Recent Work
Bliss - An opera by Brett Dean
Early 2010
Im making the sound design with Brett Dean for Bliss - a new Opera Australia Production.
Based on the novel by Peter Carey
Ill also be operating and touring with the opera.
It’s a big surround sound
Dark - Not Too Dark - Alex Harrison
September and February 2010
A collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Alexandra Harrison -
The work explores the pathological patience of a woman who refuses to forget.
Im writing the music for this. A multichannel
Trent Parke | Sydney Opera House Exhibition
October 2009
I’ve just finished a sound design for Trent Parke’s exhibition “Step Quietly, Everyone can hear you”.
It documents backstage areas of the Sydney Opera House.
The exhibition runs until the end of
Laid in Earth - Queensland Music Festival
August 2009
Sound for Damien Barbelor’s new work, commissioned by Queensland Music Festival.
Performance in Cooktown.
From their website -
Laid In Earth, a newly commissioned work from celebrated composer
MOTH BAND - Synergy Percussion
from 2009
Formed in late 2008 this is an offshoot of Synergy percussion, with David Symes and myself joining in the fun.
and there’s an album on the way....
In Timothy’s words:
IN ADDITION TO SYNERGY’S
May 2009
A wonderful, crazy festival, organised by the legendary Christopher Latham.... we did some incredible gigs - including concerts from hot air balloons, inside the dome at the War Memorial, art
ANZAC DAY broadcast from Gallipoli
April 2009
My yearly gig in Turkey - running the sound for the overnight entertainment, the Dawn service from Anzac Cove and the service at Lone Pine.
Each year we present a new piece of music from either an
THE S Q U I D S T R U M E N T
February 2009
The Squidstrument is a little instrument that was spawned from the interactive dance research I’ve been doing with the dancer Fiona Malone. Only instead of tracking a dancer’s movements, it’s
Kalkadunga Yurdu - Song Company
January 2009
This CD was a huge recording project for the Song Company, featuring William Bowden on didge and music by Ross Edwards, Dufay, de Cluny, Sarah Hopkins. Recorded at the Sydney Con’s Verbruggen Hall.
DodgySound-Sound PA and ELA services.
A collective of experienced sound engineers, sensitive to the needs of the Classical and Contemporary Classical music scene.
We use high quality speakers and mics, all Meyer PAs, programmable
tripod
late 2008 - 2009
Tripod was collaboration with Fiona Malone and myself.
Its a dance work - with live music - performed live by both the dancer and myself, both of us using video and motion sensing interactive
Various New Music - Live Production
2008
Live Sound Mix for various New Music Concerts. Including : Continuum Sax, David Chesworth Ensemble, Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Chamber Choir, Genevieve Lacey, MLC college, Fritz Hauser (in this pic)
Stories of Love and Hate
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
A collaboration with director Ros Oades and Urban Theatre Projects.
Developed in response to the 2005 Cronulla riots, Stories of Love & Hate is a new performance that draws upon sound
The Song Company
Various recordings- 2006->
I’ve been working on many recordings for the extremely prolific Song Company, led by Roland Peelman. Recently, this has included recordings of music by Martin Wesley Smith, Andrew Schultz, Lisa Lim.
Time and Space / Fritz Hauser + Synergy
June 2008
Another Collaboration with Synergy. We spent a week rehearsing at Bundanon. Four crazy drummers and me locked up in a small room - very intense, but what came out was quite incredible, I think!
Australian Chamber Orchestra
June 2008
Record and mix the ACO with Lyle Chan, producer, as part of the BBC’s travel documentary “Classical Destinations”. 5.1 recording, scheduled to be Australia’s first Blue Ray disc release. It was
Timothy Constable - BLUR
April 2008
This was Timothy’s solo recital, after he won the Freedman Fellow scholarship. He, somewhat bravely, decided to do it with me, in the role of Sound Designer / Performer.
We had about a week and a
Ensemble Offspring
Various shows 2008
Live sound for many Ensemble Offspring gigs including Cage Uncaged at Carriageworks, september 2007, A Line has Two at Bangarra theatre May 2008, Waiting to turn into Puzzles, at the Chauvel Cinema,
Anzac Day - Gallipoli
April 08 - yearly
Audio Director and pre recording for the musical parts of the event in Sydney.
For the last few years I’ve been making the pre-records of the music for this event, with Chris Latham. This year it
Omar Faruk Tekbilek
March 2008
FOH sound for the national tour - Sydney Concert Hall, Melbourne Hamer Hall, Perth Concert Hall, Four Winds Festival - Bermaguie NSW
Four Winds Festival - Bermaguie NSW
March 2006,2008
Audio Director for the Four Winds Festival, directed both years by the legendary Chris Latham. Recording and Amplification.
Xenia Hanusiak One Thousand Doors One Thousand Windows
2007, 2008
Sound for the 1000 Doors 1000 Windows tour - Melbourne, Tasmania, Mildura, Adelaide, Canberra.
'This was a virtuoso performance by the Soprano Xenia Hanusiak, a sequence of three challenging
Nigel Kennedy Tours
2005, 2008
Australian Tours, working as broadcast engineer, and live sound amplification, including outdoor orchestral concerts in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
Tripod - Interactive Dance Research
December 2007
Fiona Malone and I received a grant from Critical Path, NSW to make some research into dance with a motion sensor system, an Instrumentalist and a laptop performer.
This research is to continue
Paradise City - Branch Nebula Productions
October 2007
I wrote the soundtrack with Inga Liljestrom for this show, which premiered in the Sydney Opera House Studio. In October we toured it to four Cities in Brazil as part of the local Dance festivals.
The 5 Elements
Saturday, 4 August 2007, Angel Place
My first collaboration with Synergy Percussion with James Coates. It featured Ancient instruments (Synergy, Taikoz, Riley Lee and Danny Yeadon): Gongs from China, Drums from Japan, Bowls from the
Everything’s Fucked - the musical
July 2007
I worked as recording and mixing engineer on this one. The latest of Sean Peter’s fantastic musicals.The show was performed to multi channel backing - live vocals. So we recorded the score and made
Kaidan - A Ghost Story - Meryl Tankard
Jan 2007
Sound design and operate for the Dance work, commissioned by Sydney Festival. Meryl Tankard coreographer, music by Taikoz, with Timothy Constable. Images Regis Lansac.
Big surround installation in
Nigel Westlake - Recording / editing
Late 2006
Record SBS news theme. Post production for ABC recording of “Antarctica” and “Shadow Dances” with Slava Grigorian.
One Week in White - NDT and Mukaiyama
October 2006
After meeting Tomoko Mukaiyama at the Sydney Biennale, I collaborated on this crazy gig - live processing and composition with the Nederlands Dans Theatre, in Aoyama, Japan. It was a crazy gig in a
Quiet Music for Quiet People
some time in 2006
Inga Liljestrom put together this band of various improvisors to make this CD - with me on laptop - probably one of my first gigs on the other side of the glass! The sessions went surprisingly well,
Fiona Malone - Reticence
2006
Original Composition for Fiona’s solo, commissioned by One Extra Dance company.
Very dark music for a very dark work! fun.
Songwriting collaborations - HiFi Mike
2004
With Inga Liljestrom and Mike Wells, co-wrote a couple of songs - “I’ll Carry You” which was later to appear on Carmen Rizzo’s solo album and “Bloodstain” which made it to the Sundance Film Festival
