Creative Work (Overview)
Music Composition, Sonic Art, Radio Art
Sound Art Installations, Public Art, Cross Discipline, Intermedia
Live Performances
Discography
Sound Art Installations, Public Art, Cross Discipline, Intermedia
Live Performances
Discography
"… amongst the most significant Australian creative artists of his generation, a composer/sound artist who has created a significant body of important work in a relatively short time, work which spans installation, sound art, fìlm, radiophonic works, and beyond, with many of these works having gained international attention."
- John Davis, CEO Australian Music Centre, 25 February 2011
Music Composition, Sonic Art, Radio Art
Film, TV & Radio Soundtracks - Theatre & Dance Compositions & Soundscapes - Electroacoustic Compositions - Sonic Art Works - Radio Art Works
Major works include:
Dreaming Backwards Through Morning (duration 20:00)
A Lullaby for the New Lands (duration 20:00)
Machine Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - collaborative artist residency work with Tin Dožic (duration 45:00)
Soundprints as Memory - Kunstradio - Radiokunst broadcast of live performance at Alte Schmiede (duration 43:00)
The Road to Ixtlan - collaborative work with dancer Dayana Hristova (duration 40:00)
The London Ear Drops (duration 25:00)
Sliced and Diced - live radio performance for Kunstradio, ÖRF (duration 51:40)
I No Mad - collaborative transdisciplinary performance (duration 50:00)
Sonic Reflections - Deutschlandradio Kultur commission (duration 51:30)
The Shifting Sands of Cymru (duration 25:00)
Out Of Thin Air : Radio Art Essay #1 (duration 25:00)
In Search of Captain Cat of Llareggub (duration 25:00)
Soundprints: A Likeness of Ljubljana (duration 44:40)
Semblance (duration 47:31)
Out In The Open (duration 53:50)
Soundprints: Sealed In Sweden (duration 51:00)
Kilian’s Antipodean Dream (duration 52:00)
Ćišina (duration 53:30)
Soundprints: The Prague Pressings (duration 20:00)
Longing, Love & Loss (duration 53:00)
Alien in The Landscape (duration 42:00)
Soundprints: The Greek Imprints Series (duration 58:21)
Greek Imprints: The Asklepia and the Conscious Dreamer (duration 41:00)
The Ears Outside My Listening Room (duration 52:00)
Sound Art Installations, Public Art, Cross Discipline, Intermedia
Works include:
A Backdrop for the Broken Hearted, multi-room sound installation, Museum of Broken Relationships (Zagreb), 30 April and ongoing for 5years.
Adrenaline, sound installation with visual artist David Istvan at Alkatraz Gallery (Ljubljana), 4 - 25 November.
Untouchable Sound installed at the Sound Reasons Festival IV (Bangalore, India), 22 – 24 January 2016
Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (with dancers Črt Trček [a.k.a. Gregor Kamnikar], Radharani Pernarčič and Dayana Hristova; Motion Capture by Dayana Hristova and Bartłomiej Mróz)
Slice & Dice 5 channel sound installation with visual artist David Istvan, CSU Vodnikova domačija (Ljubljana)
Double World installation with the tranSTURM collective, commissioned by the Sydney Olympic Park Authority
Corfu Art Gallery, Art Room (Garden of the People).
Soundprints: Sealed in Sweden, sound installation, for the Verge Gallery's BIG DAY IN! "Sound Plaza" launch
Ćišina, Sorbisches Museum, Bautzen, Germany
On The Edge of Silence #1, the Hardware Gallery, Sydney
Alien In The Landscape: The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Open Day.
Alien In The Landscape: The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG), Australiasian Computer Music Association Conference, University of Sydney
Butter Churn sound sculpture installation, Lismore City Council
Floodscape sound installation, NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts)
Live Performances
Performances include:
Gloves, Masks & Confinement (live online via Facebook) (duration 25:00), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 18 April 2020
No Plan (duration 50:00), Improvised collaborative work with Manja Ristic & Igor Stangliczky at Dim, Cetinjska 15a Belgrade, Serbia, 5 January 2020
Machine Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (duration 45:00), Collaborative work with Tin Dožic for the Perforacije Festival (Zagreb), Kazalište Teatar ITD, Zagreb, 3 July 2018
Sonophobia: (Re/Creation Data Set #4) (duration 40:00), Art of Sound series performance, Western Sydney University, 27 July 2017
Cutting Off The 1% (duration 39:00), Live performance and broadcast at Cashmere Radio, Berlin, 20 June 2017
Four on the Floor Mistery Jam (duration 35:00), Improvised music with guitarist Matty Martinez, Live performance and broadcast, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, 20 June 2017
Soundprints as Memory (duration 43:00), Kunstradio - Radiokunst broadcast of live performance at Alte Schmiede, Vienna on Österreich 1 (Ö1) ÖRF (Austria), 18 June 2017
The Road to Ixtlan (duration 40:00), collaborative work with dancer Dayana Hristova Rhiz, Vienna, Austria, 8 June 2017
VOLumNA Black (duration 50:00), collaborative cross discipline performative-sound installation with Radharani Pernarčič and Črt Trček (a.k.a. Gregor Kamnikar), Alkatraz Gallery (Ljubljana), 10 November 2016
I No Mad (duration 50:00) Institut Dr. Schmida, Lehargasse 1/2, 1060 Vienna, Austria, 25 June 2016
collaborative transdisciplinary performance with dancer and and cognitive scientist, Dayana Hristova
Sliced and Diced (duration 51:40) Kunstradio - Radiokunst live radio performance on Österreich 1 (Ö1) ÖRF (Austria), 19 June 2016
Sonophobia (version three), SPEKTRUM art_technology_community (Berlin), 2 June 2016
In And Out Of The Air, live broadcast, Cashmere Radio (Berlin), 31 May 2016
Sonophobia (version two), The NOW now Festival 2016 107 Projects (Redfern, Sydney), 21 January 2016
“A Disembodied Voice In [5.1 Surround Sound Radio] Space,” The 2015 Annual Conference of the Australasian Computer Music Association,
University of Technology, Sydney, 19 November 2015
Sonophobia, Alpha Waves Series #4, Alpha House Artist Co Operative Erskineville (Sydney), 6 November 2015
Dynamically Adjusting Sonic Difficulties, Harvestworks (New York), 27 June 2015
The Cracks In The Mind Between Here And There!, part of the 'WTF is "experimental" music?' series at Panoply Performance Laboratory (Brooklyn), 24 June 2015
Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (an intermedia performance art/installation work),CSU Vodnikova domačija (Ljubljana), 28 March 2015
Black Brick (collaborative improvised work with Miha Ciglar) Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Lubljana, Slovenia, 10 June 2014 and MCO, Mladinski Center, Ormož, Slovenia, 11 June 2014
Kilian’s Antipodean Dream (Octophonic version), diffused live at Phonos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Semblance (Sixteen Channel version), Hangar in Barcelona (Spain) for Orquesta del Caos, 7 May 2013
“A Disembodied Voice In [5.1 Surround Sound Radio] Space,” IMMERSION surround sound concert, presented by Chronology Arts and the New Music Network, 29 October 2011, The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville, Australia
Soundprints: Sealed in Sweden Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 10 December 2011
Gloves, Masks & Confinement (live online via Facebook) (duration 25:00), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 18 April 2020
No Plan (duration 50:00), Improvised collaborative work with Manja Ristic & Igor Stangliczky at Dim, Cetinjska 15a Belgrade, Serbia, 5 January 2020
Machine Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (duration 45:00), Collaborative work with Tin Dožic for the Perforacije Festival (Zagreb), Kazalište Teatar ITD, Zagreb, 3 July 2018
Sonophobia: (Re/Creation Data Set #4) (duration 40:00), Art of Sound series performance, Western Sydney University, 27 July 2017
Cutting Off The 1% (duration 39:00), Live performance and broadcast at Cashmere Radio, Berlin, 20 June 2017
Four on the Floor Mistery Jam (duration 35:00), Improvised music with guitarist Matty Martinez, Live performance and broadcast, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, 20 June 2017
Soundprints as Memory (duration 43:00), Kunstradio - Radiokunst broadcast of live performance at Alte Schmiede, Vienna on Österreich 1 (Ö1) ÖRF (Austria), 18 June 2017
The Road to Ixtlan (duration 40:00), collaborative work with dancer Dayana Hristova Rhiz, Vienna, Austria, 8 June 2017
VOLumNA Black (duration 50:00), collaborative cross discipline performative-sound installation with Radharani Pernarčič and Črt Trček (a.k.a. Gregor Kamnikar), Alkatraz Gallery (Ljubljana), 10 November 2016
I No Mad (duration 50:00) Institut Dr. Schmida, Lehargasse 1/2, 1060 Vienna, Austria, 25 June 2016
collaborative transdisciplinary performance with dancer and and cognitive scientist, Dayana Hristova
Sliced and Diced (duration 51:40) Kunstradio - Radiokunst live radio performance on Österreich 1 (Ö1) ÖRF (Austria), 19 June 2016
Sonophobia (version three), SPEKTRUM art_technology_community (Berlin), 2 June 2016
In And Out Of The Air, live broadcast, Cashmere Radio (Berlin), 31 May 2016
Sonophobia (version two), The NOW now Festival 2016 107 Projects (Redfern, Sydney), 21 January 2016
“A Disembodied Voice In [5.1 Surround Sound Radio] Space,” The 2015 Annual Conference of the Australasian Computer Music Association,
University of Technology, Sydney, 19 November 2015
Sonophobia, Alpha Waves Series #4, Alpha House Artist Co Operative Erskineville (Sydney), 6 November 2015
Dynamically Adjusting Sonic Difficulties, Harvestworks (New York), 27 June 2015
The Cracks In The Mind Between Here And There!, part of the 'WTF is "experimental" music?' series at Panoply Performance Laboratory (Brooklyn), 24 June 2015
Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (an intermedia performance art/installation work),CSU Vodnikova domačija (Ljubljana), 28 March 2015
Black Brick (collaborative improvised work with Miha Ciglar) Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Lubljana, Slovenia, 10 June 2014 and MCO, Mladinski Center, Ormož, Slovenia, 11 June 2014
Kilian’s Antipodean Dream (Octophonic version), diffused live at Phonos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Semblance (Sixteen Channel version), Hangar in Barcelona (Spain) for Orquesta del Caos, 7 May 2013
“A Disembodied Voice In [5.1 Surround Sound Radio] Space,” IMMERSION surround sound concert, presented by Chronology Arts and the New Music Network, 29 October 2011, The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville, Australia
Soundprints: Sealed in Sweden Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 10 December 2011
Discography
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