‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]