MAY 2023 – MIRROR: NEW VIEWS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Music tracks
Prithvi Varatharajan
MIRROR: new views on photography
MIRROR: New views on photography showcases over 140 photographs from the State Collection, alongside creative responses from emerging and established Victorian storytellers to tell fascinating tales of Victoria through a contemporary lens.
Displayed in stunning immersive detail, the photos of Rennie Ellis, Viva Gibb, Helmut Newton and more combine with the words, performance and sounds of Alice Skye, Christos Tsiolkas, Jason Tamiru, Walter Kadiki and other storytellers to produce new narratives of Victorian people and places.
State Library of Victoria – 19 May 2023 –28 January 2024
Website
DECEMBER 2022 – HOLLY SINGS THE RAIN
Holly Sings The Rain
Generative music parts 1 & 2
December 2022
For the best experience, play full screen with headphones.
I recently spent a rainy day uploading old tracks to the amazing Holly+ website. The brainchild of artist Holly Herndon, Holly+ is a model that allows users to upload and transform audio into versions of Holly’s unique voice. The results are ethereal, artificial, and otherworldly. I also added a rain track to try and recreate the mood of the day.
DECEMBER 2022 – Stop idolizing the grid and start idolizing Hügelkultur. BTX077
Music Track
Stop idolizing the grid and start idolizing Hügelkultur. BTX077
Compilation
Bunyip Trax
JUNE 2022 – LONLEY VECTORS @ SINGPORE ART MUSEUM
Sound Design and Composition
Zheng Mahler
The Green Crab: A Virtual Diagram of Auspicious Spatial Organization – Interactive video game
The Green Crab is a speculative investigation of East Asian urbanism taking Singapore and Hong Kong as its two diametrically opposed exemplars. The interactive video game allows users to explore a coastal map of Singapore to uncover the feng shui principles that inform the city-state’s planning. While Hong Kong, as the cyberpunk city par excellence, projects and absorbs in equal amounts techno-orientalist fascination, horror and desire, Singapore is positioned in the western cultural imaginary as its opposite. Challenging this framing, The Green Crab reveals Singapore as the spiritual epitome of an East Asian feng shui city, engineered through (reverse) state alchemy.
Website
MARCH 2022 – NOWNESS @ ART BASEL
Music Track
Luke Casey
Meet the artists by Art Basel: Chris Huen Sin Kan
Art Basel In partnership with Nowness
ONGOING 2022 – WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A (VIRTUAL) BAT?
Sound Design and Composition
Zheng Mahler
What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?
Embarking on a new year long work commissioned by @ifa.de for their web project @areyouforreal_ifa
“What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?” is the second work in a series of multispecies ethnographies with the ecosystems of Lantau Island, HK. Developed over four phases, the multimedia VR work will explore attempts to simulate the experiences of one of our bat neighbours. Acknowledging the limitations of human sensory capacities, the work will look at how, and if, technology can be used to mediate these and expand our sensory capacities through virtual embodiment of more-than-human experiences.
Installment #1
Website
DECEMBER 2021 – MELBOURNE FASHION WEEK
Music track
SILKY JAZZ
INSIDE THE STORE: DOT COMME
INSIDE THE STORE: BÚL
INSIDE THE STORE: COLLECTIVE CLOSETS
“My taste is more to the weird and avant-garde side of things.” For our final ‘Inside the Store’ film follow us upstairs at Curtin House to dot COMME – a hidden Japanese fashion archive store that is as much an art gallery as it is a shop.
Trailer
Videos
AUGUST 2021 – PRESENCE
Sound Design and Composition
Royce NG
Presence
What does «presence» mean when we are asked to keep our distance and new technologies allow us to be almost anywhere? Increasing virtual reality is changing our awareness and perception, says the Hong Kong multi-media artist Royce Ng. He talks about a «phantom presence», a form of being present much like the pain we feel in amputated limbs.
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Zürcher Theater Spektakel
Stadthausquai 17
CH 8001 Zürich
20-22 August 2021
JULY 2021 – THE DEATH OF MANCHURIA…IS THE PREREQUISITE FOR THE BIRTH OF POST-WAR ASIA
Sound Design and Composition
Royce Ng
“THE DEATH OF MANCHURIA…IS THE PREREQUISITE FOR THE BIRTH OF POST-WAR ASI”
30 July – 5 September 2021
12:00-19:00 *Open Fri. Sat. Sun.
ASAKUSA | 1-6-16 Nishi-Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo
Taking Shiro Ishii of Unit 731—Japan’s covert biological and chemical warfare unit during WWII—and the Kyoto school philosopher Keiji Nishitani as dual protagonists—the “philosopher with a scalpel’, State Alchemist I: Body without Organs (2021) is a newly-commissioned essay film co-written with artist and curator Nikolay Smirnov and co-directed with filmmaker Daniel James Demuth.
Trailer
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JANUARY 2021 – THE VOICES EP
The Voices Ep is John Bartley’s first release under his own name. It brings together a selection of work created over the last two years. This collection explores generative approaches to arpeggiation, melody, ambience and John’s continuing interest in the cathartic and meditative nature of music making.
releases January 25, 2021
Album Design: Matt Hinkley
VIdeo Production: Daisy Bisenieks & Royce Ng
Special Thanks: Lauren Hinkley
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/johnbartley/the-voices-ep
DECEMBER 2020 – The VOICES SINGLE RELEASE
Music track
From the forthcoming Voices EP
Video production by Daisy Bisenieks & Royce Ng
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/johnbartley/the-voices
https://johnbartley.bandcamp.com/
NOVEMBER 2020 – MELBOURNE FASHION WEEK
Music track
Film by Silky Jazz for Melbourne Fashion Week. Boundary-pushing collections created by talent from Melbourne’s top design schools.
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DECEMBER 2019 – NOVEMBRE MAGAZINE
Music track
Last night I saw bodies made from white by Luke Casey for Novembre Magazine.
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AUGUST 2019 – Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future
Sound design and composition
Zheng Mahler, The Master Algorithm (2019). Hologram installation. In collaboration with You Mi.
Nostalgia Machines (2019). Video installation. 15 min. In collaboration with Reijiro Aoyama.
For Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong 5 October 2019–4 January 2020
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MAY 2019 – Self-Combers 我愿 【Looking China 看中国】Dir by Joana Correia
Music track
One hundred years ago the first generation of self-combed women decided not to get married and to dedicate their lives to work and to the others. One hundred years later their legacy remains alive behind the doors of Bi yun tang museum.
September – December 2018: Royce Ng – Queen Zomia
Sound design and composition
QUEEN ZOMIA is a new work by Royce Ng which traces the histories of opium through the figure of Olive Yang, the bisexual, cross-dressing warlord who controlled the illicit opium and heroin trade in South East Asia. QUEEN ZOMIA uses expanded media based strategies to communicate the labyrinthine narratives of intertwining national histories which intersect in the Asian opium trade.
New Vision Art Festival, Hong Kong
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, South Korea
SEPTEMBER 2018 – At Which the Flight
Audio installation
Group Exhibition with Jill Brandwein, Oscar Perry, Hank Ehrenfried, Madeline Rupard, Kristyn McKinney, Ben Haggard, Maureen Anderson & Rowan McNaught. Sept 21 – Oct 5th Bushwick Open Studios, NYC.