Malleefowl 7: Pedro Alvarez, Djuna Lee & Josten Myburgh

Come on October 9, 6pm for the improvised trio of Pedro Alvarez (quenas), Djuna Lee (double bass) and Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone), and dinner in the garden together.

Pedro Alvarez holds a doctorate in music composition, and recently pivoted from writing elaborate and considered notated compositions to focussing on instrument-building and applying his rigorous formal strategies to improvising on self-made quenas. It’s amazing. Djuna Lee is the expert of subtle, sustained bowed harmonics and punchy, groove-based avant-jazz riffs alike, known for her work in jalan jalan, Rif Mountain and Pale Ribbons Tossed Into the Dark. Josten Myburgh is the host of Malleefowl and plays saxophone in a variety of experimental settings.

They have never played a trio before. Let’s all hear it for the first time together.

As always there will be dinner to share. It will probably be something needlessly elaborate. It will be vegetarian and will accommodate everyone’s dietary needs. Best to BYO drinks.

Please RSVP to unhearable.chords@gmail.com for the address, and tell Josten any dietary or access needs/concerns you may have. Plus-ones, kids, plus-one’s-plus-ones etc. are welcome.

NB: Malleefowl cannot accommodate dinner for RSVPs made after October 6. Additionally, if you are intending to come but not to stay for dinner, please communicate this. Thanks.

Accessibility: Regrettably the Meltham Cultural Precinct is a very inaccessible venue for wheelchair users. Entry is either via three flights of stairs (the front door), a very steep driveway to the right of the house followed by a single step to enter the house, or a single flight of steps followed by a single step to enter the house on the right side. The bathroom is not wheelchair accessible (the entranceway is narrow, and around a bend). Happy to assist with access if needed but the bathroom situation sucks. Otherwise: the vibe will be pretty relaxed, you can check out in the garden if you need to take a break, there’s multiple seating options, the music will be relatively quiet (acoustic, unamplified), there are usually quite a lot of people in a relatively small space.