House concert featuring E Millar. About the work... rare entertainment II sound object installation at times performed "I began creating kinetic sound sculptures in 2017. These are assemblages of materials and recycled electronic components which generate repetitive, slowly-evolving textures. Let's enjoy listening to them in the context of the ambient sound in Josten's living room." Want to come? Please: - RSVP to unhearable.chords@gmail.com. Include dietary needs and an address request if you don't know the venue yet. Hospitality generous, actual space very limited. - bring a donation (cash or bank transfer). Covers my costs and then pays E. - BYO […]

As part of a three-week residency at PICA, Joshua Pether, Janine Oxenham and Helah Milroy revisit their durational performance ritual The Reckoning, created in 2021 through a creative development at PICA. The first performance outcome was a seven-hour performance ritual that utilised First Nations wisdom and knowledge whilst also taking inspiration from Butoh, a form of Japanese dance theatre developed in response to the trauma of the bombing of Hiroshima. The development involved the performers ‘reckoning’ with themselves and geographical sites of significance to First Nations people. Pether, Oxenham and Milroy revisit their performance methodology, extending the work to a 16-hour durational performance. Workshops […]

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. […]

Gaëtan Schurrer & Will Axten invite you to come party with them to celebrate their new Fremantle sound laboratory. Yes, we are back in the hood in an ultra cool new space! The lab is inside the historic Old Customs House building, which will be fully open at 7.00pm to explore. There will be artist activities and mini-events in spaces throughout the building. Plus the Lab will have toys to explore and plethora of performances from ambient explorers Stellar Beams Collective and test equipment tweakers Burnt Seeds, with visuals from AV artist Nathan Thompson. Plus a special set from Felicity […]

Kinds of Light is a concert series for creative music at PS Art Space. Curated by composer and improvising musician Josten Myburgh, Kinds of Light celebrates ambitious experimentation, careful musicianship, and sounds that are relevant to this place and time. It is programmed across style and genre, excited by the love and rigour that goes into music that defies categories. Kinds of Light 6 is the occasion of Tone List's 7th birthday celebrations. Please join us to celebrate a lucky number of years holding space for exploratory music in this place! LAND'S AIR (Eduardo Cossio: amplified zithers & electronics, and Josten Myburgh: alto saxophone & […]

a2. Orchestra presents Canvas – an exploration of the connections between music and visual art. This is university student-run, student-led and student-organised concert featuring a highly talented, motivated and skilled 45-piece orchestra conducted by Josh Spirek. The program includes soloist Tiffany Lee performing Debussy’s Cello Sonata as well as original compositions by Nick Kyriakacis and Josh Spirek. PROGRAM Nick Kyriakacis and Josh Spirek – “The New Pictures at an Exhibition”, a reimagining of Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition" that follows the history of art movements. – Interval – Claude Debussy – “Cello Sonata”, arranged for orchestra and solo cello Väinö […]

Pouring Dream is proud to present an afternoon of deep ambience at The Bird. Featuring live performances by: SODA LITE (Nipaluna/Tas) Not Not Fun/Inner Islands Soda Lite is the new age/ambient project of Alex Last, with their latest record 'Aqua Solar Cura' released by the legendary Californian record label Not Not Fun. The record's a 44-minute deep dive through lutruwita's ecological landscapes, empowered and influenced by its diverse wildlife and eucalypt valleys. Eschewing formal song routes, Soda Lite's music prefers to tremor and bubble, sometimes evolving and often drifting, unravelling slowly like oozing sap while awash in the vibrant pulse […]

Noizemaschin!! 141 - July 25th @ The Bird Juniper Glades - improvised guitar noise, sometimes soothing and othertimes searing. storytime - a warm and melancholic set of ambient electronic sounds ahead of a debut EP S/M - Self-suspension as an instrument. Augmented Fifth - Pushing some cheap grooveboxes and off the shelf synths to their limits with generative industrial/techno. Dead Zone Engineer - Using tone generators and rhythmic sequences to explore a progressive ambient style Noizekult - A new three piece project exploring Industrial Soundscapes and electronic disfiguration, rising from the bowels of the secret tunnels deep beneath WAAPA Gruff […]

Outcome Unknown on July 27 features the classical technique, jazz vocabulary and experimental approaches of DUOFOLD, the project of pianist and composer Tiffany Ha and sound artist Joseph Walsh. Spoken word and cello atmospherics from writer-performer Zoë Barron and musician Fiona Hook as TEACUP WEATHER. And intractable noise from FURCHICK & NATHAN in their first performance since the release of 'How Divers Descend to the Depths' on Dog Park Records. Doors open at 7pm and music starts at 7.45pm.

A new exhibition at Old Customs House as part of Artsource's Creative Connect Program, Yes I'm Listening, Yes I'm Hearing You features Artsource Artists Ellen Broadhurst, Tom Rogers, Jessee Lee Johns, Sanche Zev Weinstein, Amy Perejuan-Capone, Tom Blake, Cara Teusner-Gartland and Elizabeth Millar.Exhibition open 10am-4pm Wednesday to Friday, and 12pm-4pm Saturday.

ALT presents a night of audio terror descending upon The Bird. Life/Limb (DISSONANT DEATH/GRIND/NOISE) Ghost Of She (DRONING DARK AMBIENCE) Hysteria (AGGRESSIVE GRINDING HARDCORE) Esper (BLEAK BLACKENED EXPERIMETAL) Thursday 3rd of August @ The Bird - live acts from 8pm. $10 entry at the door, $5 for student/concession We acknowledge that this event takes place on Stolen Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respect to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.