimensional nature of this research has provided rich and nuanced data, illuminating the co-constituted nature of Self, interpreting meaning, and practice. In particular, the research study contextualises contemporary DIY creative practice relative to three interdependent tenets: music & sound-making practice, meaning-making and Self-making, where these tenets are understood in terms of hybridity, agency and subjectivity.

Notes

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Citation

Page, D. L. 2019. Balance and resonance: navigating your life in the current environment. In: Fay, D. (ed.) Business Warriors: Taking Care of Working Woman In The 21st Century. Brisbane: Disuptive Publications.

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