Tralala Blip
Tralala Blip is a regional NSW collective of special artists who meet on a regular basis to create, produce and perform original electronic music.
Using a variety of midi controllers, Apple laptops, iPads, digital and analogue musical instruments, Tralala Blip discover new forms of musical expression that are accessible, experimental and most of all, fun.
Collective members have a range of disabilities and the Tralala Blip set up is all about immediate and spontaneous access to sound and music making. Since the project’s inception in January 2008 Tralala Blip have recorded dozens of original compositions that have been played on both national and international radio. The collective have performed live at numerous and varied events and continue to collaborate with artists locally and internationally. Some ways TLB collaborate are through exchanging remixes, music production workshops, collaborations with visual artists and live improvised performances. Through TLB’s sophisticated & original use of these technologies, the collective have established strong connections and respect from both local & international music communities.
ConCussion- an iPad Ensemble
The iPad ensemble is a gathering of (Qld Conservatorium) minds, fingertips and sonic goodness all generated by human digits, electronic digits, iPads, laptops and a strange assortment of oddly shaped ethnic instruments that make noise in a mostly organised fashion. The collaborative textual improvisations and sonic imagery gained through mimetic knob-twiddling draw inspiration from late nights, jelly beans and spectromorphological typomorphology.
Abre Ojos – Meditative AudioVisualism
With 15 years experience as a multi-media artist working across the areas of art and experimental music, Scott Baker has for the past five years been creating and performing synesthetic meditative experiences using sacred geometric animations and sacred sounds with the audiovisual project Abre Ojos.
Sounds are created using a modular synthesizer and digital processing, and visuals created with Quartz Composer. The performance will be a meditative immersive experience with sounds designed to activate various energy centres within the body matched with animations of sacred geometry sculpted to resonate with our visual cortex from our conscious and subconscious mind all the way down to the cellular level.
This will be a perfect point of reflection and rest during the conference, to recharge and then head back into the fray.
Pentaphonics
Pentaphonics is a 13 minute long composition that blends precomposed music, improvisation, audio/video feedback and generative visual art. The visuals and audio directly affect each other, and are both driven by custom written software that tracks coloured lights in the audience using a webcam. This data is then sonified whilst being supported musically by realtime improvisation and loops.
Chris Buckley is a programmer, electronic musician and performer, currently studying in final year Bachelor of Music Technology at the Queesland Conservatorium. His work aims to enhance the ways in which musicians and composers write, perform and recording using technology by constructing software for musical interaction from the ground up.
Ben Miles is a film composer, audio engineer and performer, whose work blends a firm grasp of musical harmony, pop sensibilities and engineering aptitude. In his final semester of the Bachelor of Music Technology at the Queensland Conservatorium, Ben is currently working on several commissions for film and videogame projects.