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Zane Trow, born in London, England, in 1956, is a versatile artist who has been professionally engaged in contemporary live and sound arts since the mid-1970s. Initially leaving school to pursue art, he shifted his focus to experimental music composition after dropping out of fine art school. Trow's extensive work encompasses creative development, performance art, sound installation, and musical composition for various mediums including dance, theatre, visual arts, and film. He also has experience in contemporary performance direction, community arts, critical writing, arts consultancy, project and curatorial management, festival and event artistic direction, arts management training, and cultural policy activism. His artistic journey includes studying Kathakali dance/drama percussion in India and touring multimedia art across Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and India. Trow employs improvisation and sound art techniques through frequency modulation synthesis and complex digital delay systems, utilizing Ross Bencina's Audiomulch sound software. Recent projects include electronic sound installations for the Centre for Contemporary Photography and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, as well as contributions to George Telek's ARIA award-winning CD and sound art for ABC's "Listening Room." He has performed ambient raga/sound improvisations at dawn in Brisbane's Powerhouse Turbine Hall and is currently collaborating on large-scale sound installation and performance projects with notable artists such as David Toop, Richard Barrett, Scanner, and I/O at South Bank Parklands. As a curator, Trow has been involved

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