SCIENCE OF SLEEPING COLLABORATION
Music written by Tom Allum and Matthew Tondut with field recordings captured in Maleny, QLD.
Released on streaming platforms via Valley View Records.
“It sounds little bunyips waddling around in the forest at twilight”
This was the feedback I received when the initial demo was shared. Matt Tondut and Tom Allum first met during the artist collaboration, artsiX, in 2023. Shortly afterwards Matt moved to Sweden, Tom to Denmark WA and a writing partnership was formed. Tom: "Looking out the window at Karri Gums and hearing those haunting calls, Karak was the first song I wrote in my home studio beside the forest".
3mins 59secs sample-based composition in stereo. Source samples and artwork by Luke Aleksandrow. Composition, mixing and mastering by Tom Allum
This song was created in response to The Break Collection: Sounds of the Tropics by Luke Aleksandrow.
“The relationship of sound and time is central to this work. Sound recordings originate in the past but experienced in the present; they can be captured and manipulated, yet remain perpetually present as played and heard. The tactile medium of magnetic tape was used to loop, time-stretch and degrade material within the piece. The moment of “the break” was expanded and a creative space formed within it. “
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11mins 15secs ambient soundscape in stereo
Composed and recorded on-site using microphones and drum machines. Video and sound were edited, mixed and mastered by Tom Allum.
Waychinicup is a small bay located just east of Kinjarling/Albany, Western Australia. Tom: "The water rushes in from the southern ocean and turns its head at the granite rocks where I sit and listen. I hear water gurgling beneath me and imitate the repeating calls of small birds using sounds I’ve prepared on my sampler. I do one take and then re-pack the dry-bags, paddling back to camp where the kids play and prepare my 37th birthday cake. At this place, I feel that earth can actually hold us if we the take time to observe and melt into the beauty."
HORIZONS
Released May 29th, 2026
This album is the audio component of the HORIZONS exhibition where artists respond to Waychinicup, a landscape of coastal heath and waterways that hold a powerful energy. Plants grow on the park’s granite slopes that exist nowhere else on the planet, while abundant vegetation supports extraordinary birdlife, including several threatened species.
Recorded, Produced and Mixed on Menang Noongar Boodjar.
Field recordings by Jean-Michel Maujean and Tom Allum
Improvised piano performed and recorded by Jean-Michel Maujean. This album was arranged, mixed and mastered by Tom Allum.
Ambient album, released August 24th, 2022
Field recording & composition by Tom Allum. Guitar by Matt Slocomb. Imagery by Spatial Co & Peter Hill. Recorded on Wardandi Boodja.
This project documents, maps and replays soundscapes of Canal Rocks near Margaret River.The project was initiated in with 'Out of the Sea', an exhibition where isolated artists across Australia collaborated using a 3D point cloud scan of the site. Tom’s sound documents, maps and replays memories for those unable to physically experience it. Out in the wind, tangled in audio cables and bashed against rocks, the works attempted to capture the disparate emotion of the site - from swirling sheltered rock pools to the turmoil of the canal itself.