Ghost Tunes

Ghost Tunes is a collaborative arts project created by sound artists and writers from Australia and Scotland, exploring language, landscape and culture.

Currently part of the Fremantle Arts Centre residency program, Ghost Tunes artists include Cass Lynch (Boorloo/Perth), Mei Swan Lim, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey (Naarm/Melbourne), Theresa Sainty (Lutruwita/Tasmania), Cass Ezeji (Scotland), Quinie (Scotland), in collaboration with Counterflows – an internationally acclaimed Glasgow-based contemporary music festival.

Through a series of exchanges which began in 2021, the artists have created a full-length album and publication. Whilst in Fremantle for their residency they will be presenting a night of performance, sound, film and talks.

ARTISTS

Cass Lynch (Boorloo/Perth, Australia) is a writer and researcher living on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She has recently completed a Creative Writing PhD that explores deep memory features of Noongar oral storytelling tradition; in particular sotries that reference the last ice age and the rise in sea level that followed it. She is a descendant of the Noongar people and a student of the Noongar language.

Mei Swan Lim (Boorloo/Perth, Australia) is a practicing sound designer and visual artist whose work centres on the environmental, emotional and spiritual importance of place, inter-cultural investigation and storytelling. She is also an electronic musician who has been performing and writing under the name Mei Saraswatic since 2010.

Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey (Australia) are Australian artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by curiosity and questioning about sound in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions.

Theresa Sainty (Lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia) is a Pakana woman, from Lutruwita (Tasmania), and is part of a very large, wellknown Tasmanian Aboriginal family. Theresa has worked extensively with Aboriginal Education Services, DoE where she co-developed and provided Aboriginal Cultural Awareness training, and produced curriculum resources focusing on Pakana culture; translated script and coached actors in the film The Nightingale, collaborated on various films and projects and has been an Aboriginal Linguistic Consultant with the palawa kani Language Program of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre since 1997. Theresa recently began a Senior Indigenous Research Scholarship at UTAS.

Cass Ezeji (Scotland) is a singer and performer of critically-acclaimed bands Laps and Golden Teacher. She is interested in Scotland’s role in colonialism and its erasure from our national psyche. Her essays and prose reinsert black and mixed-race narratives into the Scottish context and call for accountability.

Quinie (Scotland) aka Josie Vallely, is based in Glasgow. She sings primarily in Scots, with a style inspired by the traditions of Scottish Traveller singers Lizzie Higgins (1929 – 1993) and her mother Jeannie Robertson (1908 – 1975).