Sonar Music<\/a> Co-founder is as excited and unprepared as anyone to see the midnight display.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve seen visualisations of the lighting design on its own, and then I\u2019ve seen visualisations of the projections on their own. I\u2019ve seen very basic visualisations of certain moments of the fireworks.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I absolutely have not seen anything where all those different faculties are combined into the one show,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA little QuickTime window on my laptop is not going to do the nine tons of pyrotechnics on the Harbour Bridge justice.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ma himself will be ringing in the New Year at the Opera House forecourt with his brother and niece, as well as the other creatives who worked on the display.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were down there last night for the AV brightness test, and I think that\u2019s when it all really sank in. They were testing the projections on the pylons, and there\u2019s my name in big, bold letters on the Harbour Bridge. It feels surreal, to be honest, but [I\u2019m] really proud and really pumped.\u201d <\/p>\n
The track inspired the fireworks organisers to do two Harbour Bridge waterfalls for the first time, also bridging the musical genres by moving from electric dance into soul and finishing on a heavy, almost drum and bass dubstep note.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was working on the first drafts, I kind of just thought \u2018I\u2019m just going to do my thing, I\u2019m just going to go for it\u2019 and that [ending] is really that. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought [it] was going to get paired back. I thought they were going to be like, \u2018all right, Jono, relax, chill out, let\u2019s keep it family friendly,\u2019 but they didn\u2019t. \u2029<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone loved it, especially the other creatives, because it\u2019s still energy. It\u2019s all momentum and energy, and I think the other creatives really love the fact that they could then express themselves in this sort of cathartic release at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a big New Year\u2019s all around with Ma\u2019s latest project doing the music for the new TV series \u2018Run\u2019 launching on New Year\u2019s Day as well.<\/p>\n
Ma started working on the New Year\u2019s track at the beginning of the year and submitted an early version with structure and tempo about midway through in order for the visual and fireworks teams to start building the display around it.<\/p>\n
Ma recently returned to his native city of Sydney after an extended period of time living and working abroad, where he had the opportunity to work with some of the biggest names in music.<\/p>\n
\u201cKieran (Four Tet) and Sam (Floating Points) are really good friends of mine. I played the Sydney Myer Music Bowl with them, doing a live ambient set.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then Underworld, I was [at their show] last night. I know Karl Hyde from Underworld quite well because when I moved to the UK and Jagwar Ma was getting played on BBC 6, he heard. So he messaged me out of the blue. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo I get a message from the Underworld Instagram account, and he\u2019s like, \u2018hey, it\u2019s Karl here, I heard your music on BBC 6, and I had to pull over because it just sounded so familiar to me, and I felt I needed to know the person behind this. Would you like to come up to our studio in Essex and work on some music together?\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cSo I was like, hell yeah. Karl picked me up, we met at Liverpool Station, and we caught a train up to his place in Essex and worked on a couple of tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ma said it was a \u201chuge honour, life dream and serendipitous\u201d to be able to work on the New Year\u2019s track, he is currently working on producing The Avalanches next record.<\/p>\n
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