Federation Bells

Saturday, 03 December 2011 05:37 Harry Williamson

FEDERATION BELLS

Spring Innovations, a sister company of Spring Studio, has been awarded the refurbishment contract for the Federation Bells. We have designed and are in the midst of contructing a novel animated controller system that mimics the action of a musician, with extensive dynamic and musical possiblilties, together with a state of the art actuator, using novel voice coil technology which is usually used in missile and robot assembly applications.

The prototype unit has passed 12,000,000 operations without any noticeable change to its performance, so we feel confident the application will be charming audiences for many years to come. Daily visits from travellers from all over the world underline the iconic importance of the Federation Bells Installation, included by the BBC and Lonely Planet in the World's top 10 public art installations.

Now at last the mechanisms for playing the bells will match the unique design of the bells themselves.

PRODUCTION

I have produced over 300 CD's and shot and edited several films, as well as cutting thousands of LP's at Spring Studio.I specialize in world, jazz, R&B, acoustic and vocal music. I have a studio in Prahran, Victoria, where I record, mix and master on a daily basis.For the past few years I have been shooting editing and authoring DVD’s for artists from around the world. I also act as an acoustic consultant and have designed many studios, and treated rooms in public buildings.

Below is a short desciption of the audio services I offer. Click on the blue headings for more information

LIVE recording

a variety of mobile rigs are available, tailored to provide quality recordings anywhere - from the Club to the Concert Hall..

STUDIO Recording

Up to an eight piece band. Great mics and 30 years mic placement experience make a notable sound.

Midi + Arrangement

Sibelius 5 and 6 with Garatan MIDI instruments and Score creation for any project requiring traditional arrangement. Komplete 7 from Native Instruments including Kontact 4 create great synthetic backing for appropriate projects

Editing

Over 16 years experience in HD editing. Nuendo is my DAW of choice

Mixing YOUR Home Studio Recordings

I specialize in downloading completed multitrack projects and making them sound wonderful. Please drop me an email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information

Surround Mixes - 5.1

I mix in Nuendo. This powerful program is industry choice for many film projects and featured specialised 5.1 design.

Mastering

I regularly produce masters for DVD, CD and vinyl from a variety of sources

Artwork(this Link goes off site)

Bee Williamson offeres a competitive artwork service

Recently Completed Musical illustrates the life and loves of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Written buy local+international composers David and Mark Jaeggi, this full length musical, with 27 songs, was arranged , recorded and scopredat Spring Studio and is now seeking a producer. http://www.jagsmusic.com/home.html The original recordings were completed by Carl Pannuzzo, Penny Larkins, SIg Thornton, Liz van Dort and the Spring Studio Singers. Catchy tunes and a great story, some really moving moments.

Spring Studio was awarded the National Film and Sound archive National Folk Recording Award

for a CD relesed in 2010 by a performer appearing at the 2011 festival. Love and Sorrow - by Kavisha Mazzella with Nano Stern, recorded mixed and mastered by Harry at Spring Studio

Recent Audio Productions

Melbourne Millennium Chorus 2011

The chorus this year numered about 380, a record for us and a huge sound in the cavernous Melbourne Town Hall. Recording and archival filming went according to plan, and the CD and Youtube clips are being launched this weekend, Dec 3 2011

Endymion

folk jazz trio are to record their debut CD here starting February 2012

Kavisha mazzella and nano stern

Nano-in-booth Luck-with-Kav Kav-in-Studio

Have completed another adventure at Spring Studio. Nano was over here from Chile and his round of tours and special appearances and the collaboration was a winner. I played frisbee with him at the National Folk Festival in Canberra last year and surprized him by telling him he would be back in Australia in a years time, in my studio. I dont think he believed me at the time but sometime its strange how things work out. It must be the Gypsy in me http://www.kavisha.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/nanostern

Louisa John Krol

is paying us a visit to complete her 6th CD with Spring Studio, always a treat

Ashley Higgs

booked a few days to record some of his more existential improvisations with three different line-ups. The session went according to no-plan in a typical Dada-ist manner. Wonder - Full

The Hottentots

Carl and Parissa jumped into the studio to recod an new new song which will shortly be availabe on i-Tunes, due to popular demand from their never-ending world tour audiences.

Voiceprints

Put together their annual CD for the Melbourne Poetry Festival in 2011

Invention in TIme

Kate and Ariel recorded their new CD with me at the Steiner teaching College Rooms in Melbourne in August 2009. We have now completed mixng the recordings which include solo apperances from some very special and well known guests. The CD will be launched on 15th August http://www.inventionintime.com/about_us.htm

Tarka

Veni Vidi Vici. We played the concerts and they were great. The Orchestra did an outstanding job of interpreting

this often difficult and challenging material, and the result was captured on 6 HD cameras and an audio recorder.

Now I have to edit it and put it out on DVD for the musicians to have a look.

If you are interested in having a copy of this DVD which will aso include the film I shot for the concert, and which

was projected during the concert, email me at harry @springstudio.com.au.

Thats all for now - back to the editing suite!

If you dont know Doug's solo work, have a look at this piece I filmed at the Boite concert in 2007.

Really beautiful playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opTEJyX0LbI

Reflejos

Completed mixing and mastering with thie excellent new Latin/Progressive band

singing in Spanish, French and English. Beautiful songs with an unusual flair.

Singer Bonnie Smith reminds me of someone from the Latin Scene in the '60's

Magic music and intriguing compositions.

The Battle of the Beanfield

This Unusual school musical by Chris James is complete. The story is based on a true

incident in the UK when the Travellers were forbidden to go to Stonhenge and were instead assaulted, their

mobile homes burnt and their convoy destroyed. It is recent history but it sounds incredible.

Featuring Harry, Maribel Steel and Mal Webb on vocals and many instruments.

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