POGO
Pogo (Nick Bertke) is a music producer and remix artist based in Perth, Western Australia. His music has garnered over 110 million plays on YouTube and integration with many major studios and agencies around the world. Pogo also takes his work on the road having performed at the Guggenheim Museum, The Highline Ballroom and in most major cities across North America.
Disaster Girl
Emerging from the weight of a collapsing intergalactic civilisation, Artistic Director of Electrofringe, Kimberley Bianca (Disaster Girl) treks the universe exercising creative powers of interactive software, alt-music, and high-tech visualisations to breakdown the hyper-industrial system. Kimberley will be remixing videos from an open call submission on the concept of a post-singularity future.
Ensemble Mongrel
Ensemble Mongrel presents an immersive new media environment of live electronics and video. Four distinct works comprise this multi-movement, interactive performance. Mongrel presents a collection of abstracted themes using various data streams, to create an emotive meditation on the death and destruction of the familiar in our world.
Liam Bray and Steffan Ianigro
This work explores the creative possibilities of using computers as musical companions, challenging the way we think about music and technology. Liam Bray uses neural networks to drive live modular synthesis, while Steffan Ianigro triggers rhythmic events to generate sound—creating interesting sonic textures and structures.
Laura Hunt
Laura Hunt is a mixed media artist creating works concerned with how electromagnetic fields and cyber sharing networks affect biology and the way we ingest spirituality. Hunt’s current project is electronic music that allows listeners to improve themselves—becoming healthier, powerful and better with women.
Phil Slater
BCA W'gong MMus ANU GradDipInfoMngt
Lecturer in Trumpet
C41 - Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The University of Sydney
Phil Slater is a multi award-winning Australian trumpeter and composer based in Sydney. He is the leader or co-leader of several bands including the Phil Slater Quartet and Band of Five Names. Phil has performed and recorded with a diverse range of artists, including Nigel Kennedy, Lou Reed, DIG, Missy Higgins, Vince Jones, Bernie McGann, Archie Roach, Pnau, David Bridie, Katie Noonan, You Am I, Mike Nock, Terumasa Hino, The Sleepy Jackson, Jim Black and the Australian Art Orchestra.
He has performed in the Company B productions of Stuff Happens and Exit the King, as well as the Sydney Theatre Company productions of Mother Courage and The Sunshine Club. He has appeared as a featured soloist on many soundtrack recordings including Me Myself I, Three Dollars, Candy, Solo, Sample People and the TV series Wildside and Grass Roots.
In 2004, Phil was awarded the Bell Award for Australian Jazz Musician of the Year. He has also been awarded the Music Council of Australia Freedman Fellowship in 2002 and the 2003 TAC/Wangaratta Jazz Festival National Jazz Award.
In 2002, Phil released Strobe Coma Virgo to critical acclaim and has released three Band of Five Name recordings (Band of Five Names in 1998, Severance in 2002, and Empty Gardens in 2006). His latest recording is The Thousands.
Vanessa Wagner
Vanessa Wagner and promoter (the man behind the wig), Tobin Saunders have been at the vanguard of queer/mixed events, performances, dance, hosting, DJ’ing and firebrand activism for over 30 years.
THE RADIATORS
The rock 'n' roll road to stardom is a dangerous road indeed littered with the corpses of starry eyed hopeful's, wannabes, one-hit wonders and jagged "if only's"...while many bands self‐implode before they even leave the garage, victims of classic clashing egos and personalities......
Few survive...
