Recent Work

Bliss - An opera by Brett Dean

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:34:28 +1100

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 e

Dark - Not Too Dark - Alex Harrison

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:09:30 +1100

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 wor

Trent Parke | Sydney Opera House Exhibition

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:34:19 +1100

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 Janu

Laid in Earth - Queensland Music Festival

Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:25:32 +1000

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 Damia

Recent CD Mixing Projects

Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:27:45 +1000

Lucie Thorne “Black Across the Field”

DodgySound-Sound PA and ELA services.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:37:15 +1100

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 console

MOTH BAND - Synergy Percussion

Tue, 5 May 2009 20:20:49 +1000

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 CONTI

Canberra International Music Festival

Tue, 5 May 2009 18:21:11 +1000

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 Gallerie

ANZAC DAY broadcast from Gallipoli

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:07:10 +1000

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 Aus

THE S Q U I D S T R U M E N T

Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:22:55 +1100

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 tracking

Kalkadunga Yurdu - Song Company

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:28:43 +1100

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. Re

tripod

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:25:40 +1100

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 techniqu

Various New Music - Live Production

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:23:53 +1100

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)

Xenia Hanusiak One Thousand Doors One Thousand Windows

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 15:13:00 +1100

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 composit

Songwriting collaborations - HiFi Mike

Sat, 9 Jul 2005 18:32:56 +1000

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 a

Nigel Westlake - Recording / editing

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:29:58 +1000

Record SBS news theme. Post production for ABC recording of “Antarctica” and “Shadow Dances” with Slava Grigorian.

Ensemble Offspring

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:41:26 +1000

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, J

The 5 Elements

Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:26:20 +1000

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 Hima

Stories of Love and Hate

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:22:40 +1000

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 installati

One Week in White - NDT and Mukaiyama

Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:12:19 +1000

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 hu

Quiet Music for Quiet People

Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:06:14 +1000

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, a

The Song Company

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:39:41 +1000

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. A

Time and Space / Fritz Hauser + Synergy

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:55:58 +1000

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!

Timothy Constable - BLUR

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:34:06 +1000

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 ha

Tripod - Interactive Dance Research

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:27:28 +1100

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 late

Everything’s Fucked - the musical

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:19:33 +1000

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 th

Kaidan - A Ghost Story - Meryl Tankard

Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:12:37 +1100

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 the

Four Winds Festival - Bermaguie NSW

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:48:59 +1100

Audio Director for the Four Winds Festival, directed both years by the legendary Chris Latham. Recording and Amplification.

Australian Chamber Orchestra

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:40:00 +1000

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 techni

Nigel Kennedy Tours

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:34:34 +1100

Australian Tours, working as broadcast engineer, and live sound amplification, including outdoor orchestral concerts in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Paradise City - Branch Nebula Productions

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:12:39 +1000

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. It’s

Fiona Malone - Reticence

Sat, 8 Jul 2006 15:05:26 +1000

Original Composition for Fiona’s solo, commissioned by One Extra Dance company. Very dark music for a very dark work! fun.

Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:00:26 +1100

FOH sound for the national tour - Sydney Concert Hall, Melbourne Hamer Hall, Perth Concert Hall, Four Winds Festival - Bermaguie NSW

Anzac Day - Gallipoli

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:24:53 +1100

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 was