Dr Briony Luttrell

This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Briony is a cellist, string arranger, and producer who predominantly works in popular and post-genre contexts. Her doctoral thesis, A cultural semantics of string arrangement for recorded Popular music: a model for analysis and practice, was completed in 2017. Briony has been an academic staff member at QUT since 2007. Her research and teaching areas include: aural skills and analysis, musicianship, string arranging, arranging and production, cultural semantics, multimodal semiotics, performance, and cultural studies.Personal details
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Music (Honours) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Music (with Distinction) (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Accredited Mental Health First Aider.
Teaching
- KMB228 Musicianship 4 (Unit Coordination & Learning Design)
- Creative Studio
- KMB351 Creative Performer 4
- KMB319 Music and Sound Production 5
- KMB223 Music and Media
Past units include:
- KMB118 Musicianship 1
- KYB101 Understanding Creative Practice
- KMB137 Critical Listening 1
- KMB139 Critical Listening 2
- KMB237 Critical Listening 3
- KMB239 Critical Listening 4
- KMB250 Creative Performer 1
- KMB251 Creative Performer 2
- KMB350 Creative Performer 3
- KMB351 Creative Performer 4
- Mentoring in Creative Studio units
Sessional Academic at QUT 2007-2012. Associate Lecturer at QUT 2013-ongoing.
Experience
- Go Seigen vs. Fujisawa Kuranosuke album 2015 (cellist) https://bigoandtwigetti.bandcamp.com/album/go-seigen-vs-fujisawa-kuranosuke
- Spaceship Earth EP 2016 (cellist, assistant string recording engineer, assistant producer) https://bigoandtwigetti.bandcamp.com/album/spaceship-earth
Past member of:
- Mr. Maps: e.g. Wire Empire album 2011 (cellist, co-writer) https://mr-maps.bandcamp.com/album/wire-empire
- Tara Simmons: e.g. Spilt Milk album 2007 (co-engineer / mixer / producer, cellist) http://tarasimmons.com/shop/spilt-milk/
Contributed as a session cellist (and composed some string arrangments) for artists including:
- Big Dead, Yeo, The Gin Club, Ben Salter, Hungry Kids of Hungary, Pear and the Awkward Orchestra, Amela, MKO Sun, Bandito Folk.
Project Officer, Engineer, and Producer for Independent Music Project (IMP) at QUT 2011-2012 for the 100 Songs Project.
https://brionyluttrell.com/
Selected publications
- Graham P, Luttrell B, (2019) A rhetoric of style: Eleanor Rigby and the reordering of popular music, Social Semiotics, 29 (2), pp. 222-239.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Briony, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).