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Isobel D'Cruz Barnes is a Malaysian-Australian musician and ethnomusicologist based between Naarm/Melbourne, AU and the Lenapehoking/Philadelphia, USA. She writes on race, post-colonial theory and subculture and performs/composes as Hantu. Her research has been published by and presented with a range of academic and public organisations (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Memo Magazine, upcoming; Society for Ethnomusicology). In music performance, she holds an AmusA and BMus (Flute), was awarded Best Live Bassist by the National Live Music Awards (2018) and is a student of bansuri virtuoso Vinod Prasanna. She has been nominated for the Australian Music Prize (2019) and the Music Victoria Awards (2019, 2024). She is currently undertaking her PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania.