Perth, Western Australia
Philosophy
Festivals, pop-ups, grassroots events run on resourcefulness — solving problems in real time, reading a room, understanding that atmosphere is the entire point.
What that world often lacks is documentation: production schedules, technical drawings, pre-show prep that stops small problems becoming show-day fires.
The instinct is right. The paperwork is missing.
Big commercial productions run on discipline — airtight schedules, documented plans, sign-off at every stage. Nothing left to guesswork.
What that world often lacks is instinct — feel for atmosphere, real-world problem-solving, judgment built from years of working under pressure with no safety net.
The documentation is right. The feel is missing.
This is where the work started — grassroots, underfunded, kept alive by people who cared more about the room than the invoice.
Acute Audio holds discounted rates for community organisations and arts projects, always. Not as a concession — as a position.
Say so when you get in touch.
Process
Scoping, budgets, and admin from the first conversation — before a single cable is run.
Technical drawings, site maps, renders. The plan exists on paper before it exists on site.
Airtight run sheets and bump-in timing, built with lead time — not the week before.
Audio and production delivered on-site, calmly, because the prep already happened.
Wrap handled with the same care as bump-in. Nothing left half-finished.
Capability
The founding discipline — live, broadcast and recorded audio delivered with the same production rigour as everything else Acute does.
One point of contact across the whole event — scheduling, coordination, and decisions handled so the client isn't chasing five different suppliers.
Site maps, technical drawings, and renders produced ahead of time so every stakeholder — client, crew, venue — is working from the same plan.
Background in temporary structures, pop-ups and site-specific installations — practical, built-it-before experience applied to how a site actually gets used.
Where engineering, rigging, or specialist installation is required, the right people are brought in, briefed precisely, and coordinated as part of the same job.
| Client / Event | Role | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Australian Navy / HMAS Commissioning Ceremony | ProductionAudio EngineerSite Plans |
Garden Island, WA | 2026 |
| Perth Festival / Karla Bidi | ProductionAudio |
Perth, WA | 2026 |
| Reconciliation WA / Breakfast Ceremony | Post-ProductionMixingBroadcast Delivery |
Perth, WA | 2026 |
| Fremantle Arts Centre / Biosphere Boodjar | Production3D RendersAV Operation |
Fremantle, WA | 2025 |
| City of Fremantle / 10 Nights In Port | ProductionTechnical DrawingsSite Plans |
Fremantle, WA | 2025 |
| Strange Perth / Strange Festival 2025 | Audio Engineer |
Perth, WA | 2025 |
| City of Fremantle / International Street Arts Festival | ProductionSite Plans3D Renders |
Perth, WA | 2024 |
| City of Gosnells / Underground Sounds | Audio Operation |
Gosnells, WA | 2025 |
| Pitch Music & Arts — Greenhouse Stage | DesignProductionSite Plans3D Renders |
Grampian Ranges, VIC | 2024 |
| Daybreak Festival | ProductionSite PlansTechnical Drawings |
WA | 2024 |
Royal Australian Navy
HMAS Commissioning Ceremony
Royal Australian Navy
HMAS Commissioning Ceremony
Perth Festival
Karla Bidi
RISING:
Golden Square Carpark
RISING:
Golden Square Carpark
White Night Reimagined
Synapse
White Night Reimagined
Synapse
White Night Reimagined
Synapse
Album Launch
75 Reid St
Album Launch
75 Reid St
Royal Australian Navy
HMAS Commissioning Ceremony
Royal Australian Navy
HMAS Commissioning Ceremony
Perth Festival
Karla Bidi
RISING:
Golden Square Carpark
RISING:
Golden Square Carpark
White Night Reimagined
Synapse
White Night Reimagined
Synapse
White Night Reimagined
Synapse
Album Launch
75 Reid St
Album Launch
75 Reid St
Network
The network behind this studio is built from fifteen years of real jobs — people worked alongside under pressure, in situations where the margin for error was zero. Every name in it earned its place.
When a project calls for something outside our core — structural engineering, rigging, lighting, staging — the right person is briefed and coordinated directly. One point of contact on your end. The detail is handled on ours.
Working relationships, built job by job. The kind of precision that shows up before the first cable is run.
Get in touch
Send the brief, the dates, and the scale — arts or corporate, big or small. If it's a fit, you'll hear back with how Acute would run it: planning through bump-out, nothing left vague.