With so many education facilities offering ‘real world’ audio production courses, it’s refreshing to find one that delivers training on analogue and digital equipment in a purpose built environment, and the opportunity for students to gain valuable work experience at live gigs and festivals.
Basement Birds is a new music project featuring Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Kevin Mitchell (Bob Evans, Jebediah), Steve Parkin and Josh Pyke - four of Australia’s most talented and successful songwriters.
Born out of a mutual love of the American 1960s folk sound of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - and alcohol - the project will be released in three song bundles fortnightly on iTunes from June 22nd 2010, in an Australian music industry first.
A major moment in Australia’s proud sporting history, the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games was a spectacular of such magnitude rarely experienced before down under. Held at the purpose-built Sydney Olympic Park, the site covers eight square kilometres and had 250,000 visitors per day passing through it at the peak of the Games.
Using the latest MediaMatrix paging technology at the time, ten years on and the complex is still at the forefront of Biamp’s technology, becoming a Beta site for Vocia, a totally distributed paging system without a central routing matrix. This is a world’s first.
For the past six years a team of dedicated music educators, software developers, interaction designers and sociologists have been researching Network Jamming, the means to allow people to play music and do video remixing together over the internet in real time.
Based in Brisbane at the Queensland University of Technology is the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design (ACID). Led by ACID project leader Dr Steve Dillon, the Network Jamming team has developed cutting-edge technology called Jam2Jam; a suite of software applications that are generative and use computer processes to facilitate musical changes based on stylistic algorithms.
I had a dream.
It was Sydney in the early 90s and my band Ben’s Calf, like a lot of other original bands at the time, rehearsed more often than gigged, played to an ever-diminishing audience in venues further from the cool part of town, and on more and more nights at the wrong end of the week.
We got offered a record contract to a small indie label that went broke, someone slept with someone else’s girlfriend and it was all over.
Is it possible to ‘bring to life’ old budget-conscious analogue recordings; how do you go about doing this; and is it worthwhile if the end result is only going to be an mp3 anyway?
Built in 1900, Curzon Hall is still one of Sydney’s grand old sandstone ladies – although she has had a bit of work done recently.
The stately Marsfield mansion recently opened Lady Mary’s Pavilion, a new multipurpose and multi-configurable function centre attached to the original residence via a glass walkway.
Staying true to the 100-year-old façade on the outside, it is the new AV installation and the ability to control the audiovisual, lighting, rigging, video and audio via a wireless touch panel that sets this function centre apart from the rest.
This year the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) celebrates 25 years of world-class theatre, music, dance and family entertainment.
Opened in 1985, QPAC was built and designed to be Queensland’s cultural hub.
Original architect Robin Gibson designed the centre to be “…a true home which will not only satisfy the demands of the performing arts, but will also demand the contribution of artistic excellence by the performer, the performance and the audience.”
Sydney-based Northern Beaches Christian School (NBCS) truly delivers on its mission statement ‘Excellence in Education, Christianity in Action’.
The recent completion of the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (SCIL) building, a dedicated research, innovation and development unit, provides students and staff the opportunity to work and learn together under ‘world best’ standards.
The nurturing and support students receive from teaching staff, viewed as a demonstration of God’s love by the School, rounds out nicely the whole learning experience.
Brisbane-based Acoustic Technologies are the largest manufacturer of pro audio equipment in Australia, and also the longest established, having just clocked up 37 years in business.
Specialists in line array loudspeaker systems and speaker enclosures, Acoustic Technologies recently expanded its product range to include dual and multi channel amplifiers with onboard DSP, and line array modelling and prediction software.
With an ever-increasing domestic client list, a growing export operation to Europe and Asia, an ENTECH Best New Sound Reinforcement award locked away in the trophy cabinet and an expanding product range, this Brisbane manufacturing success story is certainly on the move.
Paul Kelly is a legendary Australian singer/songwriter, having captured the essence of the nation’s cultural landscape over the past 30 years with hits including Before Too Long, Too Her Door and Dumb Things.
With such a vast body of work, the upcoming Kelly A-Z project to make his catalogue free for download from his website, required a complete remastering of 100 or more songs.
Sydney-based Damien Gerard studio’s The Red Stairs mastering suite is currently undertaking this long-term project with Andrew Beck at the helm, and are currently up to the letter ‘T’.
“Andrew has been doing a great job on this long term mastering project,” said Kelly. “Every month I send him a batch of live recordings from different sources to master for download from my website. I plan to release most of them on CD to accompany a book I’m writing which will be published late in 2010.”
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