Hi, my name is Lloyd Barrett.
Aside from being a PHD Candidate and Lecturer at QUT in Brisbane, Australia i’m a audio-visualist composer and performer working with mostly ambient electronic and exploratory sound and vision since the late 90s. Aside from gigs and art installations I have provided sound for theatrical and modern dance performances presented at places like Metro Arts, the Judith Wright Centre and the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre in Woolloongong. AliaK footage of Mise En Scene Presenting my Mise En Scene project at Electrofringe in 2006, I explained that my concern was to break from the legacy of the Proscenium gaze, where the audience is focused on performer(s) as sound-source(s).
Liquid Architecture 2007 - photos courtesy of Shannon O'Neill
An invite to present at Sydney’s Carriageworks for Liquid Architecture in 2007 resulted in a prepared/live audiovisual work entitled “Answers Come In Dreams”: a 20minute performance/short film that adopted a populist approach to abstract audio-visual material devised to engage a jaded audience. The audio was subsequently remixed and broadcast on ABC Radio National who have supported a number of my efforts over the years via live and prepared broadcasts and interviews.
Electrofringe 2007 "LightSpores" - photos by Paul Forbes-Mitchell
My Masters project involved research in electronic music, musique concréte and acoustic ecology with a view to defining an abstract syntax for composition and live performance. The result was “Sound Creatures”: a virtual ecology that defined and diffused sound objects in an electroacoustic format. This system further iterated into the “Habitat” and “Lightspores” versions, which established a variable template for acousmatic improvisation. This system has been discussed and demonstrated in solo and duo format (with Paul Forbes-Mitchell) over the last 3 years at several art/music festivals in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne including Liquid Architecture, Electrofringe, Bowerbird and Audiopollen. Andrew Thomson and I just recently reignited our Narghile project with a gig at the Globe Theatre in Brisbane. Current working methods:
- We shoot lots of stills and short bits of footage focusing on texture and movements of light;
- We recomposit them into short video loops;
- We make short sound pieces to go with each piece of film;
- We mix the sound and vision live in Isadora sending the image to a projector and manipulate the sound with other external devices.
This was our first gig and there were some technical issues (Andrew’s laptop decided not to wake up after we’d meticulously setup and soundchecked) so there are some hiccups but for a first go I think this worked quite well. The bootleg YouTube videos are below – shot by a borrowed JVC 3-chip camera next to our gear (for super mouse clicking additions) Feel free to comment and offer us gigs! 
N4rgh1l3 made a short video piece to be included in the surface mapping at the State Library of Queensland launch of Game On. It didn’t really work in the environment due to changing projector perspective, too much lighting etc… So Andrew set about virtualising it. N4rgh1l3: Game On surface mapping projection from Andrew Thomson on Vimeo.