I began my music career as a drummer in an all-female queer funk reggae band, Bertha Control. It was a political band that played at student rallies, Reclaim the Night marches and refugee fundraisers. We had a certain riot grrrl, do it yourself (DIY) ethos, making zines and our own line of screen-printed merchandise from recycled clothing. Bertha Control also aimed to encourage women’s participation in all aspects of music production and performance, from the graphic design to live sound engineering. When it came to the recording studio, however, in the early 2000s in Southeast Queensland, Australia, in the community I was living in, it was difficult to find any women occupying the role of studio sound engineer. This is where I began my career in music technology. I learnt the basics of studio recording and set up a home studio where I played on and recorded Bertha Control’s album, Songs of Sedition.

I have now been a music producer for over twenty years, recording studio albums for artists, producing electronic music and, most recently, creating digital instruments. For the past ten years, I have been collaborating with Melania Jack in a project called The Ironing Maidens. This project explores the parallels between the forgotten career of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram and the stereotypical 1950s housewife.  The Ironing Maidens stage show has toured extensively throughout Australia and Europe, in both laundromats and festivals, including Woodford Folk Festival (2018), Wide Open Spaces (2021), Valley Fiesta (2018), Arts Ablaze (2019) and Fusion Festival (Germany 2014). The laundromat version of the show successfully secured funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, and Arts Queensland through its Playing QLD fund. It also received significant recognition, winning the Innovation Award at the 2019 and 2020 Adelaide Fringe Festival, as well as media appearances on ABC RN (Patrick 2018), and the Today Show (2018).

My latest project Hot & Heavy is an immersive, interactive live show that is part installation, part performance and part banging dance party. Featuring gliding washing machines, a swinging hills hoist, an ironing board electronic band and banging beats. Hot & Heavy is the search for multiple new futures, yearning to find utopia within the banging beat of a broken down washing machine. This project has been commissioned through the Local Giants Program, a partnership between Regional Arts Australia, PAC and Performing Lines, and Cairns Regional Council. Development funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Community engagement funded by Cairns Regional Council through the RADF Major Round. 

• CQUniversity - Master of Research
• CQUniversity - Graduate Certificate in Tertiary and Adult Education
• SAE Byron Bay - Bachelor of Audio Production
• University of Queensland - Bachelor of Occupational Therapy

• SAE Byron Bay - 2012 - 2017

• Pamela Z award for Innovation - The International conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2023
• Best Installation - The International conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2023
• John Chattaway award for Innovation - Adelaide Fringe Festival 2019 & 2020

• Rhianna Patrick - ABC Radio National - How to make electronic music with an ironing board
• Purple Sneakers - You need to hear The Ironing Maidens EP
• CQUni News - Art Installation Earns International Awards
• CQUni News - Maestro makes music memories across Western QLD

• Diploma of Audio Production SAE Byron Bay - 2015 - 2017

• Ableton Live Certified Trainer, July 2021 – present
• Project Manager, Savannah Way Arts Trail. July 2021 – November 2022
• Associate Lecturer. CQ University. September 2017 - present.

Sound Designer. The Trees. September 2020 - present

Collaboration with Victor Steffenson, resonance artists Natalia Mann and Merindi Schreiber. 5.1 channel audio and video work for the National Museum.

• Ableton Live 
• Pro Tools
• Native Instruments
• Izotope
• Qlab
• Pure Data