Thursday June 11, 2009
Tom Ellard is an ARIA award winning Sydney-based electronic musician, best known as the founding member of the seminal’70s electronic-industrial band, Severed Heads. Severed Heads’ early body of work was comprised of basic tape machines and loops, but as one of Tom’s biggest traits is adapting to the technological advancements around him, their soundscape soon included music sequencers and spread to multimedia, via the video synthesiser.
While the line-up has changed over the years, Tom is still very much the closest thing to the Severed Heads’ “front man” and maintains their online “museum” Sevcom, as well lecturing at UNSW’s College of Fine Arts.
Words by Angus
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This Little Piggy exhibition
So I’m taking part in an exhibition this Feb, and it’s at China Heights gallery, which is really exciting. Somewhere I’ve always wanted to see my works one day. It’s called This Little Piggy and is organised by the uber-lovely and talented Sydney artist Rebecca Murphy. 25 piggy banks meet their demise at the hands of 25 artists! We’re also showing some of our artworks alongside our piggies.
The Attic
I recently got commissioned to paint a mural for the band room at Mona Vale Hotel, aka The Attic. The room has a new vibe and the mural certainly brightens the place up.Coincidentally, it was also rather cool to have Tame Impala break in my artwork on it’s first night with a sold out gig. I was pretty curious to see how the crowd would react to my work – would they like it? Spill their drinks on it? I had to resist the urge to ask one guy to take his foot off the wall!
a guitar, an old PC, a microphone & a speaker
In my attempt to raise awareness of great music, I would like to introduce something quite different from my previous post. This song, ‘Dusty’ is taken from the album ‘Handwriting’ (2003) by Khonnor a.k.a. Connor Kirby-Long, a 23-year-old American DIY musician. This song might not be his best one, but you’ll get the idea. It’s [...]
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