The 1994 TV special entitled The Beautiful Experience (TBE) is a deceptively simple work. Ostensibly a story about a lonely girl who enters an online chat and gets more than she bargained for, TBE is a dizzying synthesis of Prince’s myriad creative projects at the time. This presentation will map out the sprawling web of studio video clips (many unreleased) from several albums, live band footage, choreography, and even the Glam Slam Ulysses stage musical. Along the way, we encounter cinematic techniques such as framing devices, experimental narrative structure drawing on Lynchian dream logic and cyberpunk, and of course, Prince’s wicked sense of humor!

Adam Rudegeair is a prolific composer, filmmaker, and educator based in Australia. His music is rooted in jazz and funk, with significant influences from the sounds of New Orleans and Minneapolis. His current projects as a leader include Lake Minnetonka, The Bowie Project, and Retconned Bond.

In 2021 Adam completed his Masters studies at Box Hill Institute with the thesis, ‘Strange Changes: Re-imagining Jazz Structures for Improvisation Utilising the Compositions of David Bowie’.

Since 2008 Adam has presented the weekly jazz radio program Black Wax on PBS 106.7FM in Melbourne.