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A Million Things
Composer, Musician and  Sound Designer.

A Million Things aka Thomas 'Soup' Campbell is an Australian Composer, Musician,  Sound Designer, Interactive Sculpture Artist, Record Producer and Sound Engineer.

Thomas has collaborated with companies including Melbourne Recital Centre, Back To Back Theatre and A Blanck Canvas. 

He has performed at venues and festivals including Meredith Music Festival (Vic), The Big Day Out (Vic), Antilliaanse (NL), Fusion Festival (DE),  Incubate (NL), The Forum (Mel) and The Palais Theatre (Mel) 

As a sound engineer Thomas has toured internationally on multiple occasions. Thomas has delivered events at venues including Margarete Court Arena, Melbourne Recital Centre,  Max Watts and Sugar Mountain Festival.

Currently Thomas is exploring building new and intuitive systems for interactive music performance such as light, movement and capacitive sensing devices that integrate with music, light and vision softerware platforms such as Ableton Live and Resolume Arena.

Outcomes include, sound responses, visual projections, LED light responses and animatronic movement.

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Projects

Lunar New Year-Composition + Sound Design

A Jet-ski water dragon puppet presentataion  by A Blanck Canvas. 

Giant Water Dragon puppets performed choreagraphed movements to a musical score on the Yarra river in front of Crown Casino.

The musical score was played through the Crown southbank outdoor sound system.

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Melodius - Artist, Composition 

Presented at Melbourne Recital Centre's Music Play festival.

3 days of interactive musical stairs. Participants trigger a musical keyboard on the MRC grand stair case. The laser trigger system is a bespoke electronics system integrated with digital music software designed and built by a million things 

World Expo Falcon-Composition + Sound Design


A work by A Blanck Canvas Presented for David Atkins Enterprises, Featured at World Expo In Dubai.

The falcon is 4 metres tall with a wing span of 10 metres.

Lil Robots - Composition

 

Presented by A Blanck Canvas for Glen Eira City Council

 

Robots are here to stay, but their limited creativity might leave them stuck in a repetitive loop. Watch these adorable lil' bots interact, bump, redirect, and start anew in a post-apocalyptic world. Get ready for a cyberpunk spectacle, complete with dazzling lights and mechanical melodies.

Enter a dystopian future as we wonder what happens when robots run out of jobs? Experience the creepy, the cute, and everything in between!

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Radial by Back To Back Theatre - Composition + Sound Design

RADIAL is a collaborative film-making process resulting in a portrait of a community in motion.

Filmed using a circular camera track, RADIAL is an accessible model for working with either community or professional performers, created via a process of live improvisation. RADIAL can capture a continuous sequence of action or dance, involving up to 30 participants at once, combined with intimate depictions of single individuals in space.

https://backtobacktheatre.com/project/radial/

The Golden Guardian - Composition + Sound Design

 

The Golden Guardian  is an iteration of the Guardian a creature reminiscent of a giant lion. The Guardian is approximately 10 metres long and 4 metres high and was originally built for the popular White Night Melbourne festival in 2019.

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The Guardian - Sound Design

 

The Guardian  is an imposing creature reminiscent of a giant lion. The Guardian is approximately 10 metres long and 4 metres high and was originally built for the popular White Night Melbourne festival in 2019.

Giant, crystal-like shards cover the creature’s head and body which glow and change colour as it moves through its environment. It’s graceful mane flows around its statuesque face. Like a creature from a dream, 

 

 

The Fractured Ensemble - Artist + Sound Designer

Southbank Boulevard - Melbourne Recital Centre 

 

The Fractured Ensemble represents hope, providing an opportunity for public engagement in the revival of music in Melbourne. The centrepiece of this illuminated sonic atmosphere is a large pyre of redundant musical instruments, intricately lit with thousands of colour changing lights.

Participants can discover interactive foot pedals , when activated light emanates from the tactile sensors up into the sculpture detailing individual instrument forms, the instruments glow, pulse and chase in dynamic sequences complimented by a synchronised sound design and musical score.

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Light Creatures - Sound Design

Light Creatures at Adelaide Zoo as part of Illuminate Adelaide, brought to you with SA Power Networks, is where enormous animatronic Giant Pandas roll playfully across the Central Lawns, where a gigantic dreamtime skink sits high from atop the hill, where giraffes are so tall their heads graze the stars and an underwater wonderland wriggles and writhes with jellyfish and sways with vivid, colour-changing coral.

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The Messenger- Sound Design

 

The Messenger is a giant humanoid puppet, built and performed for White Night Melbourne festival . More than five meters high and with wings that span six meters, The Messenger is an awe-inspiring, futuristic archangel that transcends nationality and religion to spread its message of love and compassion, highlighting that our similarities are more important than our differences. 

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Atrium - Artist + Sound Design


Atrium is an experiential, interactive art installation. The work invites participants to explore an intimate connection between light and sound by somatically engaging with the sculpture. Atrium has a unique arrangement of plants that when touched create dynamic feedback. 
Atrium's focus is floating, evoking cloud like imageary that embodies the transient and spiritual connection between the imagination and our tactile reality.

Light Chimes - Sound Design

 

The Light Chimes are a flexible, large-scale interactive music installation with an adaptable design to suit any location. The Chimes are played through bespoke touch boards of 10 notes arranged as a map of the chimes. Touching a chime on the touch board produces an instant light and sound response in the installation. The Light Chimes can be played by crowds to produce a sonic cloud of notes (like wind chimes), or played by a musician.

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The Garden of the Galapagos - Sound Design in collaboration with Spoonbill

The Garden of the Galapagos is an outdoor theatre piece originally funded by a collaboration including Barcham Projects and Graeme Base with assistance from the Melbourne Zoo. It is a puppet show based on award-winning children’s book, “The Waterhole” written and illustrated by one of the world’s leading creators of picture books; Graeme Base.

 

 

Metamorphosis - Sound Design

Metamorphosis is a large-scale interactive sound, light, and sculpture installation. Activated by touch, each cocoon is pitched to a specific note and has a suite of unique sound effects. Your interaction triggers a colour change in the cocoon, and helps generate a live, harmonic soundscape. 

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Minor Disturbance - Sound Design

Inspired by the Great Barrier Reef, Minor Disturbance blends the beauty & sonic surprises of our oceans with the plastic pollution that threatens them.

Combining 5 x 3.7m tall sculptures with 40 illuminated, musical chimes the work is an immersive & educational environment. Interactive light & sound showcases a dizzying array of rare underwater recordings made by lead artist Beth McMahon’s father – a retired acoustic physicist.

 

 

Bloom - Sound Design

Bloom is an immersive installation of large inflatable gunmuts and gunmut flowers. Designed for presentation during the day as well as at night, Bloom is a relaxing, tacticle and playful landscape for all ages. Crawl inside a gumnut or nestle into the flower spikes and listen to the medatitive soundscape featuring native bush sounds. 

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Zero Point - Music Composition

Zero Point is a 6 part Animation series produced for ABC Iview.

A young Indigenous superhero working for the Government uncovers a vast conspiracy behind the Australian post-human program and its connection with the mysterious death of his father. After thwarting a terrorist threat at an Australia Day celebration, Kyle (Zero-Point) begins to uncover evidence of a government conspiracy regarding a classified post-human program and the origin of super-powers in Australia. Then, while confronting the ultra-nationalist post-human terrorist known as Samson, Kyle discovers more about the mysterious death of his father, the original Zero-Point.

 

 

Morphology - Sound Design

Sculpting with neon wires. Morphology is a tactile, interactive public art activation designed for community members with all abilities. 

A rainbow of interactive neon wire sculptures that morph throughout the night, the Morphology sculptures change with each new interaction, only your imagination is the limit. Designed to be touched, and adaptable to different indoor or outdoor spaces, each glow wire can be twisted, bent, and shaped into unique images.

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Music

The Cassowaries - Composition

 

The Cassowaries were featured in Elictric Kingdom a project by A Blanck Canvas for City of Melbourne at Birrarung Marr

Electric Kingdom in Melbourne spanned eight nights in September 2023 and attracted tens of thousands of visitors who experienced A Blanck Canvas’ eight magnificent giant illuminated animal installations, world-class roving performers, and stunning lighting displays.

Audiences enjoyed the walk-through event centred around a collection of giant, illuminated animal installations. Electric Kingdom (EK) “scales up” nature to gigantic proportions, allowing audiences to view and appreciate animals from a new perspective.

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Journey -  Lighting Design + Projections + Sculptural Artist

 

Presented by Macedon Ranges Shire Council for Autumn Festival Journey included interactive sculpture, visual projections and imaginatively augmented  locally recorded soundscapes.The work was presented over 6 weeks in collaboraion with Kirri Buchler and Tashara Roberts.

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The Guardian - Composition + Sound Design

 

The Guardian  is an imposing creature reminiscent of a giant lion. The Guardian is approximately 10 metres long and 4 metres high and was originally built for the popular White Night Melbourne festival in 2019.

Giant, crystal-like shards cover the creature’s head and body which glow and change colour as it moves through its environment. It’s graceful mane flows around its statuesque face. Like a creature from a dream, 

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Entity by Back To Back Theatre - Composition + Sound Design

Taking the form of an intimate installation this fifteen-minute side show performance is an amalgam of séance, party trick, alien encounter and horror movie. ENTITY is a sweet spot double act between human and ‘the other’.

An experience for just a handful of audience members at a time, ENTITY is a hypnotic engagement with an autonomous life form in a constant state of change. 

https://backtobacktheatre.com/project/entity/

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The Fractured Ensemble - Artist + Composition + Sound Designer

Southbank Boulevard - Melbourne Recital Centre 

 

The Fractured Ensemble represents hope, providing an opportunity for public engagement in the revival of music in Melbourne. The centrepiece of this illuminated sonic atmosphere is a large pyre of redundant musical instruments, intricately lit with thousands of colour changing lights.

Participants can discover interactive foot pedals , when activated light emanates from the tactile sensors up into the sculpture detailing individual instrument forms, the instruments glow, pulse and chase in dynamic sequences complimented by a synchronised sound design and musical score.

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Light Creatures - Composition + Sound Design

Light Creatures at Adelaide Zoo as part of Illuminate Adelaide, brought to you with SA Power Networks, is where enormous animatronic Giant Pandas roll playfully across the Central Lawns, where a gigantic dreamtime skink sits high from atop the hill, where giraffes are so tall their heads graze the stars and an underwater wonderland wriggles and writhes with jellyfish and sways with vivid, colour-changing coral.

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Light Chimes - Composition + Sound Design

 

The Light Chimes are a flexible, large-scale interactive music installation with an adaptable design to suit any location. The Chimes are played through bespoke touch boards of 10 notes arranged as a map of the chimes. Touching a chime on the touch board produces an instant light and sound response in the installation. The Light Chimes can be played by crowds to produce a sonic cloud of notes (like wind chimes), or played by a musician.

The Messenger- Composition + Sound Design

 

The Messenger is a giant humanoid puppet, built and performed for White Night Melbourne festival . More than five meters high and with wings that span six meters, The Messenger is an awe-inspiring, futuristic archangel that transcends nationality and religion to spread its message of love and compassion, highlighting that our similarities are more important than our differences. 

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Atrium - Sculpture Artist + Composition + Sound Design


Atrium is an experiential, interactive art installation. The work invites participants to explore an intimate connection between light and sound by somatically engaging with the sculpture. Atrium has a unique arrangement of plants that when touched create dynamic feedback. 
Atrium's focus is floating, evoking cloud like imageary that embodies the transient and spiritual connection between the imagination and our tactile reality.

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The Garden of the Galapagos - Composition + Sound Design in collaboration with Spoonbill

The Garden of the Galapagos is an outdoor theatre piece originally funded by a collaboration including Barcham Projects and Graeme Base with assistance from the Melbourne Zoo. It is a puppet show based on award-winning children’s book, “The Waterhole” written and illustrated by one of the world’s leading creators of picture books; Graeme Base.

 

 

Metamorphosis - Composition + Sound Design

Metamorphosis is a large-scale interactive sound, light, and sculpture installation. Activated by touch, each cocoon is pitched to a specific note and has a suite of unique sound effects. Your interaction triggers a colour change in the cocoon, and helps generate a live, harmonic soundscape. 

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Minor Disturbance - Composition + Sound Design

Inspired by the Great Barrier Reef, Minor Disturbance blends the beauty & sonic surprises of our oceans with the plastic pollution that threatens them.

Combining 5 x 3.7m tall sculptures with 40 illuminated, musical chimes the work is an immersive & educational environment. Interactive light & sound showcases a dizzying array of rare underwater recordings made by lead artist Beth McMahon’s father – a retired acoustic physicist.

 

 

Bloom - Composition + Sound Design

Bloom is an immersive installation of large inflatable gunmuts and gunmut flowers. Designed for presentation during the day as well as at night, Bloom is a relaxing, tacticle and playful landscape for all ages. Crawl inside a gumnut or nestle into the flower spikes and listen to the medatitive soundscape featuring native bush sounds. 

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Morphology - Composition + Sound Design

Sculpting with neon wires. Morphology is a tactile, interactive public art activation designed for community members with all abilities. 

A rainbow of interactive neon wire sculptures that morph throughout the night, the Morphology sculptures change with each new interaction, only your imagination is the limit. Designed to be touched, and adaptable to different indoor or outdoor spaces, each glow wire can be twisted, bent, and shaped into unique images.

 

 

Zero Point - Composition

Zero Point is a 6 part Animation series produced for ABC Iview.

A young Indigenous superhero working for the Government uncovers a vast conspiracy behind the Australian post-human program and its connection with the mysterious death of his father. After thwarting a terrorist threat at an Australia Day celebration, Kyle (Zero-Point) begins to uncover evidence of a government conspiracy regarding a classified post-human program and the origin of super-powers in Australia. Then, while confronting the ultra-nationalist post-human terrorist known as Samson, Kyle discovers more about the mysterious death of his father, the original Zero-Point.

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Music

Production

Dicography

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Title: Baby Don't Leave Me

Artist: A Million Things

Info: Single

https://amillionthingsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/baby-dont-leave-me

Title:  Don't Say Goodbye

Artist: A Million Things

Info: Single

https://amillionthingsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dont-say-goodbye

Title:  Dreamer

Artist: A Million Things

Info: Single

https://amillionthingsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dreamer

Title:  I Can't Stand This

Artist: A Million Things

Info: 2 track EP

https://amillionthingsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-cant-stand-this

Title: Don't Leave Me This Way

Artist: A Million Things

Info: Single

https://amillionthingsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dont-leave-me-this-way

Title:  I Did You Wrong

Artist: A Million Things

Info: 3 track EP

https://amillionthingsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-did-you-wrong

Title: Itchy Techtonics

Artist: Editor

Info: 3 Track EP

https://soupmix.bandcamp.com/album/itchy-techtonics

 

 

Title: Inter-Terrestrial

Artist: Editor

Info: 2 Track EP

https://soupmix.bandcamp.com/album/inter-terrestrial

 

 

Title: Tropical Bass Station

Artist: Cumbia Cosmonauts

Info: Full Length Album

https://thecumbiacosmonauts.bandcamp.com/album/tropical-bass-station

 

Title: Tribale Amazonico

Artist: Cumbia Cosmonauts

Info: Full Length Album

https://thecumbiacosmonauts.bandcamp.com/album/tribal-amazonico-ep

 

 

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Title: Dream State

Artist: A Million Things

Info: Single

https://amillionthingsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dream-state

Title:  Someday I'm Going To Be Happy

Artist: A Million Things

Info: 3 track EP

https://amillionthingsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/someday-im-going-to-be-happy

Title: MISO

Artist: MISO

Info: Full Length Album

https://listentomiso.bandcamp.com/releases

Title: Cumbia Sampuesana EP

Artist: Cumbia Cosmonauts

Info: 2 track EP

https://thecumbiacosmonauts.bandcamp.com/album/cumbia-sampuesana-ep

 

Title: Interview Techniques

Artist: Editor

Info: Full Length Album

https://omeletterecords.com/release/interview_techniques_0

Title: Vostok EP

Artist: Cumbia Cosmonauts

Info: 4 Track EP

https://thecumbiacosmonauts.bandcamp.com/album/vostok-1-ep

 

 

Title: 500% Cumbia

EP Artist: Cumbia Cosmonauts

Info: 7 Track EP

https://thecumbiacosmonauts.bandcamp.com/album/500-cumbia-mixtape-2

 

 

Title: ‘Secrets’ Remix

Artist: Electric Opera

Info: Remix Single

http://soundcloud.com/electricopera

 

 

Title: ‘Cumbia Theme’ Remix

Artist: Congo Tardis No. 1

Info: Remix Single

https://soundcloud.com/cumbiacosmonauts/cumbia-theme-cumbia-cosmonauts

 

Title: ‘Hearts Don’t Bend’ Remix

Artist: Ronit Info:

Remix Single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3X_ZLu3oQ

 

 

Performance

National and International performances include:

Antillianse Festival, Belgium

Creation of Peace, Russia 

Incubate, Netherlands

Winterthurer Music Festival, Switzerland 

Meredith Music Festival, VIC

Big Day Out, VIC

Woodford Folk Festival, QLD

Melbourne International Arts Festival, VIC

MONA FOMA, TAS

Australasian World Music Expo, VIC

The Falls Festival, VIC

Wide Open Spaces, Alice Springs NT

Folk Rhythm and Life, Wangarrata. 

Melbourne Music Week,

Darwin Festival, NT. 

Rainbow Serpent Festival, VIC.

Adelaide Festival, SA.

Solar Eclipse Festival, QLD

Melbourne Fringe Festival, VIC

Australian Writers Festival, Darwin NT

The Hills Are Alive Festival, VIC

St Kilda Festival, VIC

Shine On Festival, VIC

Sprung Hip Hop Festival, QLD

Melbourne Fringe Festival, VIC

Spiegel Tent, Melbourne, VIC

Bellingen Global Carnival, QLD

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, VIC

Pete’s Ridge, NSW

The Forum, VIC

Federation Square, VIC

The Metro, Sydney

The HIFI Bar, VIC

International supports include:

The Gotan Project, FRANCE – The Forum, Melbourne

Thievery Corporation, USA – The Enmore Theatre Sydney and The Palace, Melbourne

Dj Krush, JAPAN - The Esplanade de Hotel, Melbourne

Lyrics Born, USA – The Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne

Omar Souleyman, SYRIA - The Northcote Social Club, Melbourne

Munchi and Dj Rupture, GERMANY - Incubate Festival, Netherlands

Makossa&Megablast, GERMANY - Club Planetarium, Vienna

DubFX, Australia – The HIFI Bar, Brisbane and Melbourne

Elzi, USA – The Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne

Shabaz Palace, USA – Alhambra, Brisbane

Ill Gates, USA – Roxanne Parlour, Melbourne

Proppa Tingz, USA – Manifest Festival, Queensland

Heyoka, USA - Miss Libertines, Melbourne

Melbourne Pitch Black, NZ – Corner Hotel, Melbourne

Kora, NZ – Corner Hotel, Melbourne

Sola Rosa, NZ – The Evelyn Hotel, Melbourne

Sound Engineering

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Thomas is a Sound Engineer at many venues including Melbourne Recital Centre, Back To Back Theatre, and The North Melbourne Meat Market 

 

Festival and Venues mixing have included 

 

Margarete Court Arena - VIC

Sugar Mountain - VIC

Rainbow Serpent Festival - VIC

St Kilda Festival - VIC

Federation Square - VIC

Thebarton Theatre - SA

The Pleasure Garden - VIC 

The HiFi Bar -VIC

Howler - VIC

 

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