Machine Translations

{{About|a musician|automated translation of language|Machine translation}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2013}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Machine Translations | image = Machine Translations March 2005.jpg | image_size = | landscape =  | alt = A band is performing on stage with three members visible. A man is at front left, he is singing into a microphone, which is held in his left hand. He has a guitar slung over his shoulder. The drummer sits behind a kit in the centre. A bearded man is at the right but is blurred. All three artists are partly obscured by audience members. There are stage lights behind and above the artists. Musical speakers are partly visible at right. | caption = Machine Translations, with J. Walker at front left, performing at the Cockatoo Island festival, March 2005 | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Greg James Walker | alias = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}} | birth_place = Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia | origin = | death_date =  | death_place = | genre = Rock, pop, alternative rock | occupation = Singer-songwriter, musician, producer, engineer | instrument = Guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals | years_active = 1985–present | label = Way Over There, Shock, Spunk! | website = {{URL|machinetranslations.com.au}} }} '''Machine Translations''' is the performing name of '''Greg James Walker''' (born 1967), an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; who is also a producer as '''J Walker'''. Walker started out recording all instruments himself in a home studio and later branched out to include a band.

Machine Translations' songs vary between simple guitar melodies and complex works with unusual instruments—a spectrum from pop to art. Since 1997 Walker has released several albums. In 2001 he toured the United States supporting Dirty Three. As a composer Walker has been nominated at the APRA Music Awards of 2005 for Best Music for a Documentary for ''Girl in a Mirror: A Portrait of Carol Jerrems''; in 2008 for Best Soundtrack Album for ''East of Everything''; and in 2012 for Best Music for a Television Series or Serial and Best Television Theme for ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries''.

==Biography== Greg James Walker, who works as J Walker or Machine Translations, was raised in Canberra.<ref name="APRA Abstract"/><ref name="Zuel"/><ref name="Macgregor"/> His mother, Valda, is a classically trained vocalist.<ref name="Rule"/> He has an older brother and sister, and together with his mother, they encouraged him to learn piano and guitar.<ref name="Coast"/> He attended Narrabundah Secondary College, where he learned synthesiser, multi-track recording and musical composition.<ref name="Coast"/> By 1985 Walker, on keyboards, was a member of local psychedelic band, Moon, with Paul Davies on bass guitar and lead vocals; Chris Freney on guitar; and Ralph Rehak on drums.<ref name="Whitfield"/> Kathryn Whitfield of ''Pulse'' caught their performance in May 1986: "their lighting effects are reminiscent of the sixties oil lights with a kaleidoscope of coloured lights floating across the stage".<ref name="Whitfield"/> In 2003 Walker recalled "[he] played in a succession of 'funny little Canberra bands'".<ref name="Munro"/>

By July 1995 Walker was working in a home studio in his garden shed.<ref name="Enfield"/> Under the name Shed Method he issued a cassette album, ''Machine Translations'', which included the track "Jezebel".<ref name="Enfield"/><ref name="APRA Jezebel"/> Nick Enfield of ''The Canberra Times'' described the album as "an eclectic mix of his unique array of original sounds".<ref name="Enfield"/> Walker had been recording for over ten years making his own demos and producing other local artists.<ref name="Enfield"/> His lo-fi (music) approach included using traditional instruments: drums, guitars and keyboards; together with less conventional ones: broken piano (its front removed and strings played directly), oud, and electric erhu.<ref name="Enfield"/> His influences were John Cale, Nico and Tom Waits while also "listening to a lot of belly-dancing music lately, as well as Chinese classical music, and Indian music".<ref name="Enfield"/> One of Walker's associates on the album was Kevin White.<ref name="Enfield"/>

Walker was also a member of P. Harness, which Enfield opined were "madcap ocker goons", with Geoff Hinchcliffe on guitar and lead vocals; and Mikel Simic on drums and lead vocals.<ref name="Enfield2"/> By August 1995 they released their second album, ''@ction''.<ref name="Enfield2"/> Simic described its underlying theme: "all the songs are specifically about eating, [or] they've got food references through them".<ref name="Enfield2"/> In October that year Walker and White supplied the music for a stage play, ''The Fortress'', at Studio One, Braddon.<ref name="Fortress"/> Walker completed his tertiary studies in Shanghai with a degree in Linguistics and Mandarin Chinese.<ref name="Macgregor"/><ref name="Munro"/> He also lived in India "absorbing musical influences".<ref name="Munro"/> Upon return to Australia Walker continued his musical career living near Wollongong.<ref name="Munro"/><ref name="Hennessy"/> His album, ''Abstract Poverty'', was released in 1997 on the Way Over There label.<ref name="Abstract Album"/> Hans Uhad of Stylus Magazine felt it showed a "juxtaposition of slow burning, moody, Codeine-like numbers with deft, mildly psychotic stabs at fusing traditional Celtic music with his own burnt version of Americana and flamenco".<ref name="Uhad"/> One of the tracks, "Jezebel", was a re-recorded version of his earlier work as Shed Method.<ref name="APRA Jezebel"/><ref name="Abstract Album"/> For touring Walker expanded the band with Guy Freer on accordion and keyboards; Marianthe Loucataris on drums; and Jonathan Nix on bass and samples.<ref name="Old Bio"/> Machine Translations' second album, ''Halo'', appeared in the following year on Way Over There and was distributed by Shock Records.<ref name="Halo"/> White provided clarinet for the album.<ref name="Halo"/>

His next album on Way Over There was ''Holiday in Spain'' which was released in 1999. Kelsey Munro of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' felt the album was a "criminally ignored underground classic".<ref name="Munro"/> ''Comes with a Smile''{{'}}s Matt Dornan noted there is "no disguising the homemade feel of both music and sparse packaging, but there's certainly a twisted core to this antipodean walkabout through sonic pastures new".<ref name="Dornan"/> Walker co-produced the album with Kimmo Vennon, he also used guest vocalists including Kirsty Stegwazi.<ref name="Dornan"/><ref name="Holiday in Spain"/> Walker had provided guitar on tracks for Stegwazi's solo album, ''Keep Still'' (1999). At times Machine Translations performed with White aboard under the name Thing of a Thousand Strings.<ref name="Moore"/>

In 2000 he worked on his next album, ''Bad Shapes'' (21 May 2001).<ref name="Munro"/> Walker was joined in the studio by Freer on saxophone and accordion; Loucataris on lead vocals, drums and percussion; Nix on double bass; White on clarinet, broken piano and percussion; and Gemma Clare on cello; Kazuaki Nakahara on banjo, electric and classical guitars; Elmo Reed on lead vocals and electric guitar; and Melissa Owl.<ref name="NLA Bad Shapes"/><ref name="AV Bad Shapes"/> It was issued on Spunk! Records and achieved critical acclaim and "got everyone paying attention".<ref name="Munro"/><ref name="NLA Bad Shapes"/> Walker described collaborating with Freer, Loucataris, and Nix: "We've known each other for at least 10 years ... I really enjoy working with them, and writing with them, because, doing what I do, I know my own tricks, but with the group there's far less chance of stagnation".<ref name="Parkes"/>

''Bad Shapes'' provided "Poor Circle", a "radio-friendly" single which was "[i]rresistibly fresh, bent and poppy" according to ''The Age''{{'}}s Jo Roberts.<ref name="Roberts"/> After the album appeared Walker moved to Melbourne.<ref name="Zuel"/> He toured the eastern states of Australia and then in late 2001 Machine Translations supported instrumental group, Dirty Three, on a ten‑day tour of the United States.<ref name="Munro"/><ref name="Parkes"/> Walker's group then toured Europe including a gig in Paris on a boat in the Seine.<ref name="Munro"/><ref name="Parkes"/>

In October 2002 the group released their next album, ''Happy'', which Munro felt was "an advance on its predecessors with elements of acoustic pop ... warped Middle Eastern flavours, weirdly joyful and layered melodies, and robotically beautiful, Stereolab-type vocal cut-ups and loops".<ref name="Munro"/> Neil Strauss described it in ''The New York Times'' as a "precious mix of light orchestration, inward-gazing songwriting and post-rock experimentation".<ref name="Strauss"/> It provided two singles, "Amnesia" and "She Wears a Mask". Tommo Eitelhuber felt the tracks had "enough unique charm to make them noticable [sic]".<ref name="Eitelhuber"/>

During the next year Walker co-produced, engineered and mixed an album, ''A Minor Revival'' (August 2003), for folk rock duo, Sodastream.<ref name="AMG Minor Revival"/> He also supplied electric and slide guitars, viola and keyboards.<ref name="AMG Minor Revival"/> Machine Translations released a seven-track extended play, ''Love on the Vine'' (late 2003).<ref name="NLA Love on the Vine"/> The title track had backing vocals by Clare Bowditch and Karen Tua, Tua also provided keyboards on another track.<ref name="AV Love on the Vine"/> The EP was followed by a studio album, ''Venus Traps Fly'', in May 2004.<ref name="AMO Venus"/> For Eitelhuber the album was "even more disappointing" than ''Happy'' with it being "pleasantly enjoyable in the short term, but repetitive and uninspiring in the long term".<ref name="Eitelhuber"/> However Bernard Zuel of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' noted that Walker's "language is elliptical, the emotions often very clear but their carriage wrapped up in lines that remain elusive" and that he "used more concrete images for the decidedly concrete emotions of his characters" for "another sublime pop album".<ref name="Zuel"/>

By February 2004 Walker had joined Clare Bowditch & the Feeding Set on erhu, electric guitar, rhodes synthesiser and viola. The group included Bowditch on vocals and guitar; and her domestic partner Marty Brown (of Sodastream and Art of Fighting) on multiple instruments and producing; they recorded an album, ''Autumn Bone''.<ref name="Triple J Autumn Bone"/><ref name="Mathieson"/> Walker also toured with the band,<ref name="Mathieson"/> and, as a member of the Feeding Set, he contributed to three extended plays and another album, ''What Was Left'' (October 2005).<ref name="Alessio"/>

In June 2004, to promote ''Venus Traps Fly'', Machine Translations toured with a line-up of Walker on vocals and guitar; Tua on keyboards and backing vocals; Iain Downie on bass guitar; and Kjirsten Robb on drums.<ref name="Dwyer"/> Michael Dwyer of ''The Age'' saw their gig at the Corner Hotel and was impressed by Walker's "considered approach to live dynamics, arrangements beautifully designed around his conversational vocal style" and he was "a pretty flash guitarist, his modal solos and big, chunky rhythm freak-outs bringing plenty of excitement".<ref name="Dwyer"/> Bowditch guested on lead vocals for a track, "Simple Life", with "a splash of high glamour in a too-brief cameo".<ref name="Dwyer"/>

In 2005 Walker composed the score for ABC TV documentary, ''Girl in a Mirror: A Portrait of Carol Jerrems'', on the life of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems.<ref name="ABCTV Girl"/> At the APRA Music Awards of 2005 Walker's work was nominated for Best Music for a Documentary.<ref name="SMAWin2005"/><ref name="SMANom2005"/> In October that year Machine Translations issued another EP, ''Wolf on a String'', with six tracks.<ref name="NLA Wolf"/> Zuel noted it had "an acoustic, low-profile feel" while mostly "the mood is languorous" however "there is menace in 'A Ghost Rides' and insistent percussion bringing on some disturbance in 'Extress'".<ref name="Zuel 2"/> By that time Walker and his domestic partner Tua were living in Jumbunna.<ref name="Rule"/>

On 8 June 2005 ABC Digital Radio broadcast a cover version of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" by Machine Translations with C. W. Stoneking as the first part of ''The DiG Australian Blues Project''.<ref name="DiG Project"/><ref name="DiG Stoneking"/> The program described their interpretation as "fantastically twisted" including a "brilliantly 'outside' guitar solo near the end".<ref name="DiG Stoneking"/> Walker recalled that at 16 or 17 he was "listening to a lot of old blues, more country style blues ... [it] really affected me, just the rawness of it and the sincerity of it".<ref name="DiG Stoneking"/> Walker produced Stoneking's albums ''King Hokum'' (2005) and ''Jungle Blues'' (October 2008).<ref name="King Hokum"/><ref name="NLA King"/><ref name="Jungle Blues Review"/> The latter provided Stoneking with an ARIA Award in 2009 for Best Roots and Blues Album and four other nominations.<ref name="ARIA2009"/>

Machine Translations' next album, ''Seven Seven'', appeared in October 2007. Zuel finds Walker is "as unfussy a musician as you could find" and provides a "feeling of great calm" where "[t]hings happen but they happen naturally".<ref name="Zuel 3"/> Dan Rule of ''The Age'' felt it was "stunningly organic" as Walker "weaves a shimmering layer of acoustic nuance and texture throughout".<ref name="Rule"/> Walker composed the score and Machine Translations contributed to the soundtrack for ABC-TV drama series ''East of Everything'' (March 2008 – September 2009).<ref name="NLA East 1"/><ref name="East Sounds"/> Walker's "A Most Peculiar Place" was used as the show's theme: it had originally appeared on Machine Translations' album, ''Happy''.<ref name="East Sounds"/> Walker has a cameo as a singer-songwriter in episode five where he performs "Don't Give Up on Me Just Yet".<ref name="East Sounds"/> At the APRA Music Awards of 2008 Walker was nominated for Best Soundtrack Album for ''East of Everything Series One Soundtrack Album''.<ref name="SMAWin2008"/><ref name="SMANom2008"/>

In 2009 Walker composed original music for ABC-TV's documentary series, ''Bombora – The History of Australian Surfing''.<ref name="SMAWin2012"/><ref name="BMfaSFNom2012"/> He contributed music for ''Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon'' (August 2010), a documentary film on Australian rock music journalist, Lillian Roxon.<ref name="Mother of Rock"/> The film was showcased at that year's Melbourne International Film Festival.<ref name="MIFF 2010"/> Premiering at that festival was a comedy-drama feature film, ''The Wedding Party'', with a soundtrack which included work by Walker and by Bowditch.<ref name="Hawker"/><ref name="Siemienowicz"/>

Graeme Blundell of ''The Australian'' previewed an ABC-TV documentary, ''Then the Wind Changed'' (February 2012), on the Black Saturday bushfires and noted that it is "a beautifully made film, crafted with compassion, alternating the sounds of destruction with the silence left behind, intercut with noise of rebuilding lives and structures and heightened with a compelling score from [Walker]".<ref name="Blundell"/> Walker also worked for ABC-TV on ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' (February 2012 – December 2013) composing the theme music and score.<ref name="BMfaSFNom2012"/> At the APRA Music Awards of 2012 the work was nominated for both Best Music for a Television Series or Serial and for Best Television Theme.<ref name="BMfaSFNom2012"/><ref name="BTTNom2012"/>

During July and August 2012 Walker co-produced ''Spring and Fall'' for Paul Kelly, which was recorded in a hall in Jumbunna.<ref name="M+N Spring Fall"/><ref name="Valentish"/> Walker was also used on upright bass guitar, dobro, violin and harmonica; as well as Paul's nephew Dan Kelly on acoustic guitar and harmony vocals.<ref name="M+N Spring Fall"/><ref name="Valentish"/> Walker had produced tracks on albums for Dan's earlier band the Alpha Males: ''The Tabloid Blues'' (March 2004) and ''Drowning in the Fountain of Youth'' (August 2006). During August 2013 and then December that year Walker joined Paul's backing band to tour in support of ''Spring and Fall''.<ref name="Weiley"/>

On 11 October 2013 Machine Translations issued the eighth studio album, ''The Bright Door''.<ref name="iTunes Bright"/> ''Beat Magazine''{{'}}s Chris Girdler sees Walker chronicling the "complications and anxieties of growing older" with life's "highs and lows" captured by "its gentle, harmonious songs harbouring a sense of discord and foreboding".<ref name="Girdler"/>

== Discography ==

===Albums=== ;Shed Method * ''Machine Translations'' (1995)

;Machine Translations * ''Abstract Poverty'' (1997) * ''Halo'' (1998) * ''Holiday in Spain'' (1999) * ''Bad Shapes'' (21 May 2001) Spunk! Records, Festival Mushroom Records <small>(URA044)</small> * ''Happy'' (October 2002) Spunk! Records * ''Venus Traps Fly'' (May 2004) Spunk! Records * ''Seven Seven'' (22 October 2007) Spunk! Records / EMI * ''The Bright Door'' (2013) * ''Oh'' (2017)

===Extended plays=== * ''Love on the Vine'' (late 2003) Spunk! Records * ''Wolf on a String'' (October 2005) Spunk! Records / Inertia Records

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<ref name="Dornan">{{cite news | url = http://cwas.hinah.com/review/?id=195 | title = Review: Machine Translations | ''Holiday in Spain'' (Way Over There) | last = Dornan | first = Matt | work = Comes with a Smile | publisher = Mark Venn | issue = 6 | date = Autumn 2000 | accessdate = 25 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Moore">{{cite news | url = http://www.translations.com.au/translations-articles/2000/4/20/canberra-band-at-home-in-gong/ | title = Canberra Band at Home in Gong | last = Moore | first = Chris | work = Illawarra Mercury | date = 20 April 2000 | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Holiday in Spain">{{Citation | author1 = Machine Translations | title = Holiday in Spain | publication-date = 1999 | publisher = Way Over There Recordings: BMG Music | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6484712 | accessdate = 25 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="NLA Bad Shapes">{{Citation | author1 = Machine Translations | title = Bad Shapes | publication-date = 2001 | publisher = Spunk! Records. National Library of Australia | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34091465 | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="AV Bad Shapes">{{cite AV media notes | title = Bad Shapes | others = Machine Translations | year = 2001 | type = album notes | publisher = Spunk! Records |id = ura 044 }}</ref>

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<ref name="Roberts">{{cite news | url = http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/22/1037697857966.html | title = Lost in the Translation | last = Roberts | first = Jo | work = The Age | date = 22 November 2002 | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

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<ref name="AMG Minor Revival">{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/minor-revival-mw0001094320/credits | title = ''Minor Revival'' – Sodastream | Credits | publisher = Allmusic | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="NLA Love on the Vine">{{Citation | author1 = Machine Translations | title = Love on the Vine | publication-date = 2003 | publisher = Spunk! Records. National Library of Australia | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17514195 | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="AV Love on the Vine">{{cite AV media notes | title = Love on the Vine | others = Machine Translations | year = 2003 | type = album notes | publisher = Spunk! Records |id = ura 108 }}</ref>

<ref name="AMO Venus">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080807230031/http://www.amo.org.au/release.asp?id=6518 | url = http://www.amo.org.au/release.asp?id=6518 | title = Releases :: ''Venus Traps Fly'' | publisher = Australian Music Online | archivedate = 7 August 2008 | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

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<ref name="Dwyer">{{cite news | url = http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/28/1088392587411.html | title = Machine Translations | last = Dwyer | first = Michael | work = The Age | date = 29 June 2004 | accessdate = 27 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="ABCTV Girl">{{cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/arts/sundayafternoon/programs/s1490764.htm | title = Documentaries & Specials: ''Girl in a Mirror: A Portrait of Carol Jerrems'' | work = Sunday Afternoon | publisher = ABC TV (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) | year = 2005 | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

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<ref name="SMANom2005">{{cite web | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/History/2005Nominations.aspx | title = 2005 Nominations – Screen Music Awards | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="NLA Wolf">{{Citation | author1 = Machine Translations | title = Wolf on a String | publication-date = 2005 | publisher = Spunk! Records. National Library of Australia | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19363431 | accessdate = 26 December 2013 }}</ref>

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<ref name="DiG Project">{{cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/dig/blues/australian/ | title = ''The DiG Australian Blues Project'' – The Songs | publisher = ABC Digital Radio (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) | accessdate = 27 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="DiG Stoneking">{{cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/dig/blues/australian/ | title = Machine Translations & CW Stoneking Twist The Blues | work = The DiG Australian Blues Project | publisher = ABC Digital Radio (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) | date = 8 June 2005 | accessdate = 27 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="King Hokum">{{cite web | url = http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/artist/live-music-1414/c-w-stoneking-84431/ | title = C. W. Stoneking, Live Music: Blues | publisher = Spoonfed | accessdate = 27 December 2013 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131227073745/http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/artist/live-music-1414/c-w-stoneking-84431/ | archivedate = 27 December 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

<ref name="NLA King">{{Citation | author1 = Stoneking, C.W | authorlink1 = C. W. Stoneking | title = King Hokum | publication-date = 2008 | publisher = Shock Records. National Library of Australia | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38599137 | accessdate = 27 December 2013 }} Note: Reissue of 2005 version.</ref>

<ref name="Jungle Blues Review">{{cite news | url = http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/stoneking-plays-with-the-blues/story-e6freuy9-1111118015742 | title = CW Stoneking Raises Questions About Who Can Sing Blues | work = The Daily Telegraph | date = 15 November 2008 | accessdate = 27 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="ARIA2009">{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2009|title=ARIA Awards 2009 : History: Winners by Year : 2009:23rd Annual ARIA Awards|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|accessdate=13 June 2012| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20091124212945/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php| archivedate= 24 November 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

<ref name="Zuel 3">{{cite news | url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/cd-reviews/seven-seven/2007/10/26/1192941321362.html | title = ''Seven Seven'' – CD Reviews | last = Zuel | first = Bernard | work = The Sydney Morning Herald | date = 26 October 2007 | accessdate = 27 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Rule">{{cite news | url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/in-seventh-heaven/2007/11/15/1194766846535.html?page=fullpage | title = In Seventh Heaven | last = Rule | first = Dan | date = 16 November 2007 | accessdate = 27 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="NLA East 1">{{Citation | author1 = Machine Translations | title = East of Everything Series One Soundtrack Album | publication-date = 2008 | publisher=ABC/Warner Music | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/25420719 | accessdate=27 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="East Sounds">{{cite web | url = http://www.screensoundjournal.org/issues/n1/08.%20SSJ%20n1%20Giuffre.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131227212902/http://www.screensoundjournal.org/issues/n1/08.%20SSJ%20n1%20Giuffre.pdf | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 27 December 2013 | title = Sounding ''East of Everything'' | last = Giuffre | first = Liz | pages = 50–53 | work = Screen Sound Journal | issue = n1 | year = 2010 | accessdate = 28 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="SMAWin2008">{{cite web|url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/History/2008Winners.aspx |title=2008 Winners – Screen Music Awards |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |accessdate=29 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308013044/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/History/2008Winners.aspx |archivedate=8 March 2011 }}</ref>

<ref name="SMANom2008">{{cite web|url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/History/2008Nominations.aspx |title=2008 Nominations – Screen Music Awards |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |accessdate=29 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308012923/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/History/2008Nominations.aspx |archivedate=8 March 2011 }}</ref>

<ref name="SMAWin2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/apraawards/screenawards/history/2012winners.aspx |title=2012 Winners – Screen Music Awards |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) |accessdate=19 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414222939/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/History/2012Winners.aspx |archivedate=14 April 2014 }}</ref>

<ref name="BMfaSFNom2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/Nominees2012/BestMusicforaShortFilm.aspx |title=Nominations > Best Music for a Short Film |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) |accessdate=19 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517230041/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/Nominees2012/BestMusicforaShortFilm.aspx |archivedate=17 May 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Mother of Rock">{{cite web | url = http://www.debate.org/reference/mother-of-rock-the-life-and-times-of-lillian-roxon#overview | title = ''Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon'' | publisher = Debate.org | accessdate = 28 December 2013 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131228141435/http://www.debate.org/reference/mother-of-rock-the-life-and-times-of-lillian-roxon#overview | archivedate = 28 December 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

<ref name="MIFF 2010">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110106075659/http://miff.com.au/films/view?film_id=102622 | url = http://miff.com.au/films/view?film_id=102622 | title = Films: ''Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon'' | publisher = Melbourne International Film Festival | archivedate = 6 January 2011 | accessdate = 28 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Hawker">{{cite news | url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/city-stars-in-a-marriage-of-comedy-drama-and-chaos-20100608-xtpd.html | title = City Stars in a Marriage of Comedy, Drama and Chaos | last = Hawker | first = Phillipa | work = The Sydney Morning Herald | date = 9 June 2010 | accessdate = 28 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Siemienowicz">{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/HTMLDisplay.aspx?ContentID=12199&Section=2011_The_Year_Ahead_Part_2 |title=The Year Ahead Part 2 |last=Siemienowicz |first=Rochelle |publisher=Australian Film Institute |date=February 2011 |accessdate=28 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230235549/http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/HTMLDisplay.aspx?ContentID=12199&Section=2011_The_Year_Ahead_Part_2 |archivedate=30 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Blundell">{{cite news | url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/television/tender-exploration-of-post-disaster-healing/story-fn9d34el-1226264298493 | title = Tender Exploration of Post-Disaster Healing | last = Blundell | first = Graeme | authorlink = Graeme Blundell | work = The Australian | date = 7 February 2012 | accessdate = 29 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="BTTNom2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/Nominees2012/BestTelevisionTheme.aspx |title=Nominations > Best Television Theme |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) |accessdate=16 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120134609/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/Nominees2012/BestTelevisionTheme.aspx |archivedate=20 January 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="M+N Spring Fall">{{cite news | url = http://messandnoise.com/news/4518496 | title = Forthcoming: Paul Kelly in News | publisher = Mess+Noise (Danny Bos, Kristy Milliken) | date = 20 September 2012 | accessdate = 29 December 2013 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000720/http://messandnoise.com/news/4518496 | archivedate = 31 December 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

<ref name="Valentish">{{cite news | url = http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/music/features/2042/paul-kelly-spring-and-fall | title = Paul Kelly: ''Spring and Fall'' | last = Valentish | first = Jenny | work = Time Out Melbourne | date = 18 October 2012 | accessdate = 29 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Weiley">{{cite news | url = http://www.onyamagazine.com/arts-culture/music/music-moment/paul-kellys-spring-and-fall-tour/ | title = Paul Kelly's ''Spring and Fall'' Tour | last = Weiley | first = Meaghan | work = Onya Magazine | publisher = Sandi Sieger | date = 25 August 2013 | accessdate = 29 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="iTunes Bright">{{cite web | url = https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-bright-door/id710487293 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402170451/https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-bright-door/id710487293 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2 April 2015 | title = ''The Bright Door'' by Machine Translations | publisher = iTunes | date = 11 October 2013 | accessdate = 29 December 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Girdler">{{cite news | url = http://www.beat.com.au/music/machine-translations-bright-door | title = Machine Translations: ''The Bright Door'' | last = Girdler | first = Chris | work = Beat Magazine | publisher = Furst Media | date = 5 December 2013 | accessdate = 29 December 2013 }}</ref>

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==External links== * {{Official website|http://machinetranslations.com.au/}} * {{MusicBrainz artist|id=146ae170-9ca6-4513-a2f8-faccedec71f2}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Machine Translations}} Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Canberra Category:People educated at Narrabundah College Category:1967 births