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Byron J Scullin
Also known asSpiderface
OriginAustralia
OccupationComposer

Byron J Scullin is an Australian composer and sound designer.

His sound design work has appeared in performances and exhibitions at National Gallery of Victoria,[1] Rising Festival,[2] and Dark Mofo.[3]

His 2015 Dark Mofo art piece Bass Bath was a collaboration with the company Supple Fox,[4] made up of Hannah Fox and Tom Supple.[5] The work featured eight "2100 horsepower monolithic subwoofers"[6] in the space which audience members could move around to change their experience, with the low tones causing a physical sensation across their body.[7][8]

In 2017 he returned to Dark Mofo with Supple Fox. Their art piece Siren Songs included 450 speakers and a helicopter broadcasting sound around the city as part of the performance which The Guardian called "eerie, dark and beautiful."[9] The work later toured the Perth Festival where it was reworked for the new setting.[10][11] They then reimagined the piece as Clarion Call for a performance in Ipswich as part of SPILL Festival of Performance where it included local musicians Shirley Collins, Elizabeth Fraser, and Beth Gibbons.[12]

Byron has released one single under the alias Spiderface. A Seasonal Gift was released in 2014 as a free single with David Thrussell.[13][14] Elsewhere, he has worked with Francois Tetaz, Darrin Verhagen, Philip Brophy, and Midnight Juggernauts.

In 2016 he co-founded the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) along with Robin Fox, which contains a collection of synthesisers and other electronic music instruments available to the public.[15]

In 2021, Scullin's work The Rivers Sing (created with artists Deborah Cheetham Fraillon and Thomas Supple) was presented as part of the RISING: festival in Melbourne. It was presented again as part of RISING: 2024.[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Daniel Crooks". National Gallery of Victoria. 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  2. ^ "RISING: The Rivers Sing". rising.melbourne. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  3. ^ Jefferson, Dee. "Five reasons you should head to Hobart's Dark Mofo festival this winter". Time Out Melbourne. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Dark Mofo Line-Up Released". Broadsheet. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Dark Mofo's party animals". the Guardian. 22 June 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  6. ^ KOHA, NUI TE (21 June 2015). "Melbourne trio shake up Mofo Festival". Herald Sun. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Dark Mofo 2015 review – the deep, dark night of the festival's final weekend". the Guardian. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  8. ^ YOUNG, KANE (11 June 2015). "Light ready to rise from darkness". The Mercury. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Dark Mofo swells with Siren Song: a logistical triumph, and a beautiful work of art". the Guardian. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Artists turn Perth's CBD into massive surround-sound system". ABC News. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Siren Song: the ethereal sound art reimagining Perth's brutal CBD". the Guardian. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Clarion Call". Siren Song. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  13. ^ Black Lung & Spiderface – A Seasonal Gift (2014, File), retrieved 26 December 2021
  14. ^ ant-zen (18 September 2018), dig037. black lung & spiderface. a seasonal gift, retrieved 26 December 2021
  15. ^ "Synths and sensibility: The story behind Melbourne's MESS". Red Bull. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  16. ^ https://2024.rising.melbourne/program/the-rivers-sing-2024, Retrieved 2024-06-15.
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