Tone List presents is our new ad-hoc program of events responsive to proposals, visiting artists, and artist whims. The first of these is a program of experimental performances that play with stillness or quiet in brave ways. The occasion here is a homecoming show for the duo of contemporary dancer Daisy Sanders and alto saxophonist Josten Myburgh. Having explored rest-as-performance through dance and music together for over five years, the duo recently completed a tour of Aotearoa, refining their practice to be more and more sensitive to the bristling intensity of silence and stillness. Marked by sudden changes in emotive […]

Outcome Unknown presents experimental music at the Maylands Yacht Club. With sets by shapeshifter composer Callum O'Reilly; the new collaboration of poet-musician Ayo Busari (TAB Family) with maverick artist Matt Aitken; and mixing tubes and electronics the project of Clare Wohlnick and Oliver Donovan, CO + 2. Entry $10-$25 (pay what you can). The Maylands Yacht Club is a wheelchair accessible venue. Doors open at 7pm and music starts at 7.40pm.​ Poster by Eduardo Cossio.

A bi-monthly series for improvised music and avant-garde jazz, TuneNoiseTune celebrates leading artists in exploratory music in Western Australia, and new collaborations between jazz and experimental musicians. The series is co-curated by Perth Jazz Society and Tone List. Nine concerts in, we host two duo collaborations with long histories of working together across different projects. Trumpeter Harry Josland & composer, bass player & electronic musician Joshua Cusack form a duo whose previous explorations have involved interpretations of Luigi Serafini’s Codex Seraphinianus, and spontaneous, acoustic improvisations. With Harry's trumpet playing at the fore, here Joshua puts aside the bass in order […]

ALT x VOLTA x RITUALS presents LIVE ELECTRONIX INSIDE // RITUALS DJs OUTSIDE F I V E live electronics acts with sets spanning the electronica spectrum plus RITUALS DJs spinning a dark web of alt tracks in the courtyard all night Christopher J Brown & Ben Waters // blistering dark techno and industrial from two modular synthesis wizards // instagram.com/everythingdies69 x instagram.com/yallerhon // Neapolaxi // Boorloo's own electro-experi-digicore dreamstress layers multifaceted beats, loops live vox and beats to unleash hyper-glitch-pop mayhem // instagram.com/bimbo_baggins__ // linktr.ee/neapolaXi // Ben Aguero // Electronic producer and Myriad Sun bandmember's live sets knows no bounds, drawing from footwork to ambient even dipping into […]

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 […]

@alt.live.perth x @living_for_kaos presents ???????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????-???????????????????? @ The Bird Thursday 12 Oct @william_street_bird with GUNNER: punk (first show) @LIFE.OVER.LIMB: grind/death/noise @YUMYAB: dark ambient/industrial @STREETSofSEPARATION: punk + GAOLED & NO FUTURE spinning trax in the outdoor courtyard 5pm-8pm $10 on the door // $5 students, concession ------------------------------- We acknowledge that ALT x HEARTS OF DARKNESS is holding this event on Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. POSTER BY @skullmeat_

Discover new sounds you can make yourself at this workshop by Tone List About the Event Join Mandurah Sound Art Showcase curator and saxophonist Josten Myburgh for a workshop on improvising with sound. Learn skills to discover new sounds, exploring instruments, electronics, and objects not typically thought of as instruments. As a group, participants will learn to play together, discovering new ways of making music collectively. All ages and levels of experience welcome. Participants will be invited to play together in a free and exploratory way with sound, and do not need any prior knowledge of how to improvise - […]

Experience the new and unusual in sound art at this special performance brought to you by Tone List. Event Content: A short performance program of fascinating, experimental and unusual music from artists with strong connections to Mandjoogoordap. Across three projects, artists explore diverse takes on new ideas in sound and listening today. Josten Myburgh plays virtuosic and enrapturing music on solo alto saxophone, exploring circular breathing and other unusual techniques on the instrument. Newly-formed duo Panamuna Triangle play a hypnotic, free-form take on post-punk, inspired by noise music and ambient jazz alike. Rhys Channing (aka Tilde~) makes use of percussion […]

New voices and new sounds abound as WAAPA’s Composition and Music Technology students share their original compositions for acoustic and electronic instruments in an exciting showcase of new music at its best: creative, innovative and exceptional. Accessibility:  

Outcome Unknown presents experimental music at the Maylands Yacht Club on October 19. With a large ensemble led by Craig Pedersen tapping into sounds of inside and outside spaces; a solo set by singer-songwriter Julia Wallace; and unfixed music for synths, guitar, and programmed drums from The Lenny Crevice, the project of Robert Cook & Andrew Christie. Entry $10/$15/$20/$25 (pay what you can). The Maylands Yacht Club is a wheelchair accessible venue. Poster image by Andre Cossio Theather. About: Outcome Unknown is an experimental music series that platforms emerging and established artists from diverse musical backgrounds. In 2018 it received […]

For their SEF workshop this month, Lyndon Blue invites you to share in a spirit of playfulness and genre-anarchy at Sullivan Hall. The afternoon will feature a revival of Lyndon's 2016 ensemble experiment 'Red Hot Go' - in which participants are required to attempt specific ideas on wholly unfamiliar instruments - as well as exploration into "game pieces," and the strange art of improvising songs. Lyndon Blue is a musician from Boorloo/Perth with a focus on composition and recording, and an instrumental background in violin and double bass. They have performed and released music locally and internationally, under their own […]

JASON KAHN (Zurich) jasonkahn.net LAURA ALTMAN (Sydney) & SAGE PBBBT lauraaltman.net sagepbbbt.com DALE GORFINKEL (Naarm) dalegorfinkel.com WE1 XAM (Naarm) marfalightsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/middle-america WETPUDDLSS https://www.instagram.com/wetpuddlss_dj/ Super excited to present this line-up of outrageously good experimental music from artists active internationally. Sometimes deadpan and intense, sometimes goofy and wild, always committed to fascinating new possibilities with sound and performance and having a Good And Interesting Time. Zurich-based artist Jason Kahn has spent over playing and writing about experimental music internationally. His idiosyncratic approach to modular synthesis involves directly touching the instrument's patch cables to use his body to complete circuits, and overdriving the instrument […]