Toni Childs
Modern Trip-Hop – USA
“…evocative, evanescent music that allows you to immerse yourself and drift away.” – Rolling Stone, USA
“In a year of auspicious breakthroughs for women writer-performers, Childs was the standout.” – Time Magazine USA
Toni Childs is an Emmy Winner and three-time Grammy nominated recording artist, installation artist and environmental activist. With fans in 50 countries around the world. Toni is known for her list of international hits such as: Don’t Walk Away, Stop Your Fussin, House of Hope, Walk and Talk Like Angels, and Because You’re Beautiful to name a few.
It’s All a Beautiful Noise
Toni has a new album, and a unique 3D mapped concert experience called, It’s All a Beautiful Noise. This ground breaking artist learned how to keep a single concert experience going for five months using life size recycled paper animal installation and masks of pollinators all to inspire people to stop buying the chemical laden products contributing to Pollinator Collapse.
Underwater Concert for Whales and Dolphins
Toni wanted to do something truly epic and debut her new album with a special 360 underwater concert for whales and dolphins. Working in collaboration with Film Graphics produce a 360 installation for museums other venues to inspire people around the world to invest in restoring the Great Barrier Reef and other reef systems around the world.
The Music It’s All a Beautiful Noise is epic and futuristic with a sprinkling of dub step pulses and penetrating lyrics that transport you to a deeper destination that is vast and inspiring. Presently, Toni works out of a 125 year old paper mill outside of Melbourne where she fabricates an all white pop-up set of the natural world, and nine paper animals for installations that are part of her very unique 3d mapped concert experience.
For over 40 years, Filmgraphics has been respected in the industry as one of the most highly acclaimed production houses in the world. It’s become a brand synonymous with excellence, creativity and great production values. Filmgraphics have won nearly every award, including an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film called “Leisure”.
Founded by David “The Legend” Denneen, Filmgraphics continues to mentor a diverse pool of talented film makers who are dedicated to making a difference to every project that comes their way whether it is a TVC, content film, music clip, feature or short film. The production team is headed by Executive Producer, Anna Fawcett, who ensures that every project gets the backup of years of experience, and the full attention of the company.
Filmgraphics is a company with heart and soul who loves the craft of filmmaking and all that it entails.
BioQuest Studios is a media production company located on the doorstep to the Great Barrier Reef—Port Douglas, Australia.
BioQuest was founded by a team of highly skilled people with a unique blend of extensive production experience, high quality image standards, and in-depth scientific knowledge of subjects and phenomena.
“We use the most advanced technologies and explore the most challenging topics in the underwater filmmaking and photography. Our unique studio provides specialized cinematography in a controlled environment independent of weather and sea conditions. With precision motorization equipment we can approach the smallest objects end employ complex filming techniques nearly impossible to achieve in the field.” Says, Pete West.
The current trends in the media industry are exceptionally resolution and colour-depth hungry. Our in-depth knowledge of the digital media, biology, and optics guarantees out-of-this world images that can satisfy even the needs of the bleeding edge display technologies.
BioQuest Studios is proud to be mission partner of the Tara Pacific Expedition 2016-2018, providing underwater filming and image acquisition.
The expedition focuses on the biodiversity of coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean and their adaptation to man-made climate change. The interdisciplinary team of scientist is crossing the Pacific region from east to west, following an increasing gradient of biodiversity to the “Coral Triangle” zone, considered a “hot spot” of biodiversity. The schooner (Tara) is traversing 11 time zones of the world’s largest ocean, and visits the most remote islands and reefs.
The main objective of the research project is to understand the evolution of coral reefs in the context of climate and demographic changes farmbrazil.com.br.
Australian Museum
The installation called, ‘Reef‘ will be submitted for curation to the following museums around the world with the intention to strategically unify environmental efforts to restore the jeweled belt of reef systems that surrounds planet earth.
Australia
Sydney – The Australian Museum
USA
Alaska – Anchorage Museum
Los Angeles – Getty Museum, LACMA
Monterey Bay – Monterey Bay Aquarium
San Francisco – Exploratorium
New York – American Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC – Smithsonian
Florida – Epcot Center
Canada
Ontario – Canada Science and Technology Museum
Vancouver – Science World
France
Paris – Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
UK
London – Natural History Museum
Spain
Barcelona – Cosmocaixa
Madrid – Natural History of Natural Sciences
Installation Architecture
A museum installation that utilizes the following:
- A 360° screen that features Toni’s underwater concert, content fromBioQuest Studios, the Tara Expedition and other expeditions.
- Two stand alone LED Screen Cubes: one, feature a healthy reef; the second a bleached/dead reef.
- A contemporary interactive wall that features a map of world’s reefs and information about each reef system.
- Entertainment and Educational Content
Installation Content
The content for the underwater installation includes Toni Childs’ 360 Underwater Concert, and real time content from vetted NGOs around the planet: Tara Expedition, Greening Australia, and the ICUN Red List. In addition to content from award winning Australian underwater camera crew NUMA and Bio Quest Studios presently working with the Tara Expedition.
The online educational portal will be hosted by Citizens of the Planet.us which is part of Toni’s music driven traveling contemporary art experience. This installation would be the first step in fulfilling Toni’s dream to demonstrate to international NGOs that working together to with the intention to repair, restore and clean up some of our greatest environmental challenges is in fact possible.
Using Mapify and Google Maps technology – we will create a living and ever evolving interactive map of the world’s reef systems branded to a high-end contemporary design specification yet easy to use. The Citizens of the Planet Ocean’s Team will input the Tara Expedition, Greening Australia, and ICUN scientists latest findings regarding reef health and restoration opportunities on planet earth into the map. This will allow museum goers, educators and online communities the opportunity to learn in real time:
- The state of each reef.
- The scientists monitoring each reef system and where they can access their research.
- Research teams currently working on a particularly reef.
- NGOs working to restore reef systems.
- If a reef system needs restoration, what plans are currently on the table and what is needed.
- Restorative methods that are working.
- Methods that don’t work.
- Vetted NGO Repair initiatives and estimated amounts needed.
- What factors contribute to Coral Bleaching.
- Current solutions on the table to restore the reefs.
- What people can do immediately to reduce to cool the planet and support reef restoration.
- Lists of ways elementary through high schools can engage with scientists and adopt a reef system encouraging environmental activism at a young age.
