‘Each animator stood alone in the Darwin Community Arts theatre, walls cloaked in black velvet, and recited their dream through a circular black pop filter and into a large diaphragm condenser microphone. Together, we listened back to the crispy voice, imagining the vivid images, edited the words and sound effects, and retook voices as required.’ […]
Powerfunk recorded and edited the audio and video for this inspiring project in Haasts Bluff last year. Jack joined Markus Kuchenbuch from Sound Safari for a week to deliver music workshops to kids from the Ikuntji community, funded through the remote sports voucher program and the MacDonnell Youth program. The workshops engaged the whole community […]
One of the highlights of 2020 was Jigsaw Collective creating the music and soundscape for three selected Charlie Chaplin movies and performing live on stage at the Darwin Entertainment Centre for the Darwin Festival. Thanks to Tim Parish from Undergrowth Productions for making this incredible performance possible in Darwin. If you missed it, have a listen now while enjoying Charlie […]
If you are curious about Jack’s trip to Utopia, here is a little video that shows Jack and Markus Kuchenbuch working with students of various ages to play, compose and record their own music. This is a Sound Safari project funded through the remote sports voucher program to offer young people from the Utopian community of Arlparra in the Central […]
Jack accompanied Markus Kuchenbuch to Croker Island to work with kids from Mamaruni School and the Minjilang community. Jack recorded, mixed and mastered the music that was created over the week and edited the video below. The project was part of the Sound Safari Program, a dynamic creative arts education program designed to support schools in […]
Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin on the eve of 24th of December in 1974. Powerfunk produced a video for the 40th celebration, which features Darwin band The NEO interlaced with archival images and showed the destruction the Cyclone Tracy left behind. It is believed that Tracy destroyed more than 70 per cent of Darwin’s buildings, including […]
The first known mariners of Europe made their way from the mainland of Greece to the island of Crete 130,000 years ago. Archaeologists have found stone tools that indicate they travelled over the Mediterranean Sea on a raft. On the 17th of July 2014, TheFirstMarinersExpeditions.com re-enacted that first journey on a raft they built using […]
In 2018, The NEO had the pleasure to perform at one of Darwin’s prime events: The Laneway Festival. Punters came from all corners in Darwin to celebrate the dry season in the heart of Darwin City, in the usually forgotten Austin Lane. The thriving street art provided a colourful atmosphere, supported by festival lights and […]
‘Save a Sawfish’ shows how sawfish should be released after being accidentally caught on a line or in a net. It uses an animated sawfish decorated with artwork from a painting commissioned from Norman Wilfred, and explains safe handling, hook removal, removal from a throw net, and safe return to the water. Creating a musical […]
Jack worked with Nakara Primary School students to record the history of the school as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations. The kids developed the interview questions and did all the filming. Under Jack’s guidance, they storyboarded the script and even wrote and performed their own school song for the soundtrack. Renowned artist Levin A. Diatschenko lend a hand […]
Here is a fun one: Powerfunk produced a short educational video for Charles Darwin University’s Innovative Media Production Studio (IMPS) on memorising information as part of Charles Darwin University’s MOOC: The Art and Science of Memory project. Writing a song or lyrics to a tune you already know is a great technique for memorising information. Powerfunk […]
Cane Toad Muster – a solution to an environmental disaster in Australia. The backdropped was filmed on a go-pro filmed while strapped to the front of a Troop Carrier (lovingly called Troopie), on its way to the Gurruwiling Eclipse Festival, back in 2012. The song was recorded and filmed by students studying multi media in 2013 […]