Photo: Greg Harm
News
Quite the soniferous spring this year! September saw immersive COMA concerts and my piano collaboration Sanctuary x Mill; October featured Channelling Dulcie’s Piano and news of my 2026 Elizabeth Wood Fellowship. Up next: my octophonic work Volumes at On the Terrace and a Watershed revival for Feast Festival.
After a big year of travel and projects overseas, I’m back in Australia and diving into the next phase of the ARC Fine Tuning project while stepping into my new role as President of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology. It’s been great mentoring at the Soundstream Emerging Composers Forum, playing in a few Fringe shows, and getting ready for new performances at ANAT SPECTRA and Chamber Music Adelaide later this year.
recapping on further adventures, including escapes to Greece and London, a month-long artist residency in Florida, and return home via Chicago, Amsterdam and Berlin…
these past months have been a blur of planes, poems, and polar patterns of sound — birthday beaches in Thailand, sticky nights in Bangkok, elephants in Chiang Mai 🐘, then on to misty Scottish hills, old family hearths, and Fringe chaos under Arthur’s Seat 🏴.
from there: York, where I deepened my ambisonic practice among ivy-covered studios and Viking echoes. Birmingham brought speakers like constellations, BEAST shows, Tolkien woods, and slow field recordings under a quieter autumn sky 🍂.
somewhere in between: ruined pianos, sacred ruins, synchronicities with strangers who weren’t strangers after all.
FEATURED PoDCAST:
The APple AND BISCUIT SHOW
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Tutorial for the Handbook for Acoustic Ecology (2025)
A 12-part course by Barry Truax starting May 25, delivered by Jesse Budel for Pacific time-zone participants
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Murray Bridge Piano Sanctuary
an ephemeral sculpture park in Murray Bridge, South Australia
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Considering Matthew Shepard // Adelaide, October 23
A modern-day passion that reaches through tragedy to find peace, understanding and life-affirming joy.
7:30pm October 12-14 2023
Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide -
Channelling Dulcie's Piano: How the River Taught the Piano To Sing
An 8-day, 2500-kilometre journey along the riverlines of the Murray-Darling basin, featuring Vanessa Tomlinson, Jesse Budel, Greg Harm and Dulcie the pianola
Events
As part of Chamber Music Adelaide’ ‘On The Terrace 2025’ festival, Composer Jesse Budel presents Volumes, a new work developed during his residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, as part of his 2024 Arts SA Fellowship.