http://heckmedia.com.au/, https://bit.ly/nextinaudio

Heck Media, Melbourne (2025)

09/06/2025

The final session (!) for Next in Audio is on 18th June 2025. Steph Ohara will present on creating accessible and immersive sound experiences for children and young people.

Wednesday 18th June 2025, 7 PM - 9 PM, The Channel at Arts Centre Melbourne. Book your spot for free at link in bio.

Steph OHara is an interactive sound artist who makes responsive and participatory artworks. Steph explores the intersection of art and technology in their work. They have worked in Australia and internationally, engineering, producing, designing, programming, and performing with sound, software and hardware, in a variety of spaces. Steph has developed several creative experiences for young people. They are currently completing a PhD at Monash University's SensiLab, researching the development of accessible musical instruments.

[Image description: This is a graphic announcing the 18th June 2025 session of Next in Audio featuring Steph Ohara. The details of the event, such as topic and date, are given on the left in black text against a bright green background. On the right is a photo of Steph smiling into the camera. They're dressed in a blue jumper and are wearing blue rimmed glasses. They have a short salt and pepper beard. At the bottom left of the graphic is a black Heck Media logo.]

08/06/2025

The final session (!) for Next in Audio is on 18th June 2025. We're proud to have done something innovative with this program over the last 18 months. Our last session will be a fun one - Steph Ohara will present on creating accessible and immersive sound experiences for children and young people.

Wednesday 18th June 2025, 7 PM - 9 PM, The Channel at Arts Centre Melbourne. Book your spot for free here: https://bit.ly/NIA_S3

Steph OHara is an interactive sound artist who makes responsive and participatory artworks. Steph explores the intersection of art and technology in their work. They have worked in Australia and internationally, engineering, producing, designing, programming, and performing with sound, software and hardware, in a variety of spaces. Steph has developed several creative experiences for young people. They are currently completing a PhD at Monash University's SensiLab, researching the development of accessible musical instruments.

[Image description: This is a graphic announcing the 18th June 2025 session of Next in Audio featuring Steph Ohara. The details of the event, such as topic and date, are given on the left in black text against a bright green background. On the right is a photo of Steph smiling into the camera. They're dressed in a blue jumper and are wearing blue rimmed glasses. They have a short salt and pepper beard. At the bottom left of the graphic is a black Heck Media logo.]

11/04/2025

Join us at Next in Audio on 16th April 2025 for a session on immersive sound design for live theatre.

This session will be presented by Jethro Woodward, an acclaimed sound designer who produces layered sound works for film, theatre and dance, through innovative uses of technology.

Jethro will present on his approach to using new technology when create innovative sound design for live theatre. He will draw on his creative process for the play Hour of The Wolf (Malthouse Theatre, 2023), which featured infrared headsets through which audience members could hear different layers to the narrative as they moved through the set.

Wednesday 16th April 2025, 7 PM - 9 PM, The Channel at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Book your spot for free here: https://bit.ly/NIA_S3

[Image description: This is a graphic announcing the 16th April 2025 session of Next in Audio, featuring Jethro Woodward. The details of the event, such as topic and date, are given on the left in black text against a white background. On the right is a black and white image of Jethro. Standing against a dark textured wall, Jethro, dressed in black, looks straight into the camera with an enigmatic smile on his face. The composition of the image evokes movement and drama. At the bottom left of the graphic is a black Heck Media logo.]

11/02/2025

Join us at Next in Audio on 19th Feb 2025 for a presentation and workshop on integrating visuals into live musical performance.

This session will be presented by Bob Jarvis, who is an educator and an audio-visual artist working across live video performance, music, animation and coding. Bob has developed an innovative collection of plugins for Ableton, called VIZZable, to allow the manipulation of live and prerecorded video as part of an Ableton Live set. Participants will get early access to the latest version of VIZZable.

Wednesday 19th February 2025, 7 PM - 9 PM, The Channel at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Book your spot for free here: https://bit.ly/NIA_S3

[Image description: this is a graphic announcing the 19th February 2025 session of Next in Audio, featuring Bob Jarvis. The details of the event, such as topic and date, are given on the left in black text against a pale pink background. On the right is an image of Bob Jarvis. They are standing against a olive background, arms crossed and looking straight into the camera. They are wearing a bicycle helmet with a small electronic device attached to it. The device looks like a camera with two lenses. Bob is wearing a pale blue t-shirt with a quirky cartoon about aliens. They are also wearing a retro watch. They look like a tech wizard. At the bottom left of the graphic is a black Heck Media logo.]

10/02/2025

Next in Audio is coming back with three more innovative ideas in 2025. Join us on 19 February, 16 April, and 18 June to explore new audio technologies in the creative arts. This is a free event. Book your spots at this link: https://bit.ly/NIA_S3

[Image description: This is graphic announcing Season 3 of Next in Audio from February to June 2025, at the Arts Centre Melbourne, as part of the Frequency program. There is a white Heck Media logo on the top left of the image. The background of the image shows a mixing panel used in audio production.]

10/11/2024

The November session of Next in Audio will focus on movement-based audio production - using movement to create and manipulate sound. Sound artist and composer Monica Lim will present on her work with gesture-led composition tools.

Book your spots for free at https://bit.ly/NIA_S2
Wed 20 Nov 2024, 7 - 9 PM.

Monica Lim’s creative practice frequently explores combinations of new technology with music. Her work has been presented at Arts House, Science Gallery Melbourne, AsiaTOPA, White Night, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Fringe, Arts Centre Melbourne, and Seoul Performing Arts Festival, among a host of other Australian and international festivals and symposiums.

She was a 2023 Artist-in residence at the Grainger Museum and Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio, and is co-creator of the Electromagnetic Piano with Mirza Ceyzar and David Shea.

Read more about Monica’s work at https://www.monicalim.online/

[Image description: This is an info graphic announcing the date, time and topic of an upcoming event of Next in Audio. At the right side is an image of Monica Lim, a light skinned, dark haired woman who smiles softly at the camera. She is wearing a dark top and stands against a bright yellow background. There is a black Heck Media logo (funky bold text) at the bottom left of the graphic.]

22/10/2024

At the 30th October Next in Audio event, sound designer Darius Kedros and theatre maker Roslyn Oades will present a session on recording and building immersive sound worlds. In the first part of the session, Darius and Roslyn will discuss various techniques and dramaturgical approaches to creating sonic worlds across multiple artforms.

In the second half of the session, participants will have the opportunity to experience one of the cinematic VR audio designs Darius has created for Phoria/ Meta, followed by a guided discussion on on the subject of 'the real' versus 'the re-imagined’ in sound design.

Book your spots for free at https://bit.ly/NIA_S2

[Image description: This is an info graphic announcing the upcoming events at Next in Audio. At the right side of the graphic are two images arranged diagonally from each other in oval frames. The image higher up is that of Darius Kedros, a light skinned and light haired person looking to their right and smiling. They are wearing a blue shirt and stand against a white shiplap background. The image below that is of Roslyn Oades, a light skinned person with brown curly framing their face. They are are against an out of focus outdoorsy background. They are wearing a blue scarf and are smiling at the camera.

There is a white Heck Media logo in funky bold text at the bottom right of the graphic.]

07/10/2024

Coming up at Next in Audio:

Wed 30th Oct 2024 - Acclaimed sound designer Darius Kedros and award-winning theatre maker Roslyn Oades present “The Uncanny Valley of Sound”; a session that explores how artificial sounds impact our perception of reality in audio fiction, podcasts and theatre.

Wed 20th Nov 2024 - Innovative sound artist Monica Lim will present on the new technologies that she uses in music and audio production, including gesture-based composition.

Book your spots for free at https://bit.ly/NIA_S2

[Image description: This is an info graphic announcing the upcoming events at Next in Audio. At the top right of the graphic are two photographs arranged diagonally from each other in oval frames. The photograph higher up is that of Darius Kedros, a light skinned and light haired person looking to their right and smiling. They are wearing a blue shirt and stand against a white shiplap background. The image below that is of Roslyn Oades, a light skinned person with brown curly hair framing their face. They are are against an out of focus outdoorsy background. They are wearing a blue scarf and are smiling at the camera.

At the bottom left of the graphic is an image of a Monica Lim in an oval frame. They are a light skinned person with straight black hair, and they are against a bright yellow background. They are wearing a black top. They are smiling at the camera.

At the bottom right of the graphic, against a background of brightly coloured audio tracks of a Digital Audio Workstation, is a white Heck Media logo. It features the word HECK in chunky letters, with a smaller sized MEDIA inset diagonally within HECK.]

11/09/2024

Next in Audio's 18th Sep session with Access Lab & Library is fully booked out!

Access Lab & Library (ALL) was created in 2023 by Fayen d’Evie, Lloyd Mst and Jon Tjhia to develop and nurture disability-led and artist-led access in creative settings. In this session they will present on sound and spatiality, and creative live captioning for live performances (in-person and digital), exhibitions and publishing.

Our next event is on 30th October and we have another exciting topic lined up. Keep an eye out on Heck Media's socials and the Frequency webpage for details. https://bit.ly/NIA_S2

Access Lab & Library: https://accesslab.world/

Pictured (left to righ): Fayen d’Evie, Lloyd Mst and Jon Tjhia.

[image description: Three photographs are arranged horizontally in a narrow strip. The first is a headshot of Fayen d'Evie, bathed in a shadowy blue light, face tilted away from the camera, eyes closed, as if asleep. Patches of light illuminate her nose, forehead, and cheek. Two sequinned jewels - fixed above her natural eyes - glisten, but subtly. She wears a pleated top that undulates; her tousled hair undulates similarly, in gentle waves. Fayen is mid-frame, the hair of two other anonymous bodies peek into the frame (one hairstyle straight and long, the other, tight curls and short); the trio are resting together, back-to-back. In the second image, Lloyd sits against a dark grey wall, cropped from mid-chest, with a grey brick wall to the left and deeper shadow to the right. He looks directly at the camera, short black hair pushed left, and stubble from a few days past. His closed tangerine-tinted lips and soft brown eyes convey internal warmth, yet a serious exterior. He wears a grey workwear shirt/jacket with a black stripe; the top button open reveals a hint of a violet T-shirt. The third image is the kind of dim, silvery black and white photograph that seems almost yellow, and at the centre of it, Jon is looking out from behind a sash of light grey blur intruding across the camera’s view. His finger is pointed across his chin as if in mock thought, his forearm sprouting from the same point of origin as the unknown diagonal obstruction. Jon’s other arm juts out unseriously; his t-shirt and medium-length hair and moustache and shadow are all black, and even if they weren’t, you wouldn’t find out about it here. The background is filled by spectral, foggy looking trees; it was actually a nice sunny morning.]

30/08/2024

Is sound the same as audio? If we can't hear audio, can we still meaningfully participate in a sound experience? If there's only audio, can we still experience visual worlds? Access Lab & Library will present a session on experimental uses of spatialised audio and live captioning to make sound more accessible and exciting in live performance, exhibitions and other media.
18th Sept, 7 - 9 PM. Register here: https://bit.ly/NIA_S2

Access Lab & Library: https://accesslab.world/

[Image description: A gold gradient triangle graphic reaches into the square image from the left, bearing white text which reads “Next in Audio. Access Lab & Library on non-standard spatialise audio and creative live captioning. Wed 18th Sep 2024. 7 PM - 9 PM. Arts Centre Melbourne. Free to register.” Beneath the gold triangle, we see part of two wide TV screens hung from the wall of a performance space, which is in near-total darkness. The screens’ backgrounds are a fresh blue and there's bold yellow text on it, kind of like the colours of the Swedish flag. The text reads: ‘High winds a-blowin’, the mighty storm is a-brewin’…’. Above it, in smaller typewriter font and square brackets, ’throaty tones of / a high-strung ballad shimmer’ span the two screens. On the bottom right of the image, in the darkness of space, is a cream Heck Media logo.]

Background image by Jon Tjhia.

29/08/2024

Next in Audio is back at The Arts Centre Melbourne with three more events showcasing new audio technologies in the creative arts! 18th Sep, 30th Oct and 4th Dec. And this season, it's totally free to attend. So, mark your calendars, creative nerds! Registerations and event info here: https://bit.ly/NIA_S2

[Image description: This post announces a new Heck Media event.
Background (towards right): Out of focus image of pastel teal, orange, pink and blue audio tracks with black waveforms, in an digital audio workstation.
Foreground (towards left): Dark peach coloured triangle shape with white text that reads "Next in Audio. Season 2. Sep - Dec 2024. A part of FREQUENCY at Arts Centre Melbourne."
On the top right of the image a white Heck Media logo.]

31/01/2024

The first Next in Audio presenter, game audio designer Maize Wallin, will draw on some of their own innovative projects in their seminar on 6th Feb. Including:
- Noise Drawers, a VR game in which players are surrounded by walls of drawers, each with a unique sound. Players reach out and interact with the drawers, opening and closing them in various expressive ways to create music. https://bit.ly/3HH9JGF
- HOPE, an 8-bit musical game about learning to rely on others and fighting against hopelessness, created as an interactive expression of the song Hope by Australian punk band Cable Ties. https://bit.ly/4blSFn8
- Coral VR, a VR workshop with Maldivian musicians to make interactive compositions using underwater sounds. https://bit.ly/3SjPAvu

Maize's Next in Audio seminar and workshop will include case studies of how to bring about creative collaborations of this sort, and an ideation exercise to map out your own project against audio/ music and game design elements. Book your ticket today at this link: https://bit.ly/nextinaudio

Images by Maize Wallin, Cecile Richards and Ismail Miglal

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