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GULAN GAMEPAD (FOOTSCRAY ARTS TARNUK-UT BAANY 2025)

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I am a multidisciplinary composer, sound artist, and proud Worimi descendant  experimenting at the intersection of music, technology, and First Nations storytelling. My work spans film/dance scoring, contemporary classical composition, and immersive installation, often incorporating modular synthesis, field recordings, and responsive audio-visual systems.

 

In 2024, I was awarded the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra First Voice Commission to create Seven Sisters, a major orchestral work inspired by the pleiades star constellation and its dreamtime story alongside Japanese/greek mythology. In 2025, I was selected for Footscray Arts Centre’s Tarnuk–ut Baany program, where I developed an interactive sound and visual installation that allows audiences to shape sonic landscapes through game controllers and gesture-based inputs.

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I have collaborated with leading First Nations artists and organisations including Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Yuldea and NITV, composing original scores for live performance, dance, and screen—including An Act of Being, a major new work for VIVID Sydney 2025 created in collaboration with Bangarra and featuring Fred Leone.

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With a practice grounded in cultural responsibility and sonic experimentation, I aim to create spaces of reflection, transformation, and deep listening—where sound becomes a vessel for memory, identity, and connection.

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                                              Selected Credits

  • Bangarra Dance Theatre – Yuldea (2023) – Sound/music contribution

  • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra First Voice Commission (2024) – Seven Sisters orchestral work

  • Footscray Arts Centre Tarnuk–ut Baany Program (2025) – Interactive sound and visual installation

  • VIVID Sydney – An Act of Being (2025) – In collaboration with Bangarra, featuring Fred Leone

  • NITV – Emily: I Am Kam (2025) – Original score for documentary, premiered at Sydney Film Festival

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