Phil Okerstrom

Philip Okerstrom is a sound artist, musician/composer, and sound engineer/producer.He has worked collaboratively with many artists across a number of artistic streams: Film, Television, Animation, installation, Theatre, Puppetry, Dance, Doco-Sound Art, and a Video Game! He has also Worked as an engineer/producer on a number of local bands releases. In 2007 he completed a postgraduate diploma in production - sound design at the Victorian College of the Arts / Melbourne University.Phil loves sounds. It’s not uncommon to find him experimenting and exploring the various sonic temperaments of anything that produces sound both acoustic and electric.He is currently singer and guitarist with his band “Against Method”, collaborating with close friends; Damian Mason, Steve Flieschfresser and James Cathcart **Against Method debut Album is due for release in 2009. He plays guitar in improvisational band "Gloat" with Damian Mason and long time friend Simon Ayton of Lug (This of course takes place whenever they are in the same city).... Phil collaborates with Damian Mason under the name Pluriaxial...an experimental electronic duo. He also has written and produced music for Cuba is Japan for over one year and played a handfull of live shows for them.... ............................................................ ....................................................... ............................................................ ....................................................... ............................................................ ....................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ...........................Here is a list of some work i Composed Music and Sound Designed for "This film Is on you" (1994) "Paper Weight" (1995) , "The Dealer" (1996), "Construct" (1996) , " On the Move" (1996), "Home is where the Heart….."Clay Sculpture Installation (1996), "The Plague" a student short that i did sound for that i never even saw! (1996), "Jupiter" (1997), "Denial" , "Joy Riding" 1998), "First love" winner of "Best Sound" 1999 St-Kilda Film Fest , "Hurt" (1999) - AFI Awarded 2000, "Last Boy in the World" (2000) , "You are Everything" (2000) Community Service Announcement TV, "kNot @ Home Project" (2001-2004), Doco-Sound Art (2001-2003) Intergenerational Addictive Behaviour , "Out of Nowhere" (2000) Installation , "A Good Night Street" (2002) - Mobile multi media street Installation , "From Deep it Came" (2002) , "24 hr shift" multi screen film installation (2003), "Hurt" (2003) a multi screen film Installation commissioned by the ACMI (which ran for and extended period from 3 to 6 months) , 2003 Vision Editing for a series of Animator interviews for SBS web site , 2003 Mixed and recorded produced Nintynine Self titled mini CD. EP , "Closet"(2004) - Community service announcement , .... 2003 Recorded and produced Baseball album “Gods and Stars Priests and Kings” , "Lane Way Project" (2004) , "Street Survivor" (2004)- video game , "kNot @ Home" (2004)8 part Television Series for SBS total running time 4hours , (2007) "Sonic snail" - puppet show , "The 4th Dementia" A Puppet Show with a difference , "La Music" - theatre , "Smashed" - theatre , "Between Today and Tomorrow" - theatre , "The Observers" A short film by Philip Okerstrom ............................................................ ........................The Observers would never had been made without the generous assistance much needed encouragement and expert guidance by film director and good friend Patrick Connelly Burns and Cameron Duff. To you both i am trully grateful!!!!!! . .I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)