About
About
Ash uses experimental and eastern classical forms of vocal music practice to explore sound. His form connects and recreates improvisation, sound art and Hindustani classical. Major threads that run though his work are deep listening, transcendental states, sound therapy and exploratory processes. He creates for studio recording, installations and live performance. As an interdisciplinary artist, he creates work to explore the inner and outer states of being, finding ties between art therapy, intuitive process and cross discipline ventures.
Utilizing his skills within sound composition, moving image, and installation, he creates hybrids forms that take audiences to multi sensory ambient realms. His work has found its place within the MONA FOMA festival, the Eye Am Hair salon, M-Pavillon’s Parkade, Melbourne Fringe festival and at independently produced events.
Browse the documentation below for an introduction to his work.
Hailing from Melbourne, I currently live in Hobart as a composer-artist and am a proud new parent. I’ve been pursuing a varied creative career and dedicated arts-composition practice since 2011. My journey has led me on a path that has so far been predominantly on the fringes and as a solo artist, which has helped refine a unique interdisciplinary language and practice.
My formal education has led to partially completing bachelor degrees within fine arts (sound and spatial practice), music production and film. I’ve had significant experiences that have affected my outlook by traveling to art and music festivals across the globe, studying Hindustani classical music in India, and directing independent interdisciplinary art events.
My work is predominantly created within sound, installation art and performance. On the surface level, this has eventuated into exploring the process of these mediums to create hybrid works and immersive experiences. Reoccuring themes and concepts that have come through various projects have been
redefining space, time and concert setting through visual augmentation
experimentation with audience spaces, participation and performer experience
cross-discipline bridges that tie well being, art and hair dressing
processes that encourages creative collaborators to think outside of their disciplines
I have keen interest in varying cultural perspectives of the transcendental and exploration within art and music. Within all the mediums I work with, I try to align my practice with transcendental and intuitive exploration at heart. For audiences, I thoroughly enjoy exploring how the transcendent experiences can be composed and how traditional performance settings can be transformed.
I have a fairly wide view of sound, music and its composition. My interest in composing in multiple mediums, tertiary education with sound and spatial practice and interest in process music over music theory has skewed me in this direction. Regardless of my fringe perspectives, I have an equal love for traditional forms of music and its composition. I’m predominantly self taught as a composer-vocalist-producer, have small bouts of training vocal and tabla within Hindustani classical in India, and developed a practice of intuitive exploration in my process of composition-rehearsal-conception. This has collated into the form of the album, conceptual performances that sit within the process music movement, and most recently collaborating with professionally trained musicians.
Improv Vocal Jams + Video Experiments
Cross discipline collabs + Multi Sensory Installation
Live Looping + Exploratory Practice
Artwork – Composition – Moving Image
2021
06/20 – Submissive Salon: The Dungeon – IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE, CROSS DISCIPLINE INSTALLATION – HOBART TOWN HALL UNDERGROUND
04/20 – Sensory Salon – IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE, CROSS DISCIPLINE INSTALLATION – M-PAVILLON – PARKADE
04/20 – Improvised Performance Layering – VIDEO ART – LIBERTY LOOP: FILMS OF THE PEOPLE – THE LOOP
04/20 – Nature’s Digital Stillness – VIDEO ART – LIBERTY LOOP: FILMS OF THE PEOPLE – THE LOOP
2020
10/20 – Behind the Veil – IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION IMPROVISED MULTI GENRE SOUND CONCERT – RANT FUNDED
10/20 – Beyond the Body – PARTICIPATORY DEEP LISTENING VOCAL CONCERT
08/20 – Regional Arts Fund Recovery Boost Relief Grant – RECIPIENT
01/20 – Future Soundscapes – MULTI CHANNEL SOUND COMPOSITION – AGORA MARKET MONA FOMA
01/20 – Dolly Do’s – HAIR ART CONCEPT INSTALLATION – MONA FOMA
2019
07/19 – Pagan Palour – IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE, MIXED MEDIUM INSTALLATION – HUON VALLEY
MID WINTER FESTIVAL
06/19 – Sanctuary – Feature album of the week – SLEEPTALKER PBS FM
06/19 – Ice Smoke Bär – SOUND INSTALLTION PERFORMANCE
06/19 – Adornment Mix – Composition Installation – ADORNMENT – SLO MO at THE FORTH FLOOR
06/19 – Submissive Salon – IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE, MIXED MEDIUM INSTALLATION – WINTER FRINGE
FESTIVAL, RED SQUARE
05/19 – Sanctuary – INDEPENDENT ALBUM RELEASE
01/19 – Terhairium – HAIR ART CONCEPT INSTALLATION – MONA FOMA
2018
10/18 – Apart of it – EP RELEASE
08/18 – Looks of Listening – Video Art
07/18 – Submissive – EP RELEASE
06/18 – Submissive Salon – IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE, MIXED MEDIUM INSTALLATION – INDEPENDENT
EVENT, RED SQUARE, MACQUARIE POINT
05/18 – Submissive Salon Promo – VIDEOGRAPHY
02/18 – Burning Fences – MUSIC VIDEO/VIDEO ART
02/18 – Silent Minds – INDEPENDENT ALBUM RELEASE
01/18 – Silent Salon – HAIR ART CONCEPT INSTALLATION – MONA FOMA MARKET
2017
12/17 – MoVement – Feature Album of the Week – EAR OF THE BEHEARER PBS FM
09/17 – Reduced Vision Sound Experiments – SOUND ART EXPERIMENTAL INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE –
MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL
07/17 – MoVement – INDEPENDENT ALBUM RELEASE
04/17 – Porkah – SHORT FILM DOCUMENTARY – DIRECTOR, EDITOR, COMPOSER
02/17 – Visual Qi Sphere test – VIDEO ART
01/17 – Festival promotion short – COMMISSIONED VIDEOGRAPHY
2016
11/16 – Seeping Seas in the Sound seas – INDEPENDENT EP RELEASE
11/16 – Fitzroy Grind – COMMISSIONED VIDEO ART WORK – BIBA ACADEMY FITZROY
11/16 – Next Level BIBA ACADEMY event – COMMISSIONED DOCUMENTATION VIDEOGRAPHY
10/16 – Feel Nature’s Stillness Digitally – VIDEO ART
10/16 – Composition for Massage Therapist – COMMISSIONED SOUND WORK
10/16 – Eye Am Hair promotional shorts – COMMISSIONED VIDEOGRPAHY
09/16 – Beehive Market Promo – COMMISSIONED VIDEOGRAPGHY
06/16 – Olfactory & Verbal Memory Experiments – IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION
2014 – 06/16 – Tahreekah – EXPERIMENTAL POST ROCK GROUP
2015
10/15 – A Breathe, A Seed, Make Soup in the Sea – LIVE PERFORMANCE COMPOSITION –
MELBOURNE TOWN HALL – RMIT ORGAN PERFORMANCE EVENT NIGHT
09/15 – Shadow Hands – VIDEO ART
06/15 – Lebenserfahrung Event II – CURATOR, DIRECTOR – INDEPENDENT EXPERIMENTAL ART EXHIBIT-EVENT
06/15 – Inner cave – INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
06/15 – Concrète piece Outside In – SOUND COMPOSITION & INSTALLATION
05/15 – Exonerated Trailer – COMMISSIONED VIDEOGRAPHY & COMPOSITION
02/15 – Lebenserfahrung Event I – CURATOR, DIRECTOR – INDEPENDENT EXPERIMENTAL ART EXHIBIT- EVENT
02/15 – God is duck – VIDEO ART/SHORT FILM
02/15 – City reflect..wtf?? – VIDEO ART/SHORT FILM
02/15 – Foul Mouthed Bedtime Stories Starring Fruit – STOP MOTION SHORT
02/15 – Abstinence – SOUND ART, PERFORMANCE, MIXED MEDIUM INSTALLATION
2014
12/14 – Visual Perception Distortion – SOUND & VIDEO ART
11/14 – A Exploration of Language II -VIDEO ART/MUSIC VIDEO
11/14 – A Exploration of Language I – VIDEO ART/MUSIC VIDEO
09/14 – Hunter – MUSIC VIDEO
02/14 – Look… the sun is rising – MUSIC VIDEO – GENERO VIDEO COMPETITION
2013
11/13 – We Carry on – MUSIC VIDEO
08/13 – In Tune – MUSIC VIDEO
06/13 – Moving Image Effects and Mood Experiments – VIDEO ART
06/13 – Sound and Spatial Practice Event Night – DIRECTOR CURATOR – INDEPENDENT EXPERIMENTAL
ART EXHIBIT
02/13 – Eternite – SHORT FILM
02/13 – The Synchronicity of Movement and Expression through Sound – VIDEO ART