LUKE JAANISTE has been creating, researching and presenting immersive, ambient and atmospheric experiences for the last two decades.He studied post-classical music composition at the Qld Conservatorium in the late 1990s, during which time he was also developing his installation and performance art practice. He then completed a PhD at QUT in the early 2000s on the topic of "ambient modes of being in our surroundings" within visual and sonic arts and spatial phenomenology.Since that time he has worked both individually and in collaborations on a wide range of projects that focus on the experience of palpably-being-present in full-bodied-vastness, which has become the primary medium of his art practice and life-long exploration.Luke composes and performs live music as piano soloist, and as electronica producer under the moniker of HHAARRPP.He has been involved in various long-term multi-disciplinary artistic collaborations, including THEATRE OF THUNDER (sonically-infused Butoh performance group, 2014-currently), BLACK RAINBOW (ambient doom long-form improvising trio, 2019-currently), SUPER CRITICAL MASS (participatory site-specific sound project, 2007-2017), and the SONIC BODY COLLECTIVE (creative research in sonic-drone whole-body focusing process, 2013-2015).His work has been featured in festivals, galleries, exhibitions and on radio, across Australia, and in the US and UK, including FuturEverything (Manchester), APT8 GOMA (Brisbane), Grand Central Arts Centre and OCMA (Los Angeles), CUSP (Australian Design Centre), Make Music New York, Now or Never (Melbourne), Sonic Social (The Performance Space and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney), Cementa (Kandos), and Festival of Landscape Architecture MPavilion (Melbourne).He was selected to represent Australia at the 12th Prix Muralic Radio Festival in Croatia and the Paris 2006 International Rostrum of Composers. In 2019 he won the Global Rising Star category of the International Information is Beautiful Awards.

MESMERISM STUDIO operates as an artist-directed research, development and production team, working in collaboration with key event and venue partners, to realise the ambitious scope of our artwork.Our team includes:LEAD ARTIST AND PROJECT DIRECTOR. LUKE JAANISTE. Within Mesmerism Studio, Luke leads on all aspects of conceptual design, testing, assembly and installation, including: the atmospherics (fog, bubbles, air streams, lighting); the mechanics (wiring, tubing, sculptural arrangements, physical housings); the sonics (using his unique approach to spatialised multi-speaker arrays, and composing the music-scapes in situ); the semantics (the words and texts sign-posting and promoting the work); and the site-specifics (how the work is sited, pedestrian flows, and its relation to site-based production infrastructure).PROJECT ASSISTANT. ELLA ROSE GONINAN. Ella is a festival director, experience designer, event coordinator and community organiser, who founded Renew Fest and the Vigil For Grief in Northern Rivers NSW, and is a trained contemporary dancer and sword artist. Ella assists on all the behind-the-scenes project management as well experiential design.TECHNICAL ASSISTANT. BLAKE HOWSON. Blake is a technical production and site manager, with expertise in audio, lighting, staging and outdoor site-specific work, engaged by Brisbane Festival, Sydney Festival and a range of independent arts organisations. Blake assists with all site-based production elements as well as the mechanics of the artwork.FILM MAKER. COBIE ORGER. Cobie is a film maker who works with artists and institutions within dance, music, theatre and visual arts, to capture and bring to life video imagery. She is also an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance, sound, video and and installation. Cobie films the multiple experiential, ephemeral and event-based aspects of the work.