‘In January of 2022 Big hART brought together composers, musicians, audio designers, digital artists, shipwrights and ferry skippers to present Acoustic Life of Boatsheds on Sydney's iconic harbour.
This season of Boatsheds for Sydney Festival featured Claire Edwardes, Paul Cutlan, Gary Daley, Jordan East, Jim Atkins, Sabine Bester, Nathan Cox, Locky Rankin, Michael Simic, Trent Arkley-Smith, Jess Green and Bree van Reyk. It was produced for Big hART by Lucy Harrison, Sam Hawker, Scott Rankin and Andrew Viney.’
My work for Acoustic Life of Shed involved a collaboration with two incredible musicians, Gary Daley and Paul Cutlan. Working within the incredible building, The Queens Magazine, we saught to create an atmosphere that reflected the serenity of the waterways surrounding Me-Mel (Goat Island), as well as the explosive colonial past of the building itself.
Using Unreal Engine & TouchDesigner, I created an instrument of my own. A small excerpt of my work can be found in the video below at 2mins:
Accompanying this work were supplimentary projections, shown in other Sheds throughout the show: