Lead guitar · Leader
Barbie Solís
Lyriara
Farm kid from a wide-sky world. Carries the band's voice everywhere except into the microphone.
A sci-fi band travelling the galaxy
Butterfly BomBarbie
Four musicians. Four planets. One ship, a battle-of-the-bands circuit that spans the Settled Arc — and a microphone nobody is standing at.
Season 1The Sound That's Missing18 micro-episodes · pilot in production
Live, somewhere in the Settled ArcThe band
Four players. One vacancy. One witness.
Drums
Angelo Mura
Gravitas IX
Built solid on a heavy world. Moves with economy, lands exactly where he means to.
Bass
Paul Neri
Nebulon Drift
From a floating world where the ground was never certain. Paul doesn't plant. Paul flows.
Keys & synth
Niki Dae
Circuita
Precision-raised under an orbital anchor. The filaments beneath her skin glow when she's thinking.
Lead vocals
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Unknown
The stand is set at every show. Nobody stands at it. That's where the story starts.
Circuit journalist
Max Welder
Ossian IV
Has covered a hundred battles of the bands across the galaxy. Can't stop writing about this one.
Max Welder came for a career-defining scandal. The music keeps getting in the way of the story he thought he was writing.
The story
Ten seasons. Told in micro-episodes.
Every season unfolds as short episodes of two to three minutes, released fortnightly, with Max’s interviews in the weeks between. Season 1 is in production; the free pilot arrives first.
Season 1 · now in production
The Sound That's Missing
- M01No SingerPilot
- M02The Empty MicrophonePilot
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The Sound That's Missing
18 micro-episodes · in production
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How each episode is told
Watch
Each micro-episode as a short animated broadcast.
Listen
The audio drama, voiced by the band.
Read
The written episode, told close to the room.
XCOM
In-universe posts as the galaxy reacts.
Behind the Signal
How each episode was actually made.
The deep archive
Backstories, planets, rival bands — the whole galaxy, catalogued.
Behind every episode sits a universe of material: each member's full backstory, the worlds they come from, the ship they live on, the circuit they're climbing and the corporations watching them do it. Glimpses will surface here — the full archive is coming to the Butterfly BomBarbie app, made for subscribers, on iOS first and Android after.
Butterfly BomBarbie Media
A media and software studio.
Butterfly BomBarbie Media is an independent Australian studio. We help people bring their app ideas to life, from the first sketch to a finished app, and get them approved and live on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Not sure where to start? We offer plain-English digital consulting. We also make our own stories, music, apps and business software; the band is our flagship story.
Work with usStories & music
Original characters, worlds and sound — led by the sci-fi band Butterfly BomBarbie and its animated series.
Software
Our own apps, plus business software such as BC Connect for building communities and Bellbird Enterprise for publishing.
App services
Building your app, getting it approved on the Apple App Store and Google Play, and plain-English consulting on getting into the digital space.
From the studio
Six apps, fully realised.
Our own apps, live on the App Store and Google Play. Different purposes, different personalities — one shared standard of clarity, usefulness and craft.
The creator
Made by Chris Nagy.
The band, the story and the six apps come from one independent creative practice in Queensland — 28 years of motion, design, music and product work. The wider portfolio lives at Harmonics.
Say hello
Good conversations start here.
Planning an app, need help with the App Store or Google Play, or interested in BC Connect or Bellbird Enterprise? Start with a studio enquiry. For help with one of our apps, choose it below.