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Warrick Sony
Birth name	Warrick Swinney
Also known as	Kalahari Surfer
Born	1958 Port Elizabeth
Origin	South Africa
Genre(s)	electronic psychedelic world music
Occupation(s)	Musician, record producer, composer, remixer
Instrument(s)	studio bass, guitar, drums, synth, tabla, sitar, trombone
Years active	1983–present
Label(s)	African Dope, Recommended, Microdot
Associated acts	Kalahari Surfers
Website	http://www.kalaharisurfers.co.za

Warrick Sony is a South African composer, producer, sonic artist, and sound designer, who has worked for 2 decades on a multitude of films, documentaries, art events, theatre, dance, and project albums. He was born Warwick Swinney in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1958.

He is the founder and sole member of the Kalahari Surfers, solo recording projects working from Shifty Studios (Johannesburg) in the mid-1980s. Known for five albums of politically radical musical song/satire banned for possession in South Africa, the Kalahari Surfers work was released exclusively through the London-based Recommended Records. During this time the Surfers toured Europe with English session musicians and played concerts in East Berlin, Moscow, Riga and Leningrad.

Warrick has produced albums for Sony, BMG, Recommended, M.E.L.T. 2000, African Dope, Microdot, and Shifty Records and worked running the Shifty Music label at BMG (Africa) for two years in the mid-1990s, mostly concentrating on developing and promoting foreign African music in South Africa. He engineered the Brian Eno workshops at the Baxter Theatre

Under the name Trans-Sky produced “Killing Time (CD)” and "Heaven To Touch " (E.P) with Brendan Jury and performed various live concerts including opening for the South African Massive Attack tour.

Now based in Cape Town at Milestone Studios, Warrick has released four albums through African Dope and Microdot Records, and been involved in various art and music and DJ events in the city, including Faultlines, Soft Serve, Vortex, and Mother City Queer Party. He is currently in a creative partnership with Murray Anderson doing mostly commercials and film scores.

Recent international performances include the 2005 Wiesen Festival in Austria.
Performance with Dizu PLaatjies at opening of “Turbulence” South African art Exhibition in Salzburg – Red Bull Hangar 7 event. March 2007
As a specialist sound designer he has worked on feature films likethe Manglerdir Tobe Hooper [1](POLTERGEIST, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) , SMS Sugar Man dir Aryan Kaganof,the Shadowed Mind dir Cedric Sundstrom [2] and multi media theatre productions such as William Kentridges Ubu and the Truth Commission , Faustus in Africa and Handspring Puppet‘s “Tall Horse” and “The Chimp Project” as well as Museum installations like the San Rock Art Museum.
He has been invited as a guest lecturer to Rhodes University in South Africa, running post-graduate masters classes in audio post-production and sound design and was invited to present a performance for Unyazi: International Electronic Music Symposium at Wits University Johannesburg.[3] . He also appears in the documentary filim UNYAZI OF THE BUSHVELD (2007) directed by Aryan Kaganof.

1 Partial list of collaborations
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Partial list of collaborations

Compositions and sound design for William Kentridge‘s theatre productions “Faustus in Africa” and “Ubu and the Truth Commission”
Compositions and/or sound design with South African artists:
Malcolm Payne [[4]]on Faultlines,
Tracy Rose - "Last Supper" [5].
Rodney Place [6] - "Couch Dancing" exhibition [7] and "World Service" for Adelaide Arts Festival
Brett Murray -Muti Media and the Short Pants Opera [8]
sound design for Lerato Shadi’s “Hema” shown at Michael Stevenson [9]
Compositions and sound design for Handspring Puppet‘s theatre productions “Tall Horse” and “The Chimp Project”
music for "Ochre and Water:Himba chronicles from the land of Kaoko" for Doxa Productions[10] -
An album with Sowetan poet Lesego Rampolokeng, including a series of concerts in Brazil.
Co-producing and composing with Louis Mhlanga notably the African Axemen album and Musiki Ye Afrika
Plinc, an electro-dub project with ex-Orb members Greg Hunter and Kris Weston
Co-composing music with Murray Anderson for John Boorman's In My Country and the Canadian Broadcasting documentary Madiba: The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela, for which they were awarded the Gemini Award for best music.^[1]
Co-composing music with Murray Anderson for the Museum of Rock Art[11] and "Origins" the film series from this