PHILIP BROPHY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED ARTWORKS / FILM / VIDEO & MUSIC PROJECTS

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2009
Director, co-producer, writer & composer 

Grey Metal (feature) - in pre-production 

The sound of milk (feature) - in development
Concept, composer & sound designer 

Evaporated Music 2 (a-f) (Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD short) - exhibited in TRACE ELEMENTS, Performance Space, Sydney (forthcoming)
Director, producer, editor, composer & performer

Fuorescent (stereo mix CD from original Dolby Digital 5.1 3-screen video installation) - presented as audio only in 21:21:21, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Writer 

"Sound: N.Y.N.Y." - Film Comment Vol.45 No.1, January-February, New York (forthcoming)
Berkeley (forthcoming)
Lecturer

Contemporary Traces of the Modern Sound - 11 part lecture series, presented as guest lecturer at RMIT School of Art, Melbourne


2008
Concept, composer & sound designer
Evaporated Music 1
(a-f) (Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD short) – exhibited in POP SHOP, Mu Gallery, Eindhoven
Evaporated Music 1 (a-f) (Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD short) – exhibited in TRACE ELEMENTS, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Evaporated Music 1 (a-f) (Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD short) – exhibited in VIDEO LOGIC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Evaporated Music 1 (a-f) (Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD short) – exhibited in ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Live performer 

Kissed (live quadraphonic surround score to Andy Warhol's KISS) - Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (part of the ANDY WARHOL UP LATE concert series curated by Paul Curtis) 

Stadium (live drum and sampler performance - excerpt) - Palais Theatre, Melbourne (for the event UNITED ARTISTS)
The Toff, Melbourne (in conjunction with the CCP) 
Live performance with David Brown - part of the You don’t have to call it music series, Toff, Melbourne
Director, producer, editor, composer & performer
Fluorescent (stereo mix CD from original Dolby Digital 5.1 3-screen video installation) - presented as audio only in 21:100:100, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Writer
Deliverer of Rants
Photofile No.85, Sydney, 2008 
The Non-Event of Sound in Video Art - reprinted in Video Logic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 

The adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the desert - book on the film, commissioned for the Australian Screen Classics series, Currency Press, Sydney & the National Film & Sound Archive

"Sound: No Country For Old Men" - Film Comment Vol.44 No.2, March-April, New York

"Citizen Kane: The sound of the look of a 'visual masterpiece'" - Music & The Moving Image, Vol.1 No.3, University of Illinois Press, Champaign

"Where Sound Is: The Absent Aural in Film Theory" – Sage Handbook of Film Studies, Sage Press, London

"The Unradicality of Art: Self-centring Artists, Mediarised Crackpots & Alchemical Conductors" - Biennale Critical Reader, Artspace, Sydney


Lecturer

Contemporary traces of the Modern Soundtrack - 11 part lecture series, presented as guest lecturer at RMIT School of Art, Melbourne


Speaker

"Sexual Robots & Plastic Humans in Anime" (extended lecture from 100 ANIME) - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Australian Film Television & Radio School, Melbourne

"The Visual Arts & Pop Music: Like A Cat Fucking A Dog" - contribution to the Play it loud panel discussion for Artists' Week, Adelaide
Introduction to screening of El Topo, IMA event @ Dendy Cinema, Brisbane

"Evaporated Music, Revoicing & Gendered Vocalization" - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2007
Director, animator & sound designer
Vox (2-screen Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD animation) - exhibited at Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne; the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Concept, composer & sound designer
Evaporated Music I (a-f) (Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD short independently funded) - Revelation - Perth International Film Festival, Perth
Director, producer, sound-designer & designer
The Body Malleable (interactive animation with 4-channel surround sound) - exhibted in SKIN, Osaka National Museum of Art, Osaka
Curator
Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

2006
Director, producer, editor, composer & performer
Fluorescent (3-screen Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD installation) - presented in the Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore
Concept-director, sound designer & composer
Evaporated Music, 2 (a) (Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD short independently funded) - premiere at Artspace, Sydney
Evaporated Music I (a-f) (Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD short independently funded) - exhibited as part of INTERFACE, The Big Reservoir, Berlin
Director, producer, sound-designer & designer
The Body Malleable (interactive animation with 4-channel surround sound) - in the Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Curator
Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2005
Curator
Aural Gazing- Japanese Audiovision - commissioned for the Experimenta Vanishing Point programme, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

2004
Australian Culture Now, a collaboration between the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Jamjuree Gallery, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; Beijing Millennium Monument; Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore; 2005 Ssmazie Space, Seoul and Kuala Lumpar
I Thought I Knew but I was Wrong: New Video Art From Australia, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Evaporated Music I (a-c)(d-f) (Dolby 5.1 DVD) Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Sound Of Milk (director) (35mm feature - in development)
Evaporated Music I (a-c) exhibited in Video Hits, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Fluorescent, (3 screen Dolby 5.1 DVD installation) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2003
Evaporated Music I (a-c) (Dolby Digital video short independently funded) exhibited in Video Store at Foxy Gallery, New York; screened in the Adelaide International Film Festival; exhibited in Treatment, Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane
The Body Malleable (director, producer, sound-designer & designer) (interactive animation with 4-channel surround sound) commissioned by the Digital Arts Fund for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; production team including Haima Marriot & Isobel Knowles
The Sound Of Milk – Prologue 1 (director, producer, sound-designer & designer) (stereo DVD) commissioned for Film Art (exhibition) Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Beautiful Cyborg 2 (live music performance & director) (live 4-channel surround score to edited compilation of anime) 1st Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide
The Planets (live music performance) First Floor, Melbourne
The Cavern Of Deep Tones (quadraphonic version) (live performer) part of Liquid Architecture, Brisbane Powerhouse
Rock for Honeysmack (CD album) (music producer) released by Smelly/Shock Records
House Secrets (sound designer & score composer) series of interactives commissioned by Scienceworks Museum, Melbourne

2002
Beautiful Cyborg 2 (live performer & director) (live 4-channel surround score to edited compilation of anime) for Japanime 2, organised by Dendy Cinemas, screened Opera Quays, Sydney, Kino Cinema, Melbourne
Beautiful Cyborg 1 (live performer & director) (live 4-channel surround score to edited compilation of anime) co-composed and performed with Francois Tetaz & Darrin Verhagen, Kino Cinema, Melbourne
Give Me Liberty, by Honeysmack, (videoclip) (director and producer) (video short on Zomba records) television broadcast nationally
Whispering In The Dark (16mm short) (sound designer & score composer) directed by Lynne B. Williams & produced by Aida Innocente; funded by Australian Film Commission & Cinemedia
Filmmusic Vol.1 (music release) (writer, performer, mix & production) (CD released on Sound Punch)
Janet Leigh (Dead) by Ph2 (music release) (co-writer, performer, mix & production) (CD released in Dolby Surround on Sound Punch)
Beautiful Cyborg 1 by Philip Brophy, Francois Tetaz & Darrin Verhagen (music release) (co-writer, performer, co-mix & co-production) (CD released in Dolby Surround on Sound Punch)
CD single Give Me Liberty for Honeysmack (music producer) released by Zomba Records
CD single Dance for Honeysmack (music producer) released by Zomba Records

2001
Beautiful Cyborg 1 (live performer, co-composer & director) (live 4-channel surround score to edited compilation of anime) co-composed and performed with Francois Tetaz & Darrin Verhagen for the 50th Melbourne International Film Festival
Escape From Andraxus (sound designer & score composer) 6-channel soundtrack commissioned by Museum Victoria for Scienceworks Museum and the Melbourne Planetarium, Melbourne
The Planets (sound designer & score composer) 6-channel soundtrack commissioned by Museum Victoria for Scienceworks Museum and the Melbourne Planetarium, Melbourne
Blow (16mm short) (sound designer & score composer) directed by Marie Craven & produced by Lizette Atkins; funded by Australian Film Commission & Cinemedia; premiered at 50th Melbourne International Film Festival

2000
Evaporated Music I (a-b) (writer, editor, director& composer) (Dolby Digital video short independently funded) exhibited in stereo as part of Rent at Overgaden Gallery; Copenhagen and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Evaporated Music I (a-c) (writer, editor, director & composer) presented as work-in-progress in 4-channel sound projection at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Evaporated Music I (c) (writer, editor, director& composer) (Dolby Digital video short independently funded) exhibited in stereo as part of Freedom, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne
Live drum & bass remix version of The Cavern Of Deep Tones (live performer) Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; Melbourne; The Lounge, Melbourne
LAZY3 (with Sean Baxter & Dave Brown) (live performer) Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Exhibition CD single for Martine Corompt's Wild Boy, exhibition (music producer) Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Music producer, film score by The Underground Lovers for Mallboy (35mm feature)

1999
Mallboy (35mm Dolby Stereo feature) (sound designer & music supervisor) directed by Vince Giarrusso & produced by Fiona Eagger; funded by Australian Film Commission & SBS; (premiered at 49th Melbourne International Film Festival, 2000)
Videoclip for Walk on Acid, by Honeysmack (director and producer) (video short on Smelly Records) TV broadcast nationally, withdrawn and all copies destroyed at order of lawyers representing CocoCola Bottlers
Collaboration with Honeysmack (live performer) Revolver Upstairs, Melbourne - tracks released on the Honeysmack CD Flick Bubble on Smelly Records
Ph2 (with Philip Samartzis) (live performer) The Continental; The Punter's Club, Melbourne; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; The Percy Grainger Museum, Melbourne; Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Collaboration between Ph2 + Honeysmack as Phoneysmack (live performer) Laundry, Melbourne
Dominc Redfern's Smoke Screen (live score) Videosonic, ALT-TV screen, Melbourne
Swarm (excerpt from The Cavern Of Deep Tones) (live presentation) presented in Dolby Digital as part of Immersion, Treasury Theatre, Melbourne
LAZY3 (with Sean Baxter & Dave Brown) (live performer) The Continental, Prahran; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; The Punter's Club, Fitzroy; Percy Grainger Museum, Melbourne
The Cavern Of Deep Tones (music release) (writer, performer, mix & production) (CD released in Dolby Surround on Sound Punch)
Bionic Blue Bubblegum Slurpee by Ph2 (music release) (co-writer, performer, mix & production (CD released in Dolby Surround on Sound Punch)
One Large Magnetic Cartridge by Lazy3 (music release) (co-writer, performer, mix & production) (CD released on Sound Punch)

1998
Paradise (16mm short) (sound designer & score composer) directed by Ilana Schulman, produced by Lizette Atkins; funded by Australian Film Commission, premiered at 47th Melbourne International Film Festival
LAZY3 (with Sean Baxter & Dave Brown) (live performer) Sub Terrain, The Public Bar, Melbourne
Ph2 (live performer) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Revolver Upstairs, Melbourne, Slappo’s, Melbourne

1997
LAZY3 (with Sean Baxter & Dave Brown) (live performer) Empress Hotel, Punters Club, Melbourne

1995
Maidenhead (35mm Dolby Stereo short) (sound designer) directed by Marie Craven & produced by John Cruthers; funded by AFC & Film Vic1995; premiered at 43rd Melbourne International Film Festival

1994
Only The Brave (16mm short) (score composer) directed by Ana Kokkinos & produced by Fiona Eagger; funded by Austalian Film Commission & Film Vic1994; premiered at 42nd Melbourne International Film Festival
KABOOM: Explosive Animation from America & Japan (music designer) Museum of Modern Art, Sydney

1992
Body Melt (35mm Dolby Stereo feature) directed by Philip Brophy; co-written by Philip Brophy & Rod Bishop; co-produced by Rod Bishop & Daniel Scharf; co-sound-designed by Craig Carter & Philip Brophy; funded by Australian Film Commission & Film Victoria 1992; premiered at 41st Melbourne International Film Festival, 1993; represented by Beyond Films and sold to UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Mexico, Russia, Greece, Cyprus, India, Singapore & Malaysia; screened at London Film Festival; Dublin Film Festival; Helsinki Film Festival; Academy Of Sci-Fi & Horror Film Festival, LA; Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, Barcelona; released domestically on video through 21st Century; purchased & screened on Foxtel, 2001

1988
Salt Saliva Sperm & Sweat (35mm Dolby Stereo feature) directed by Philip Brophy; produced by Rod Bishop; funded by AFC 1998; premiered at 37th Melbourne International Film Festival, 1988; released on domestic home video through Home Cinema Group 1989; released nationally 1989 through Dumb Films; screened at Collective For Living Cinema, New York; Edinburgh Film Festival; Sydney Film Festival; Back Of Beyond - Australian Cinema, UCLA, Los Angeles; Australian Independents, ICA Cinema, London; purchased & screened on Channel 4, UK, 1991