“We were most excited about what we were doing when we were incredibly confused,” said Aaron Cupples of his experience producing Kirin J Callinan’s Bravado album.
Aaron helps push the boats out, one of the most fantastically adrift being “Big Enough” (as heard here).
He’s worked too with The Drones, Tropical Fuck Storm, Dan Kelly, composes for film and is now an esteemed guest on Corks - “Producing w Aaron Cupples” available now to enjoy everywhere!
- Robbie
@a.cupp@kirinjcallinan@alkcm@tropical_fuck_storm@dankellysongs@jimmybarnesofficial
Summer 1995 - 30 years ago - I’m 16 years old and at Summersault Festival to see my fav band Sonic Youth and some guy called Jabba sticks a mic in my face and I say some shit and forget about it.
10 years later I’m in Sydney playing with Dan Kelly and this guy called Sam @samworrad from the support band comes up and says:
‘hey I recognise you’
I say: ‘this my second time in Sydney ever I don’t think so’.
He walks off.
Later on that night he comes up again:
‘Hey were you ever interviewed on the telly and banging on about Sonic Youth?’
‘Hmmm that does sound like me yes’
‘I have you on VHS - you say your message to the world is ‘listen to Sonic Youth!’ and when you come on me and my mates all cheer’
‘Holy shit. You need to send me that tape’
Sam comes through with the goods and a few weeks later a VHS tape turns up at our rock compound at Baker Street, Richmond. Everyone in the house at the time gathers around the TV to watch, at least 10 people prob more. Dan Kelly’s manager at the time, Vicky, grips my hand and says:
‘OMG I can’t believe your friends are doing this to you!’
‘Doing what??’
‘Watching you as a 16 year old, it’s so embarrassing!!’
‘Ohhh. Shit.’
Everyone watches the video.
Vicky gasps loudly:
‘IT’S OK!!! YOU WERE COOL!!!’
Thanks Vicky.
@sonicyouth_official
My score for The Wolves Always Come At Night is entirely composed using the overtone (harmonic) series. A natural scale that is actually imbedded within all tonal sounds, chosen here to bridge the music with traditional overtone singing and instruments from Mongolia.
I built my own overtone flutes and blew them as gentle and as hard as I could. Recorded and mapped to 16 faders, one for each of the first 16 overtones. Layers and layers build to give voice to the wind - a natural protagonist in the film.
If you are in Australia please try to see the film while it’s in cinemas for this week only. It’s a very rare and special thing that hybrid films in foreign languages get a cinema run in this country. Links to locations and tickets in my bio :)
Fairyland Codex by @tropical_fuck_storm is out today. Recorded by @michaelbeach___ and mixed by Me and Gaz over winter last year in-between highly competitive bouts of virtual reality mini-golf. As you'd expect from this lot, it's a wild ride. Find it where you'd hope to find a record, and possibly a few places you wouldn't hope to.
Some incredible music on sale right now over at @pan__hq . Pan Daijing, Beatrice Dillon, Eartheater, some classic M.E.S.H. releases… tons of good shit... alongside my (ahem, BIFA nominated) score (Jonny Greenwood won obvs) for Island of the Hungry Ghosts. Not all scores make good albums, but I think this one does. Most of it was created by bowing a 15-foot long stretched wire through endless London winter nights. MOJO ranked it as the 3rd best soundtrack of 2021 (after scoring legends Clint Mansell and Mica Levi 🤯). That’s the pitch, just go buy it and all the other good things and I’ll put my trumpet down. 🫳🎺
Melbourne peeps, if you want to hear a score I made almost entirely from stacked handmade overtone flutes (as well as watch an incredible film!) the Victorian premier of The Wolves Always Come at Night is next Monday 3rd of March at 6:30, as part of the Australian International Documentary Conference. Head to the ACMI website tor tix. Director Gabrielle Brady will be there for a Q&A afterwards, I sadly will miss it. Very proud of this one, hope you can make it.
Gabrielle is also part of the wider conference, all the details for that via @aidcmelb .
🐎
Primed to pilgrimage to @nyegenyegefest in a few weeks with @hannah_h_fox . Any other peeps in the feed heading to Jinja, Uganda for this equatorial madness?
More World Premiere news!
After the success of @goliath.vr , I was invited to team up with @weareanagram and Tilda Swinton again to deliver IMPULSE: PLAYING WITH REALITY, premiering tomorrow at the Venice International Film Festival. ✨
A 40-minute interactive mixed reality documentary, IMPULSE explores how you make sense of the world around you, told through the stories of four people who are coming to terms with the decisions which have chartered their lives. IMPULSE has been selected for competition in “Venice Immersive”, the Extended Reality section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
Three years ago, we brought @goliath.vr - the first installment of the PLAYING WITH REALITY collection - to the same competition and won the Grand Jury Prize 🦁
I was composer and ‘Head of Sound’ for the project. I like this title as it precisely describes my actual head. Exploring the creative possibilities of emerging media formats and technologies with my dear friends Barry and May has been wild and rewarding, and I’m already looking forward to where it takes us next.
Can’t make it to Venice? No worries - follow @impulse.xr for more information on the subsequent tour and Meta launch dates.
#BiennaleCinema2024
#Venezia81
#LaBiennaleDiVenezia
#BiennaleCinema
#impulsexr
#impulseplayingwithreality
#playingwithreality
#mixedreality
Thrilled to announce The Wolves Always Come At Night will have it's world premiere in the Platform Competition at Toronto International Film Festival this September!
@tiff_net
#TIFF24
My latest feature film scoring excursion and second collaboration with director Gabrielle Brady (the first was Island of the Hungry Ghosts, OST in bio ☝️)
A hybrid narrative-documentary that follows the journey of a rural sheep herding family in Mongolia who are forced to give up their traditional way of life.
I'll be sharing some of my composition process here in time.
Huge congratulations to all the incredible people involved, I'm so happy this film is getting the attention it deserves. Please follow @wolvesalwayscomeatnight for more regular updates. 🐺
