Ambidexter
Artist · Producer · Live performer
An original Perth electronic project developed through releases, touring and live performance technology. Tracks including Aftershow, Closer and Forgiven remain documented through triple j Unearthed.
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Electronic music · Festivals · Live production
Electronic Music
+ Performance
Independent music shaped in studios, clubs, festivals and the unstable electricity of live performance.
01 / The Trajectory
Built live.
Learned in public.
Electronic music became a way to compose, produce and perform as one continuous act.
Sam’s electronic practice grew through independent releases, collaborative studio culture and live stages. As Ambidexter, he developed a performance language in which composition could remain flexible, physical and responsive.
The years spent building sets, moving audiences and solving music in real time remain present in his current sound art. The tools have changed and the listening has deepened, but the live instinct continues.
02 / Live Language
Structure with
room to move.
A live set is not a recording played louder.
Controllers, keyboards, guitar, percussion, voice and live processing allow a work to be rebuilt inside the conditions of the room. The performance holds a composition, but remains open to timing, energy, error and discovery.
Visual Archive
Performance from
every side of the room.
Historic Stage Archive
Waks Traks at
festival scale.
Performance Across Audiences
Radio Coco,
Cubbyhouse and connection.
Earlier Live Work
Guitars, vinyl
and independent rooms.
Visual Performance
Sound, image
and club culture.
03 / Selected History
Records, stages
and electronic culture.
Big Day Out
Live electronic performance
Ambidexter opened the Boiler Room in a festival program that included Simian Mobile Disco, Hot Chip, Lupe Fiasco and The Prodigy.
Radio Coco
Guitar · Ensemble performance
A high-energy live collaboration bringing musicians, dancers and audiences together through rhythm, character and shared celebration.
Cubbyhouse
Composer · Musician · Live performer
An original children’s band combining songs, characters, theatre and live musicianship for young audiences and families.
Fire & Ice
Lead guitar · Vocals · Live performance
An early chapter in Sam’s performance history, grounded in bands, songwriting, guitar and the shared intensity of live rooms.
Independent Labels
Recording · Release · Community
Music developed through independent culture and an international vinyl catalogue, with Waks Traks releases from 2006 to 2011 still documented online.
Current Live Practice
Immersive sound · Collective listening
Electronic performance reconfigured for stillness, spatial movement and extended listening through The Soundful Experience.
Listen + Archive
Independent music
still in circulation.
04 / Continuity
The form keeps changing
The live instinct remains.
Thirty years of performance have become a deeper enquiry into what sound can do inside a room full of people.