• Title
  Item 1: Brenda Gifford interview by Vincent Plush
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  11 July 2023
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9675952
• Physical Description
  2 audio files (2 hr., 12 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Brenda Gifford discusses early musical experiences playing and touring in bands. She describes working in the Indigenous Unit at the National Film and Sound Archive, an institution which she describes as ‘sitting on the motherload of our culture’ and speaks of the importance of her role in facilitating access to cultural material for First Nations communities. Brenda details her own composition process, the work of commissions and the challenge of balancing her cultural voice with the structured space of classical music. She emphasises the role of collaboration in her career, including her work with Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers, a project to help First Peoples develop industry skills and connections in the new music and classical composition arenas. Brenda also describes a desire to continue working in jazz, contemporary classical art music and to try her hand at film music.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales on 11 July 2023
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Gifford, Brenda, 1967-
  
• Subject
  Gifford, Brenda, 1967---Interviews.
  Jazz musicians--Australia.
  Music - Musicians - Composers and songwriters
  Occupations - Archivists
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20689097

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