Jaslyn Robertson is a multidisciplinary composer, electronic musician and artistic researcher. Her work explores queerness, silence and alternate temporalities through expanded forms of music notation, immersive multimedia and spatial audio. Experimentation is at the core of her practice, and she often collaborates with improvising musicians, writers and fashion designers who share an inclination towards failure, humour and stretched boundaries. Jaslyn’s electronic music draws from the dirty, analogue friction of early synthesizer recordings. She performs noise-drone electronics solo as Drealm and in duos with Darlene Aaron (WE1 XAM) and Iran Sanadzadeh.

For others, her work is both ‘theatrical and demanding’ (Limelight) and ‘evokes a kind of anxiety, a kind of otherness, and yet a joy in this as well, through her creative use of modular synthesis, unconventional tunings, and unusual sounds’ (The Sound Barrier).

Major performances include the premiere of her experimental chamber opera ‘Knots that Bind’ and works performed at Klangwerkstatt Berlin, BIFEM and MONA FOMA, as well as performing electronics in Cat Hope’s opera ‘Speechless’ in Hamburg. Jaslyn has written for Decibel New Music Ensemble, Ossicle Duo, Argonaut string quartet, Kyla Matsuura-Miller and Tristram Williams.

Jaslyn holds a PhD in Music Composition from Monash University.

Excellence in Experimental Music 2020

APRA & AMC Art Music Awards (awarded to the music box project’s performance of shallow listening)

Homophonic Pride Prize 2021

3 Shades Black

Monash Animated Notation Ensemble Commissioning Prize 2020

Monash University

XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word Poetry

Arts Queensland (collaboration with poet Eloise Grills)

Classical Composition Prize 2015

Monash University

Knots that Bind an experimental chamber opera for improvisers, spatialised electronics and multimedia

Performed at David Li Sound Gallery, MPAC by Tina Stefanou, Darlene Aaron, Elizabeth Jigalin, Jane Aubourg, Niki Johnson and Iran Sanadzadeh with text by Eloise Grills and textiles by Alison Pyrke

Rosenhöhe for violin, trombone and electronics

Performed at Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2023 by Myra Hinrichs and Vasily Ratmansky

Blackout Diary for electric guitar, projection and spatialised electronics 13.1

Performed at Hochschule für Musik und Theatre Hamburg by Danica Hobden

Shadow Aria for four performers and spatialised electronics 24.2

Performed at Hochschule für Musik und Theatre Hamburg by Monash Animated Notation Ensemble

Dream-state for solo violin

Performed at Homophonic Festival and Ensemble Offspring's The Mechanical Fiddle by Kyla Matsuura-Miller

A Landscape for spatialised electronics 24.2

Performed at RMIT SIAL Sound Studios

Performed at Melbourne Recital Centre by Ossicle Duo

Uprooting for Minimoog synthesizer

Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2021 (online public workshop)

Computer Virus videographic score for Monash Animated Notation Ensemble

Monash Day of Play (online premiere)

Crush electronic piece, commissioned by Fluxx Club

Fluxx Club Compilation Vol. 1

Erotic Thriller soundscape and spoken word collaboration with Eloise Grills

Melbourne Spoken Word (online premiere)

Ode to Tom Jones: First Horseman of the Apocalypse multimedia collaboration with Eloise Grills

The Lifted Brow: Digital Intimacies Issues (online premiere)

Shallow Listening for voice, theremin and ensemble

Performed at BIFEM 2019 by the music box project

How to regain your virginity in 12 steps a videographic score for 5-string cello

Performed at The Burrow by Nikki Edgar

Southern Bells for bass clarinet and double bass

Performed at Fleece 2017 by Patrick Lyons and Joel Hands-Otte

Woven Tracks for 14 instruments

Performed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as part of Klangwerkstatt 2016, and at the Konzerthaus Berlin in March 2017 by Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Berlin

Aerobatics: 5 miniatures for string quartet

First performed by the Argonaut String Quartet at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music 2016

Wandering for quartertone flugelhorn

Performed by Tristram Williams

Winner of the Monash University Composition Prize 2015