Bound Exhibition EXCLUSIVE : MAKE / PLAY / LIGHT : Chiptune. Glass. Code.

A live chiptune music night powered by code, colour and play. Inspired by the glowing palettes and looping rhythms of early 90s games that influence Afterglow, this event brings together sound and light in one immersive evening.

Featuring Nicky System, experience how simple game code becomes music through beeps, loops and logic, alongside an artist in conversation with Spencer Harrison and Nick Doran Adams unpacking the ideas and making behind the work.

With live performances, insights and a bar open throughout, Make / Play / Light is a night where sound, light and nostalgia collide.

7:00 – Doors / Bar Open - Ambient chiptune set + exhibition late night open

7:30 – Artist Insight - Spencer & Nick in conversation (process, materials, influence)

8:00 – Live Chiptune Performances - Nicky Systems

8:30 – Code + Sound Talk “How to make audio with game code”

9:00 – Live Chiptune Performances - Multiple artists / rotating sets

10:00 – Close

Nicholas Doran Adams is a glass artist based in Narrm/Melbourne, specializing in hot glasswork. His practice draws inspiration from video gaming, pop culture, and nostalgia, reimagined through glassmaking. Adams also teaches glass techniques at Ruth Allen’s North Coburg studio. @nick.doran.adams.glass

Spencer Harrison is an Australian visual artist exploring geometric abstraction through design, architecture and contemporary culture. His work examines tensions between opposites—soft and hard, natural and artificial—through colour and form. Working across multiple disciplines, he has exhibited widely and created public commissions for major institutions across Australia and internationally. spencerharrison.art

Nicky Syst3m is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of foundational computing, music, and creative practice. Their work explores the artifacts left behind as digital and organic processes interact, drawing connections between 8-bit systems, microbiology, robotics, and sound. Through an experimental approach, they investigate how technological and organic systems shape and imprint upon one another. nickysystem.github.io

The Envelopers are Phil Coyle and Corey Hague, an electronic duo who since 2020 have been blending the sound of the natural world with digital audio. The result is an evolving wash of audio that is familiar and foreign. They’ve performed live across Ballarat, Melbourne, Castlemaine and Bendigo and have produced the soundtrack to the ‘Wailing to the Waves’ feature film. Individually, Corey is an experienced composer of film soundtracks and large scale projections for Vivid Sydney, Enlighten Canberra and La Moneda in Chile. Phil meanwhile has toured internationally and throughout Australia as a percussionist and releases electronic music as Loeverve. Together they aim to create immersion through sound - an audience should be Enveloped.