We are a small professional studio set in the Tranquil Bush land setting of the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland.
The studio is run by professional musician Joe Vizzone. Joe is Conservatory trained and passionate about all genres of music, giving your album the attention it deserves.
The Sound Sculptors Studio has a valuable resource of talented local session musicians available, should you be wanting to hire competent readers and players to assist with your recording.
The studio is located near beautiful Lake Tinaroo, host to a range of accommodation from resort style catered accommodation, to self-contained cabins on the lake. We are also a hop skip and jump from Cairns International Airport, making this a convenient opportunity for anyone wanting to get away from the hustle bustle and create in a beautiful space with room to breathe.
Please feel free to contact us for a chat.

Curriculum vitae Joe Vizzone

QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING:

 Associate Diploma in Jazz Studies, N.S.W. State Conservatorium of Music
Various Semester/Master classes with overseas and national music tutors such as Ed Soph, Adam Nisbarm, Mel Lewis, Butch Miles, Paul Baker and  Russel Garcia
Eight years private tuition with drum tutors such as Jack Savage, Allan Turnbull, Phil Tralore, David Jones and John Collins
Other Training: Sound and Lighting engineering and design, computer skills including technical ability, IT and networking, photography, painting,  clowning and mask. Workshops in communication, meditation, stress relief, yoga, color therapy and martial arts disciplines.
Australian Art Orchestra Creative Music Incentive. October 2014

.ARTS EXPERIENCE:

Years of experience in all aspects of music including: Performance (professional) School Orchestra, Marching Bands Jazz, Latin, Rock, Funk, Blues, Country, Reggae, African, Greek, Russian,     Italian, and various other folk music, as well as musical theatre, dance theatre, deaf theatre, children’s theatre, experimental theatre and comedy theatre

Musical Direction
Studio session musician in most major and minor recording studios throughout Sydney and Cairns
Performer at major art festivals in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Cairns

Television and radio performance and talk back interview

 

Television and radio ‘jingle’ composition

Composing (original scores and arrangements) for documentaries, dance troupes and diverse theatre groups
Arts critic for ‘Performing Arts News’, Sydney
Commercial recording/production for numerous clients
Sound and lighting engineer for various minor bands in N.S.W., Victoria and Queensland
Conducted workshops in music performance and therapy, instrument making, developing performance programs for mainstream and Special  education children and adolescents with multiple disabilities and adolescents from disadvantaged socio economic backgrounds as well as  various cultural groups throughout regional N.S.W., Sydney, Bloomfield, Hopevale, Cooktown, Cairns, Yarrabah, Babinda and Gordonvale at  Aboriginal Missions, private and public schools, community halls, Community Arts Centers and various other indoor/outdoor venues
Photography (including co-ordinating three of my own exhibitions), awarded first prize for best photo, nature division, Cairns Show

 LIVE PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING

The following are but a few of the notable musicians and bands that I have performed with live, and or recorded with.
The Australian Jazz Orchestra, The Conservatorium Big Band and various jazz ensembles under the direction of Don Burrows, George Goller, Roger Frampton, Paul MacNamar and John Nemie
Other performers include Ricky May, Bob Barnard, Antti Sarpila, Trudy Asperling, Lester Combs, Martin Lass, Normie rowe, Allan Caswell, Bobby Gebbit, Julie Amiet, Venetta Fields, Graham   Conners, David Hudson, Seaman Dan, Michael Knopf, Ruedi Homberger and Andrew Oh. Other bands include: Black Feather, Espirito, Hip Pocket, The Elizabeth Lord Band and Funjungle as well as a host of other national and local Cairns bands
Principal, ‘The Sound Sculptors’, a musician’s cooperative, that over the past fifteen years has helped musicians to work and improve performance skills.

AWARDS

*As part of the production team on the Seaman Dan Projects 2 Arias
*As part of the Zafron Road Project The ZAVOD CLASSICAL/JAZZ FUSION
COMPOSERS AWARD 2009.

ACCREDITED RECORDINGS:

Recording Title: Artist or Band:

Clayton & Dumari Bruce Muka ’89
Dancing In The Light Ian Ross Williams ’89
Wasting Away In Paradise Dennis Rose & Friends ’90
The Telling Of Australia Scott Dawson ’91
Caracas The Michael Knopf Quintet ’91
Walk Together Russell Harris’91
Destiny Mangrove Jack ’91
Hey Hey Hey Qld Rail Travel Train Max Boles ’92
Brothers & Sisters Robert Wason ’92
Freedom From My Past Martin Anton ’92
Eyes In The Back Of My Head Ian Ross Williams ’93
Follow Your Dreams Barbary Coasters ’93
Room To Move Dennis Rose ’93
Get Loved Hip Pocket ’93
Some Nerve Nerve ’94
Cairns compact Various Artists 4CCR The Sound Sculptors ’95
Didgeridoo Spirit David Hudson ’96
Devil Heart Pearse Colman ’96
Song June Graham ’96
The Things You Saw Ruedi Homberger ’96
Life Goes On Pearse Colman ‘97
Follow The Sun Seaman Dan ‘98
Joyride Ruedi Homberger ‘98
Blue Latin Wayne McIntosh ‘99
Meridian Meridian ‘2000
Club Paradiso Wayne McIntosh ‘2000
V-Zone The Drum Giuseppe Vizzone ‘2000
Follow The Sun Seaman Dan ‘2000
Michael Knopf & Acoustica Live at the Rondo Michael Knopf ‘2002
Steady Steady Seaman Dan ‘2002
Perfect Pearl Seaman Dan ‘2003
Callings for the Soul Giuseppe Vizzone ’2005
Island Way Seaman Dan ‘2006
Still Michael Knopf ‘2006
The Wonders of an Untidy Mind The Decomposers ‘2008
Songs of love for the Animals Lia Scallon ‘2009
Zafron Road Project Michael Knopf ‘2010
Coconut Kiss Beautiful Music, From Polynesia. Nikki Doll & Maurice Chapell. 2014.
The Dam Blues Band The Dam Blues Band ‘2014.
More CD’s to be listed

DOCUMENTARIES:

Cairns Tropical Australia – original score Film Makers Cairns/RSVP ’90
Where The Spirit Sings – original score Momentum Picture Company ’93
First place winner in the ’98 Cairns Film Awards, Music Video category. Title “Horse Spirit”.

In May 1996, I was approached by the Johnstone Shire Cultural Association in regard to taking on the Music and Movement Directors position with the view to creating a Multicultural Orchestra for the Innisfail Harvest Festival, I accepted. The festival was a great success. I was asked back in 1997 for the Splash festival, another success. Once again the Johnstone Shire Cultural Association asked me back as Musical Director for the Waterborne Festival in 1998 and for the 50th Festival in 1999. I was commissioned to create the opening event for the 1998 Mackay Youth Fringe Festival as well as holding various Music and instrument making workshops before and during the festival.

MEMBERSHIPS (past)

* Jazz Action Society
* Jazz Educators Association of N.S.W.
* Music Now (modern jazz lobby group N.S.W.)
* The Australian Professional Musicians Union
* Member of the Regional Arts Development Fund Community Advisory Committee Cairns
* Member Far North Cultural Industry Association ( FNCIA )

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

* Rose Music Hornsby, Sydney
* Yamaha Music Hornsby, Sydney
* Music Man, Pitt St, Sydney
* Lombardo Music Fivedock, Sydney
* Lombardo Music Rockdale, Sydney
* Rock Music Bankstown, Sydney
* Bankstown Boys High School, Sydney
*Rhythm Workshop Drum School, Sydney
*Saint Augustan’s Cairns
*Cairns West School
*Saint Mary’s Cairns
*Trinity Anglican Cairns
*Saint Monica’s Cairns
*Cairns High
*Cairns Central
* Numerous workshops N.S.W. rural areas
* Numerous workshops Sydney metro area
* Rudolph Steiner School, Dural, Sydney
* State Ed Dept.,at various schools throughout the Cairns region.
* Tutoring and workshops in creative development through music at Yarrabah, Gordonvale, Cairns High, Cairns Central Special Ed Unit, Woree Special Ed Unit, Smithfield Special Ed Unit, *Babinda School and Kuranda School, Lochart River State School Project, “Telling Stories”
* Similar workshops through P.C.A.P at Bloomfield, Hopevale and Cooktown
* Similar workshops through Cairns College of TAFE, ATY PROGR

* In 1994 I was commissioned by the Far North Queensland Institute of TAFE (Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), to contribute to the design and writing of curriculum for      the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts course being developed for TAFE Queensland at the Cairns College of Far North Queensland Institute of TAFE.

* I completed the design and writing of six learning modules, they were as follows:
* MODULE – ART560 MUSICAL COMPOSITION
* MODULE – ART562 MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT
* MODULE – ART682 MUSICAL IMPROVISATION
* MODULE – ART689 PERCUSSION
* MODULE – ART473 DRUMMING TECHNIQUES
* MODULE – ART690 DRUMMING IN ENSEMBLE
*Guest lecturer at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
*Principal of Drums and percussion at Uptown Music teaching Studios.
*Principal The Sound Sculptors Studio.

*Currently I am teaching privately and performing with various ensembles as well as recording.