Artist:Omegachild

Omegachild is the solo project of Brisbane-based electronic producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Daniel Newstead. The Omegachild 'one-man machine' live show is a synesthetic music experience that sees audio-activated projections and lighting responding to Newstead as he simultaneously plays live synths and drums, whilst singing. In challenging the limits of human performance in such a way, Omegachild both explores and critiques the potential for technology to act as an extension of the human body. This boundary pushing approach earned Newstead The QUBE effect 'Best New Talent' award in 2016, and in 2019 the mesmerising video for his recent single Fifth Dimension (Directed by Manny Cole) was nominated as a finalist in Queensland Music Awards. In what begins as a stream-of-consciousness style that may borrow the instrumentation of heavy electronic music at the pace of industrial rock one day, the next will see Newstead’s muse tempting him into the introspection of ambient, ...