Barry Hill
Barry Hill
Musician, academic, director of SCU Lab X’s Solar Sunflower
Dr Barry Hill has spent 25 years performing and teaching music, and building experimental audio installations at music festivals and events all over the world.
Band credits include instrumental electro artists amphibian, Australian drum n bass pioneers The Bird, Indian Fusion band Dha, Bobby Flynn, Neil Murray to name a few as well as his own project Cyberbass that performed at Splendour in the Grass.
Not content to just be a musician, Barry realized that music and music festivals are important inspirational spaces to demonstrate ways that new technology can work to achieve positive sustainable social change. His PhD Project “Human Machine Music” investigated the way that musicians are early creative adopters of new technology.
Currently teaching at Southern Cross University’s innovative and pioneering Contemporary Music Program located in Lismore NSW, Dr Barry Hill has led the Sunflower Mobile Solar Powered Audio Project and developed a prototype mobile solar generator that has been designed to replace diesel generators at Music festivals.
www.scu.edu.au/business-law-and-arts/research/arts/sunflower-solar-powered-system/