Associate Professor Donna Hewitt
Associate Professor in Music - School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Email: dhewitt4@une.edu.au
Biography
Donna Hewitt is a vocalist, composer, instrument designer and academic. Donna’s specialises in electronic composition, music production and performance. Her creative practice explores mediatized performance environments and new ways of interfacing the human body and voice with electronic media. She is the inventor of the eMic, a sensor enhanced microphone stand for electronic music performance, and more recently has been creating wearable electronics for controlling both sound and lighting in performance.
Her work has attracted funding from the Australia Council, most notably with all female collective Lady Electronica. Donna’s work has been featured as part of the VIVID Festival (2018), The Bondi Feast Festival (2018) and the MINT (Music in New Technologies) (2018) Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia (2018). In 2019 she performed her #MeToo works in Tokyo and at the Convergence Festival of Music, Technology and Ideas, UK. She is currently a collaborator on a 5 year project funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities research council (SSHRC) Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE) is a Le PARC based 5-year (2020-2025) research-creation project designed to enact and investigate cataclysmic scenarios in 10 mini-operas.
Donna has held academic positions at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Queensland, University of Technology. She coordinates the Bachelor of Music and teaching areas include music technology & production, performance, composition and creative collaboration. Donna is currently the Head of Department of Creative Arts and Communication.
