Contemporary thriller meets operatic fever dream in this Australian premiere of Philip Glass’ The Trial. Under a blaze of fluorescent lights and with the shuffle of endless paperwork, the action unfolds in a chilling maze of a forgotten office space in Forrest Chase, where order masks chaos and every corner hides a secret.

Liquid Architecture and Perth Festival present a lens to Asia-Pacific’s unrulier sound currents. The program traces a line from conceptual composition to scorched-earth noise praxis to the outer edges of contemporary rap. From Yogyakarta arrives Aditya Pandu Wijaya, a key figure in Indonesia’s noise vanguard and the force behind Bergegas Mati, his harsh-noise vehicle known for its eroding, heat-warped extremity. Pandu’s networked practice spans global collaborations, split releases, raw-collage digital art and his cassette-driven imprint Gerpfast Records, which has quietly become a clearing house for scenes that refuse to align – shoegaze, hardcore, metal, electronica and the vast detritus between. […]