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 […]
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 […]
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 […]