Music Release, July 16 2024
Sample based instrumental hip-hop created 2022, available for streaming on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube etc.
Big rhythms bang under gritty samples, with each track feeling like the filth, loose change or hidden treasure one might find under couch cushions.
Such is this raw, expansive release from Thom Browning aka thommybeats, their first full length of sample-based instrumental beats.
Credits
All tracks produced by Thom Browning.
Drum samples by Tamuz Dolev.
Recorded at Studio L2oh2
Mastered by MJ O'Neil
Pine Rivers Gallery, Moreton Bay
Role: Creator
About:
“So We've Noticed We've Made A Huge Change” is commission by Moreton Bay Regional Council exhibited at ‘Green Screen’ , a group exhibition featuring digital works by young Moreton Bay artists and their families, curated by Sue Loveday.
The 20 minute video piece is a response to the creation and curation ‘Green Screen’ with the communities engaged. Part documentary, part dreamscape, it features recordings and artworks from young artists who make work for the exhibition, capturing an intimate yet vast moment in time and space.
Exhibited:
27 November 2021 – Saturday, 19 February 2022
Pine Rivers Art Gallery, 130 – 134 Gympie Road, Strathpine
The Benevolent Society
Role: Collaborator & Video Designer
About:
A artist in residence project at Acacia Ridge Early Years learning centre and Kindergarten
The 10 week project initiated by The Benevolent Society & Every Child was created to support children to build resilience while connecting with creativity, wellbeing and community.
With facilitating artists, the children and their educators explored movement, yoga, storymaking, drawing, painting, printing, sculpture, animation and video.
A culminating installation provided children the opportunity to celebrate their creative outcomes with their family and educators.
Artists Verena Curr, Sue Loveday, Thom Browning
Producer: Verena Curr
IXYPSILONZETT
Role: Illustrator
About:
An illustration commissioned by ASSITEJ Germany for their print magazine IXYPSILONZETT, an annual publication documenting theatre for children and young people in Germany.
This commission arose from my participation in ASSITEJ Germany’s “Directors in Theatre for Young Audiences International Exchange” hosted by Teater Strahl in Berlin, Germany.
Imaginary Theatre, 2020.
Role: Director, Producer, Technical Designer
About:
An interactive exhibit for audiences aged 8+
Be intrigued and delighted by peculiar storytelling machines in this century old arcade exhibit.
These elaborate machines are the creations of virtuosic Australian inventor Celeste Mackellan, an obscure figure who disappeared in 1929 along with the mechanical curiosities she built.
Fascinated by Mackellan’s mysterious disappearance, an international consortium of collectors and creatives from Imaginary Theatre are slowly working to locate, extract and lovingly restore her machines to their former glory.
At A Curious Arcade, you can now experience these mechanical wonders as they tell timeless stories, a century old, that both surprise and delight.
Presentations: Brisbane Festival 2020
Producers: Imaginary Theatre
State Library of Queensland, 2020.
Role: Sound Designer, Composer
About:
Children's art is powerful. Through art, children give voice to their knowledge and experience of their world. To have your voice heard is a human right. But, to make art, to tell your own story and to share this with others takes courage. Drawing from the Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM Children's Art Archive Big Voices celebrates this courage and creativity of children sharing their stories through art.
Presentations: State Library of Queensland, 2020
Producers: State Library of Queensland
Punchdrunk Enrichment (UK) & Imaginary Theatre, 2018.
Role: Associate Director
About:
The Lost Lending Library aims to raise standards in literacy, speaking and listening through engagement with an unforgettable narrative that unfolds within the school.
A freelance librarian visits pupils at a primary school, where they discuss their favourite books and stories. A shared love of the book How To Live Forever by Colin Thompson and the discovery of a strange locked book leads to the mysterious arrival of the Lost Lending Library. At 314 floors high and with 72 spiral side departments, it is the largest collection of books in the world. The Library leaps from place to place, arriving where it knows it can find the most precious books of all time: new stories written by young apprentices of the library.
Presentations: Festival 2018 Gold Coast.
Producers: Punchdrunk Enrichment, Imaginary Theatre, Festival 2018.
Public Sound & Video Installation
Imaginary Theatre
Role: Creator
About:
Giants Among Us is a sound and video installation that transforms inaccessible surfaces into urban playgrounds, illuminating public spaces with epic images of our smallest citizens and filling the airwaves with small voices telling of big ideas.
Passers-by become audience as they bear witness to gentle giants sharing an invitation to pause, watch and listen. Towering above passers-by, children peer, play and pace, asking audiences the question; do you notice us now?
Created in collaboration with children through a series of exploratory workshops, Giants Among Us is a reflection on Article 13 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that “the child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds”.
Presentations: ‘Metro Arts, with love’ Festival 2020, QPAC’s Out of the Box Festival 2010, Brisbane Festival ‘Under the Radar’ 2009.
Producers: Imaginary Theatre
Contemporary theatre for children aged 2-5.
International Collaboration.
Imaginary Theatre, 2016
Role: Co-creator, Director.
About: I See You is an early-years theatre experience where sounds, images and sensations transform the mundane into dreamlike worlds - worlds where our stories connect and liberate us. A collaboration between artists from Australia and Korea, this bilingual and interactive performance inspires play, warms the heart, and sets the imagination alight.
Producers: Imaginary Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, ASSITEJ Korea.
Presentations: QPAC's Out of the Box Festival (Brisbane), ASSITEJ Korea Summer Festival (Seoul), The Events Centre Caloundra, Redland Performing Arts Centre, Logan Entertainment Centre, The Arts Centre Gold Coast.
Small Voices Louder is a two part work. The first part is an interactive installation that asks children social, political and philosophical questions. The second takes these recorded answers and delivers them to adult ears through radio and public space.
Maybe_Together, 2017.
Role: Composer, Co-creator.
About: A show in two parts where youngsters get to explore a fun and interactive installation of cupboards and cubby holes that encourage them to have their say on some of life’s big questions. What does the world look like today? What makes you angry? What does the future look like?
Part two sees their playful, insightful and refreshingly honest responses broadcast across the airwaves and in unexpected spaces around the Festival – for everyone to hear.
Sometimes children’s voices are exactly what the world needs to hear.
Producers: Maybe_Together, Performing Lines WA.
Presentations: Perth International Arts Festival 2017 (Premiere).
Contemporary theatre for children aged 1-5.
Teaterværkstedet Madam Bach, Denmark. 2015.
Role: Co-creator, Director.
About: World Images is theatre for children that will take audiences a journey of discovery. From the rhythms of the city where underground trains make rails sing two white salt desserts that dry everything up. From ants that march as the the rain drops drip, two northern lights dancing in the sky. Through a melding of installation, soundscape, live music, projection, and performance, 'World Images' immerses children in a rich world of atmospheres and landscapes, sharing momentary glimpses of places that exist on this incredible planet we call home.
Selected Presentations: (2015) April Festival of Danish Theatre for Young Audiences (Frederickssund), Festival of Wonder (Aarhus). (2016) Visioni di Teatro Visioni di Futuro (Bologna), Shanghai Children's Art Theatre (China). (2017) Barboro International Arts Festival for Children (Galway).
Creative education residency with digital installation outcome. Collaboration with children.
Imaginary Theatre & Bleach* Festival, 2016.
Role: Co-creator, Curator, Facilitator, Video Designer.
About: Hello Future! was an Artist in Residence project in which year 2 & 3 students and teachers from Currumbin Valley State School and artists from Imaginary Theatre worked together on a 10 week multi-arts learning collaboration. Having explored potential futures, environment, citizenship, creativity and digital literacy, the ‘Hello Future!’ collaboration was showcased in two outcome events in the form of digital street art installations. At the first event, digital content created and curated by students in collaboration with artists & teachers was shown at Currumbin Valley State School in a special installation adventure for students, families, staff and broader community. At the second and third events, the ‘Hello Future’ content appeared in pop-up 'urban lounge room' at Broadbeach Mall as part of Bleach* Festival.
Producers: Imaginary Theatre, Bleach* Festival.
Presentations: Bleach Festival 2016*
Audio immersive, site specific performance for children aged 9-12.
Imaginary Theatre, QUT Precincts, 2015.
Role: Co-creator, Director, Sound Designer.
About: The Voice in the Walls is an audio immersive, site specific performance for 9-12 year olds at Brisbane's Old Government House. Audiences are equipped with headphones and a wireless device while they traverse the halls of the house in an audio tour like none other.
Producers: Imaginary Theatre, commissioned by QUT Precincts.
Presentations: 7 weeks in season throughout 2015.
Interactive new-media installation for children.
In development.
Imaginary Theatre, 2014+
Role: Co-creator, Director.
About: Circle will be a suite of interactive new-media experiences where children will play in worlds of sound, light and colour.
Circle is the brain-child of artist Luke Lickfold, an interactive systems designer who creates and programs new-media artworks using interactive technology. The majority of technology for children is currently screen-based, offering mostly passive interactions that don’t facilitate the active play that’s crucial to children’s physical, neurological and social development. Circle seeks to solve this problem, creating technological platforms for children that nurture their in-built capacity for physically active, kinaesthetic, and creative play.
Producers: Imaginary Theatre.
Presentations: Brisbane Powerhouse 2015 (work in progress showing).
Weekly play-based activity for children aged 0-5 and their families, carers.
Imaginary Theatre & Brisbane Powerhouse, 2015-.
Role: Curator
About: Little Artists at Play is a creative play workshop series for children aged 0-5 years and their parents and carers. Hosted by a different Artist in Residence each quarter, children take part in multi-art experiences led by internationally acclaimed artists.
Presentations: Commenced in July 2015, Brisbane Powerhouse Turbine Platform, 9-12am Tuesday mornings. (outside school holidays).
Contemporary theatre for children aged 6-12.
(In Development)
Imaginary Theatre, 2014
Role: Co-creator, Composer, Sound Designer, Video Designer
About:
Adventure, gastronomy, and a boy cursed with politeness. This is the story of Horrendo's Curse, a swashbuckling adventure adapted from the novel by Anna Fienberg. Since the first development of Horrendo's Curse in 2010, Imaginary Theatre joined by Brisbane theatre makers Lucas Stibbard and Neridah Waters (Boy Girl Wall, Elephant Gun), have been on a voyage to unearth their own hybrid style of 21st century adventure storytelling. A work in progress showing of 'Horrendo's Curse' was performed at Brisbane Powerhouse's World Theatre Festival in February 2013. A design development and presentation took place with the support of Queensland Theatre Company in August 2014.
Producers: Imaginary Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, Queensland Theatre Company
A contemporary circus & gaming experience.
Skye Gellmann, 2012
Role: Co-creator, Composer, Sound Designer.
About: Our personal technologies have become an extension of ourselves. Blindscape looks to exploit that connection to engage its audience in a visceral environment that collapses real and imagined boundaries.
Using a provided iPhone, pre-loaded with the specially designed Blindscape App, you enter the virtual world as you enter the performance space. The Blindscape App is a 3D audio-virtual reality. Coloured in by an unseen hand, perception and reality fold over as you explore corridors, doorways and landscapes – four unique stages of discovery moving to a final place of reflection. The light from your phone helps you to view fragments of circus which are spectacular but elusive, in this rare performance experience.
Producers: Skye Gellmann, Next Wave Festival
Presentations: Next Wave Festival 2012, La Boite Indie 2013, Junction Arts Festival 2013, PACT 2013.
Contemporary Theatre for children aged 2-5.
Imaginary Theatre, 2012.
Role: Co-creator, Director, Composer & Sound Designer.
About: Be taken on a journey of joy, imagination and transformation as Look unfolds. A gentle story of resilience and friendship, using exquisite physical storytelling, object theatre, and interactivity, Look involves both performance and interactive play component where the audience is invited to play with the performers within the space.
Producers: Imaginary Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse
Presentations: Brisbane Powerhouse (2012, 2013), ASSITEJ Korea Summer Festival Korea (2012), Aha! International Theatre Festival for Children (2013), Redland Performing Arts Centre (2014), The Events Centre Caloundra (2014), Come Out! Children's Festival Adelaide (2015).
Transcultural performance.
Motherboard Productions (2011)
Role: Co-creator, Sound Designer, Performer
About: Let your curiosity guide you to 지하Underground, a pop-up Korean speakeasy that has taken root in a forgotten corner of Brisbane. Prepare to drink the night away with the venue’s eccentric proprietor, as a tale of love transcending culture, language and gender unfolds to rhythms created by his staff, a ragtag crew of musicians.
Every hour is happy hour as you allow yourself to indulge in a mix of live music and magical storytelling amidst a transitory world written by Jeremy Neideck and Nathan Stoneham and presented by Motherboard Productions. Post-performance, the space transforms into a fully functioning bar for the public with a variety of special guests.
Producers: Motherboard Productions
Presentations: Metro Arts Independents (2011), Brisbane Festival (2012), World Theatre Festival (2014), HiSeoul Festival! (2014).
Music Release, 2006
Sample based instrumental hip-hop created between 2006 - 2007.
Role: Creator / Producer
