cyberbanshee / Han

han reardon-smith

m u s i c k i n c o m p a n i o n – t h i n k e r

cyberBanshee aka Han Reardon-Smith (they/them) is a queer-trans white colonial-settler flutist, electronic musician, improviser, radio producer, community organiser, writer, researcher, and thinker living on the unceded land of the Yuggera Ugarapul, and Turrbal Peoples. Their music explores the sweetness in unsettling difficulty, and reveals the monsters lurking in traditionally beautiful instruments. Their work and thinking are rooted in queer and feminist collaborative and contaminative co-creation with other soundmakers and artmakers, physical and social environments, ecologies, histories, and narratives, exploring the possibilities of making-kin and finding agency within community. cyberBanshee is a musical haunting/invocation rooted in the understanding that the musicker is never alone. Han is a postdoctoral research associate at Macquarie University, supporting Wiradjuri trans-nonbinary Professor Sandy O’Sullivan’s ARC Future Fellowship project, Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists.