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The music was written in 1985 for Sydney's Nimrod Theatre production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The production stared a very young Hugo Weaving, who sang a song I wrote for his character (he has a nice tenor voice).
Much of the music was created using the Fairlight CMI sampler which was an Australian invention, with other sounds programmed on the then newly released Yamaha DX7 keyboard.
Both of these instruments are famous for introducing completely new ways of creating musical sounds which was great for achieving an orchestral dreamscape for the play.
Both instruments ventured well outside the normal ranges of conventional instruments, as well as allowing the creation of completely new sounds, which is where things became really interesting for me - especially when composing music for a dream.
It is likely that this record was one of the first independant records to be made using the Fairlight CMI. The Fairlight was hugely expensive at the time, however, as a past student who got to know those with access, I managed to work on the first generation Fairlight at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts and to another Fairlight at the Sydney Music Conservatorium through composer Martin Wesley Smith who ran the studio. Tertiary institutions were the only places, other than expensive recording studio's and very famous musicians, that could afford to own them.
Additional Fairlight programming was also done on Fairlight's own studio located in the Sydney suburb of Fairlight. A friend had a key to that place and we had access during the evenings.
The record, Skippy Knows by the group Whadya Want? of which I was part, was also made using the Fairlight, but on that record the newer, version 2 Fairlight was used.
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