Juli'sVisions

Born in South-East Queensland, Juli-Auriane is a Cairns based singer-songwriter, instrumentalist (flute and synth), sound technician, and visual artist, who has played in various jazz/rock bands, cabaret acts, choral ensembles and orchestras around her home state.  Specialising in original music, with nods to the greats thrown in from the Latin-Jazz-Funk-Rock and RnB genres, Juli-Auriane thrives on upbeat funky-dance tracks, smooth grooves, gut wrenching rock and experimental electronica within her passionate sound design.  Over previous decades, she has been best known for her unique improvisation on flute and synth, as well as her souring vocal melodies, and joyful, energetic live performances.  However, it is lately, her work as a sound technician in both live and studio settings which is getting her noticed, around the far north region.

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On October 28, 2014, the Tablelander newspaper wrote, "Juli Auriane delivered some seriously beautiful vocals with her band, Kalen-ja," going on to further describe Kalen-ja as a "hot new band, featuring the velvet voice of Juli Auriane," in their editorial of the Tablelands Folk Festival that year.

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In 2019, Juli-Auriane achieved her Bachelor of Music (with Distinction) from CQUniversity's Central QLD Conservatory of Music.  She was also excited to have received the Rotary Club of Mackay's Award for achieving the highest results in her class.

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In 2019-2020 Juli-Auriane has continued her post-graduate study, and career development in sound production and music therapy, alongside her second Bachelors degree in Psychological Science, and hopes to combine her therapeutic, music, and arts practices, in the future.  Of course, while continuing her career both in live music and sound production.

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Cairns Background:

Moving to Cairns in 2010, Juli-Auriane formed her first originals band "Walking Trees" in 2012 with band-mate Joanna Symons.  They soon evolved into "Kalen-ja" when guitarist Hiroe Saitoh joined the crew.  Since then, Juli Auriane, Hiroe and other former members (Aleta Tulk, Will Achilles and more), alongside late addition Debbie McAlloon, toured Tropical North Queensland with their trademark, smooth, soul-funk-fusion sound.

In 2016, Kalen-ja evolved further into the fresh new band 'DRIVEN' - a group easily distinguished with their 'driving', pulsing rhythms; unique synth and guitar riffs; and floating melody lines.

2016 also saw Juli Auriane and local guitarist and singer-songwriter, Ben Daniel, join forces in the new acoustic duo "Serenity".

 

Visual Arts

 

Juli Auriane, having forever been an avid 'doodle-er,' and also having won various art prizes as a young child, only began to study art after a string of injuries left her physically incapacitated, for a time, within her late 20s.  This is where her passion for the visual arts bloomed, and from 2009, she began exhibiting her work...

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ART EXHIBITIONS:

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Solo - 

2012 - "exploration of expressions" @ c.1907 Contemporary Artspace in City Place, Cairns

2011 - "Shifting Scapes - from Sea to City to Within" @ c.1907 Contemporary Artspace in City Place, Cairns

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Group -

2014 - 'Cairns Uke Festival Art Exhibition' @ Red Chair Gallery, Cairns
2013 - 'Cairns Uke Festival Art Exhibition' @ the Pier Cairns
2011 - 'Visual Eyes' @Tafe GALLERY 101 in Grove Street, Cairns
2010 - 'Visual Eyes' @Tafe GALLERY 101 in Grove Street, Cairns
2010 - 'Showcase' @ c.1907 Contemporary Artspace in City Place, Cairns
2009 - 'Bricolage' @ Albury Gallery, Dean Street, Albury

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ACREDITATIONS:

2019 - Bachelor of Music (with Distinction)
2015 - Advanced Diploma of Music
2014 - Diploma of Music
2013 - Level One Certificate in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
2013 - Certificate III & IV in Music
2010 - Certificate IV in Visual Art & Craft
2009 - Certificate III in Visual Art & Craft

1997 - Cert IV in Contemporary Music
1997 - Grade 6 & 7 in Flute Excellence
1997 - Grade 5 & 6 in Clarinet Excellence
1996 - AMEB Grade 5 in Flute

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Further CV Details:

Juli-Auriane has worked in other creative roles within the service industries, from 1997-2020.  Ranging from roles in Make-up Artistry within a Beauty Salon (and for special event projects such as the QLD Wedding Expo in 1998 and Behind the Stage at Phantom of the Opera in Cairns, 2014); through to sales and interior design roles in 3 Curtains and Decor businesses; to co-managing a bookshop, featuring both great pieces of classic literature and modern popular works.  She has also often supplemented her income further with various bar-management roles within the hospitality and tourism industries - working 2-3 jobs concurrently, prior to injury.

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Further work experience endeavours have included various positions, such as, a high school music teacher, for 2 weeks in 1996, as well as supporting a live sound engineer - as a part of her Contemporary Music Studies - in 1997, and as a finalist in the Girl in a Million Quest in 1998/9, as well as multiple musically-based roles, both on-stage and off (including events coordination, sound production, stage artwork design, stage performance make-up, and live performance).  Most recently, Juli-Auriane helped co-facilitate the music therapy sessions at Cairns base hospital, during the end of year University study-break period, in 2019.

 

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