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Han Reardon-Smith (they/them) is a white settler musicker, radio/podcast producer, community organiser, and thinker-scholar living on the unceded land of the Jagera, Yuggera Ugarapul and Turrbal Peoples. Their work and thinking are rooted in queer/trans and disabled collaborative and contaminative co-creation with other “holobionts with history”—soundmakers and artmakers, physical and social environments, ecologies, histories, complicities, and narratives, exploring the emergent possibilities of making-kin and finding agency within community (soundmaking as kinmaking: musickin).

Han works as a postdoctoral research associate to Wiradjuri trans/non-binary Professor Sandy O'Sullivan on their project Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQA+ creative artists in the Critical Indigenous Studies Department (Macquarie University, on Dharug Country) and as part of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures.

As a flutist and electronic musician, Han plays solo under the moniker cyberBanshee, and with Magan-djin's radically inclusive symphonic pop collective Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra, as well as improv and experimentation trios Rogue Three and It’s Science And Feelings. They are one of the community organising thinker-troublemakers behind the Brisbane Free University, its Radical Reading Group, and its 4ZZZ community radio and podcast offshoot, the Radio Reversal Collective. Han also produces the podcast Saltwater Library with RMIT DECRA scholar Dr Rebecca Olive.

Education/Academic qualification

Music, Doctor of Philosophy, Sounding Kin: A Queer-Feminist Thinking of Free Improvisation, Griffith University, Queensland Conservatorium of Music

1 Feb 201721 Jun 2021

Award Date: 16 Nov 2021

Music, Advanced Master of Contemporary Performance Practice, codex: Improvising with the composed structures of Richard Barrett, Hogeschool Gent

1 Sept 201431 Aug 2016

Award Date: 31 Aug 2016

Music, Master of Philosophy in Music Performance, The Other Flautist: Vocal Sounds in Contemporary Flute Music, The University of Queensland

20 Jul 20101 Feb 2013

Award Date: 1 Feb 2013

Music Performance, Bachelor of Music with Honours, What is" new Music"?: An Examination of Music Terminology in the 20th-and 21st Centuries, Griffith University, Queensland Conservatorium of Music

20 Feb 200530 Nov 2008

Award Date: 30 Nov 2008

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