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7 September 2023

Museum on Wheels hits SWELL with Supertonic music sensation

Interactive display showcasing the best of modern Gold Coast and Northern Rivers music

Supertonic at Splendour

The Tweed Regional Museum's Supertonic exhibition will make its debut on the Gold Coast at this year's SWELL Sculpture Festival. BELOW: The Museum on Wheels featuring Supertonic.

MoW Supertonic

Visitors to this year’s SWELL Sculpture Festival are in for a musical treat with the Tweed Regional Museum’s exciting new exhibition Supertonic making its debut on the Gold Coast.

Supertonic – which celebrates the incredible contemporary music of the Northern Rivers and Gold Coast through recordings, sounds and stories of music creation through people such as Amy Shark, Amyl and the Sniffers, Budjerah, JK-47, Skeggs, The Jezabels, Sunnyboys, TORA and more – will be brought to SWELL through the Museum’s new pop-up Museum on Wheels (MoW).

Tweed Regional Museum Director Molly Green said SWELL was a perfect place for the MoW to showcase the exciting Supertonic experience.

“This is the first time we’ve brought Supertonic to the Gold Coast after it made its debut at Splendour in the Grass recently to much acclaim,” Ms Green said.

“The SWELL Sculpture Festival is a perfect fit for this exhibition. Like SWELL, Supertonic is all about celebrating creativity and contemporary culture by showcasing musical talent from the Gold Coast to Byron Bay through imagery and exciting augmented reality experience.

“You will be literally immersed in stories about local legends like Amy Shark, Amyl and The Sniffers, Budjerah, JK-47, Skeggs, The Jezabels and TORA. The beauty of our MoW is we can share our exhibitions with new audiences and we can’t wait to share this experience with the Gold Coast at SWELL.”

While based at SWELL, the MoW will feature images of local musicians which can trigger augmented reality (AR) through participants’ own devices, transporting them into the artists’ worlds.

Festival-goers will also be able to test their rhythm at the exhibition’s epic drum station and look the part with a Supertonic temporary tattoo. On Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 am – 3 pm, participants are invited to get creative and design an original, expressive album cover artwork, either for their favourite band or musician in the Supertonic exhibition or for their own band name.

Now in its 21st year, SWELL Sculpture Festival is Queensland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition and runs from 8 – 17 September at Currumbin Beach on the southern Gold Coast. The festival offers a unique sculptural experience as well as guided twilight walks, comedy, masterclasses, artist talks and workshops.

Supertonic at SWELL Sculpture Festival
Exhibition open:         Daily, 8 – 17 September 2023
Weekend activity:     Saturdays and Sundays, 9 am – 3 pm
Location:                    SWELL Fringe, Wallace Nicoll Park, Pacific Parade, Currumbin
More info:                   museum.tweed.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/mow.

More about Supertonic
The extended version of the Supertonic exhibition is on display at the Tweed Regional Museum until Saturday 23 March 2024.

Chill out in the Museum’s 70’s-inspired Lounge Room, where you can spin vinyl on the record player and experience more recordings, scores, instruments, sounds and stories of people creating music.

Listen to Supertonic Selects top 100 playlist and vote on who has the hottest track.

Supertonic features musicians including Amy Shark / Amyl and the Sniffers / Ash Grunwald / Babe Rainbow / Budjerah / Grinspoon / Iggy Azalea / The Jezabels / JK-47 / Kate Miller-Heidke / Matt Corby / Ngaiire / Ocean Alley / Parkway Drive / Pete Murray / Skegss / Stan Walker / Sunnyboys / Tora / Troy Cassar-Daley and Wolfmother.

For more information visit Tweed Regional Museum.

rumming Supertonic

Perform your own drum solo at the MoW’s drum station as part of the Supertonic exhibition.


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Photo 1: Supertonic at Splendour
The Tweed Regional Museum's Supertonic exhibition will make its debut on the Gold Coast at this year's SWELL Sculpture Festival. BELOW: The Museum on Wheels featuring Supertonic.

Photo 2: MoW Supertonic
The Museum on Wheels featuring Supertonic.

Photo 3: Drumming Supertonic
Perform your own drum solo at the MoW’s drum station as part of the Supertonic exhibition.


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