Groove Q

11/03/2024

Oooo - I like being an ‘expert’ …. as the Oscars performances reminded us, sometimes the intimacy of quiet drama sends the loudest message.
My brief insights on the Best Original Song performances and other ‘experts’ writing about costumes, speeches, screenplays, and fashion!

From the red carpet to the winners and the speeches, our experts dissect the 2024 Oscars.

08/03/2024

Happy International Women’s Day to all! Groove Q celebrates our amazing women Alison Cole, Liv Parker & Bonnie Cook as we forge the future of female creativity!

06/03/2024

Bagpipes In Space ... my latest article for The Conversation.

Zimmer creates a sound world full of texture, personality and new timbral possibilities.

27/02/2024

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We are excited to announce that Groove Q is evolving! 🪩

After nearly 20 years of music-making, Groove Q is expanding; we are adding some fresh, new, funky faces to the composing team, which we can’t wait to share with you soon!

Furthermore, with our new additions, we are becoming Sydney’s first female-fronted sound studio, which we are so passionate about sharing and expanding within the creative community.

We are looking to partner with exciting and forward-thinking creatives that can share in our passion of music, diversity and innovation!

We can’t wait to show you the amazing things coming soon!🙌

Keep groovin! 💃

From Groove Q founders,
Alison Cole and Dave Smith

18/01/2024

Tonight on ABC Local radio NSW & ACT I’ll be getting interviewed about all things soundtrack! Barbie, Oppenheimer, Saltburn, The Killer ….
I better start preparing! I’m on at 9.30 tonight!

Ease into your evening with a mix of interviews, stories and live music.

10/03/2022

Advertising people – What’s on your mind? Have your say about creativity and advertising life impacted by COVID. What’s the new normal in the Australian market?


This research project is particularly interested in two key issues:
1. How agencies have adapted creative workflows and practices and what new forms of creative leadership have been sparked by these innovations.
2. How the COVID-crisis has affected agency workplace cultures in terms of inclusion, well-being and psychological safety.


https://www.towardsanewnormal.com/startseite


Survey is closing March 31st, so please help out and take 10 minutes to complete this survey by Bond University and Swinburne University of Technology


GrooveQ are proud to support this project.




Swinburne University of Technology Bond University Suits&Sneakers

24/01/2022

Learning about Euclidean sequencing using Voltage Modular.

11/01/2022

Back on track … sound on n’ up. Alison Cole and Dave Smith Back at it!

04/06/2021

My Conservatorium Composition students gave me these to say thank you 😊 I appreciate it so much … but I also learn from them as well! Exchanging ideas about 🎶 composition is a wonderful thing ❤️

22/03/2021

5 years, untold hours repairing bizarre analog and digital format masters..listening to the things you feel like you've heard a trillion times before, but new and different...strangely unfamiliar. It's been a weird journey..but here goes.

VERTIGO | REVIBED 26.03.21
https://snd.click/BXCVertigoRVB

To mark the 30th Anniversary of the release of the ‘Vertigo’ album, Boxcar and the Volition label join together to produce a special edition of the band's classic debut. Remastered and accompanied by unreleased never-heard-before mixes, ‘Vertigo Revibed’ highlights the crafted dance gems of Boxcar and production excellence of the late Robert Racic – both renowned reference points for Australian electronic/dance music following the worldwide release of ‘Vertigo’ in 1990.

BOXCAR formed in Brisbane in 1986, relocating to Sydney after signing with the trail-blazing Volition label in 1988 to begin work on their debut album ‘Vertigo’ with innovative Sydney DJ/producer Robert Racic. The first single from ‘Vertigo’ was released that same year, “Freemason” hit dance charts around the world including the U.S. where it went to #8 on the Billboard Dance Chart. It was followed by two more Billboard charting singles from ‘Vertigo’; “Gas Stop” #8 and “Insect” #20.

Following its release in 1990, ‘Vertigo’ captured an audience worldwide that craved the electronic dance sound that had dominated the 80’s. It also paved the way for a change in the perception of electronic/dance music from Australia and established Boxcar as pioneers in the movement and Racic as an acclaimed producer and remixer.

‘Vertigo’ was recorded, produced and mixed in Sydney, Vancouver and New York by Racic, with legendary dance music producers Arthur Baker and Francois Kevorkian enlisted to remix the singles “Freemason” and “Gas Stop” respectively.

Now in 2021, ‘Vertigo’ has been remastered and accompanied by unreleased never-heard-before mixes of six of the album’s tracks. These mixes; “Comet”, “Lelore”, “Hit & Run”, “Cruel To You” and “This Is The Town” are skilfully re-worked by Boxcar (with “Freemason” by Hysteric) from the restored original masters and highlight Racic’s exceptional talent in producing the electronic/dance music tour de force ‘Vertigo’.

In 2015, “Insect” claimed the #23 spot in the “100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks Of All Time”. Published by online electronic/dance music bible ‘In The Mix’, Nick Jarvis wrote the following about Boxcar’s appearance on the chart; “...before Cut Copy, Van She et al reinvigorated ‘80s synth-pop to huge international success, Brisbane act Boxcar were struggling in a music market dominated by pub rockers like Diesel and pop stars like Kylie. Their debut album Vertigo spawned several synth-pop gems that impacted on the US dance charts – like the quirky, catchy, ice-cool“Insect”...it would be more than a decade before mass Australian audiences finally started appreciating home-grown electronic music.”

‘Vertigo Revibed’ is released through Volition on March 26th.

Presave Now : https://snd.click/BXCVertigoRVB

Art by Tunnel Signs

04/02/2021

This is our second collaboration with IWDA - International Women's Development Agency Inc. is an Australian non-profit organisation that works to support women's rights in Asia and the Pacific.

Every day, young women struggle with gender inequality and COVID-19 has made things worse. This video tells the experiences of young women from Cambodia, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea during the pandemic and shows how they are leaders that are up to any challenge that faces them, including gender inequality.

IWDA - Pacific Islands

31/01/2021

Flashback of a flashback ... this project was so much fun!

17/01/2021

Groove Q loves Røde mics and Røde microphones are amazing supporters of the creative arts industry, thanks to Peter Freedman.

Donor Peter Freedman said his gift was ‘just the beginning’ and has left it up to the festival to decide how to spend the money

16/01/2021

Oooooh Caturday

19/12/2020

07/11/2020

Rehearsals start for my sextet composition, ‘Undercurrent’, on Monday. Preparing for my ‘tricky’ rhythms as I’ll be conducting! Me and my triplets 🎼🎧

14/08/2020

Available on all streaming platforms from August 14. Spotify [coming soon] Apple Music [coming soon] Lyrics, vocal melody and vocals created and performed by...

14/08/2020

Alison plays with spaces ...

29/07/2020

Some of Alison's 'timbral composition' work.

30/03/2020

Apocalyptic Kitchen is keeping healthy. My favourite goats feta and sheep manchego. @ Groove Q

16/01/2020

Looking forward to sharing some new projects we've been working on recently.

16/01/2020

Happiest 2020 to all. We hope the year ahead is filled with all the things you love and more! We're back in our studios ... even if it has been a 'working holiday'!

30/11/2019

This is going to be different! Chinese herbs steam, cooking for 20 mins ... then 1 hour massage!
@ Radiant Chinese Massage

28/11/2019

Recording dingos this afternoon was an incredible experience. They are so beautiful and deeply relaxing company. Dingo Den at Glenmore Park does amazing work for this endangered animal that our government considers a pest. I got some kisses and eye contact love this afternoon. @ Glenmore Park, New South Wales

20/11/2019

Pho real🍲 a GQ fave. Now u see it! Now u don’t!
@ Newstar Takeaway

26/09/2019

Afternoon walk doing the Bay Run! Outside of the studio is kinda nice 👍🏼 This is just down the road! 😆 @ The Bay Run

01/07/2019

Thank you lovely peoples for the likes❣️

30/06/2019

Monday .... back to the motherboard & cooking tunes! 🎧🎶👯👩‍🍳👨🏼‍🍳