Projects

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This project is heaps fun for me, because I just do whatever I want. That may sound hedonisitic, but it’s important that we are allowed to have some fun. This is my playspace, where I learn through practice that embraces and accepts a broad range of skills, desires, concepts/ideas in a way that experiments with process above product…

Weird Nest, the small arts org I co-direct with Dean Walsh, has been awarded a City of Sydney grant to create a monthly series of improvisation based performances at Low302. It is a “Queer” project, that is, it involves artists who don’t conform 100% in regards to their gender, sexuality, identity. I’m one of the artistic facilitators, and I’m producing the series. Insta: Weirding.ways

An ongoing queer contemporary music duo between Miles Horler and I, we both perform on multiple instruments and electronics, though our main duo setup is both singing whilst performing cello. We’re both con-trained composers, and this is an improvisation based project. nurosynk.bandcamp.com

A Weird Nest project led by choreographer Dean Walsh, “True to Nature” is a work being developed with a group of young people living with disability. I’m a co-facilitator on the project, as well as composer, and performer. The project is supported by Waverley Council, with its first development in 2022 and a performance season projected for mid-2023.

Choreographer Henrietta Baird is leading the development of this new work which I’m composing and designing sound for. We had a development in 2021 at Critical Path, followed by another in Carriageworks in 2022, and the project continues its development….

Milk Crate Theatre and ACON’s “the Love Project” was a weekly catch up with senior queer people in an artistic workshop led by Dean Walsh. I was composer on the project and we completed with a showing in 2022.

In June 2022 I participated in Performance Space’s Queer Nu Werk program, developing and presenting “Theare” as a stage presence. I performed a solo work-in-progress transitioning from a multi-character being into a fully integrated version of self through a journey of percussion, recorder, cello, movement and video.

A projected presented during March Dance 2022, I composed music for Josh Freedman’s work about his queer identity.

Dean Walsh and I made 3 performances for Performance Space’s “Day for Night” in october 2021. I performed live improvised sound (various instruments and electronics) and movement.

I wrote the music and collaborated on the development of this work with Dean Walsh through our company Weird Nest over 3 years with support from FORM Dance Projects, Sydney Opera House, Accessible Arts and Critical Path. It has a broadcast with an online panel discussion as part of Sydney Fringe Festival’s 2021 digital program.

I composed and collaborated on the development of this work with Dean Walsh through our company Weird Nest over a 2 year period. Its development was supported by Brand X and Critical Path, and had a presentation in March Dance in 2021. It was selected to be featured in the Made in Sydney Program by Sydney Fringe Festival in 2021, however that program has been postponed to 2022.

Supported by Create NSW and private supporters, I collaborated with poet Chris Mansell to compose and produce Seven Stations, released by Hospital Hill, recorded at Trackdown Studios with Anna Fraser, Alison Morgan, Josh Hill, Stephan Duwe, Joe Manton and Ezmi Pepper in 2013.

I was the inaugural composer in residence for the Bundanon Trust / Prelude Foundtion’s Gallop House residency in 2016. I spent 6 months here and extended my time in Perth by taking a writers residency at the Mattie Furfy House whilst I created several compositions and continued creative practice development.

As Artistic Director of the Aurora Festival of Living Music, in 2012 I lead a team of artists and proudcers to curate and produce a series of events accross Western Sydney of New Music, incluidng commissioniong and presenting new music, bringing in international acts and promoting new music to new audiences.

From 2013-2016 I curated and helped to produce the Vivid@Seymour New Wave: Sound program featuring local and interstate artists in an experimental music program s part of the Vivid Festival, supported by Australia Council for the Arts, hosted by Seymour Centre.

I was Artistic Director of this regional arts festival from 2012-2015, curating and producing events by artists local to the region as well as artists from intercity and interstate.

In late 2013 I established Arts Illuminated Pty Ltd to buy and publish Limelight Magazine to prevent its closure (as its then publisher, Haymarket, were downsizing). I lead a small team through a very difficult transition affecting all aspects of the business. In 2018 I sold the magazine to a new publisher.