Last month I contributed to a project by a visual artist working in Zurich called Veronika Spierenburg. Spierenburg engaged sound recordists to undertake field recording in cities that were currently under various stages of “lockdown” due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From Veronika’s briefing: Now, cities breathe for themselves. City pitches are reset; an extraordinary crisis … Read more Mass Files
I currently have a sound installation called Beneath the Surface at Enlighten Festival which runs each evening from 1 March until 10 March in Canberra. The festival is based around projections onto the national institutions based in the parliamentary triangle including the National Library of Australia, Questacon, National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery of Australia and … Read more Beneath the Surface
The six part short series Dayne’s World (https://www.facebook.com/DaynesWorldSeries/) has been picked up to air on ABC’s iView platform. Congratulations to Dayne, Mike and all the rest of the crew that put it together. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/daynes-world-picked-up-by-abcs-iview-20160205-gmmfuz.html
I had the pleasure of working on the Audio Tour for the Tom Roberts Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. The exhibition opened just the other day, and will run through until 28 March 2016. Tom Roberts is a very important artist in Australian history, and this is a fantastic exhibition that I look … Read more Tom Roberts Exhibition Audio Tour
I came across an interesting list of sound effects and how to make them on Epic Sound’s blog. Some of these are classic sound design elements, while some of them are quite abstract. Check it out at: http://www.epicsound.com/sfx/?hc_location=ufi
The other week Andrew Mooney and I had some fun making all sorts of noise using no input mixing techniques. You check check out more details at: http://www.infidelstudios.com.au/no-input-no-idea Here are some sounds for you to check out:
Around 18 months ago Ayla Pentikainen and I put together an installation for the Burning Seed festival which is held near Matong, NSW. The festival is an offshoot of the Burning Man festival in USA, and is not-for-profit and based around art and community. For more information about the festival, check out http://www.burningmanaustralia.com/burning-seed The theme … Read more Mythinterpret
Back in March we tried a little experiment in the recording studio. We recorded a whole band using only speakers as microphones. The whole thing was pretty fun and I’m editing together a bit of video from the session to post up for people to check out soon. The picture below is the vocal speaker … Read more Speaker Mic Recording