Audible Edge Night School: Organise
2025-03-13 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Perth) | The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street Mall, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
In a climate of rising censorship, board overreach, anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic racism, and in a general climate of suspicion towards art, what alternative spaces are required to maintain the cultures we want to participate in? The Organise session of the Night School invites hearing from artists and cultural workers listening across disciplines. It aims to gently offer an inspiring sense of sovereignty, a chance to eat together and think about the role of cultural spaces in creating contexts for sharing truth and practicing freedom.
Ft:
(6:30pm) Yoe & Gabby Loo: The teashop from Burma, a community cultural space
(7:30pm) Feras Shaheen: Dance Dance Intifada
This session is co-presented with STRUT Dance and The Blue Room Theatre.

Crip Constellations: Disabled agency in western music history/Composing as quiet resistance.
2025-03-15 11:00 - 14:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia

TRACE OF CONSTRUCTION: Artist Talk & Performance
2025-03-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Ellenbrook Arts, 34 Main St, Ellenbrook, WA, Australia
March 15, 2pm – 4pm
Artist Talk with Robert Cook (Art Gallery of WA Curator)
Performance by Sage Pbbbt (Vocals) & Eduardo Cossio
Free event
Peruvian-Australian artist Eduardo Cossio presents TRACE OF CONSTRUCTION, an exhibition of new photography works at Ellenbrook Arts.
Drawing on his practice as an experimental musician, the exhibition explores performance approaches to image-making, testing ideas of displacement and entanglement between mediums. Cossio’s imagery starts in the darkroom, a space associated with the unconscious by the Surrealist artists, and with worldbuilding since the early days of Photography.
The artist has re-worked photograms (camera-less photographs) with the addition of props and projections. He creates stage-like arrangements that reconfigure the visual
field whilst evoking the temporality of performance. Working at a larger scale than his previous exhibitions, the prints are presented as sculptural objects that respond to the gallery space.
TRACE OF CONSTRUCTION is accompanied by an events and performance program. Join us for live sets by Eduardo Cossio (zithers and electronics), an artist talk with Robert Cook (Curator at the Art Gallery of WA), and an Outcome Unknown concert featuring some of Boorloo’s foremost experimental musicians.
Producer: Stirling Kain
Catalogue essay: Paul Boyé
Printing: Joe’s Printing
Ellenbrook Arts
Address: 34 Main Street, Ellenbrook
Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm & Sat & Sun, 10am-2pm

Transit. presented by WWIM
2025-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Rod Evans Community Centre, 160 Hay St, East Perth, WA, 6004, Australia
Join us for a magical evening as we kick off twenty-WWIMty-five in bittersweet style with a farewell set from Daisy Sanders and Lara Dorling as they sail off to lutruwita (Tasmania). They’ll be performing sound and movement alongside Annika Moses (sound) and Jo Pollitt (improvised writing and projection!!). Daisy and Lara work both collaboratively and separately – you might have seen Daisy’s long-gestating work A Resting Mess for City of Fremantle last year, or been to a Make-Shift Evening organised by Lara.
And – we’ll be treated to a set from WWIM co-founder Saskia Willinge, who will be debuting tender ballads on the complexities of modern life, accompanied by Jane Stark.
Between sets will be a potluck dinner, so if you’re inclined you can bring food to share (and get discounted tickets too!).
So, join us on March 15 at the Rod Evans Community Centre, to send off our dear friends in style!

Rod Evans Community Centre (160 Hay Street, East Perth WA 6004)
March 15, 2025 | 7-9pm
Tickets
-Unwaged/brought food: $10+
-Waged: $25+
-Generous: $40+
(other options available upon request)

Crip Constellations: Sounding bodies
2025-03-16 11:00 - 14:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia

Audible Edge Night School: Gym
2025-03-20 08:00 - 17:00 | The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street Mall, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Part of the Audible Edge Night School workshop series.
Rioting against ways of teaching art and music which put brain over body, we invite you to partake in a day of collective embodied play for makers of all kinds. This features workshops from three local practitioners sharing how their body remains a grounded point of connection to their practice, and their well-being as artists. While ‘gym’ can be a scary word (and place) for many of us, we’re hoping to build our own positive associations with the word, creating a space to tune into our bodies without the internal and external criticism that’s all too often the dominant voice in these spaces.
Features three sessions:
5:30pm with Dan O’Connor
6:30pm with Annika Moses
7:30pm with Moopa
Co-presented with The Blue Room Theatre and STRUT Dance.

Crip Constellations: Holding space - radical collaboration with Tenth Muse Initaitive
2025-03-22 11:00 - 14:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia

O,D,E, a new experimental chamber opera - audition workshop
2025-03-22 17:30 - 20:00 | The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street Mall, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Call for singers for a new experimental opera
O,D,E is a new and experimental chamber opera written by Sage J Harlow (aka Sage Pbbbt) and produced by Tone List. It’s a queer, occult retelling of Orpheus & Eurydice, grounded in the suffering that comes with simply being alive. Exploring gender and identity, characters change bodies, die and reincarnate, and begin and end contracts with eternity, singing, screaming and howling through the libretto as they do so.
We are seeking three singers to fill lead roles in the opera.
The project runs between July and September, and features a creative development stage (July 7 – 19), rehearsal period (July 21 – August 18), and finally a season of 10 shows (August 21 – September 6). All artists involved will receive a fee of at least $3355.30 AUD for the development, with additional funding pending for the season.
The audition workshop will be held with Sage Harlow & Dr Jeremy Neideck (course coordinator of the Bachelor of Performing Arts at WAAPA) on March 22, 5:30pm – 8:00pm in The Blue Room Theatre’s Kaos Room.. This is a fun, participatory skill-sharing session: a chance to learn from two of the lead artists on the project, whilst also having a go at singing through some of the libretto, in order to be considered for one of the roles. There’ll be some snacks and a chance to meet other folks interested in extended singing in Boorloo.
Read the full audition information pack with information about how to apply.
This project is supported by the Western Australian state government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and Tone List.

TRACE OF CONSTRUCTION: Outcome Unknown
2025-03-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Ellenbrook Arts, 34 Main St, Ellenbrook, WA, Australia
March 22, 7pm – 9pm
Outcome Unknown
Pale Ribbons Tossed into the Dark
Pedro Alvares
Play Group ft. Felicity Groom, Thea Rossen, Alice Humpries, Jessica Carlton
Ticketed event
Peruvian-Australian artist Eduardo Cossio presents TRACE OF CONSTRUCTION, an exhibition of new photography works at Ellenbrook Arts.
Drawing on his practice as an experimental musician, the exhibition explores performance approaches to image-making, testing ideas of displacement and entanglement between mediums. Cossio’s imagery starts in the darkroom, a space associated with the unconscious by the Surrealist artists, and with worldbuilding since the early days of Photography.
The artist has re-worked photograms (camera-less photographs) with the addition of props and projections. He creates stage-like arrangements that reconfigure the visual
field whilst evoking the temporality of performance. Working at a larger scale than his previous exhibitions, the prints are presented as sculptural objects that respond to the gallery space.
TRACE OF CONSTRUCTION is accompanied by an events and performance program. Join us for live sets by Eduardo Cossio (zithers and electronics), an artist talk with Robert Cook (Curator at the Art Gallery of WA), and an Outcome Unknown concert featuring some of Boorloo’s foremost experimental musicians.
Producer: Stirling Kain
Catalogue essay: Paul Boyé
Printing: Joe’s Printing
Ellenbrook Arts
Address: 34 Main Street, Ellenbrook
Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm & Sat & Sun, 10am-2pm

Audible Edge '25: Laugh of Medusa
2025-03-23 08:00 - 17:00 | Fremantle Town Hall, Arcade 8 William St, Fremantle, WA, 6160
Casey Moir (SWE) / Nika Mo
More info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/laugh-of-medusa

Crip Constellations: Do it for fun / Creating scores for any performer
2025-03-23 11:00 - 14:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia

Echoes Under the Stars: Erasers / PTMC / Lia T / Satellites
2025-03-23 18:00 - 22:30 | Rooftop Movies, 68 Roe St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
ALT.LIVE x VOLTA [live electronics] present a special one-off event at the cinema on top of a Northbridge building aka Rooftop Movies:

ECHOES UNDER THE STARS is an immersive night of live electronic performances, each accompanied by live visuals projected onto the big screen. Set against Boorloo’s night skyline, get comfy on a beanbag and enjoy this rooftop audio/visual experience.
Featuring live performances from:

𝘌𝘙𝘈𝘚𝘌𝘙𝘚 // instagram.com/erasersduoThis revered duo from Noongar boodja (Perth) conjures vast sonic landscapes with humming synths, droning organs, and zoned-out vocals, evoking rolling deserts and misty coastlines.

𝘗𝘛𝘔𝘊 // instagram.com/ptmc303Co-founder of Midnight Elevator, forward thinking electronic music label and events, will be debuting a unique live set for Echoes Under The Stars, crafted exclusively for an the unique setting atop the city building. The performance embraces the warm, squelchy acid tones of the 303, the expressive textures of Moog synthesisers, and hypnotic dubby delays.

𝘓𝘐𝘈 𝘛 // instagram.com/lia_tIs a true mainstay of the ambient scene locally and beyond. Producer/radio host/DJ, Lia has contributed to RTRFM’s Underground Solution and London-based radio stations NTS, Kindred and Noods, as well as a regular show on Skylab Radio in Naarm (Melbourne). For this performance, Lia will be experimenting with a hybrid live and DJ setup to craft captivating soundscapes.

𝘚𝘈𝘛𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘐𝘛𝘌𝘚 // instagram.com/yumyabA conceptual project by musician Matthew Taggart, consisting solely of personally recorded radio fragments from orbiting weather satellites, weaved into brooding, ambient and drone soundscapes.

Live visual artists will be announced soon!

Sunday 23 March 2025, 6pm-10:30pmLevel 6, 68 Roe St, Northbridge

Tickets are $25 from rooftopmovies.com.au. There are group purchase discounts available.

Poster & graphics thanks to @miragecabal

Rooftop Movies is an accessible venue, for more details pls head to https://rooftopmovies.com.au/accessibility

Rooftop Movies is a licensed venue, food and beverages are available for purchase. Please bring valid ID. Under 18s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult. For more information please head to https://rooftopmovies.com.au/faq

#liveelectronics #electronica #ambient #synthesizers #liveboorloo #livemusic #experimental #outdoormusic

ECHOES UNDER THE STARS with ERASERS, LIA T, PTMC & SATELLITES
2025-03-23 18:00 - 22:30 | Rooftop Movies, 68 Roe St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
ALT.LIVE x VOLTA [live electronics] present a special one-off event at the cinema on top of a Northbridge building aka Rooftop Movies:
ECHOES UNDER THE STARS is an immersive night of live electronic performances, each accompanied by live visuals projected onto the big screen. Set against Boorloo’s night skyline, get comfy on a beanbag and enjoy this rooftop audio/visual experience.
Featuring live performances from:
𝘌𝘙𝘈𝘚𝘌𝘙𝘚 // instagram.com/erasersduo
This revered duo from Noongar boodja (Perth) conjures vast sonic landscapes with humming synths, droning organs, and zoned-out vocals, evoking rolling deserts and misty coastlines.
𝘗𝘛𝘔𝘊 // instagram.com/ptmc303
Co-founder of Midnight Elevator, forward thinking electronic music label and events, will be debuting a unique live set for Echoes Under The Stars, crafted exclusively for an the unique setting atop the city building. The performance embraces the warm, squelchy acid tones of the 303, the expressive textures of Moog synthesisers, and hypnotic dubby delays.
𝘓𝘐𝘈 𝘛 // instagram.com/lia_t
Is a true mainstay of the ambient scene locally and beyond. Producer/radio host/DJ, Lia has contributed to RTRFM’s Underground Solution and London-based radio stations NTS, Kindred and Noods, as well as a regular show on Skylab Radio in Naarm (Melbourne). For this performance, Lia will be experimenting with a hybrid live and DJ setup to craft captivating soundscapes.
𝘚𝘈𝘛𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘐𝘛𝘌𝘚 // instagram.com/yumyab
Consisting solely of intercepted satellite radio transmissions, SATELLITES is an experimental electronic project from Matthew Taggart (Never Again, S/M, YUMYAB).
Personally captured and recorded radio fragments from the orbiting weather satellites NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19 are sampled and processed, transforming meteorological data into drone doom and ambient soundscapes.
Accompanied on the night with live visuals from Francis Follis.
𝘓𝘐𝘝𝘌 𝘝𝘐𝘚𝘜𝘈𝘓𝘚
Visual accompaniment throughout the night will be performed live by:
• MIRAGE CABAL // instagram.com/miragecabal
• polite.society // instagram.com/politexsociety
• PARITY CHECK // instagram.com/parity.check
• SIMULACRA // instagram.com/simulacra.mp4
Sunday 23 March 2025, 6pm-10:30pm
Level 6, 68 Roe St, Northbridge
Tickets are $25 from rooftopmovies.com.au. There are group purchase discounts available.
Poster & graphics thanks to @miragecabal
Rooftop Movies is an accessible venue, for more details pls head to https://rooftopmovies.com.au/accessibility
Rooftop Movies is a licensed venue, food and beverages are available for purchase. Please bring valid ID. Under 18s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult. For more information please head to https://rooftopmovies.com.au/faq
#liveelectronics #electronica #ambient #synthesizers #liveboorloo #livemusic #experimental #outdoormusic

Audible Edge Night School: Gym
2025-03-27 18:30 - 20:30 | The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street Mall, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
We are not literally going to the bank, but we are accessing the collective brains-trust about relating to money; having it, wanting it, talking about it. As an artist-run initiative, a not-for-profit organisation, a charity, and a constellation of individual practicing artists, Tone List and the Audible Edge festival have inhabited all kinds of awkward positions straddling government-funded to volunteer-run. We have a staunch commitment to the rights of musicians as workers, but also to the power of the no-money networks of creative exchange. This sassy double bill hopes to bring artists together to talk about money and the agency we have in choosing how we relate to it. Within an arena that often leaves us feeling disempowered, uncomfortable, unseen, and in competition with each other, can we spark a discussion that inspires connection, problem-solving, team work and solidarity?
Two sessions:
(6:30pm) Patrick McLaughlin & Allison Archer: DLGSCI grantwriting information session
(7:30pm) Bridget Chappell: Defund the arts?
This session is co-presented with STRUT Dance and The Blue Room Theatre.

Sonic Meditation
2025-03-29 13:00 - 14:30 | North Perth Lesser Hall, 26 View St, North Perth, WA, 6006
Join us for an afternoon of personal embodiment through sonic immersion. An intimate experience of the resonant interplay of gongs, bowls and modular synthesis.
The journey begins with a guided meditation to support your nervous system to move into a state of peace and tranquility, opening the channels to receive the resonant sound waves.
Allow your whole body to experience the divine essence of sound carefully designed to elicit meditative states of consciousness. A carefully crafted composition created by sound artists Lesley Kaye and Stewart Shepherd.
Lesley has been facilitating sound meditations in the local community for the past 7 years and is currently completing a Phd designing compositions to evoke meditative states of consciousness through sound. Stew is an artist who specialises in creating resonant fields that are supportive of whole body rest through specific frequencies that align to the Earth and Sun gongs. Together they own Burnt Seed Records and host a number of events in the Boorloo region. They are passionate about offering experiences that provide environments supportive of wellbeing and healing.
Bring a yoga mat and any cushions you require to be comfortable. You may also like to bring an eye mask to reduce the level of ambient light. Upon request, we can also provide a folding chair for your comfort.
This event is pay by donation with all proceeds going to Perth Homeless Support Group https://perthhomeless.com.au/.

Audible Edge Night School x Sound Exploration Fremantle
2025-03-30 11:00 - 16:00 | Sullivan Hall, 2 Nannine Ave, White Gum Valley, WA, Australia
In partnership with Walyalup’s resident host for collective improvisational learning, Sound Exploration Fremantle, w present a day of opportunities to attune to your musicality through listening to space and place. Lunch will be served between both workshops.
(11am) Tuning in: Awareness, perception, creation, by Sabine Vogel
(1pm) Lunch (free)
(2pm) Perception of sound and motion in improvisation, by Emilio Gordoa

Audible Edge '25: Plentiful Supply
2025-04-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Secret location in Claisebrook, Claisebrook
Part of the Audible Edge Festival of Exploratory Music. (https://ae.tonelist.com.au/)
The smallest, most perplexing and most flavourful event of Audible Edge, Plentiful Supply is a hybrid dinner party, sound installation and performance. Weaved from the found object improvisation, ceramic vessel-making, intuitive worldbuilding and flavour alchemy of Kelsey D, and the modular synthesis and sound design of Soph Kruse, this is a kind of multisensory banquet. It’s also a great thing to go to if you want to see Audible Edge but don’t know anyone: connections across the banquet table are a given.
This event is very limited capacity: we recommend you book right away.
Access

Plentiful Supply is diverse-diet friendly: entirely vegetarian with vegan options, and most items in the banquet free of gluten. Please let us know if you have any particular allergies or dietary preferences with your booking: these can be accommodated.
Entrance to the event is by a side roller door with ramp access. The venue has two gender-neutral bathrooms which are not wheelchair accessible; we’re currently researching a wheelchair-accessible bathroom that can be made available in an adjacent venue and will update this space. The venue is very small and will likely feel crowded on the night. The music will generally be quiet, humming and ongoing. Doors and windows can be left open for ventilation. There is no dedicated check-out space for this event.
The Audible Edge Festival has a dedicated accessibility budget. Please be in touch if you’d like to use this to help experience this event fully.

Audible Edge Festival of Exploratory Music '25
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-06 | WA
Boorloo’s annual “experimental music bender” may now be entered into your calendars: Audible Edge ’25 will take place from April 3 – 6.
AE is a celebration of DIY and exploratory music culture on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. It has no genre affiliation and is home to all kinds of sonic strangeness. It has a boundless affection for the unhinged, the goofy and the peerlessly rigorous alike. It is about special music in settings that strive to be fun, friendly, safe, and accessible.
If 2024’s festival was something that shimmered and shined, AE’25 is the same but dropped in the mud. There is a flute under water, a women’s wartime song, a tiny rattling machine, the crackle of burning tree-stumps, a vulture’s wings cutting the air, a binaural recording of high-heels sinking into wet grass. Sometimes listened to from something soft and comfy, and other times in a much sillier context.
AE is about learning about where we are through those who have courageously dreamed of how this time and place could sound. It’s about learning how great our scene is by putting it on even-footing with international heavy hitters. And it’s about being on the side of artists, finding ways to support exploratory expression here.
If you’ve come before, we hope you’ll be excited as us to block out the dates on your calendar. If you haven’t been before, we’d love to welcome you into this cool thing, and suggest you do the same. It’s all really good, and flows in a way that takes care of you.
Stay tuned for the announcement of our program launch party in February 2025.

“Am I still on planet earth or did we actually crash land on bizarro world?”
Rainy Colbert, Magazine6000, 2024

“this festival rocks”, “world-class”, “too good to be true”
punters, 2024

“Audible Edge is definitely now a must-see event on the Perth music calendar.”
★★★★★, Jonathan Marshall, Limelight Magazine, 2022

“Every aspect…seemed so meticulously crafted and flawlessly executed”
Tiffany Ha, SeeSaw, 2021

“Local label Tone List is now the go-to organisation for Perth experimental music…Audible Edge 2021 was a triumph.”
Jonathan Marshall, SeeSaw, 2021
Accessibility

Tone List are in a slow process of building concepts of accessibility and cultural safety into the foundations of how we operate. We work with peer artists Patrick Gunasekera and Zali Morgan towards these aims.
Some of the things we do include: clear communication about ventilation, sound volume and density, crowdedness, lighting, wheelchair access and terrain for each show. We don’t use strobe lights. We provide free earplugs and masks. We host shows with snacks and healthy food, and alcohol-free shows. We have shows that are kid-friendly, all-ages, and shows at times that are easier for parents to attend. We have party aunties on staff at busy shows. We put up content warnings.
Closer to the date, we open a portal for requesting specific access provisions at events (such as interpreters, or a wheelchair taxi between gigs). We have a budget for this. Feel free to get in touch with us if you’d like information about this in advance.
Acknowledgments

Audible Edge takes place on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to Noongar birdiya (Elders) and custodians. We dream of a culture of sounding and listening which supports restorative justice and the Law of the land.
Audible Edge is presented by Tone List. It is funded by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, the City of Melville, and the City of Perth.
Our international partners are the Goethe Institut, the Audio Foundation, Ater Fondazione, and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee Konstnärsnamnden.
Tone List’s partners for the 2025 program include Goolugatup Heathcote, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Wireless Hill Museum, STRUT Dance, The Blue Room Theatre, Astral Weeks, Sound Exploration Fremantle, Teeter Bakery, PS, and The Rechabite.
Tone List is sponsored by Pound Coffee and Local & Aesthetic.

Audible Edge '25: Sun Returns
2025-04-03 06:00 - 08:00 | WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth Cultural Centre,, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Jane Stark w/ Josiah Padmanabham
More info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/sun-returns

Audible Edge '25: Accordions & Croissants
2025-04-03 08:00 - 10:00 | Teeter Bakery, 145A Claisebrook Rd, Perth, WA, 6000
ROSS BOLLETER
More info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/accordions-and-croissants

Audible Edge '25: Smoking Ceremony
2025-04-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Hello (The Rechabite Rooftop), 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6000
Cash Promise & Flora Carbo
Ingrid Cumming
More info & accessibility: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/smoking-ceremony

Audible Edge '25: Here we go
2025-04-03 19:30 - 23:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Jess Robinson / Aarti Jadu / Michael Terren / Scratching / Yira
Full info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/here-we-go

Audible Edge '25: Little cascade
2025-04-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Local and Aesthetic, 769 Beaufort St, Mount Lawley, WA, 6050
Emilio Gordoa (MX)
More info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/little-cascade

UWA Flute Workshop - Sabine Vogel (GER)
2025-04-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Eileen Joyce Studio
Flautist, improvisor, composer-performer and environmental sound artist Sabine Vogel joins us for a special class with UWA Wind students.
Free event – no bookings required

Audible Edge '25: Citadels in Smoke
2025-04-04 20:00 - 22:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Eduardo Cossio / Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker (IT)

Audible Edge '25: Girly Hour
2025-04-04 22:00 - 23:30 | Fremantle Town Hall, Arcade 8 William St, Fremantle, WA, 6160
Solly Frank (Eora) & Rose KB
More info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/girly-hour

Revivification
2025-04-05 - 2025-08-03 | Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Revivification is an extraordinary immersive exhibition combining sound and cutting-edge biological innovation to bring to life the musical genius of a deceased composer.
Four years in the making, Revivification delivers a historic first: the in-vitro (external) ‘brain’ of the late composer Alvin Lucier (1931-2021) creating a new work in real time, as a live performance over the duration of the exhibition.
It is developed by artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Gingold with neuroscientist Stuart Hodgetts based at the University of Western Australia (UWA), who have individually spent 25 years pushing boundaries in the biological arts.
The physical realisation of Revivification began in 2020 when Alvin Lucier donated his blood for the project. His blood was sent to Harvard Medical School where his white blood cells were reprogrammed into stem cells – the fundamental building blocks of Revivification, using a process called Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (IPSC) technology. Then, the Revivification Team transformed (differentiated) Lucier’s stem cells into cerebral organoids: three-dimensional structures that resemble a developing human brain.
Alvin Lucier stood among the giants of 20th-century experimental music. He transformed how we think about composition by shifting focus from traditional musical elements to the physical properties of sound itself. His work with brain waves, echolocation, and room acoustics blurred the lines between music, science, and art – an approach that spoke to the artists and researchers at UWA.
At the heart of the installation stands a sculptural object that encapsulates the incubator housing Lucier’s ‘in-vitro brain’, living outside, and beyond his body (the term ‘in-vitro’ comes from the Latin for ‘in glass’).
Lining the walls are 20 large, curved brass plates that are both sculptural and the source of the immersive sound environment. Each of the plates is directly connected to the neural activity of Lucier’s brain organoid. As the ‘in-vitro brains” signals pulse through transducers and actuators, they strike the brass, creating complex, sustained resonances that fill the space with sound.

Audible Edge '25: Wade/Wave
2025-04-05 15:00 - 17:00 | On the beach in front of Waylen Bay Sea Scout Group, 1 The Strand, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
Nakal Nakal / Lara Dorling / Sabine Vogel (GER)
More info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/wade-wave

Audible Edge '25: Goolugatup Sounds
2025-04-05 17:00 - 21:30 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
rescue dog / Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker (IT) / Troth (TAS) / Tetuzi Akiyama (JPN) & Craig Pedersen
More info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/goolugatup-sounds

Audible Edge '25: Audible Edge Party Bus
2025-04-05 21:00 - 22:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
With Ben Aguero
More info: https://ae.tonelist.com.au/program/pass-the-aux
