GARRY SHEPHERD - Links

Home Page: http://mso1.cultureforum.net/t1298-garry-shepherd
Shuffle Studio: http://mso1.cultureforum.net/f67-garry-shepherd
Melbourne and personal history: http://melbourneshuffleoldskool.blogspot.com/2009/07/clogging-source-of-melbourne-shuffle.html
MSO Blog: www.melbourneshuffleoldskool.com
Global Shuffle: www.globalshuffle.com
email: gs@globalshuffle.com

GARRY SHEPHERD - Music

Free GLOBAL SHUFFLE MP3 soundtrack downloads
Wildlife. 1977 40 mins. By Garry Shepherd
Flatline 2005 5 mins. By Garry Shepherd
Z3Q1. 2009. 4 mins. By Garry Shepherd


GARRY SHEPHERD - Biography


Shepherd started his career summer of 1965 at age 10, as a DJ for weekly summer beach parties called MotherGoose at the Mordialloc (surf) Life Saving club (Melbourne). He quickly moved onto professionally playing keyboards (Synthesiser, Piano) in his teens. By the time he was 19 (1974) he had recorded an album (LP), toured Australia and played the Myer Music Bowl.

From Sami and Scot/Irish decent, Melbourne born Shepherd's passion for dance began while composing and playing live music for art dance performances in Melbourne's underground dance scene 1973-74. The passion continues to this day.

Music work 40 mins : 1977 Wildlife. By Garry Shepherd

During the 1980's - 1990's Shepherd's artwork focused on new technologies including computer art/music, video art, TV broadcast art and robotics. Shepherd produced 65 episodes of underground culture TV (30 mins) show TOE - Theory Of Everything which were broadcast nationally (Australia) 1994-98. TOE gave away free PET brain scans as competition prizes, conducted for nuclear medicine research by the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. Short term Radio active particles made using their inhouse cyclotron were injected into your arm and the gamma ray decay was filmed as it flowed through your brain. There was a good response from his veiwers with many volunteering for ongoing research. Shepherd had the first scan and broadcast it. A 3D model of his brain is now stored in their database.


Shepherd is one of the founding artists of the Melbourne CBD artist community who lived in their studio's in old office buildings in the early 1990's. The community triggered a multi billion dollar apartment property boom that lasted 20 years and completely transformed the face of Melbourne as a city


Shepherd worked as video artist at Dancehouse from it’s 1990’s beginings specialising in difficult lighting conditions and sites for art dance productions. Shepherd also developed interactive video installations and multi screen arrays as part of his work collaborating with artists such as Rainer Linz (seen in Global Shuffle) and Stelarc, for a number of years.

Shepherd was artist-in-residence at RMIT /iii developing interactive immersive environments, both vision and sound for art and architectural works, in the early 2000’s.

Much of 2005 – 2010 has been spent restoring and editing the Global Shuffle footage and publishing his blog www.MelbourneShuffleOldskool.com

My AMIGA 500 - fully pumped to 1 Meg hehe. Excellent graphics computer





This is how we used to load programs with the 'floppy disc'

This is my Commerce House edit suite 1995.

The long timber bench in the photo, came from McDonalds around the corner when they remodelled. It's the same Elizabeth St McDonalds that features in GS1.


Commerce House Editing Studio 1995

Here's some more of BCO 1993. That's BC- Cam from NAM getting his head checked out for cuts. BC did a live set during the show.



Here's BC and NAM the following year 1994 at the Espy Hotel (StKilda) Melbourne

A couple of screen stills from the TVU live broadcasts 1992. I was using the shuffle trails to 'paint' the screen





Here's the video. The TVU Station ID, broadcast once an hour for a year 1992.


NEURENERGEN by Garry Shepherd '92

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