The Summers Night Project is an ongoing composer-mentoring programme established in 2018 by musicians Cat Hope and Gabriella Smart, with the support of the Perth-based new music organisation Tura New Music. The project aims to support and mentor emerging Australian female and gender minority composers to create new compositions for performance, with the aim of growing the gender diversity of composers in music programmes across Australia. Three composers were chosen from a national call for submissions, and works were performed by an ensemble consisting of members from the Decibel and Soundstream new music ensembles. Three new works were workshopped, recorded then performed on a short tour of Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne, Australia in July 2018. The project takes its name and inspiration from Australian feminist Anne Summers, author of the ground-breaking examination of women in Australia's history Damned Whores and God's Police (1975) and was inspired by her 2017 Women's Manifesto. This article examines the rationale for such a project, the processes and results of the project itself, and plans for its future.

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迈向夏夜：澳大利亚作曲家的女性作曲家指导项目

Summers Night Project 是一个持续的作曲家指导计划，由音乐家 Cat Hope 和 Gabriella Smart 于 2018 年在珀斯的新音乐组织 Tura New Music 的支持下建立。该项目旨在支持和指导新兴的澳大利亚女性和少数性别作曲家创作新的表演作品，旨在提高澳大利亚音乐节目中作曲家的性别多样性。三名作曲家是从全国征集作品中选出的，作品由来自分贝和 Soundstream 新音乐合奏团的成员组成的合奏团演奏。2018 年 7 月，在澳大利亚珀斯、阿德莱德和墨尔本的一次短途巡回演出中，制作、录制了三部新作品。该项目的名称和灵感来自澳大利亚女权主义者 Anne Summers，该死的妓女和上帝的警察（1975 年）并受到她 2017 年的启发妇女宣言. 本文探讨了这样一个项目的基本原理、项目本身的过程和结果，以及未来的计划。