Category: Video
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1 hour Dream-pop set
I’ve been jumping on Twitch every week or so and improvising on my Teenage Engineering OP-Zs and OP-1 with a bunch of Chase Bliss Guitar pedals.
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TRNSMT TV Performance
I did a performance of some new material on TRNSMT TV for the Beat Collective show. Check out the footage shot by the wonderful Ben Willis.
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QUADwrangle at Arts Centre Melbourne
The QUADwrangle interactive sound sculpture project at Arts Centre Melbourne is all done and dusted (for now!) Arts Centre Melbourne’s youth programmer Dan West arranged for this video to be made, which sum up the project’s aims and intentions pretty well. During the second weekend session we battled a bit to get our awesome sculptural…
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New album… track selection!
I recently talked at one of the Ableton Live User Group meet-ups in Melbourne about how i’ve started the process of creating a new album. I plan to create a series of blog posts about this process as the album evolves, so this first part is all about the initial stage of how and why…
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Face the Music Conference
So I’m doing a presentation at Face the Music conference tomorrow… if you can’t make it.. this video is about 3 minutes of an hour and a half session that I’m doing with the very talented Tim Shiel, about incorporating Ableton Live and Music Tech into your Live Show. I’m talking about using Ableton as…
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Gotta Sleep Now – Live performance video
On this coming Sunday I am presenting and performing at the Ableton Live 9/Push Launch event in Melbourne. I’m presenting about the Toy Harmonium instrument I made that was featured on www.ableton.com. I’ve been busy putting something together to perform at it that uses the Generative piece that I created for the Toy Harmonium Instrument,…
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Winterpark Art Exhibition – Track 12. The night beetle
Track 12… The Night Beetle is the first single from Sunday Morning. OK, I confess… i’m obsessed with the Beatles… and with Sunday Morning I really wanted to create an album that flowed like the B-Side of Abbey Road, where each track seamlessly flows into the next, despite the diversity. This track, is a homage…
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Winterpark Art Exhibition – Track 6. Teenage kicks
Track 6 off Sunday Morning is a swirling indie-rock shoe-gazer called Teenage kicks. Jessica Rizzi, superstar DJ, photographer and all round nice girl, took a step sideways from her usual arts practice of photography to create a stop motion video work for the exhibition. Jess says of the process: “The title of this track coupled…
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Winterpark Art Exhibition – Track 3. Wunderkind
Track 3 on the album is Wunderkind… a somewhat quirky little sound experiment with looped vocals, piano and guitar. For the exhibition, video artist Eugenia Lim combined the track with her work ‘Flowers’. Eugenia says of her work: “Flowers was inspired by my mum’s annual ritual of capturing peonies in bloom. I was interested in…
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