Two obsessions have run through Paul Sykes' whole life, and Hexaphonic is where they finally meet.

The first was sound. 

Living next to his grandmother who taught piano, Paul showed a rare aptitude for music from his earliest years. 

The second was immersion — and it started with a talking View-Master. 

As a boy he was spellbound by it: three-dimensional images paired with a story he could listen to, a little world he could step into. He collected the boxed sets, and from that point on, anything surround or 3D captivated him.

The music thread found its purpose at thirteen, at his first concert where the performer performed an amazing set with an Oberheim synth system and a Yamaha CP-70 electric piano.

From that night, Paul knew exactly what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. 

In 1984 he got his first synth, a Yamaha DX7, and spent his weekends playing and programming it for up to ten hours a day. A Roland JX-3P and a Yamaha RX11 drum machine soon followed, and a lifelong fascination took hold — not just with the machines, but with the pioneers who first made them sing. Jarre, Vangelis, Moroder: musicians who took primitive technology and made something genuinely beautiful. (Jarre famously recorded the whole of Oxygène in eight weeks, in his kitchen.)

The decades since have built a career few can match. Now Melbourne-based and holding an Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Music, Paul has given more than 2,000 performances, built six commercial recording studios from the ground up, taught music technology and audio recording at college level for ten years, and produced countless advertising jingles for radio and television. He has taught singing professionally for twenty years and counting. Through all of it, one thing has never changed: he lives to be in the room with an audience.

Meanwhile, that childhood love of immersion never faded — it grew. Paul built a 16-channel Dolby Atmos theatre in his own home, purely to experience cinema at its absolute pinnacle. It was only a matter of time before the two threads collided.

Hexaphonic is that collision. 

Sparked after seeing Nils Frahm perform live, it evolves the old idea of quadraphonic into something bolder — six live sources of sound, front, rear and both sides, so the audience doesn't sit in front of the music but inside it. 

He performs the pioneers of electronic and cinematic music — Oxygene by Jarre, Vangelis, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, Moroder and more wrapped in a fully programmed lighting design, on synths, CP-70 electric piano and five instruments he built himself, including a laser harp he plays with his fingers moving through beams of light.

Paul is currently recording a stereo album of original material, aiming for release by the end of 2026, with a Kickstarter to bring his laser harps to players worldwide on the way. His mission is simple: to let people experience beautiful music in a way they never have before — immersive, alive, and a little bit magic.