Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
What is a Natural Wonder Beauty Concept?
I had the pleasuse of sitting down digitally with Ana Roxanne & Brian Piñeyro for the 28th edition of Zweikommasieben.
Thier collaborative project and band is one of the best partnerships of recent years and their eponymous album was one of my favourites from 2023.
A delightfully chill, intrepid excusion that ruminates on music, food and the classic debate of New York City VS. Los Angeles.
(photography by Kasia Zacharko and interview by Conor McTernan)
Art Of Production: Carmen Villain
Conor McTernan travels to Oslo to meet Smalltown Supersound affiliate Carmen Villain, to go deep on her fifth album ‘Only Love From Now On’ and moving from alt-folk to experimental electronic music.
“Carmen Hillestad, the artist better known as Carmen Villain, thrives in uncertainty. In a musical world where the only constant is change, the Norwegian-Mexican artist takes a chameleonic approach to both composing and arranging a broad spectrum of leftfield music. After turning her back on a career as a model, she pivoted towards life as a singer-songwriter, making dream pop and guitar-driven indie-rock in the early 2010s before taking another hard left turn, edging further into the world of downtempo experimental electronics...”
AVA FESTIVAL – BELFAST 2023
My third orbit around Earth’s sun with AVA Festival Belfast, the biggest and most-diverse edition the festival has seen. Devising a festival campaign to coincide with a huge headliners in UK rapper Central Cee and Korean DJ Peggy Gou.
This campaign was a roller-coaster, we announced new stages, media, radio and telecoms partners - Resident Advisor, BBC, Boiler Room, EarthPercent, War Child, 02 Mobile, Spotify+, clothing collaborations with Never Never and Robyn Lynch, as we as a larger than ever before daytime conference event in partnership with Output Belfast.
For this campaign we put an emphasis on the experience as a whole. I led the internal marketing and design teams, all media partnerships and programming talks for the the AVA x Output conference. This involved brand idendity, launch strategy and full campaign execution. AVA 2023 was the most stunning edition the festival has ever seen.
This campaign was a roller-coaster, we announced new stages, media, radio and telecoms partners - Resident Advisor, BBC, Boiler Room, EarthPercent, War Child, 02 Mobile, Spotify+, clothing collaborations with Never Never and Robyn Lynch, as we as a larger than ever before daytime conference event in partnership with Output Belfast.
For this campaign we put an emphasis on the experience as a whole. I led the internal marketing and design teams, all media partnerships and programming talks for the the AVA x Output conference. This involved brand idendity, launch strategy and full campaign execution. AVA 2023 was the most stunning edition the festival has ever seen.
AVA LONDON 2023 – CONFERENCE CURATION
My second edition of AVA London co-incided with the final season at Printworks, London’s largest and most iconic club venue. AVA returned for a grand finale conference and club showcase as part of a colossal campaign. I led on conference programming, brand and media partnerships for the large-scale industry event attended by over 7,000 people.
The format was a day into night Conference followed by a club event under one roof at Printworks. In partnership with the Broadwick Live team I guided the team for an event which cemented AVA as the leading conference brand in London – putting us on a level with IMS, ADE, SXSW, Mutek & beyond.
Focussing on four key themes - Innovation, Diversity, Sustainablity & Post Pandemic we brough an excellent mix of speakers & partners into the fold discussing hot topics and emerging technologies such as AI, XR – featuring designer David Rudnick (photographed), Funktion-One audio founder and spiritual leader Tony Andrews, Sherelle & NIKs, Hot Chip, Courtesy alongside speakers from Spotify, Warchild, EarthPercent Resident Advisor and many more...
The format was a day into night Conference followed by a club event under one roof at Printworks. In partnership with the Broadwick Live team I guided the team for an event which cemented AVA as the leading conference brand in London – putting us on a level with IMS, ADE, SXSW, Mutek & beyond.
Focussing on four key themes - Innovation, Diversity, Sustainablity & Post Pandemic we brough an excellent mix of speakers & partners into the fold discussing hot topics and emerging technologies such as AI, XR – featuring designer David Rudnick (photographed), Funktion-One audio founder and spiritual leader Tony Andrews, Sherelle & NIKs, Hot Chip, Courtesy alongside speakers from Spotify, Warchild, EarthPercent Resident Advisor and many more...