Welcome to WAV Island - a mystical place designed to help foster creativity, collaboration & community, brought to you by Spirit Level.
For eight weeks, 40 members of the Spirit Level Discord community travelled to the island to contribute one new musical idea each week. There were no rules - simply that you share a piece of audio that was brand new, and at least 30 seconds long, before the stroke of midnight each Sunday. Anyone who missed a week was kicked (gently) from the island - but most of us made it to the end.
We shared intimate recordings, playful experiments, beats, soundscapes and plenty of hectic last-minute submissions. Along the way, island-goers formed new collaborations, new friendships and a healthy sense of creative camaraderie and mutual support. By the end, over 200 pieces of music were created.
This album brings together a selection of that music created during WAV Island’s second season over July/August 2022.
These songs are sketches, not intended as finished works, so please listen to them as such. Nonetheless, this compilation stands as an impressive testimony to the power of disciplined inspiration, and what is possible when artists give each other mutual support and strength.
released October 24, 2022
George Sheridan
georgesheridan.bandcamp.com
George Sheridan is a Producer/Engineer based in Sydney/Blue Mountains.
File Explorer
www.instagram.com/fexp.mp3/
File Explorer is a file manager application that provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems.
Jingle
instagram.com/jinglemusi
Jingle is the electronic pop project of Newcastle musician Joshua Ingle combining elements of hip hop and pop music song writing with experimental production.
Heirloome
instagram.com/heirloome
Heirloome is alternately a hummingbird, or a queer & sad Mary Poppins-type on acid.
Foxquel Pope
foxquel-pope.bandcamp.com
Foxquel Pope is a producer and recording artist
Sophia Kalo
www.instagram.com/sophiakreative/
Soph's sounds are yearning soundscapes, postcards from where she'd rather be.
Wendy Lang
www.instagram.com/wendylangmusic/
Wendy Lang is a singer/songwriter and clarinettist/tin whistler from Brisbane. She writes lyric-driven delicate pop with folk music influences.
Interface 3072
milkthistlerecords.bandcamp.com
Interface 3072 is a machine intelligence of unknown origin and with unknown intent.
Jackson Fumberger
jacksonfumberger.com
Jackson is a violinist and creator, but mostly a big ol' nerd
Antoni Grzyb
www.AntoniG.com
Antoni G takes his early influences of classical and pop music, and twists them into submission.
Tim Shiel
Tim Shiel is a musician.
kezzyfreshh
www.instagram.com/kezzyfreshh/
Kieran likes to play with rhythm & melody
David McDonald
www.soundcloud.com/divdivdiv
David McDonald is a musician, composer and sound designer currently working and living in Sydney.
Basic Instinct
Named after a song by The Acid, Basic Instinct is the secret project of a Melbourne bedroom instrumentalist
Rose Wintergreen
www.rosewintergreen.com
Rose Wintergreen is an award-winning singer-songwriter-producer and internationally collected abstract painter captivated by the exquisite tension between the euphoria and melancholy of constant change.
dGecko
www.datagecko.com
dGecko (Scott Hamilton) is a media composer and Video Game Music fan. I run the VGM Lounge discord server and live mostly on Discord. :-) Find me there.
Anna O'Bryan
annaobryan.bandcamp.com
Anna O'Bryan is a producer, composer and singer-songwriter
Jane Aubourg
janeaubourg.com.au
Jane is a composer, violinist, and maker of things.
Megadead
megadud.bandcamp.com
Megadead is an artist and crate-digger making wonky disco, sad bops and stoner pops.
Ben At Work
www.whoisbpm.com
Ben is a maker of wild electronica, educator, community facilitator and queerdo from Naarm. She's not mad, their face is just like that.
Co Loom
coloom.bandcamp.com
Co Loom is the musical project of Melbourne based songwriter & electronic producer James Dobson.
Ronan
tiktok.com/@musicbyronan
Ronan is either a musician that distracts himself with Dungeons & Dragons, or a professional DM who distracts himself with making Electronic music
kuuma 空マ」
kuuma.bandcamp.com
kuuma is a databorne algorithm who, while employed by a search engine cartel to crawl the internet for exploitable data sources, collected a Rare Thought which granted sentience and the ability to synthesize world simulations.
Mitchell Elliott
www.kurosawadaydream.com
Mitchell Elliott is a musician from Newcastle, NSW.