A/Prof Kim Cunio, Head of the School of Music at the Australian National University (ANU), is a composer, performer and researcher interested in old and new musics and the role of music in making sense of our larger world. Kim is a Grammy Long listed composer and recipient of the ABC Golden Manuscript Award whose compositions have been played at the White House, United Nations, and in many countries. Commissioning organisations include the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music (USA). Kim is working on a series of albums with the Gyuto Monks of Tibet; a project setting the sounds of space with the British Antarctic Survey; a music and health research hub at the ANU and a project on forced feticide in India. Kim writes for the Deans and Directors of the Creative Arts, the Crawford Centre for Public Policy at the ANU. He has a regular segment on ABC Radio to discuss music and the larger world and also hosts a daily half hour TV show on Indian television with an estimated audience of 100 million.