Who is Kazumichi Grime?
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Kazumichi Grime (Tobias Kazumichi Grime) is a sound / visual artist residing in Sydney, Australia exploring the fields of electronic sound and its performance, art direction for TVC and for film, and interactive screen based projects.

Grime has been recording and releasing experimental sound projects in various formats since 1994. He performs and records as a solo artist and has also collaborated on projects with artists in Australia and internationally on various sound projects.

Kazumichi Grime holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from College of Fine Arts, UNSW majoring in photo-media and sound and a MDes (Masters in Design, Digital Media) from University of Western Sydney. Grime works commercially as an Art Director in film and TVC at Animal Logic in Sydney's FoxStudios. He has also worked extensively in the fields of web design, advertising and publishing prior to Animal Logic and is also a casual lecturer and final year/Honors assessor at universities.

Email me for further CVs detailing commercial work or artistic practice.



Discography / etc
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Audio recordings:

Solo
Kazumichi Grime: Source Guerra 2230' (Pneuma rec) [cd 500]
Kazumichi Grime: Static Museum 1 + 2 [cdr]
Kazumichi Grime: MU. mp3 EP (Conv Label, Spain) [net]
Kazumichi Grime: Selected. mp3 EP (Earlabs, Netherlands) [net]

Collaborations
Layeral Intersect 5: Kim Casone (w/ Taylor Dupree, Brian Lavelle) [cdr] 2002

Compilation apperances
Sydney Film Festival comp [cd] 2005
Dub comp : Clan Analogue records [cd] 2005
LockedGroove: Clan Analogue records [vinyl] 2001
Depactacon: comp (USA) [cdr] 2003
White Rose comp (USA) [cdr] 2004
Zonar records Sampler [cd] 2002
FreakyLoops 1: Frgid / 2SER records [cd] 1997
FreakyLoops 2: Frgid / 2SER records [cd] 1999
Zonar: Dislocations double cd comp [cd] 1997
PBXO ep / remix: Clan Analogue records [cd] 2002
Habitat: Clan Analogue records [cd] 2002
Defocus: Clan Analogue records [cd] 2003
Cognition3: Clan Analogue records [cd] / Ex Producer of project 2000
Cognition1: Clan Analogue records [cd] 1998
AphelionOne: Clan Analogue records [cd] 1997
Cog: Clan Analogue records [cd] 1995
EP1: Clan Analogue records [vinyl] 1995
Schizmatrix: Clan Analogue records [tape] 1995
TechNOH: Brian Lavelle project [net] 2002
Moodstats: k10k application on Codex cdrom/ sound track [CDrom] 2002

Sound design
For dir. Shaun Gladwell video artist:
- Storm Sequence (2001)
- Godspeed Verticals (2004)
- untitled (2004)
- In a Station of the Metro (2007)

For dir. Sean O'Brien, documentary + short film maker:
- Sunrise at Midnight (16mm b+w, 2000)
- Two Thirds Sky (documentary 2002 / AFI sound finalist)
- w.i.p: Spirit Cloud

Interactive cdRom Mixer 1
- Interactive experimental soundmixer: Sound Interactive 2000
- Featured in ':output 03' German Design Council Annual
- Featured in Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) collection
- Presented in dLux Media Arts Festival 2000, Sydney
- Featured at Fromage Media Festival 2000, Sydney
- Variation of project appears on IDN FreshConference cdRom 2001
- Finalist Biftek WINK awards 2002, Melbourne

Interactive cdRom Mixer 2
- A collaborative project with Steven Greewood: Pitch Poker
- Featured in WaveForm 2001 conference cdRom

Commercial design: (at Animal Logic)
- 'Matrix Reloaded' - Warner Bros - Assistant Art Director
- 'Stealth' - Columbia/Sony - Art Director screen graphics / vfx.
- Numerous broadcast and TVC directing/design projects.

Misc:2005 ATV Best title sequence, Sound piece featured in Variable Resistance show at San Fransisco MOMA 2002, sound design in documentary '2/3rds Sky' - which has been nominated for an Australian Film Institute award for best sound[documentary] 2002, Winner, Designer of the Year-1998- National MPA awards, Post-Grad student of the year, 2000 Design at UWS, Featured design work in IDN 1999 design annual, 1999-Finalist - 'Interface Designer of the Year' - Australian Multimedia & Interactive Awards, 1998-Runner up in the 'Nocturnal Design Awards' IDN/MultiMedia People...


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Contact Kazumichi Grime...
mobile: 0412 030 177
email: toby@kazumichi.com
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