Game Audio Intensive 2024

Byron J Scullin is one of Australia’s most experienced sound artists and designers. His works, including ‘Bass Bath’, ‘Siren Song’ and ‘The Rivers Sing’, have been presented at art festivals both locally and internationally. He is the co-founder and artistic co-director of MESS, the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio, a not-for-profit organisation that makes available one of the largest synthesiser collections in the world for use by the general public. He’s contributed sound to feature films such as ‘Wolf Creek’ and the documentary ‘Freeman’, as well as various contemporary dance and theatre productions by artists such as Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek. He has created numerous works for museums, galleries and public spaces, including the internationally renowned ‘Meet Graham’ road safety awareness campaign, Creation Cinema as part of First Peoples at the Melbourne Museum, ‘Wonderland’ at ACMI, and ‘Jem’ for Southbank Brisbane.

Mark Mitchell has been making music and sound professionally for over twenty years. As a performing and recording artist, he’s released music under the name Clue to Kalo on labels including Mush Records in the US and The Leaf Label in the UK, as well as locally on Australian labels Popfrenzy and Spunk. Mark has made commissioned dance and performance soundtracks for Hobart’s Dark Mofo Festival, including for their inaugural ‘Ogoh-ogoh’ burning, scored the Discordia performance at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, and co-composed and produced the music for Christian Thompson’s ACMI-commissioned VR work ‘Bayi Gardiya (Singing Desert)’, winner of the Best Use of Sound & Music and Australian VR Film of the Year at the 2020 Real World XR Awards. In 2021 he contributed music for NGV’s ‘Salon et Lumière’ as part of their Triennial exhibition, as well as co-composed the large-scale site soundtrack for Rising Festival’s ‘The Wilds’ with Pascal Babare. Since 2010 Mark has been a senior composer, producer and engineer at Electric Dreams Studio in Melbourne, where he has worked on music and sound for hundreds of television, film, and art projects.