Artists

Star Stories Project is a collaborative music project led by Gai Byrant.

The project includes the talents of trumpeter/composer Lee McIver, saxophonist/composer Gai Bryant, pianist and vibes Ed Goyer, Australian Uruguayan drummer Juan Mulet and bassist David Quinn in collaboration with First Nations poet and National Poetry Slam winner Rob Waters from NSW Central Coast and songwriter/producer Nate Weatherall founder of Mad Proppa Deadly in Armidale. Lastly, we have the wonderful skills of sound designer Sam Kreusler from Melbourne.

Lee, Gai, Dave, Juan and Ed have worked together in original Latin Jazz groups ALLY, Caribe and Palacio de la Rumba. They have toured extensively through regional NSW. Nate Weatherall is a First Nations artist, music producer and youth worker with extensive experience facilitating hip hop, music production and song writing workshops for youth. Rob Waters is a First Nations poet, storyteller, cultural educator and spoken word artist and has been performing and sharing Story for over 20 years.

In Residence at Bundanon

Our aim is to create and workshop original music that is inspired by traditional First Nations constellation stories: Emu in the Sky, Seven Sisters and Canoe in collaboration with First Nations artists Rob Waters and Nate Weatherall. The instrumental pallette is informed by the night sky and outer space as a physical form and a concept, the stories of constellations from a different cultural perspective, interfacing with space through science, industry and innovation and lastly our human understanding of space which is a shared construct of knowledge and fictional media. This project uses Gomeroi and Wiradjuri languages alongside English.