CV & Bio

Mark Mitchell

Biography

Mark Mitchell has been releasing music since 2001 on internationally renowned labels such as Mush Records in the US and The Leaf Label in the UK, as well as locally on Australian labels Popfrenzy and Spunk. Under the name Clue to Kalo he's toured Australia, the US, Canada and Japan, sharing the stage with Caribou, Four Tet and Architecture in Helsinki.

Mark has made commissioned dance and performance soundtracks for Hobart’s Dark Mofo Festival, including for their inaugural Ogoh-ogoh burning, scored the Discordia performance at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, and co-composed and produced the music for Christian Thompson's ACMI-commissioned VR work 'Bayi Gardiya (Singing Desert)', winner of the Best Use of Sound & Music at the 2020 Real World XR Awards.

In 2021 he contributed music for NGV’s 'Salon et Lumière' as part of their Triennial exhibition and worked on sound direction and design for 2pt Interactive's 'Heavenly Bodies' video game with Byron Scullin (as Fuligin Sound).

Most recently he co-composed the multichannel sound work 'Decon Mass' for Rising Festival's 'The Wilds' with Pascal Babare and commenced work on the sound design for Shape Shop's game 'Mars First Logistics', which is due to enter Steam Early Access in 2023.

Mark has been a senior composer, producer and engineer at Electric Dreams Studio in Melbourne since 2010.

Byron Scullin

Biography

The work of Melbourne practitioner Byron Scullin explores the technological representation and amplification of sound and its properties as a physical presence. Operating in an ambiguous space where sound transitions into noise, Scullin’s sonic environments offer an experience of mass and multiplicity, often representing attempts to hear the unhearable.

Along with artists Hannah Fox and Thomas Supple, he created Bass Bath, an installation for 22 subwoofers and Siren Song, a citywide audio piece that projects the sound of female voices using 500 speakers spread across building rooftops along with a helicopter equipped with a sound system used for earthquake and tsunami notification. These works have been shown at Dark Mofo (2018), Perth Festival (2019) and, Spill Festival, Ipswich UK (2019), Theatre de Welt, Dusseldorf, Germany (2021). With Australian Soprano Deborah Cheetham and Thomas Supple, he created the landmark work The Rivers Sing, a large-scale sonic artwork that occurred over 7 locations along the Birrarung (Yarra) and Maribyrnong Rivers as part of Melbourne’s Rising Festival (2021).

After an interest in synthesis at a young age, Scullin was mentored by producer and composer Francois Tetaz. He has since been involved in almost all aspects of audio in his twenty-five-year career, contributing sound to feature films such as Wolf Creek, contemporary dance productions by Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek, and Lee Serle, and theatre works by Arena Theatre Co. and Chamber Made Opera. He has created installations for museums, galleries and public spaces - including Creation Cinema as part of First Peoples at the Melbourne Museum, Wonderland at ACMI, Devanha: The First Day at The Shrine of Remembrance and Jem for Southbank Brisbane, as well as numerous productions for Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks. Byron has also realised sound for multiple advertising campaigns, including the highly awarded Meet Graham for TAC with Clemenger BBDO Melbourne. He has also produced, engineered and mastered numerous Australian and international recordings. He has also worked as an educator in sound at RMIT and Melbourne University.

Along with artist Robin Fox, Byron founded MESS, the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio. This not-for-profit organisation oversees one of the largest synthesiser collections in the world and makes it available for use by the general public. It also functions as a centre for the preservation, maintenance and development of electronic sound and music culture, both locally and internationally. A prolific collaborator, Scullin has worked closely with video artist Daniel Crooks and Australian composers Anthony Pateras, Marco Fusinato, and Oren Ambarchi. He’s also helped realise sound for notable international artists, including Bernard Parmegiani, Tony Conrad, and Steven O’Malley (Sunn-0)))).