ALEX YOUNG

Alex Young is a music producer, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist and researcher. His musical practice focusses on in-betweenness. Genre hopping, falling through the cracks, embracing the old and new. Funk, soul, hip-hop, psychedelia, instrumental, lyrical, long-form, rock and/or roll, his musical output is multi-faceted.

Portrait by Archie Sartracom

music

From the early days of Australian hip hop - singing, rapping and playing guitar in the band GOOD BUDDHA - Alex has performed and recorded with a wide range of musicians and projects, including: Guitarist/backing vocalist for the SPACE INVADAS live band, playing major festivals such as Future Music and Splendour in the Grass; One of six guitarists selected for JIM MOGINE’S GUITAR ORCHESTRA to perform ‘the colour wheel’ at venues such as MONA FOMA and the OPERA HOUSE STUDIO; Forming half of boom-bap soul duo IL COMBO; As well as fronting his leftfield solo act as electro artist A-WYRE…

research

Situated within the fields of hybridised musical instrument design and live performance, Alex Young’s current research explores how the techniques of electric slide guitar can be applied to the steel strings of an acoustic piano, which has achieved through the creation of a new instrument, the Slide Piano…

collaborations

alex young has collaborated on a number of music related ventures, AND WORKED WITH A RANGE OF MUSICIANS including: Jim Moginie, HOLLY THROSBY, RESIN DOGS, DEF WISH CAST, KATALYST, STEVE SPACEK, JOELISTICS, Good buddha, SANDRO BONANNO, carlos adura, and the blue purrs…