Jack Palmer is a Melbourne / Naarm based artist, producer, guitarist and music educator. He works with computer music production, improvisation, video, and installation. Jack’s work is characterised by paradox and emotional contradiction - urgency held by meditative equipoise.
In 2013 Jack graduated from the ANU School of Music with a major in jazz guitar. Since then he has featured as a performer/artist at ACCA, La Mama Theatre, Testing Grounds, George Patton Gallery, One Night in Footscray, and West Projections Festival, among others. He has collaborated with dancers, visual artists, musicians, and poets, and has composed and performed across electronic music, jazz, post-rock, and experimental genres.
Jack also works as a freelance audio engineer and sound designer and is a passionate music educator holding a Senior Teacher position at Richmond Music Academy.
Selected Artistic Activities
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Bad Ambulance - ‘Intel 95’ — Forthcoming Release on Nice Music, Feb 2024
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Bad Ambulance a/v performance at Opus Now concert series, Sydney, July 2023
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Speak Percussion Bespoke Artist Professional Development Program participant, 2023
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Bad Ambulance a/v performance at New North concert series, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, December 2022
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Gunyah Artist in Residence, Port Stephens NSW, November 2022
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Adore - Five Eyes EP tour and music video — performance, audio production and mixing, music video direction and editing, various locations — QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, September 2022
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Composition and sound design for short film ‘The Ant Colony’ — film by Natasha Cantwell, 2022 (premiering soon)
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‘Text/Sonic’ — audio/visual installation in West Projections Festival, 2018
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Soma — music/Dance Performance with Talia Rothstien (USA) and Ogemdi Ude (USA) for the La Mama ‘Explorations’ series. La Mama Courthouse Theatre, Off the Grid Festival, ACCA Melbourne, November — December 2017
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Equilibrium — site specific sound installation for ‘One Night In Footscray Festival’. Footscray Market, Melbourne, November 2017
Selected Audio Engineering/Sound Design Projects
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Music production, mixing, and mastering — ongoing work with various artists and music genres, 2014-Current
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State Library audio walking tour for I’m Free Walking Tours PTY LTD, Audio Engineer, 2023
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Assistant Engineer in training at Inventions Studio, 2023-current
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Look History In The Eye Podcast — sound design, mixing and music composition for the Public Records Office of Victoria, continuing engagement since 2020
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Scarlett Audio Installation - 2 channel sound installation for James Reka’s ‘Scarlett’ Exhibition, Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne, March 2018
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realestate.com promo video series — sound design, foley, mixing for six online videos showcasing unique Australian homes, 2017
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Tupperware Instagram Advertisement Series — sound design, foley, mixing, subcontracted by Wow Pictures, 2016
Selected Teaching Experience
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Senior Guitar and Music Production Teacher at Richmond Music Academy, 2014-2023
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Ongoing Private Tuition, 2007-current
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Basic Chords In Three Parts — Online seminar series on functional harmony, 2020
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Music Theory for Guitarists — two six part graduated music theory courses, devised and delivered by myself at Richmond Music Academy throughout 2017-19