Hugh in front of one of his polka dot projections, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, 1985

The Light Man - Hugh McSpedden at Gertrude St Projection Festival 2012

Why are we doing this?

One of the great objectives of this event is for us to film and record all performances for use in a documentary, The Light Man, about Hugh and his life's work. Every one of our four nights provides us with not only different locations and audiences to work with, but with every presentation Hugh makes about his remarkable career we get ever more video to work with. 

The Light Show format is also being developed to potentially tour through regional centers. Any material we produce, from video to sound, will be available in future applications to producers and presenters, as well as adding to Sun-Bus-5 artist's showreels . We will no doubt publish edited clips onto our websites, and it is our intention to produce a live CD/DVD release, which we are offering as part of our pledge gift range.

The bottom line

As you know, any show of any kind comes with production costs. We've kept ours to a minimum. The bottom line is that we're needing to cover the basics, keeping in mind that these costs in no way cover the pre and post production of the documentary we're wanting to produce on Hugh.

• - Publicity: $850
• - Venue Hire: $800 (Convent and St Andrews combined)
• - Venue extras: $250 (chair hire, heating, refreshment stands etc)
• - AV: $850 (PA hire, cabling, projector hire etc)
• - Transport: $500 (rehearsals plus performance).

In Kind contributions include: some PA, lighting and projection equipment, graphics and webdesign, some chairs/tables etc, screens, signage, some transport, rehearsal fees.

Do we know what we're doing?

Check out The Light Show website. It gives a good indication of the nature of the performance, and of the backgrounds of the artists involved in Sun-Bus-5 and The Light Show.The site includes video, music and links to our artists extensive websites. These websites contain a vast selection of completed projects over decades of contributions to Australian experimental and contemporary arts.

Additionally, The Light Show producers have a strong belief in the philosophy of Pozible to see such projects as ours supported, and by and large, endorsed by you!

Visit The Light Show

The Light Show is an Andrew Garton and Chip Wardale Made With Anything production for the 2012 Melbourne Fringe.

Pledge Reward CDs

More titles may be added. if our project funding is successful, we will request you provide your preference. The thumbnails are links to more info on the release/artist.

1. Chip Wardale with Tina Aldridge PORTALS (Alchemy) 

Acoustic and electronic instrumental compositions with field recording. A dreamscape of great density, this recording is the fifth from a renowned Australian duo.

2. Andrew Garton SON OF SCIENCE (Secession Records)

Completed in February 2005 and mastered in April of the same year, Andrew Garton’s tribute to progressive, jazz and psychedelic rock was five years in the making.

3. Andrew Garton HEADLOCK (Secession Records)

Garton’s first industrial tech release. Taking an orchestral aesthetic and punk attitude Garton delivers a relentless narrative through happy hard core favourites and psy-trance mania – extreme fusion or mash-up?

4. Lost Time Accident CREATING REGIONS (Secession Records)

Inspired by the stone masonry of central Prague, the gothic sculptures of Vienna and Austria’s challenging radio arts culture, Creating Regions evokes mourning for European cultures in decay and the dawn of an international community of arts activism. Originally performed for the netcast commissioned by KunstRadio from Melbourne to DocumentaX, Germany, 1997.

5. Future Eater GNOOB (Secession Records)

From liquid streams of sound to layered percussive beats, Future Eater’s debut album is testament to his mastery of electronic rhythms. His music is dark, yet not depressing; light, without being fluffy – usually both at the same time.

6. Retreat Syndrome ‎– Limit Of Separation (Solitary Sound)

Steve Law and Andrew Belcher

This L.P. was recorded at the Solitary studio from April to July 2001. Almost all of the sounds on the LP were derived from mini-disc field recordings and recordings of an Oscar synth made by Andrew Belcher in the early part of 2001. These recordings were then transferred to hard disk from mini disc or cassette (many of the Oscar sounds were originally recorded by Andrew onto cassette). Steve and Andrew then proceeded to edit, process and arrange the resulting audio files into compositions using Logic Audio and a number of other DSP programs. Steve also added a few additional sounds from the Kurzweil (including processed samples of the original mini-disc recordings) and a Jupiter 6. However, almost all of the synthetic sounds were produced on the Oscar, and most of the remaining sounds were derived from Andrew's field recordings. The end result is an album of unsettling soundscapes, almost totally devoid of percussion, though there are a number of rhythmic sequences generated on the Oscar.

6. Zen Paradox ‎– Numinosum (Electronic Emotional Music)