You play a lot of vinyl, what’s your organisation system like and any tips for packing your bag for a show?

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I'm not great with organising records at home ha ha, I tend not to amass music by a single artist or label so I kind of keep my music organised loosely by date of purchase. As for preparing for a mix or show I tend to mainly try and think kind of broadly about the arc of a set and will go about planning the first 30-40 mins which gives me a bit of a starting point and time to start thinking about where to move to next. Also not a vinyl purist by any means, usually it's about 50/50 depending on what I'm playing.

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Your track 'Transient' came out on the LIMBS vol2 - From Inside, Out compilation on Moonshoe recordings last year. It's a really thoughtful deep, percussive piece. What draws you to these types of sounds and how has your sound evolved since you started producing music?

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Thanks for that! Yeah I was happy with how that turned out, albeit a fairly unconventional piece of music. I'm not exactly sure what drew me to using this combination of sounds but I remember arranging the percussion and bassline and thinking that it had quite an unusual rhythm which kind of pushed and pulled in an interesting way. From there I kind of just imagined the song being played in a longer form set of music, maybe in a club or at a small outdoor festival at some point in the early hours of the morning when time starts to fall away and it just slowly evolves over a long time with these dissonant sounds.

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There are some really interesting samples in this track, almost like the tearing of cardboard. Do you record your samples yourself? And if you do what's the most random thing you've used to make a sound?

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This track, like a lot of my music, is made from a combination of found sounds and recordings of synths and I've made. I love the process of layering sounds and textures to create something new. The most unusual recording I've made is probably of this old synth which I found one day walking around Sydney Uni called an EMS Synthi, it's this synth which has historically been used to make a lot of old Sci-Fi sound fx for episodes of Dr Who among others.

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Where do you draw inspiration from when you make music?

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When I make music I take a lot of inspiration from just experimenting with unusual sounds and timbres and just trying to come up with something that I feel retains your interest as a listener.

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You've worked alongside your partner Claud, producing the music for her theatre productions. Tell us about your process producing music and creating a mood for such a specific audience?

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Yeah we have a great working relationship actually and it's opened my mind to cross disciplinary collaboration. We've done maybe 5-6 shows together now, It's cool as well because she really knows how the sound design should feel but is happy for me to just experiment and play until I get it right.

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What do you do for self care?

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Haha - I'm trying to get better at this, I swim about 20-30 laps most days during the week and play squash weekly :)

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What are your predictions for the future of the local electronic music industry? How do you see Sydney reshape once restrictions start to ease?

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It's hard to say, I think we have a great scene here but unfortunately there's a real lack of interesting/new venues. I've heard from word of mouth that a few of the usual warehouse spaces have had to fold during 2020 due to a lack of events. Hopefully now the lock-out restrictions are starting to ease a few more places will start to open up which will allow for a more diverse and new group of people to start organising events.