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October 2026 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
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Peter Gabriel, Stephen W Tayler and Tony Banks alongside the From Genesis to Revelation box set
Stephen W Tayler has created new stereo, 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos mixes of Genesis’ 1969 debut album, From Genesis to Revelation, for a major new edition to be released by Cherry Red/Esoteric on 9 October 2026. Stephen’s new mixes revisit the album with a greater focus on the band’s performances. He has also remixed “A Winter’s Tale” and “One Eyed Hound”, the album out-takes “Image Blown Out” and the previously unreleased “Visions of Angels”, together with four previously unreleased demos from 1968. Prepared with the approval of original members Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford, the album will be issued as a deluxe 4CD/Blu-ray box set, alongside 2CD and double-vinyl editions. The deluxe set includes Stephen’s new stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos mixes, rare recordings and demos, together with filmed discussions with Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford at AIR Studios.
September 2026 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
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Tina Turner Private Dancer Blu-ray, Stephen W Tayler’s RIAA Platinum award for the album, and Stephen mixing in the studio.
Stephen W Tayler has created new stereo, 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos mixes of Tina Turner’s landmark album, Private Dancer, for a new Blu-ray edition to be released on 25 September 2026. The project brings Stephen back to an album he first worked on more than forty years ago. He recorded and mixed the original recordings of “I Might Have Been Queen” and “Better Be Good To Me” in 1984. For the new edition, Stephen has remixed the complete album in stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos, and has also created instrumental versions of the entire record in all three formats. The new mixes are accompanied by the original 1984 stereo mix, bonus tracks and promotional films. The Blu-ray will be released by SDE Records as No. 67 in the SDE Surround Series.
May – July 2026 — INSTALLATION — SADIA SADIA
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Three-channel still from Sadia Sadia’s …and falling, fulling blooming (The Sacred Ground) I–III, showing mirrored snow-covered mountain landscapes beneath a blue sky.
Sadia Sadia’s three-channel video installation …and falling, fulling blooming (The Sacred Ground) I–III was presented at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, as part of United Media Artists’ Anima Mundi programme. Created in 2018, …and falling, fulling blooming is a three-channel video installation with sound. The work appeared across three successive exhibitions: RITUALS, 20 May–4 June; CONSCIOUSNESS, 19 June–3 July; and VISIONS, 17–31 July 2026.
February - September 2026 — MIXING · SPATIAL AUDIO — STEPHEN W TAYLER
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Album artwork for Hawkwind, Chris Squire, Todd Rundgren and Eve Polycarpou, with Stephen W Tayler at a Trident console.
In February, Stephen's new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes of Hawkwind’s 1970 debut album were released in an expanded edition on Esoteric Recordings. Eve Polycarpou’s Not in a Million Years, mixed by Stephen at The Light Room, followed in April. In June, Stephen's new stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos mixes of Chris Squire’s Fish Out of Water were released as part of the 50th Anniversary Remix Edition. Todd Rundgren’s Live at the Ritz, New York City 1989, newly mixed from the original multitrack recordings, will be released in September.
February 2026 — PRODUCTION / SYNC — SADIA SADIA
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Banff woodland in winter; David Wilcox’s Out of the Woods; “Do the Bearcat” Capitol single; Sadia Sadia at DAR Digital Audio Recording console.
A recording produced by Sadia Sadia nearly fifty years ago returned for the 2026 Winter Olympics when “Do the Bearcat”, performed by David Wilcox and originally released on Out of the Woods (1977), was used in Petro-Canada’s Winter Games campaign in support of Team Canada. The campaign was created by McCann Canada. Creative Director Bill Schaefer told Little Black Book that he and his friends had listened to “Do the Bearcat” in high school. After trying a number of more obvious Canadian tracks against the film, he said: “I couldn’t stop thinking about this one.”
November 2025 — Update — Chimera Arts
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Sadia Sadia installation and studio images alongside her 2023 Behavioral Sciences paper on 3D immersive audio and aesthetic experience.
2025 Update: Sadia has authored a paper on the relationship between ‘inner voice’ and spatial audio, employing her thirty-channel audio installation ‘Notes to an Unknown Lover’ as source material in combination with research undertaken in Red Room at Real World. She collaborated with Professor Claus-Christian Carbon and joined his EPAEG [Ergonomics, Psychological Æsthetics and Gestaltung] Research Group.
Sadia, S.; Carbon, C.-C. Looking for the Edge of the World: How 3D Immersive Audio Produces a Shift from an Internalised Inner Voice to Unsymbolised Affect-Driven Ways of Thinking and Heightened Sensory Awareness. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 858
Stephen’s stereo and surround remixes for Camel’s ‘Air Born: the MCA and Decca Years’, Hawkwind’s ‘Space Ritual’ 50th Anniversary box set, Barclay James Harvest ‘Baby James Harvest’ and ‘Once Again’, Moody Blues ‘To Our Children’s Children’s Children’, Van der Graaf Generator ‘The Bath Forum Concert’, Renaissance ‘Azure D’Or’, Marillion ‘Holidays in Eden’, Red Noise ‘Art/ Empire/ Industry’ have been released.
February 2025 — Lecture — Sadia Sadia
Sadia delivered ‘Transcending the Everyday: The Holistic and Multisensory Essence of Aesthetic Experiences’ at the HVEI [Human Vision in Electronic Imaging] Symposium, EI25 Electronic Imaging, Burlingame, San Francisco.
March 2024 — Publication — Sadia Sadia
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Three-channel installation view of all that is solid melts into air (Salton Sea) by Sadia Sadia, 2017.
Sadia’s article on her three-channel installation ‘all that is solid melts into air (Salton Sea)’, discussing a ‘methodology for transcendence’ and the representation of ecological devastation in art, was published in ‘Wounded Landscapes: Human Intervention into Natural Ecosystems’, Coolabah N°35, Observatory: Australian and Transnational Studies Centre, University of Barcelona. Sadia, Sadia. 'All that is solid melts into air (Salton Sea), 2017.' Coolabah, no. 35 (2023), pp. 39–45. Published 19 March 2024. DOI:10.1344/co20233539-45
December 2023 — Event — Chimera Arts
December 2023: Sadia threw the event-of-a-lifetime at Real World to celebrate Stephen’s seventieth birthday and fifty years in the music business. A capacity crowd of the most exceptional and accomplished people from across the decades [and the globe, not forgetting those who flew in to join!] gathered to celebrate Stephen’s extraordinary life and achievements.
2023 — Studio — Chimera Arts
After ten years at Millside, our studio space ‘The Light Room’ has relocated to the main campus at Real World Studios.
October 2022 — Exhibition — Sadia Sadia
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The Descent three channel moving image installation © copyright sadia sadia 2016
Sadia exhibited her ultra-slow motion works The Descent [Wakako falling] (2017) and One Second (2015) at RWA Royal Academy of the West of England, The Kenny Gallery, from 8th October – 11th December 2022 Royal Society of the Arts, London, ‘San Francisco Redux’, 6th October 2022, London
2022 — Appointment — Sadia Sadia
2022: Sadia was made Senior Industry Fellow, School of Art, RMIT Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. RMIT has been ranked as a global Top Twenty in Art and Design in QS Universities Rankings 2022/23. She also became a member of British Art Network [BAN] at Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/Tate
January 2022 — Press — Stephen W Tayler
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Stephen was profiled in Future’s Prog Magazine (Issue 125) as well as in the The Bath Magazine (January 2022) where he talks about the history of multi-track recording, his creative practice and his new album in ‘Working in the box’.
September 2021 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
Universal’s Van der Graaf Generator twenty disc box set with new stereo and surround mixes by Stephen was released on September 3rd 2021. It has since gone Top Forty in the UK and Top Twenty in German and sold out. There are also remixes of the albums H to He Who Am the Only One, Pawn Hearts, Godbluff and Still Life. These have been stunningly remixed from the original multi-track tapes in both Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound by Stephen W Tayler. These four albums have also been made available separately as 3-disc Sets, including Original Stereo Mixes.
There are also remixes of the albums H to He Who Am the Only One, Pawn Hearts, Godbluff and Still Life. These have been stunningly remixed from the original multi-track tapes in both Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound by Stephen W Tayler. These four albums have also been made available separately as 3-disc Sets, including Original Stereo Mixes.
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The ‘Drastic Plastic’ box set with new stereo and surround mixes by Stephen was released by Esoteric Recordings in February 2021. The sixteen disc Be-Bop Deluxe ‘Live! In the Air Age’ with new stereo mixes from SWT was released on August 27th 2021.
Stephen’s new solo album ‘Da Capo’, a two disc CD+DVD set featuring stereo, surround and visuals, has been released through Burning Shed (physical) and Cherry Red (digital).
August 2021 — Installation — Sadia Sadia
Sadia, S ‘All Time and Space Fold into the Infinite Present (Cataract Gorge)’. Three channel HD video (6 minutes), sixteen channel audio (60 minutes). Permanent collection, QVMAG, Tasmania. Announcing the permanent installation of Sadia’s work ‘All Time and Space Fold into the Infinite Present (Cataract Gorge)’ as part of QVMAG’s 130th Anniversary Royal Park relaunch [“QVMAG delivers ‘powerful’ artistic era” — The Sunday Examiner, 1 August 2021]. The installation fills the entirety of Gallery Eight’s forty five foot length in QVMAG’s Royal Park.
The land whispered, and then roared, and the roar became the sound of the rapids, and the work became the notion of infinite time as interpreted through the movement of water and its link with our forever.
Sadia Sadia, 2021
March 2021 — Publication — Sadia Sadia
Sadia’s paper ‘Empirical Methodologies and the Value of Subjectivity in the Analysis of the Experience of Contemporary Experiential Art’ was published in Art & Perception (ARTP), 9(1), 1–20, Brill on March 9th 2021.
In the paper, Sadia argues the case for placing artists’ perception at the heart of neuroaesthetic study. She defines a group of “contemporary experiential artworks…as ATRIA (Affective Transcendental Revelatory Immersive Artworks), which report a significantly higher rate for profound, life-changing, epiphanic, transcendent experiences” and argues that “research artists understand that objective reality does not lie at the core of the experience of art, and that practice-based artist-led research…must as a consequence critically inform any neuroaesthetic or neuroscientific endeavour or study.”
2020 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
Stephen’s work with the Be-Bop Deluxe catalogue surround and stereo remixes continues. 2019 saw reissues of ‘Futurama’ and ‘Modern Music’, and in 2020 box set of their debut album ‘Axe Victim’.
He also recently compiled and remastered ‘Fighting Apathy with Shock’, a collection comprising tracks he co-produced with Rupert Hine. This now sadly represents the last time he worked with Rupert, who tragically passed away in June 2020 after a long illness.
On August 2nd 2020 Howard Jones performed an exclusive live streamed solo concert from the Siyan Soundstage in High Wycombe. Stephen mixed the live audio, and along with film crew, lighting director, video director and live streaming team, all worked safely and in isolation. With a new mix by Stephen ‘Live at Siyan’ has since been released as a limited edition CD, and is now available as video from iTunes.
2020 — Publication — Sadia Sadia
Sadia has taken delivery of her limited edition photobook ‘The Tarkine’, based on images captured during her Tasmanian artist residency in 2020. Earlier this year, Sadia travelled through the Tarkine (‘Takayna’), which comprises one of the world’s outstanding and consequential cool-temperature Gondwana rainforests alongside some of Australia’s most important Aboriginal regions. She drove through vast areas of landscape that had been completely ravaged by fire and witnessed nature, that overwhelming elemental force, fighting its way back. When she returned to the studio she unpacked the images and produced this unique book. Special thanks to Belinda Cotton at Tailored Services for the Arts.
The work, which in its final format will contain multiple elements including moving images and audio, was made possible through the generous provision of a Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
January – March 2020 — Residency — Sadia Sadia
Sadia returned to Cataract Gorge as artist in residence for QVMAG and the City of Launceston, Tasmania through early 2020. While she was there, she filmed in one of the world’s last great wildernesses, the Tarkine in northwest Tasmania. She came home to her studio at Real World at the beginning of March.
The residency was made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
December 2019 — Premiere — Stephen W Tayler
Saturday December 14th 2019: Stephen premiered his new album ‘Da Capo’ as a multimedia event in The Big Room here at Real World Studios.
The performance was preceded by a drinks reception in The Wood Room, compliments of Focusrite.
Summer 2019 — Update — Chimera Arts
Summer 2019: Sadia was awarded her PhD in June… and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts… undertook an international speaking engagement… our installation ‘San Francisco Redux No 1’ went to Breaking Convention 5th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness at the University of Greenwich, UK in August…
Stephen produced the phenomenal Western Electric Sound System, released September 13th 2019… his new surround remix of BeBop Deluxe ‘Futurama’ is a critical and commercial success… Images: Solsbury Hill, Wiltshire, August 2nd 2019.
2019 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
Stephen’s track ‘Euro Star’ features on the 2019 release ‘Electronic Music Masterpieces’ (ZYX Music) alongside tracks by Art of Noise, Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream.
Stephen’s wonderful acoustic mixes for the artist Lights, filmed and recorded at Clubhouse Austin in 2019, are now available on YouTube — click here
June 2019 — Lecture — Sadia Sadia
On June 24th Sadia spoke at the ISEA 2019 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Gwangju, South Korea. Her presentation ‘The Illuminated Self’ incorporated her writings surrounding affect in encompassing environments, alongside her immersive installation works. The work was made possible through the provision of an Arts Abroad grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
February – March 2019 — Installation — Sadia Sadia
"Model citizenship exists in the tension between compliance and subversion, in the friction between individual integrity and the needs of the state."
Sadia Sadia, in 'The Model Citizen', February 2019
Sadia premiered the first full installation of her multi-channel installation ‘Ghosts of Noise’ in ‘The Model Citizen’ exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, February 8th – March 23rd 2019. The work responds to the aesthetics of the information-delivery complex and the 24 hour news cycle. Hundreds of layers of broadcast material were assembled into an encompassing audiovisual environment, extending Sadia’s longstanding investigation into the ways mediated environments shape perception and experience.
The artists involved in this exhibition share similar beliefs: that thinking through making establishes how public life is experienced and understood; that as creative and critical stakeholders, artists have a central role to play in shaping public life; and that through the very act of modelling, creative processes.
curatorial statement, The Model Citizen
Main image and image (1), ‘The Model Citizen’, installation image, RMIT Gallery, by Mark Ashkanasy
November 2018 — Event — Stephen W Tayler
November 2018: Stephen took part in an exclusive event at Metropolis Studios, to mark the release of the box sets of Howard Jones’ ‘Human’s Lib’ and ‘Dream Into Action’ on Cherry Red Records. Stephen recorded and mixed the original albums. Forty guests attended this special event with Howard, the producer Rupert Hine and Stephen as they discussed the making of the albums — excerpt on YouTube here
November 2018 — Residency — Sadia Sadia
November 2018: Sadia undertook a Leighton Artist Residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta, Canada, marking her first return to Canada in almost thirty years. During the residency she completed The Transcendental Suite, a three-channel moving-image work exploring whether an element of the sacred might be found in both grand vista and ecological devastation, and whether the experience of awe might lead from individual epiphany towards meaningful collective change. The work forms part of Sadia’s continuing investigation into transcendence and the construction of heightened aesthetic experience within the encompassing environment. She also filmed …and falling, fulling blooming [The Sacred Ground] during the residency.
The Transcendental Suite [2018], three-channel moving-image installation. Still.
Three-channel still from Sadia Sadia’s The Transcendental Suite, filmed during her 2018 Leighton Artist Residency at Banff Centre, Alberta.
November 2018 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
November 2018: Lots of releases this month! Be-Bop Deluxe album ‘Sunburst Finish’ has been reissued featuring new stereo and 5.1 mixes by Stephen. The Brand X ‘Live’ Blu-Ray has been released, footage edited and audio mixed in 5.1 by Stephen.
Howard Jones’ ‘Human’s Lib’ and ‘Dream Into Action’ box set, remastered from original tapes, along with previously unreleased material and picture discs… and Kate Bush has remastered her entire catalogue on CD and vinyl, ‘Kate Bush — Remastered Part II (CD)’ includes three albums mixed by Stephen… also available on vinyl ‘Kate Bush — Remastered Set III’…
September 2018 — Travel — Chimera Arts
Melbourne, September 2018: Sadia and Stephen on a flying visit to speak, watch, look, and listen.
August 2018 — Lecture — Sadia Sadia
Sadia rounded out a busy summer by speaking on ‘The Sacred Ground: Enhancing and Constructing the Transcendent State in the Installation Environment’ at the VSAC Visual Science of Art 2018 conference in Trieste, Italy on August 25th. VSAC is organised as a satellite conference of the ECVP (European Conference on Visual Perception), the leading European conference on visual science.
July 2018 — Lecture — Sadia Sadia
Sadia delivered a talk on ‘Catharsis and the Encompassing Environment in Art in the Neo-Digital Age’ at the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities Conference 2018 at the University of Kent, Canterbury in July. The conference drew together topics such as cognitive neuroscience and the arts, cognitive poetics, spectatorship and participation, material culture, theories of mind, empirical aesthetics and interdisciplinary methodologies.
2018 — Lecture — Sadia Sadia
Sadia spoke about ‘The ‘Wow’ Factor’ at the SCSMI Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2018 Conference in Bozeman, Montana. The conference drew together an international group of philosophers, critics, scientific researchers, professional filmmakers, artists and moving image theorists for three days of presentations and discussions on topics ranging from aesthetics and philosophical inquiry to neurocinematic experiments.
An eccentric and rather wonderful group of people in a spectacular location… and lots to think about.
2018 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
Stephen produced and mixed the Pieter Nooten album ‘Stem’. “Nooten finds another valuable foil in British producer and mixer Stephen W Tayler. ‘Vari-Slowed’ and ‘Epicural’ demonstrate Nooten and Tayler’s keen understanding of the space between the notes” — Uncut, July 2018, UK.
Brand X have released their live album ‘Locked & Loaded’, mixed by Stephen, and are preparing the release of the RoSfest 2018 concert on DVD. The video of the concert is edited by Stephen alongside the audio mix. Stephen is also preparing some surround remixes for Cherry Red Records, watch this space for upcoming news!
April 2018 — Screening — Sadia Sadia
Still from Metamorphoses in ‘A’ Minor (2009–2011), a moving-image installation by the artist Sadia Sadia featuring dancer Wakako Asano.
Metamorphoses in ‘A’ Minor (2009–2011), Sadia Sadia’s moving-image installation featuring dancer Wakako Asano, screened at Sarah Lawrence College’s SLC DanceFilm in New York in April 2018. The work was developed during Sadia Sadia’s Studio 18 International Artist Residency at Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne and filmed in Australia.
April 2018 — Lecture — Sadia Sadia
The artist Sadia Sadia speaking on fair wages for musicians and sound artists at the Music Cities Convention, Arts Centre Melbourne, April 2018.
Sadia Sadia argues the case for fair wages for musicians and sound artists at the Sound Diplomacy Music Cities Convention at Arts Centre Melbourne, 19–20 April 2018. Speaking on the panel The Visitor Economy: Music Tourism & its Impact on Local Musicians and Living Culture, she argued for the economic value generated by music tourism to be reflected in fair remuneration for the musicians and artists whose work sustains that culture.
Sound Diplomacy works to create and deliver strategies that increase the value of music ecosystems worldwide.
December 2017 — Award — Stephen W Tayler
Photograph of Stephen W Tayler by Sadia Sadia.
Stephen W Tayler with three gold album awards for his work with Kate Bush, alongside the covers of Director’s Cut, 50 Words for Snow and Before the Dawn, December 2017.
December 2017: a couple of days ago a package turned up at Real World with Stephen’s gold albums for his work with Kate Bush.
Delighted to see the set of three albums, a great achievement that includes the three disc version of ‘Before The Dawn’, now hanging together.
November 2017 — Production — Sadia Sadia
The artist Sadia Sadia filming Every Fallen Leaf Sings on Your Shore (Box Hill at Dawn) in Wiltshire, November 2017, as part of her research into transcendence and the grand vista.
Sadia Sadia shooting footage for the triptych moving-image installation Every Fallen Leaf Sings on Your Shore (Box Hill at Dawn) in Wiltshire, November 2017. Challenging atmospheric conditions, a few false starts and early mornings. The work continues Sadia Sadia’s research into the use of the grand vista as a means of eliciting transcendent aesthetic experience.
Challenging atmospheric conditions, a few false starts and early mornings. This follows on her research into the transcendent through the use of grand vista.
October 2017 — Exhibition — Sadia Sadia
Notes To An Unknown Lover by Sadia Sadia in the POETRY exhibition at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, 2017, with exhibition artwork, the artist monograph and installation views.
An audio installation version of Sadia’s ‘Notes To An Unknown Lover’ ran as part of the show ‘Poetry: A Text and Word Based Exhibition’ at the George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, from October 4th – 13th 2017. For this exhibition, the work has been processed in stereo with 3D audio software creating psychoacoustic sound localisation and distance cues.
POETRY is an exhibition of text-based works that bear a formal relationship to the space they occupy; such as the page, the book, the screen, the board, the wall, me, space, or take an art work as a starting point. Think of concrete poetry, text-works that utilise the page/book as a formal device, ekphrastic poems, word paintings, performance poetry, word & text-based video, and audio works.
July 2017 — Performance — Stephen W Tayler
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Still from Sadia Sadia’s video of Stephen W Tayler performing Ostinato LIVE at the Pound Arts Centre, Corsham, Wiltshire, 22 July 2017.
Stephen performed solo live for the first time in his life, debuting his audio-visual performance piece ‘Ostinato LIVE’ at the Pound Arts Centre, Corsham on July 22nd 2017.
So what was it like? Well … Imagine a live performance by a musician while layering sounds from several instruments which are synchronised with an audio-visual background in surround sound. BUT aspects of the performance (both audio and visual) were also sent to those in the audience who owned an iPhone (by Bluetooth) … and electronic images also appeared on his t-shirt at times!!! It was extraordinary. Congratulations Stephen … mind-bending!
Dan Chisholm, BBC Radio Wiltshire
Not only a live solo debut for Stephen but also for the Flare Zero speaker system, with special thanks to Naomi and Davies Roberts of Flare Audio for their generosity and support
2017 — Production — Sadia Sadia
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Location photographs by Sadia Sadia, 2017: kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Tasmania; the Salton Sea in Coachella Valley, California; and Joshua Tree National Park, California.
Sadia Sadia has been shooting Kunanyi/Mt Wellington, Tasmania, Australia, also Joshua Tree and Coachella Valley, California — 2017
Top: Standing just above the dolerite columns aka the ‘Organ Pipes’, Mt Wellington, TasmaniaMiddle: Salton Sea, Coachella Valley, CaliforniaBottom: Joshua Tree National Park, California
November 2016 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
Kate Bush’s long-awaited project KT Fellowship presents Before The Dawn was released on CD and vinyl on 25 November 2016. The album comprises live performances gathered from the 22 sold-out Before the Dawn concerts at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2014, Kate’s first live shows in thirty-five years. Our own Stephen W Tayler mixed the album with Kate, as well as doing audio postproduction on the project. The album reached No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart, and No. 1 on the UK Vinyl Albums, Record Store and Progressive Albums charts.
“Nothing on the record was re-recorded or overdubbed. It was a monumental undertaking that consumed me almost completely for the better part of the past year. It took everything that I had to give from my many decades’ experience as an engineer and mixer, and I could not be more proud of the result”
Stephen W Tayler
Contemporary coverage BBC News – Kate Bush tops midweek album chart with Before the Dawn The New York Times – Kate Bush Is Running Up That Concert Stage for a Giant Live Album The Guardian – Kate Bush and the KT Fellowship: Before the Dawn review – a pop treasure, live and kicking
September 2016 — Press — Sadia Sadia
Sadia Sadia with Gillian Bartlett during an interview on The Silverfox at Joy 94.9FM, Melbourne, 24 September 2016.
On September 24th 2016 Sadia Sadia co-hosted and was interviewed on Gillian Bartlett’s show The Silverfox on Joy 94.9FM, Australia’s only gay and lesbian radio station. Across a wide-ranging and entertaining conversation, Sadia and Gillian set about solving the world’s problems and setting things to rights. For those of you who missed it, click here for a link to the podcast
November 2015 — Installation — Sadia Sadia
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Installation view of San Francisco Redux No. 1 by Anthony Stern, Sadia Sadia and Stephen W Tayler at QVMAG, Launceston, Tasmania, 2015.
‘San Francisco Redux No.1’ is a dramatic reworking by Sadia Sadia, Stephen W Tayler and Anthony Stern of a ‘psychedelically enhanced’ excerpt from the award-winning film ‘San Francisco’ [1968]. The work rang as an installation at Australia’s largest regional museum, QVMAG [the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery] in Launceston, Tasmania, through the end of November 2015.
(They)….have taken apart that most carnal moment of San Francisco in 1968, reinterpreted it and placed it in historical perspective, thanks to a soundtrack that mixes emblematic political sound-grabs and speeches from the period with an original score. San Francisco Redux (2008) seems suddenly like a documentary on the affective sensuality of a shared memory.
Nicole Brenez [Curator, Experimental Cinema Programme, Cinematheque Francaise; Professor of Cinema Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris]
September 2015 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
Artwork for Stephen W Tayler’s Ostinato, released in 2015.
Esoteric Antenna announced the release of a stunning new album by the award winning producer, sound designer, engineer and mixer Stephen W Tayler. ‘Ostinato’ is a labour of love, built on a forty years’ vision by Stephen. 'Stephen W Tayler: Ostinato' - Louder Sound, 9 October 2015
A beautiful and haunting filmic journey in sound.
Kate Bush
This title was released 25th September 2015
June 2015 — Lecture — Sadia Sadia
Ghosts of Noise, four-channel installation by Sadia Sadia, 2015.
Sadia Sadia’s four-channel installation Ghosts of Noise was screened and discussed as part of the international colloquium Les Devenirs Artistiques de L'Information at the Sorbonne in Paris on 10–11 June 2015. The colloquium was co-sponsored by Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, and ELICO, Équipe de recherche de Lyon.
May 2015 — Lecture — Sadia Sadia
Entrance to the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London, during the 2015 Arts Symposium at which Sadia Sadia was a guest speaker.
Sadia Sadia spoke about collaboration, transferability, and working in the arts, as a guest speaker at the University of London Birkbeck College Arts Symposium 2015 on May 22nd 2015.
May 2015 — Event — Stephen W Tayler
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Rupert Hine, Stephen W Tayler and participants at the 25th anniversary celebration of One World One Voice in the Big Room at Real World Studios, Wiltshire, 22 May 2015.
Rupert Hine and Stephen W Tayler hosted the 25th anniversary celebration of One World One Voice, Kevin Godley’s 1990 international music and film project, in the Big Room at Real World Studios on 22 May 2015. Among the highlights of the evening were screenings of the two films, originally broadcast internationally in 1990 and freshly restored by Stephen for the anniversary. The event was sponsored by Real World Studios, Focusrite and Chimera Arts.
October 2014 — Installation — Sadia Sadia
Poster for Sadia Sadia’s solo exhibition Echoes and Ashes at LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, featuring the premiere of Fugue [Die Wende], a collaborative work by Sadia Sadia, Darren Munce and Stephen W Tayler for Leipzig Lichtfest Kulturparcours 2014.
In October 2014, Sadia Sadia premiered Fugue [Die Wende], a filmed installation about the removal of light. The title refers to Die Wende (‘the turning point’), the period of political change that led to the end of the German Democratic Republic and German reunification. The history had a personal resonance for Sadia: her mother was born in Crossen an der Oder, later part of East Germany, and subsequently escaped to the West. The work, made with Stephen W Tayler and Munce, formed part of the City of Leipzig’s Lichtfest 2014 Kulturparcours, commemorating the Peaceful Revolution and the demonstrations of 9 October 1989 in Leipzig, a decisive moment in the collapse of the East German regime and the events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall exactly one month later. Fugue [Die Wende] was presented across two locations: as part of Sadia Sadia’s solo exhibition Echoes and Ashes at LIA, Spinnerei, and at HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art.
September 2014 — Installation — Sadia Sadia
Sadia Sadia presenting Notes To An Unknown Lover at the Leipzig Spinnerei Rundgang, 2014
From August to October 2014 Sadia lived and worked in Leipzig. In September 2014, she premiered her thirty-channel audio installation ‘Notes To An Unknown Lover’ [‘Hinweise zu einem unbekannten Liebenden’] at the Leipzig Spinnerei ‘Rundgang’. The work is based on her artist monograph of the same name and each channel features one poem, recorded by the artist. The varying lengths of the lines of text, broken by set intervals, combine to form a cascade of sound. This produces a random reading of the text from which limitless discrete combinations arise, creating a infinite number of ‘fresh’ readings of the work.
August – October 2014 — Performance — Stephen W Tayler
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Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London, during Kate Bush’s sold-out Before the Dawn residency in 2014, where Stephen W Tayler served as Kate Vocal Navigator.
Stephen has recently concluded work on Kate Bush’s Before the Dawn – KT Fellowship at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo. Following five months of rehearsals, the twenty-two-show residency opened on Tuesday August 26th 2014, marking Kate’s return to the stage after thirty-five years. Stephen was credited as Kate Vocal Navigator, responsible for managing and mixing Kate’s live vocal sound. All 77,000 tickets for the residency sold out in under fifteen minutes. The shows subsequently opened to extraordinary international acclaim.
"I am so proud to be associated with this project, and very touched that Kate has trusted me to manage and mix her voice. It is an honour and a privilege to be a part of the wonderful sound team, an experience that will remain with me for the rest of my life."
Stephen W Tayler
Contemporary coverage: The New York Times: 77,000 Kate Bush Tickets Sell Out in Minutes · Vision Undimmed by Decades Rolling Stone: Kate Bush Returns to the Stage in Spectacular Fashion The Guardian: Before the Dawn review · Reviews roundup
The O.L.L.I.E. sign given to Stephen by Kate during Before the Dawn.
Photograph: Sadia Sadia
Hand-painted O.L.L.I.E. sign reading “Organic Lingual-Layering Illustrious Empowerer”, given to Stephen by Kate Bush.
January – March 2014 — Installation — Sadia Sadia
Exhibition poster for All Time and Space Fold into the Infinite Present (Cataract Gorge), a moving-image installation and soundfield by the artist Sadia Sadia, premiered at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery (QVMAG), Launceston, Tasmania, in 2014.
All Time and Space Fold Into the Infinite Present (Cataract Gorge) premiered at the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery (QVMAG), Inveresk, Launceston, Tasmania, on January 10th 2014. The three-channel moving-image installation was presented across a nine-foot by forty-eight-foot screen and developed from footage recorded by Sadia in Cataract Gorge, where the South Esk River passes through the gorge immediately beside the city. The exhibition continued until March 2nd 2014. All Time and Space Fold Into the Infinite Present (Cataract Gorge) was subsequently acquired by QVMAG for its permanent collection. A short trailer can be viewed on our YouTube channel.
2013 — Publication — Sadia Sadia
Cover of Notes To An Unknown Lover (2013), an artist monograph by Sadia Sadia, published by Bybrook Press in a limited first edition. ISBN 978-0-9576485-0-0.
Notes To An Unknown Lover Notes To An Unknown Lover is an artist’s book by Sadia Sadia, comprising a cycle of thirty poems addressed by a woman to an unknown lover. Written as a sequence of intimate addresses, the work moves between memory, desire, observation and imagined presence. The unknown lover is both recipient and absence: a figure through whom private thought becomes an extended meditation on intimacy, longing and time. Conceived as both literary work and physical object, Notes To An Unknown Lover was produced in a limited first edition of 950 copies in 2013, printed and case bound in England by Butler, Tanner & Dennis.
May 2013 — Production — Sadia Sadia
Artist and author Sadia Sadia inspecting proofs for Notes To An Unknown Lover at Butler, Tanner & Dennis, Frome, Somerset, during production of the artist monograph in 2013.
May 20th 2013: Sadia’s book 'Notes to an Unknown Lover' goes to press at Butler, Tanner & Dennis in Frome, Somerset. BT&D have been printing in the UK for over 160 years and specialise in the production of colour and fine art books (see photograph of the Heidelberg press, above, with the empty wooden paper pallets in the foreground). The A5 book is printed on 150gm coated Condat Matt paper in four colour process throughout. Wibalin endpapers, case bound, thread sewn, unprinted case on Brillianta material mounted over 2750 micron board, foil blocked spine and front in Kurz Colorit 932.
Update July 2014: It is with great sadness that we report that Butler, Tanner & Dennis, of Frome, Somerset, winners of ‘Best British Book’ at the British Book Design and Production Awards (BPIF) 2013 held on 4 November, and Book Printer of the Year in eight of the last ten years, went into administration on May 23rd 2014. They were the UK’s leading book and publications printer for 166 years.
It was a privilege to work with their exceptional fine art team on ‘Notes to an Unknown Lover’, and they manufactured a book which is a beautiful object in its own right. It is difficult to believe that the factory is being decommissioned and that we will never get the chance to return.
January – October 2013 — Studio — Chimera Arts
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Sadia Sadia at the Millside studio and details of the shared Chimera Arts project space at Real World Studios, Wiltshire, 2013.
January – October 2013: In January of this year, Sadia and Stephen started sharing a project space at Real World Studios “It was a big move, and a complete change to our old patterns of working” says Sadia.
In October, they inherited the lease of the Millside studio, and Real World became ‘home’. The studio is currently set up for sound, still and moving image work, but the space can be adapted and optimised depending on the project at hand.
“Since I’ve moved in, I’ve worked on a variety of material: music, concert visuals, and of course mixing” says Stephen. “Real World is residential, which makes it easy for my international clients, or anybody who might not be local, to come and live and work in this creative environment. It’s good for concentration, and I find projects get completed swiftly and well, inspired by the beautiful Wiltshire countryside.”
The studio has most recently been used for the post-production and modelling of the acoustics of an exhibition space, in order to test the audio prior to an installation.
August 2012 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
Photo of Stephen W Tayler by Sadia Sadia
Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 2012 Remix artwork and Stephen W Tayler during the making of the remix, which was played in its entirety at the London 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony.
Stephen’s Remix of ‘Running Up That Hill’ at London 2012 We are delighted to report that Stephen’s remix of the Kate Bush song ‘Running Up That Hill [A Deal With God]’ was played in its entirety at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, broadcast to an estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million. The track accompanied one of the ceremony’s central sequences, as performers brought 303 white boxes – representing the 303 Olympic events – into the stadium and assembled them into a pyramid onto which highlights from the Games were projected. Kate subsequently said that she was “completely thrilled and touched” by the overwhelming response to the remix and described being included in the Closing Ceremony as a huge honour. Following the ceremony, ‘Running Up That Hill’ reached No. 6 on the UK Official Singles Chart.
May 2012 — Award — Stephen W Tayler
Stephen W Tayler photographs by Sadia Sadia
Kate Bush and Stephen W Tayler during the making of 50 Words for Snow (2011), mixed by Stephen W Tayler, who also recorded guest performers Elton John, Stephen Fry and Steve Gadd.
Kate Bush’s 50 Words for Snow won the South Bank Sky Arts Award 2012 for Best Pop Album on May 1st 2012, beating strong competition from Adele’s 21 and P J Harvey’s Let England Shake. The album was mixed by Stephen, who also recorded a number of the guest performers, including Elton John, Stephen Fry and Steve Gadd. We are delighted to say that the album has had an almost overwhelmingly positive reception both at home and internationally, with acclaim from The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Sunday Times, Mojo, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, NME, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Time Magazine. 50 Words for Snow entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 5 and was subsequently nominated for the Ivor Novello Album Award.
“‘Fifty Words for Snow’ is a brilliant, magical album. With these beautiful songs we wanted to convey the feeling of snow and winter in the sound. The first song, ‘Snowflake’, which features voices and piano, introduces atmospheric elements of guitar, drums and orchestra along with occasional frozen moments of audio. This sets a shimmering soundscape that carries on into the album creating a unique and immersive listening experience. I’ve heard these songs hundreds of times, and they still move me deeply every time I hear them. Of the two hundred and fifty plus albums I’ve worked on, this was a completely unique and remarkable experience.”
Stephen W Tayler
Recorded by Del Palmer • Additional Recording by Stephen W Tayler • Mixed by Stephen W Tayler
May 2011 — Release — Stephen W Tayler
Album cover for Kate Bush’s Director’s Cut (2011), on which Stephen W Tayler mixed eight tracks and recorded guest musicians.
Kate Bush released the new album 'Director's Cut' on her own label Fish People, in conjunction with EMI in May 2011. Stephen mixed eight tracks on Director’s Cut and also recorded a number of the album’s guest musicians. On 'Director's Cut' Kate revisits a selection of tracks from her albums 'The Sensual World' and 'The Red Shoes', a process that presents a fascinating portrait of an artist in a constant state of evolution. She has re-recorded some elements whilst keeping the best musical performances of each song – making it something of a director’s cut but in sound, not vision. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 2 and remained in the Top 100 for six weeks.
December 2010 — Exhibition — Chimera Arts
Cover image for DayFour: Ulysses 2, the 2010 photographic project in which Sadia Sadia and Stephen W Tayler participated.
In 2010, Sadia and Stephen contributed photographs to DayFour: Ulysses 2, revisiting the original Ulysses project in which they had both participated in 2005. They were the only two photographers in the project whose photographs interacted with one another over the course of the day. DayFour: Ulysses 2 was exhibited at theprintspace, London, from 3 December 2010 into January 2011.
2010 — Update — Sadia Sadia
Artwork by Sadia Sadia, 2010, comprising six images of a clouded sky and trees seen through rain-streaked glass.
In 2010, Sadia continued developing new installation projects alongside international research and professional travel, including visits to FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool and New York.
2010 — Residency — Sadia Sadia
Sadia Sadia directing the production of Metamorphoses in ‘A’ Minor at Sydney Gate, Australia, during her Gertrude Contemporary Studio 18 residency.
During her Studio 18 International Artist Residency at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Sadia began production of Metamorphoses in ‘A’ Minor, a moving-image installation filmed at Sydney Gate. The project was made possible with the generous support of Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Gertrude Contemporary and the British Council [Australia].
2010 — Residency — Sadia Sadia
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Sadia Sadia's studio at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, during the artist's Studio 18 International Artist Residency.
Sadia was awarded a Studio 18 International Artist Residency at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, for international contemporary visual artists pursuing innovative professional practices. During the residency she developed and premiered Metamorphoses in ‘A’ Minor, and discussed the work in an artist talk with Amita Kirpalani. Metamorphoses in ‘A’ Minor was subsequently presented at the Third Annual Sarah Lawrence College Dancefilm Festival at the Heimbold Visual Arts Center in New York in 2018.
May 2009 — Screening — Sadia Sadia
The Tricycle Theatre [“Britain’s leading political theatre” The Guardian] has screened ‘The Noon Gun’ as part of their season The Great Game: Aspects of Afghanistan May 1st–10th 2009. The season received an Olivier Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement.
August – November 2008 — Screening — Sadia Sadia
Still from San Francisco Redux No. 1 by Anthony Stern, Sadia Sadia, Stephen W Tayler screened at the États Généraux du Film Documentaire in Lussas, France, 2008.
San Francisco Redux No. 1 was screened at the États Généraux du Film Documentaire in Lussas, where it featured in film theorist Nicole Brenez’s programme On the Subject of Regrettable Searching – Body to Body, the Filmed Body. Brenez later wrote an essay on the film. The film was subsequently screened at the Belfort Film Festival in France in November 2008, followed by Film Mutations in Zagreb, Croatia, from the end of November into December.
June 2008 — Premiere — Sadia Sadia
La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, where films involving Sadia Sadia and Stephen W Tayler received their world premieres in 2008.
On 27 June 2008, four new short films involving Sadia Sadia and Stephen W Tayler received their world premieres at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris, as part of a curated Le Cinéma d’Avant-Garde programme of works by filmmaker Anthony Stern. The films included The End of the Party: Hyde Park 1969; Iggy, featuring Evelyn “Iggy” Rose, known for her association with Syd Barrett and her appearance on the cover of The Madcap Laughs; Lit from Within; and San Francisco Redux No. 1. Sadia and Stephen's contributions across the works included production, editing and sound design; San Francisco Redux No. 1 was directed, edited, produced and sound-designed by Sadia Sadia with Stephen W Tayler and Anthony Stern. San Francisco Redux No. 1 subsequently screened at the États Généraux du Film Documentaire in Lussas, where it featured in film theorist Nicole Brenez’s programme On the Subject of Regrettable Searching – Body to Body, the Filmed Body. Brenez later wrote an essay on the film.
May – November 2008 — Screening — Sadia Sadia
Still from the short film 'The Noon Gun' [2004]. Based on footage filmed in Afghanistan in 1974. Produced by Sadia Sadia.
In 2008, The Noon Gun continued its international exhibition and festival screenings. In May, the film was presented at the Cleveland Museum of Art as part of a curated film programme, with screenings on 14 and 16 May. In November, with the support of the British Council, The Noon Gun had its Pakistani premiere at the World Performing Arts Festival in Lahore, where it screened as part of the festival’s programme from 13–23 November 2008.
2007 — Production — Stephen W Tayler
Stephen W Tayler recording musicians at Yash Raj Film Studios, Mumbai, with producer Rupert Hine, 2007.
Stephen spent 2007 recording and mixing in Italy, India and the US. In India, he recorded some of the country’s leading musicians with producer Rupert Hine at Yash Raj Film Studios in Mumbai, including Louiz Banks, Sheldon Shaun D’Silva, Niladri Kumar and percussionist Sivamani, for an album by Mongolian singer-songwriter Nominjin.
2004 – 2008 — Screening — Sadia Sadia
Still from The Noon Gun (2004), based on footage from Afghanistan in 1974. Produced by Sadia Sadia.
Sadia produced, edited and scored the short film The Noon Gun, with her creative partner Stephen W Tayler, with the score credited to Equa. The film draws on footage shot in Afghanistan in 1971, including images of the monumental Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed in 2001. Made with support from the British Council, The Noon Gun premiered at the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival. It subsequently screened internationally at festivals and institutions including the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford [now the National Science and media Museum]; Films From the South, Oslo; the Portobello Film Festival, London and Film Mutations, Zagreb. Shortlisted for the Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Competition, extracts were screened at BAFTA in London. The film was also broadcast in Afghanistan by Tolo TV and in Bhutan by Bhutan Broadcasting Service, and in 2009 was presented at the Tricycle Theatre, London, as part of The Great Game: Aspects of Afghanistan. The season received an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement.
2004 — Acquisition — Sadia Sadia
The Memory of Water (Part I) by Sadia Sadia, presented on screens at ACMI and Federation Square, Melbourne, 2004.
In 2004, Sadia’s single-channel installation The Memory of Water [Part I] [2004] was acquired for the permanent collection of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image [ACMI], one of the world’s leading and most visited museums of screen culture [ACMI Accession B1006598]. The work was presented in ACMI’s major exhibition Proof: The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes [2004–05], accompanied by the publication of the exhibition book Proof, and was screened across the internal and external screens at Melbourne’s Federation Square. The Memory of Water received prominent contemporary press coverage in Australia, including Lawrie Zion’s “Screening the Truth” in The Australian, Arts/Film, 8 December 2004.
YouTube: PROOF/ACMI 2004