“The best thing in Boorloo every year.” “The only festival I’ve been to that leaves me with more energy after a set than when I arrive.” “Just joyful. I could not fault anything with the way it was run.” AE is an artist-led, international festival of exploratory music. It’s held annually on Whadjuk boodja since 2017. It includes delightfully strange songs, forward-thinking club sets, brazenly weird experiments, bracing noise, virtuosic improvisation, anti-virtuosic improvisation, listening through dancing, new directions for ancient music, dinners, treats and strolls. Our mission is to make a low pressure, fun atmosphere, and a powerful, attentive listening […]

Tone List is pleased to be invited to present a program in VHS Tracking this year! “Film critic, zine-maker and Boorloo movie scene stalwart Tristan Fidler has assembled another unique lineup of guest presenters from across our eclectic arts scene, with each selecting a film (or two!) to share and discuss. Expect anything from DIY, local and experimental productions, to new wave classics, international festival hits and divisive Hollywood gems.” Tone List selections include the near-silent study of light & time, “time space motion” by Shinkan Tamaki (2017), and the 'imageless film’ "Re-Recorder" by Joshua Bonnetta & Judith Hamann (2021), […]

Experience an inspiring evening of fresh musical creativity as WAAPA’s Composition and Sonic Arts students present new works for acoustic and electronic instruments. Celebrating the imagination and versatility of emerging composers and performer-composers, this concert highlights the breadth of WAAPA’s renowned Composition and Sonic Arts program – one of the largest and most innovative in Australia. The program includes original music for chamber ensembles, the hearNOW Art Orchestra, film and multimedia collaborations, interactive sound works, and genre-crossing experiments spanning concert, electronic, popular, jazz, and stage music.

Oren Ambarchi is an Australian multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin whose practice focuses on the exploration of the guitar. He is a prolific solo artist and consummate collaborator who has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists over the last three decades including; Fennesz, Charlemagne Palestine, Sunn 0)), crys cole, Thomas Brinkmann, Keiji Haino, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Curran, Loren Connors, Manuel Gottsching/Ash Ra, Merzbow, Jim O’Rourke, Keith Rowe, David Rosenboom, Akio Suzuki, Phill Niblock, John Tilbury, Richard Pinhas, Evan Parker, Fire! and many more. He has released numerous recordings over the years for labels such […]

New York - No Wave Queen, Lydia Lunch – returns to Australia to perform the songs of synth – punk band, Suicide and Alan Vega. Lydia will be joined on stage by Andrew Coates of much loved Melbourne electro trio, Black Cab to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Alan Vega’s passing + special guests. Lunch originally met Suicide – the duo of late vocalist Alan Vega and multi-instrumentalist Martin Rev – in the 1970s, when Lunch moved to New York City from Rochester as a teenager. She formed a lifelong bond with the pair, often joining them on-stage to perform […]

As part of my* residency at Nanulgarup/gallop house, I will be hosting four gatherings at the house to eat and drink together, and listen to some music by outstanding local independent musicians. Each event will make use of the house's baby grand piano. The ticket price includes drinks and ambitious home-cooked food (afternoon tea for the 3pm events, and dinner for the 6pm ones). I am very pleased to say that this edition of house concerts will be catered in collaboration with Braddy Breadcrumbs (iykyk). All meals will endeavour to cater to common dietary needs (vegan/gluten free), if you have […]

📣zigzag & Randy House presents 📣 A night of heavy experimental sound, live improvisation, underground noise and fuzzed-out rock. Closing out his Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand tour, VEGTABLE MACHINE ANIMAL lands in Freo for the final stop. Led by Wellington drummer/percussionist Kieran Monaghan, VMA is an interspecies improvisational trio using modular synths connected to living plants and fungi, transforming organic electrical signals into spontaneous, rhythmic and unpredictable sound. Joining the bill are: 🍄 Perth 4 piece LOTUS, bringing heavy Drop C riffs, fuzzed-out stoner rock and desert-dust intensity 🍄 New band SENSORY FRENZY, made up of some fine humans […]

It's time for NoizeMaschin!!! 173 The June edition with NZ based founder of Skirted Records, 'interspecies trio' vegetable.machine.animal. You can expect drums, modular synth with a biofeedback module, fungi and plants. We are also delighted to announce! CCCXXXIII and Jessie Smoor Elias Farben Furchick spiderlight - new collaboration with Lesley Kaye, Kate Makowiecka and Sage Pbbbt The Pianos - Matthew Jones and Lyndsay Vickery We look forward to seeing you at the Bird on Tuesday June 30th. Doors from 7pm. $15 / $10

Goolugatup Sounds and Boring Divine come together on Wednesday, July 1 to bring you an evening of experimental and heavy music, presented alongside ‘Accursed Sharing’ - an exhibition concerned with tension, obsession, viscera and excess, currently on display in Gallery 1. ⧾ 𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 ⧾ Dreamspeed Wittenoom Memory Noise Software Body ⧾ The lineup weaves the mercurial nature of Goolugatup’s wide-reaching live concert series with Boring Divine’s hawkeyed focus on WA’s avant-heavy underground. We’re pleased to present three local acts on the forefront of a new, alternative sound: intertwining blackened doom, harsh noise, and ambient electronics across three distinct live sets. […]

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Concluding the first of four residencies in our 2026–27 Residency Program, Cool Change is excited to present an open studio with Jimi DePriest, featuring an artist talk facilitated by Samuel Beilby—artist, occasional musician, and co-founder/co-director of _____g.s (aka Underscore Gallery & Studios). With assistance from Matthew Taggart and conceptual input from Lia T, Jimi has been developing an audiovisual installation inspired by ‘clutter rejection’—an adaptive method observed in echolocating bats—for presentation at _____g.s later in the year. A wire framework, abstractly modelled on the anatomical features of bats, will suspend a 5-channel stereo system attached to a motor and including an interactive […]