I was asked to design the cover artwork for Japanese band Cliche’s new music single release [website]
Available on iTunes in U.S., Australia/N.Z., Canada, UK/European Union, Japan and Mexico

Makers of Melbourne is a cultural website, focused on what makes Melbourne tick, what makes it in music, fashion, food, art and other cultural events. I was asked to design the logo and website that would cross the boundaries between elegant design and street realities, between the catwalk and the sidewalk. The site will expand over time, with new features added as they position themselves as the leading place to view what makes it in Melbourne.

sound.transmission.light is an audio responsive artwork developed in Berlin and combines light & video projection together with a unique paper panel construction. The transmission of light through the naturally dyed paper has beautiful properties and gives character to the light and video; a fusion of organic and digital is the outcome.

The project is a collaboration between Australian artists On-Yau Lui (based in Berlin) & Richard Byers (Sydney) and local musicians, In Tokyo, Yukiko Tsuda, Mayumi Ishida & Marimi Morito, in Berlin Felix Haenel, and in Sydney, John Maddox, Wayne Wormald, Danny Graham & Mark Piccles. The artwork responds to audio played by the musicians and creates an intimate performance of music, surface & light.

The artwork has been presented in Berlin & Tokyo in 2009 and is now being performed in Sydney.

Project website  sound.transmission.light

Photos from previous events

Video documentary of sound.transmission.light – Tokyo 31st October 2009.
Music by Yukiko Tsuda, Marimi Morito & Mayumi Ishida

Video of sound . transmission . light Sydney Fox Valley performance 8th March 2010.
Music by John Maddox

Video of sound . transmission . light Sydney St Petersburg performance 26th March 2010.
Music by Wayne Wormald, Danny Graham, Mark Piccles

Lawrence Pike performed at Mils gallery, a small emerging artists venue in Sydney in December 2009, I was lucky enough to hear about it and be in town for it. It was very interesting to see a yougner generation witness his craftsmanship on the drums, I don’t think many of them knew what they were about to see or how incredible he is. Thanks Mr L Pike for the lesson. Lawrence has been in many bands, my favourite was Triosk, but Pivot aren’t bad either ;)

CTM.10 – OVERLAP

As their site says “Berlin’s unique Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts”

and i’ll be missing it again, like last year.. oh well i hope to make it one day.. maybe 2011

but they have a gift, in the form of a music compliation

get the music compliation here

As part of Cyclic Defrost Magazine [issue 23] I attended Sonar 2009 in Barcelona. What resulted was a series of photographs and a short video of my experience there. If you are in Australia pick up a copy of the magazine. or check out the webpage http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/sonar2009/

Felix plays clarinet with the paper panels as an experiment

Tsumugine a wonderful group of women whose performance i was lucky enough to see while in Tokyo February this year. this video was taken at another show they did in May this year.
http://www.tsumugine.com/

Have started to listen more closely to lyrics in Björk’s songs, currently listening to Wanderlust on Volta