ROBERT BURKE
• Performer • Composer • Educator • Researcher •
ROBERT BURKE
• Performer • Composer • Educator • Researcher •
ROBERT
BURKE
Performer • Composer
Educator • Researcher
ABOUT
Rob Burke is an internationally acclaimed performer and composer. His sensitive and balanced perspective has allowed Rob to traverse many different styles and this has, in part, been expressed as collaborative performances with international leaders in classical, jazz and experimental music. His embrace of many genres of music and the clear expression of his diversity in his role as an educator, researcher and performer, has given rise to a vibrant dialect that resonates through his students and also his performances.
Rob has recorded with George Lewis, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Debasis
Rob (Associate Professor) is currently convenor of Jazz and Popular Studies at Monash University – Melbourne Australia and President of AJIRN (Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network)
His ongoing research focuses on issues relating to how we respond to improvised jazz: artistically, critically and personally. His work includes studying the processes and outcomes of music participation and music listening.
RELEASES
Rob has released Rob has released 14 CD’s under his own name and has composed and performed on a further 300 CD’s. His focus is to understand and articulate what happens in the moment of improvisation from the perspective of practice-based artistic research.
Rob plays in a context of mostly free improvisation (jazz sensibility), investigating ego, agency, indeterminacy and choice having collaborated/recorded with George Lewis, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Johannes Weidenmueller, Debasis Chackroborty, Paulo Angeli, Tony Malaby and Richie Barshay.
ABOUT
Rob has recorded with George Lewis, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Debasis Chackroborty and Paulo Angeli. Rob’s research is mainly focussed on practice-based artistic research, (jazz, improvisation and jazz pedagogy). Publications include co-edited book, Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music (Lexington) and currently co-writing (published later in 2018 Routledge) Experimentation in Jazz: Chasing Ideas.
RELEASES
Rob plays in a context of mostly free improvisation (jazz sensibility), investigating ego, agency, indeterminacy and choice having collaborated/recorded with George Lewis, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Johannes Weidenmueller, Debasis Chackroborty, Paulo Angeli, Tony Malaby and Richie Barshay.
LATEST RELEASE
SLIP SLIDING
Slip Sliding takes the listener on musical ride aiming to evoke emotions and discussion about what is good, bad, different, indifferent, familiar, unfamiliar, beauty and the unexplainable.
This experimental project includes compositions by Rob Burke and group improvisations that are intensely expressive. This performance traverses’ composition and improvisation with an underlying investigation into distortion. ‘Check out’ Ben Monder’s use of varied and dense distortion and how Rob Burke interacts with his manipulation of harmonics in the sound; ideas that are infused with the unique creativity of Tom Rainey. The distortion is further manifested with the post-editing of Ben Grayson: adding sounds and changing the soundscape of many of the tracks.
Recorded in Brooklyn, New York and mixed in Italy, Slip Sliding is a daring, instinctive and organic performance by four renowned musicians.
Recorded in Brooklyn, New York and mixed in Italy, Slip Sliding is a daring, instinctive and organic performance by four renowned musicians.