Percussionist, Composer, Author
Who knew you could make such beautiful sounds from plastic pipes? Turns out all you need are some specially designed flexible PVC pipes and you've got harmonic whirlies!
About a year ago, I went to a drumming camp with my dad and we started talking to one of the guys (his name was Wayne) there about my idea for a show that involves visual effects. Being inspired by a flexible PVC tube I brought back from the tip shop one day, I told him that I was interested in figuring out how to make tuned,
I had the great opportunity to record with KC Chen and Christina Bollendorf a while ago for the release of their new single 'Feel the Love'. About a month or 2 after, they started planning to film a music video for it!
Naturally, I joined in and had fun helping with choreography and even doing a bit of acting for the music video. I'm glad to have had the opportunity to help KC out with one of his projects like he's helped me with mine! And I'm also over the moon to see a production I was a
Etna is complete!
The summer holidays are over and my new paint drumming composition is complete.
Named after the volcano 'Mount Etna' (in the spirit of Volcano Rising haha), Etna is a paint drumming quartet with a flair for choreography that is the third video in the synesthetic series of videos.
It was great fun working on this piece! And, as
With the coming release of 'Etna', my new paint drumming video, here's another sneaky peek into our rehearsals.
Thanks to my mum, Ronit Baras for filming these three snippets! There's nothing like having a supporting family and I really appreciate her help with this.
This rehearsal was on a VERY HOT day and we were very happy to have been getting sprayed from the drums! It was our first rehearsal with water and pumps so getting around the drums and getting used to the spray was a bit of a
In preparation for the coming release of another paint drumming video I'm giving a look into the backstage stuff!
When 'Volcano Rising' got requests for paint drumming performances, the corporate venues that had asked for it pondered the option of working only with a quartet instead of 12 drummers. I thought about this and came to the conclusion that, really, a quartet was a very comfortable way of giving a massive performance with the same effect and a 3rd of the setup time!
So, I set
Closing the year I want to celebrate a really great achievement that I didn't post about when it happened. I was invited by the Brisbane Club to compete for the Brisbane Club Award!
It is an annual competition with a large money prize for the winners of first and second place, along with an audience choice award. Each year the heads of department at the conservatorium nominate students to represent their department in this competition and I was very honored to be chosen this year to represent
I've sold my first composition!!!!
I recently added a new section to the website to sell my compositions and, with the help of my dad Gal Baras (check out his website), I'm really happy with the end product and it's working too!
Not too soon after I finished adding everything I got a message from one of my friend's private students who was looking for a piece to play at his school's percussion soiree. I was really glad that he was interested
Just played a fantastic gig on the Gold Coast with Spankinhide! We had a fantastic opportunity to perform for the Pan Pacific Swimming
Championships. It was great fun and I actually witnessed a few world records being broken!!
Spankinhide was asked to come and perform among the crowd and get the audience pumped during races. It was amazing to see such a fantastic championship and pretty inspiring to see
My university has one week each semester that it devotes to a break from classes and masterclasses for students. They call it Project Week and since the end of last year it hasn't been the best in terms of relevant masterclasses for instrument specializations.
This year they decided to host a duo competition for students saying that the duos each had to perform on the same type of instrument. Each on a violin as opposed to two on the same one haha. They also asked for a bit of flair in the
My new Body Percussion production 'Up the Body and Down the Page' is complete! Experience the combination of body percussion with visual effects in this synaesthetic experience. It is with great pleasure that I present to you 'Up the Body and Down the Page', another synaesthetic performance combining original music and percussion with visual effects. This is a follow up of my previous production 'Volcano
