Empty freeway at night curving into the glowing ribbed vault of the CityLink sound tube, Melbourne
BlaininC · new single 'I'm Home' out now

Electronic soul, from a photographer's eye.

BlaininC is Melbourne photographer Blain Crellin - thirty years shooting cities across Australia and China, now writing and singing his own songs. These are his photographs. This is his sound.

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Photograph: CityLink sound tube, Melbourne
Blain Crellin
Red wall with vertical steel strips and tilted floodlights - CityLink, Melbourne, 1999
I - CityLink, Melbourne · 1999

The strings were already there.

Blue bubble facade of the Beijing National Aquatics Centre beside the steel lattice of the National Stadium
II - Beijing · the Water Cube

A pulse, photographed before it was played.

Black and white photograph of a flat sea horizon, Gulf of Thailand
III - Gulf of Thailand

One note, held.

He was composing the whole time
Cover art for I'm Home by BlaininC

'I'm Home' (The sky it falls)

The new single · with Benjamin Hense · Beat Tank Studios
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The music

The songbook

'Still Life'
Still Life - EP
Interstellar Travellers
with Robodop Snei · 2026

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Water World LP cover art
Water World - LP
BlaininC · 2025
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Gravity in Motion artwork
Gravity in Motion - LP
BlaininC · 2022
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'Street Walker'
Street Walker - EP
BlaininC · 2022
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The photographs

Thirty years of looking

Stadium with a ribbed steel sail structure, Tianjin, China
Stadium, Tianjin
Leaning orange beam over black water at night, CityLink, Melbourne
CityLink at night, Melbourne
Elevated freeways crossing at night with headlight trails, Shanghai
'Dragon Road' · North-South interchange, Shanghai

Architectural commissions across Australia, China and India, 1992 to 2022 - a decade of it in China, including an artist residency in Beijing.

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The artist

Blain in C

The name is literal: Blain, in the musical scale of C. Classical pianoforte in the seventies, synthesisers in the eighties, bass through the nineties - then three decades composing with light instead of sound, for architects and cities across Austral-Asia.

Since 2022 the two practices have become one. BlaininC writes, sings and produces electronic soul and progressive music, co-composed with engineer Benjamin Hense at Beat Tank Studios, Melbourne - songs built the way photographs are made: patiently, and from observation.

Melbourne, Australia · blaincrellin@gmail.com

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