Dr Hilary Rhodes graduated on December the 17th 2003 with a Doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong.

Dr Rhodes has a Master in Design (digital media) from the University of Western Sydney which is right next door to the Nepean Institute of TAFE, Kingswood Campus where she teaches graphic design and multimedia. These institutes are situated at the foot of the Blue Mountains about 30km from Sydney.

Dr Rhodes formerly completed a Grad. Dip. Design and later, a teaching Diploma at the University of Technology, Sydney, a Graphic Design Certificate from Randwick TAFE, now at Enmore Design Centre and an Architectural Draftsmen’s (sic) Certificate from Ultimo TAFE, both colleges are part of Sydney Institute of Technology.

This website is an historical document and was state of the art in 1995, when everything had to be hand coded.

As part of her masters by coursework degree, Dr Rhodes created a web-based interactive tutorial on a 3D application, namely Bryce (early version). The Bryce ‘Deep Texture Cookbook’ is now available at HomePage.mac.

Dr Rhodes has another website at Homepage Mac containing photographs of Australia and overseas

• Book with interactive DVD, Exploration Without Boundaries: Virtual Voyages into Virtual Landscapes, published by Melbourne University Publishing, was launched in August 2005 at Gleebooks.
• There is now an article about on the Mac Pro site by Barbara Gibson.
• Doctoral thesis which is on the University of Wollongong’s thesis database.
• Settler's match CD “Transitions” - a rock/celtic fusion band
• CD graphics for (un)Australian singer/songwriter extraordinaire, David Benuik
• Rebrand Wollongong - a satellite exhibition of the Sydney Biennale
• Website for Pastance celtic/early music fusion group
• A cover for an East Timor Tetum dictionary
• An experimental section through a building in rendered in Bryce as a QTVR file.
• A Bryce Gallery
• An interactive set of Bryce landscape scenes in cubic QTVR and a small lightning experiment in a movie made from a Bryce scene.
• See Graeme’s graphic design work on his website: he completed his Diploma at St George TAFE in 2000.
• Exhibition at the FCA at Wollongong University on August 15th 2003. Exploration Without Boundaries: Virtual Voyages into Virtual Landscapes. Here is a small selection of images and parody postcards from the interactive work which comprised 46 QTVR movies (three of these are at HomePage.mac) directional sound, a virtual compass and 17 Quicktime movies of the scenes.
• Travel pages in Australia or Overseas;

For great travel advice and travel videos, see Mazen Al-Angary's Podcast and Blog page Explorepod.

Dr Rhodes also performs a Medieval and Renaissance music with her partner, Graeme, in a group known as the Minisingers as well as Venetian Brass, an early brass group, specialising in Venetian music of the high Renaissance.

The following songs are all MP3 encoded.

Hilary and Graeme sing the consort song, Sweet, they say such virtue lies by Richard Nicholson (d. 1639) performed with recorders and viol. This was recorded in concert around 1992 at Christchurch St. Laurence in Sydney. Accompaniment by recorder players, Dr. Peter Petocz, Dr. Lance Eccles, Robert Small, Dr. Bernie Williams and Dr. Agnes Petocz of the Reluctant Consort. Graeme also played the viol on one of the lines (3.5 MB).

Bryd one Brere is my favourite c1300 English mediaeval song, sung and played by Hilary and Graeme. This was recorded by Charles Barton at St. Stephens Newtown, on a very (audibly) windy night in 1988 and later broadcast on 2MBS FM Sydney's public fine music station (3.5 MB).

Listen to the Morley Consort (QE I’s dance band) playing Joyne Hands, by Thomas Morley, this is a jaunty number from his Consort Lessons, 1599 with authentic instrumentation: viols, cittern, lute, pandora, flute and violin. Malcom and Meredith Lawn on violin and viol, others as above. Recorded in rehearsal at Erskineville Holy Trinity Anglican Church in 1992 (1.4 MB).

The exciting sound of an antiphonal Canzon, La Leona, 1608 by C. Gussago. With Graeme on mute cornet, krummhorns and strings. Liz Jones, Hilary and Madeleine on Krumms, Graeme on cornetto and other musicians as above. Recorded in rehearsal as above. Apologies to any musicians I have omitted (3.0 MB).

Finally, Delight is Dead, another very beautiful viol consort song by Byrd, is sung by Hilary (Soprano) and Graeme (counter-tenor), with Meredith and Malcolm Lawn, Ted Granlund, Graeme Stentiford and Liz Jones on viols. Recorded as above (3.7 MB).

These pages were last updated on Sat, 18 Aug 2007