Alon Ilsar: Trigger Happy 'Visualised' 2022

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Alon Ilsar is an Australian-based drummer, composer, instrument designer and researcher. He is the co-designer of a new gestural instrument for electronic percussionists, the AirSticks, and is currently researching the uses of the AirSticks at Monash University's SensiLab in the field of health and well-being, making music creation more accessible to the broader community.

Alon holds a PhD in instrument design from the University of Technology Sydney. He has played the AirSticks at Sydney's Vivid Festival, on Triple J's Like a Version and at NYC's MET Museum, with projects such as Trigger Happy 'Visualised', The Hour, The Sticks, Tuka (from Thundamentals), Sandy Evans' 'Ahimsa' and 'Rockpool,' Ellen Kirkwood's '[A]part', Kirin J Callinan, Kind of Silence (UK), Cephalon (US), and Silent Spring. He has played the drums in Belvoir Theatre's 'Keating! the Musical,' Sydney Theatre Company's 'Mojo,' Meow Meow with the London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Melbourne, Western Australia and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, Alan Cumming, Jake Shears, Stephanie Lake's 'Manifesto' and Eddie Perfect.