Theo Carbo is a Melbourne based guitarist, composer/improvisor, sound engineer and producer. A keen truth-seeker in music, Theo weaves together different strand seamlessly into his own unified music-making practice. If Theo wins the Fellowship, he seeks to build a software instrument ‘Primary Colours’ (influenced by the music and writing of Mark Fell) that’ll interface with his guitar, and allow enhanced creative expression through immediate and intuitive access to an electronic soundworld. “It is important to me that the guitar is a key element in the instrument’s approach, to retain the performative aspect of playing guitar live.”

Phillippa Murphy-Haste is a Sydney-based a multi-instrumentalist, clarinet-specialist and composer. Her artistic practice covers a broad range of contexts to which she brings experience in jazz, classical, experimental, improvised music, theatre, inter-arts and cross-cultural collaborations together. Her favourite instruments to play are clarinets (A, B flat, bass) and viola. If she wins, she plans an improvising and composing mentorship with Swedish clarinets-specialist Per Texas Johansson plus the creation of a long-form work, Kairos to be rehearsed, recorded, performed and released as an album, featuring Phillippa, Per Texas Johansson, Paul Cutlan, and the band Microfiche of which she is a member.