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Audio Foundation  Engineer - Live Sound FOH & Recording * From our home on the edges of Myers Park, Tamaki Makaurau, Audio Foundation produces a vast programme of events, online content and artistic aid for the music and arts community. All of this is achieved with a small, devoted team, a few volunteers, and a passionate community that is always down to lend a helping hand or ear. Personal highlights include: - Anna Fält - Flo Wilson - Hayden Chisholm & Jonathon Crayford - Hermione Johnson - Jan-Bas Bollen - Lea Bertucci - Luciano Chessa - Motte - Riki Pirihi & Aroha Jensen - Simon O'Rorke - Timpani Decot

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Roundhead Studios  Engineer, Assistant Engineer * Roundhead Studios is a multi-space recording facility located on Eden Terrace in Tāmaki Makaurau. Personal highlights include: - Amanda Palmer - Crowded House - Die! Die! Die! - Don McGlashan - Finn Andrews - Jazmine Mary - Karl Steven - Marlin's Dreaming - Rob Thorne - Savage & Deceptikonz - SJD - Three Houses Down - Tim Finn - Victoria Kelly

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Trauma Bar und Kino  Live Sound FOH - 2019-2020 * The project Trauma Bar und Kino (Berlin) exists to facilitate an authentic dialogue between the realms of contemporary dance, fashion, cinematography, video art and club culture. Personal highlights include: - Animistic Beliefs - Caterina Barbieri - Catnapp - Colin Self - LSDXOXO - Puce Mary - Rrose - SOPHIE - The Horrorist - The Transcendence Orchestra - Wallis Website Resident Advisor

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Low Heat: Floorgasm X Boiler Room Sound setup and operation for live streaming  * Low Heat: Floorgasm was a streaming party hosted by Boiler Room with a lineup featuring LSDXOXO, Wallis and DJ Hyperdrive.  The event was live-streamed to Zoom from Floorgasm’s home, Traumabar und Kino in Berlin and funds were raised for Black Lives Matter.  100% of donations were split equally among 70+ US-based community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers.

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‘Daniel’ short film Soundtrack Mixing * ‘Daniel’ is a short film from Candlelit Pictures (2019).  The film was written and directed by Claire Van Beek and features an original score by Indira Force.  The film was screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2020 where Claire received the Madman Entertainment NZ Emerging Talent Award.   ‘Daniel’ was also selected for the following festivals: - Indy Shorts International Film Festival 2020 - Odense International Film Festival 2020 - Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020 - Melbourne International Film Festival 2019. “A young novice at an isolated convent is confronted with the sudden desire to explore her sexual self in the wake of meeting a blue-tongued lizard.DANIEL is an unsettling, visceral exploration of female sexual repression, and the consequences of lack of self-acceptance.” Trailer RNZ Feature

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Concert Sound and Lighting Production at Funkhaus Berlin 2018-2020 * Funkhaus is a former GDR broadcast centre built in the 1950s, located overlooking the River Spree in Berlin's east. The product of joint efforts by architects and acousticians to create a world-class broadcasting campus, the multi-purpose venue houses spaces dedicated to recording symphony orchestras, choirs, chamber and jazz ensembles, pop music and radio plays. I was fortunate to work in this captivating venue as part of a wonderful tech team.  Together we helped put together some incredible concerts.   Personal highlights include: - Andrew Bird - Aphex Twin - Beirut - Floating Points - Giegling - Kruder & Dorfmeister - Nils Frahm - Red Bull Music Academy - Tim Hecker - A Winged Victory for the Sullen Website

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QT UR EA - Traumabar und Kino Sound concept, installation and operation * QT UR EA was an installed multi-dimensional work and exhibition by Mary-Audrey Ramirez and LUKAS8K at Traumabar und Kino. The work incorporated dance, performance, installation, sound and real-time virtual worlds and featured collaborators such as choreographer Ali Heffetz and audiovisual artists bod [包家巷], Alza54 and Simon Goff. The opening night began with a 3 hour-long opening performance, which slowly increased in intensity combing installation, motion-capture and real-time virtual worlds, as well as dance, sound and permaculture. The project was curated by Madalina Stanescu and video captured by Zoe Kahlert. Press: FACT Mag Resident Advisor

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Bigness - pickle darling (ZTapes 2019) Mixing and mastering  * The debut album from Ōtautahi’s bedroom-pop superstar Lukas Mayo AKA pickle darling.  The record has become something of a Bandcamp sensation, selling out three runs of cassettes and one of vinyl for Slovakian indie label ZTapes thus far.  I’m so proud of this album and can’t wait for Lukas’ fans to hear number two next year.   "Unexpected, inspired, and slightly out of step with the wider world"  GoldFlakePaint Press: RNZ Feature Bandcamp Album of the Day Counterzine

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Las Casas Invisibles by KDV Dance Ensemble - Funkhaus Berlin Live sound FOH * ‘Las Casas Invisibles’ (Invisible Houses) was the first performance by KDV Dance Ensemble which premiered on February 1st at Funkhaus Berlin. KDV Dance Ensemble is a multidisciplinary dance company founded by choreographer and director Kianí del Valle. With live music by Raven, Floating Points and Lotic, whose compositions are marked by unique electronic and abstract atmospheres, the show was divided into three interconnected musical and visual landscapes. Stylist Olive Duran also partnered with the company to create looks for the performers. Combining choreography, music, costume and lighting, the performance explored migration, displacement, the colonized-decolonized body and androgyny. Press: Sleek Mag

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indi - Precipice ( Flying Nun Records, 2018) Recording and mixing * Precipice is the debut solo album from Indira Force aka indi.  Sonically ambitious, the album combines deep electronic elements with thickly layered vocal treatments and live orchestral instrumentation.  Indi and I both spent many tireless hours on this record and it came to represent a point of personal breakthrough.   "It has been a process of compromising and being creative with what is at hand. It’s not the album I thought I would write - it's cinematic and strange."     indi

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indi - Japan Tour 2018 Live electronics, Ableton setup for live performance * In November 2018 I travelled with indi to Japan for a tour in support of her album ‘Precipice’ which was supported there by indie label 2670records.  The tour included shows in Nagoya, Osaka, Nagano and Tokyo and was made possible with support from NZMC’s Outward Sound Programme. We were both overwhelmed by the excitement and attentiveness of Japanese gig-goers as well as the country’s natural beauty.  A totally unforgettable experience.   Press: 2670records Indienative

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Le Gateau Chocolat and Jonny Woo: A Night at the Musicals Christchurch World Buskers Festival 2018 Live sound FOH * “Hilarious hijinks and shady shenanigans abound as they ‘Les Misérmassacre’ all the musicals you know and love.  A Night at the Musicals is a tortured love letter to the glorious genre of musical theatre.  High glamah, intense assholism, divine costumes and raggedy choreography are guaranteed in a night you’ll never forget.  Le Gateau Chocolat and Jonny Woo will drag you through the back catalogue of fabulous musicals for a raucous night of ballsy ballads, delightful duets and slaughtered show tunes. From Gypsy to Grease, Annie to The Lion King – no show is safe.” Press: Cityscape Christchurch

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FOH Live Sound - Christchurch (2012-2018) * Trusty facilitator of quality sound in the post-quake scene at venues such as Darkroom, Space Academy, Blue Smoke, Wunderbar, Dux Live and numerous house parties (that’s not my bong).   Here’s some of the artists I had the pleasure of mixing during this period.   Adam Hattaway and the Haunters  Adam McGrath Aldous Harding Al Park Alphabethead Astro Children Bailey Wiley Beatcomber Ben Woods Bespin Bruce Russell Bryony Matthews Clap Clap Riot The Dance Asthmatics Death and the Maiden Delaney Davidson Depths Emily Fairlight Electric Wire Hustle Estère Flip Grater French Concession Glass Vaults Hans Pucket HEX indi Into The Void Jed Parsons Kane Strang Kool Aid Marlin’s Dreaming  Mermaidens Minisnap Miss June Motte Nervous Jerk New Dawn Paquin Pickle Darling Ryan Fisherman Salad Boys Soaked Oats SoccerPractise Street Chant T54 Terror of the Deep The All Seeing Hand The River Jones The Ruby Suns The Shocking Pinks Transistors Womb Wurld Series Yumi Zouma Zen Mantra

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‘Hundred Waters’ (Live) - Grayson Gilmour Mixing and mastering * Live at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū as part of the Gigs at the Gallery series, Grayson and his band performed a set full of brand new material from his then unreleased album ‘Otherness’ (Flying Nun Records 2017). I mixed recordings for a number of songs from the evening and video was produced by Belmont Productions. CAG

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New Dawn - The Dying Light (Sonorous Circle, 2017) Recording, mixing and mastering * Canterbury drone queens, Anita Clark (Motte) and Indira Force (indi), combined cosmic forces on their first release together as New Dawn.   “Ambient soundscapes that are at once beautiful and harsh. If words like ‘textural’, ‘layered’ and ‘cosmic’ give you warm feelings, this five-track project should be emanating from your speakers ASAP.” The Spinoff Press: RNZ The Spinoff

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Laura Lee Lovely - Faster (self-released 2017) Mixing * Faster was a single from Christchurch-based alt-pop artist Laura Lee Lovely, taken from her debut EP ‘Eden’. “Lately I’ve found myself wanting to bring out the darker, broodier side of myself. I connect with things that make me feel emotion, so writing songs like that comes easily for me. On the flip side, I’m obsessed with fun pop music that drives me, makes me want to dance, and makes me feel unstoppable.” Laura Lee Lovely Bandcamp