Out West Liminal Sounds

Commonwealth of New Bayswater - Morning Devotionals
2023-11-19 05:00 - 05:30, 2023-11-18 05:00 - 05:30, 2023-11-17 05:00 - 05:30 (Australia/Perth) | The Commonwealth of New Bayswater Temple, Bather's Beach at Fleet Street (32°03'23.9"S 115°44'24.3"E), Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
At 5am on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of November devotionals will be performed by internationally acclaimed musicians. Performing this month are Anaxios, Jacob Diamond with Isaac Diamond, and Leafy Suburbs [with Sorcha Albuquerque and Josten Myburgh].
The services are free and open to the public visiting from any country.
[Editor’s note: Limited accessibility information is provided for this event. The event is signed as wheelchair accessible, but we know that the terrain is very uneven. We encourage you to contact the Fremantle Biennale for access details.]

WAMFEST x VOLTA: Live Electronics Showcase
2023-11-18 20:00 - 2023-11-19 01:30 | Goodwill Club, 224 William St, Northbridge, 6003, Australia
WAMFest is a city-wide FREE EVENT celebrating WA’s most exciting and progressive contemporary original musicians taking over venues and stages across Perth & Northbridge

This Saturday 18th Nov, VOLTA x WAM present WAMFest’s first LIVE ELECTRONICS STAGE at The Rechabite Basement

Join us as a selection of Perth’s finest live electronic musicians take you on a journey of music performance through their mastery of sound-generating devices.

Deep rhythms, dynamic modulations, squelchy filters, undulating beats, experimental textures, looped vocals. See new sounds being made before your eyes. All rhythmic genres are welcome here!

Perth’s premiere live electronic music-centric event series since 2018 deviates from the monthly mid-week format for a special weekend edition at WAMFest with one of our finest all live electronics line-ups yet:
// ＨＡＮＮＡＨ [8:15pm]
storytime-sounds.bandcamp.com/album/intuition
// ＹＵＭＹＡＢ [8:55pm]
https://yumyab.xyz/
// ＴＵ ＨＵＳ ＆ ＦＵＲＩＯＵＳ ＴＲＡＮＳＦＯＲＭ [9:35pm]
tuhusandfurioustransform.bandcamp.com/album/macromicro
// ＴＡＣＴＩＬＥ Ａ．Ｆ．ᴸᴵⱽᴱ ——— [10:20pm]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5uM7AlZk-w
// ＰＥＴＲＯＨＥＸ ᴸᴵⱽᴱ ——— [11pm]
petrosvouris.bandcamp.com/album/earthworx
// ＰＴＭＣ ᴸᴵⱽᴱ ——— [11:50pm]
midnightelevator.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-clubb-kids
// ＣＨＲＩＳＴＯＰＨＥＲ Ｊ ＢＲＯＷＮ ｘ ＢＥＮ ＷＡＴＥＲＳ ᴸᴵⱽᴱ ——— [12:40am]
instagram.com/everythingdies69 x instagram.com/yallerhon

Full WAMFest stage lineups can be found here: https://wamfest.com.au/wamfest-2/saturday/
Smoke machines / hazers will be in use throughout this performance. For any concerns or questions about accessibility or transport, head to therechabite.com.au/contact or message VOLTA and/or The Rechabite directly.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land that this event is held upon: the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. Sovereignty was never ceded and we acknowledge and value their central role in contributing to the vitality of this region both now and across millennia past and still to come. Always was, always will be.

Cords and wires, whistling in wind: Jameson Feakes
2023-11-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Er Pavillion (J Shed), J Shed, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Sunset listening experiences to delicate, careful music by highly-regarded experimental musicians from around Australia.
Jameson Feakes
jamesonfeakes.com
Jameson Feakes’ candid solo steel-string guitar performances fold the warmth of 70s English folk into a contemporary soundworld influenced by frontrunning experimental guitar practices, and the atmospheres and stories of this place. As impossible-to-pin-down as they are immediately beautiful.
Sun 5 Nov, 6pm – Dale Gorfinkel
Fri 10 Nov, 6pm – radio cegeste
Fri 17 Nov, 6pm – Jameson Feakes

Accessibility: The Er Pavillion is wheelchair accessible. See the Fremantle Biennale website for more details including accessible bathroom locations nearby.

ALT: EXPERIMENTIA - dreamslate / IL.DIKO / GEORGE LUCAS TOP SURGERY / 3go.terr0r1zt
2023-11-16 19:00 - 23:30 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
THIS THURSDAY :: NOVEMBER 16TH @ THE BIRD @william_street_bird

ALT::EXPERIMENTIA SERIES
guest-programmed by IZZY FRENCH
presenting:

– dreamslate @michaelburgerss // ambient, ethereal
– IL.DIKO @il__diko // experimental, songwriting
– GEORGE LUCAS TOP SURGERY @jaxondegas // punished, gnome
– 3go.terr0r1zt @one2.2four @august_wav // conscious, noize

@razorbouquet DJs takes over the @rituals.perth session 5pm-8pm in the courtyard!!

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Thursday, November 16th
181 William Street Northbridge Boorloo
$10 on the door
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Venue Accessibility: www.williamstreetbird.com/accessibility

We would like to acknowledge that ALT is holding this event on Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Follow us >> https://linktr.ee/heartsofdarkness

#liveperth #experimental #noisemusic #ambient #altperth #alternativeperth

Poster by @one2.2four

Commonwealth of New Bayswater Temple - Morning Devotionals
2023-11-16 05:00 - 05:30 | The Commonwealth of New Bayswater Temple, Bather's Beach at Fleet Street (32°03'23.9"S 115°44'24.3"E), Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia

Samuel Bielby: Machinic Paragenesis (opening performance)
2023-11-15 20:00 - 21:00 | Current, 141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
[Editor’s note: We are aware of a performance occurring at 8pm on the opening night of the exhibition by Samuel and collaborators, advertised on Current’s Instagram. The below text is identical to the main exhibition event on our listing.]
We are extremely excited to announce our first SHOW: EXHIBITION OR PROJECT; Samuel Beilby’s Machinic Paragenesis.
Samuel’s work captured us instantly and have put together an exhibition that just had to be part of CURRENT. This is one of those shows that you just have to experience to grasp. In Samuel’s own words:

‘On one-hand, it can be recognised as a DIY experiment in guerrilla field recording and video art-making that amounts to both an exposition of capitalism’s definitive exploitation of the natural world, and the generative potential of noise as an artistic material for charting complex tensions particular to our late-capitalist reality.
On the other-hand, the project ironically drags noise back into the meat-grinder, commodifying the emancipated remnants of a labour built upon harvested bio-organisation and amounting to a diminution of the liberatory potential of noise in production systems. This is an experiment that has produced a paradoxical outcome, in which product and byproduct, luxury and necessity, repetition and difference are blurred, confused and hybridised.’

Samuel Bielby: Machinic Paragenesis
2023-11-15 - 2023-11-23 | Current, 141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
We are extremely excited to announce our first SHOW: EXHIBITION OR PROJECT; Samuel Beilby’s Machinic Paragenesis.
Samuel’s work captured us instantly and have put together an exhibition that just had to be part of CURRENT. This is one of those shows that you just have to experience to grasp. In Samuel’s own words:

‘On one-hand, it can be recognised as a DIY experiment in guerrilla field recording and video art-making that amounts to both an exposition of capitalism’s definitive exploitation of the natural world, and the generative potential of noise as an artistic material for charting complex tensions particular to our late-capitalist reality.
On the other-hand, the project ironically drags noise back into the meat-grinder, commodifying the emancipated remnants of a labour built upon harvested bio-organisation and amounting to a diminution of the liberatory potential of noise in production systems. This is an experiment that has produced a paradoxical outcome, in which product and byproduct, luxury and necessity, repetition and difference are blurred, confused and hybridised.’

Malleefowl 8: Sally Ann McIntyre (Naarm) & Andrew Sutherland
2023-11-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Meltham Cultural Precinct, Private location, Bayswater, WA, 6053, Australia
Come on Monday, November 13, 6pm for performances by poet Andrew Sutherland and sound artist Sally Ann McIntyre.
Andrew Sutherland is a Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer, poet and theatre-maker in Boorloo making some of the most challenging and intruiging work in town (in this author’s opinion). His work moves between confronting experimentalism and pop culture affection deftly, sometimes even managing to make one seem like the other. He will read some of his amazing poems.
Sally Ann McIntyre visits from Naarm to play at the Fremantle Biennale on November 9. Here she’s offering something better suited to a small space and close listening attention, rather than the windy outdoor festival location. Her work speaks volumes about extinction, loss and absence using sampled documentary audio, radio silence, dead air, static and interference.
As always there will be dinner to share. It will probably be something needlessly elaborate. It will be vegetarian and will accommodate everyone’s dietary needs. Best to BYO drinks.
Please RSVP to unhearable.chords@gmail.com for the address, and tell Josten any dietary or access needs/concerns you may have. Plus-ones, kids, plus-one’s-plus-ones etc. are welcome.
Entry by donation, any amount (suggested $20).
NB: Malleefowl cannot accommodate dinner for RSVPs made after midnight November 9 as I do the shopping on the 10th. Additionally, if you are intending to come but not to stay for dinner, please communicate this. Thanks.
Accessibility: Regrettably the Meltham Cultural Precinct is a very inaccessible venue for wheelchair users. Entry is either via three flights of stairs (the front door), a very steep driveway to the right of the house followed by a single step to enter the house, or a single flight of steps followed by a single step to enter the house on the right side. The bathroom is not wheelchair accessible (the entranceway is narrow, and around a bend). Happy to assist with access if needed but the bathroom situation sucks. Otherwise: the vibe will be pretty relaxed, you can check out in the garden if you need to take a break, there’s multiple seating options, the music will be relatively quiet (acoustic, unamplified), there are usually quite a lot of people in a relatively small space.

Laura Altman (Sydney) end-of-residency showing
2023-11-12 14:00 - 15:00 | 8 Hickey St, 8 Hickey St, Ardross, WA, 6153, Australia
Join us for a presentation by Tone List & Goolugatup artist in residence, Laura Altman, visiting for two weeks from Gadigal land (Sydney). An integral member of Sydney’s experimental music scene, Laura’s practice incorporates experimental improvisation, site-specific music-making, composing and writing songs, and curating. She’ll share some of the work she produced during this open-ended residency.
RSVPs appreciated at info@tonelist.com.au.
NB: The venue is only accessible via stairs and does not have accessible bathrooms.

Cords and wires, whistling in wind: radio cegeste (Naarm)
2023-11-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Er Pavillion (J Shed), J Shed, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Sunset listening experiences to delicate, careful music by highly-regarded experimental musicians from around Australia.
radio cegeste
https://radiocegeste.blogspot.com/
Musician, artist and poet radio cegeste (Sally Ann McIntyre) performs with radio silence, field recordings of extinct animals, static and interference to make intimate and extraordinary works that ruminate on loss, haunting and memory.
Sun 5 Nov, 6pm – Dale Gorfinkel
Fri 10 Nov, 6pm – radio cegeste
Fri 17 Nov, 6pm – Jameson Feakes

ALT/Experimentia x Burnt Seed Records: Drowned God / Kim Little x BladeRunar / Lowmass / Noise for No One / Samarobryn / Scientia x Tenebrae
2023-11-09 19:00 - 23:30 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
ALT teams up with BURNT SEED RECORDS for their next edition of Experimentia Series.
featuring A-Z:
– Drowned God
– Kim Little x BladeRunar
– Lowmass
– Noise for No One
– Samarobryn
– Scientia x Tenebrae
RAZORBOUQUET DJs takeover the RITUALS courtyard slot from 5pm-8pm
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Thursday November 9th
@ The Bird
$10 on the door
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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.
Follow us >> https://linktr.ee/heartsofdarkness
Poster by @yumyab

Tone List Fundraiser Extravaganza ft. Great Statue, Tone List Orchestra & Sookie (DJ)
2023-11-09 17:00 - 21:00 | Sullivan Hall, 2 Nannine Ave, White Gum Valley, WA, Australia
Join us for a celebration of Tone List and to help us raise money to continue our operations into the future.
Come down to The Sullivan Hall from 5pm for hangs, home-cooked food and drinks, with live music kicking off around 7pm.
Entry by donation. Your generosity is admired and appreciated.
Schedule
from 5pm: hangs, home cooked food, limited edition merch, silly antics, and Sookie (504, The Noise and Vibration Council) sharing some music and ways of listening to music. Bring a picnic rug and lounge in the sun outside the hall – it’s beaut.
after 7pm: live performances by
Great Statue – is it scary drag, avant-garde electronic music or just Really Fun?
Tone List Orchestra – legendary one-off large-ensemble collaboration, featuring
Pedro Alvarez (quenas), Sally Ann McIntyre (electronics), Simon Charles (soprano saxophone), Jameson Feakes (guitar), Dale Gorfinkel (Naarm, self-made instruments), Djuna Lee (double bass), Annika Moses (voice), Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone), Dan O’Connor (trumpet), Craig Pedersen (trumpet), Sage Pbbbt (voices), Laura Altman (Sydney, clarinet & electronics), Thea Rossen (percussion), Gracie Smith (electric guitar & electronics), Stuart Orchard (self-made instruments), Naoko Uemoto (saxophones) & Saskia Willinge (flute).
Why do we need to raise funds?
Tone List is a volunteer-run, registered not-for-profit charity organisation. It costs us about $3000 a year to maintain insurances, business registrations, and software subscriptions. As we pay all of our ticket money to artists, we have previously covered these costs by including them in grant budgets where appropriate. Our applications both this and last year towards project funding for 2023 were all rejected, leaving us without this usual financial base.
Here is why those things are worth paying for:
– our NFP status lets us apply for and auspice funding to support projects in the scene. We frequently volunteer our time to do this and have paid tens of thousands in artist fees to musicians through our own projects and via auspices.
– we’re a channel for philanthropic support for the scene and have supported tax-deductible donations being directed to pay artists for performances and new work
– we advocate for the scene internationally and have aided in getting WA artists to festivals and concert series’ interstate and overseas through the networks we’ve established via the label and our concert programming.
– our standing as an award-winning, critically acclaimed platform allows us to write valuable letters of support to support internationally touring artists in their applications for funding inbound travel, and Perth artists acquiring funding for projects. We do this dozens of times a year.
– we advocate for local institutions and festivals to take the local experimental music scene seriously, involving artists from the scene in their programming and paying artists and curators proper rates for their work.
– artists on our roster receive benefits like free BandCamp Pro subscriptions for their own profiles.
– we can maintain a digital archive of our activities for posterity.
We welcome questions and comments from you all!

Accessibility: The Sullivan Hall is a wheelchair accessible space. Both bathrooms are all-gender and wheelchair accessible and are located outside of the space, accessible via even terrain (concrete path). Both doors of the venue will be open for much of the day to ensure airflow; we will only close them if there are noise concerns. Tone List promotes “being how you are” at the show, you can move around, lie on the floor, check out and go outside if you need fresh air or a break, etc. There is parking available immediately outside the venue, however it fills up quickly. The music will at times be loud.
Tone List acknowledges the sovereign Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the traditional and rightful custodians of where we work (Walyalup and Boorloo).

Fremantle Biennale: So once you were here they had you
2023-11-09 - 2023-11-12 | Bathers Beach, Fremantle, WA, 6160
Close to the submerged remnants of the Fremantle Long Jetty, an immersive re-telling of arrival and separation will unfold.
So once you were here they had you is an experiential audio-visual poem to the 50 young cotton-weaver women who arrived on the shores of Walyalup, journeying by ship from Lancashire over 110 days and nights in 1863. Created by electronic music composer Rebecca Riggs-Bennett and video artist Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, this work takes place across Bathers Beach, re-tracing the steps of the women and the many others of the “Bride Ship” era.
So once you were here they had you is a reflective honouring of the time swept experiences of these women. Cross with us into an immersive, at times ghostly, real and imagined narrative of migration, loss and departure.
Animator: Jarrad Russell
Dramaturgy & Co-Designer: Rachel Riggs
Narration: Angeliki Georga & Phoebe Georga

Date and Time

Bathers Beach (near Kidogo Arthouse), Fremantle
9 – 12 Nov
Thurs – Sun
7pm, 7.30pm, 8pm
Audio-Described & Assistive Listening Performance
Sat 11 Nov (book here)
Auslan Interpreted Performances
Sun 12 Nov (book here)

Perth International Jazz Festival: fOUR
2023-11-05 18:00 - 19:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
fOUR: Nate Wood’s one-man band of virtuosic ability and space-y sounds.
Grammy-nominated, New York-based multi-instrumentalist Nate Wood called this project fOUR “because it’s me with four limbs playing four instruments at once”. A truly ambitious take on going solo, Wood plays everything — analogue synths, drums, bass, guitar as well as vocals — at the same time.
fOUR’s sound veers from complex, space-y prog rock to electronic-tinged instrumentals.
“Wood’s brain splits attention between four synthesisers, an electric bass and a drum kit, all while singing about futurism. Wood plays all of fOUR’s tunes in one take. No backing tracks. No overdubs. Nate Wood pulls us into an industrial, neon dystopia with tunes that stand alone as headphone music without the accompanying visuals, meticulously crafted and with precise execution. This isn’t novelty music. You’re hearing (and seeing) a mastermind songwriter and mad scientist at work.” NPR Music

Cords and wires, whistling in wind: Dale Gorfinkel (Naarm)
2023-11-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Er Pavillion (J Shed), J Shed, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Sunset listening experiences to delicate, careful music by highly-regarded experimental musicians from around Australia.
Dale Gorfinkel
www.dalegorfinkel.com
Dale Gorfinkel has been engaging in site-attentive improvisation for over fifteen years. He carries a deep attention, playfulness and a captivating sense of flow across all of his performances, which usually are made on self-made instruments. His “Air Drums” use breath to vibrate large balloon membranes stretched over drums. These are amplified by microphones that swing like pendulums, creating phenomenal ripples of tone and sub-bass rumbles. Bunningscore meets profound attunement with place.
Sun 5 Nov, 6pm – Dale Gorfinkel
Fri 10 Nov, 6pm – radio cegeste
Fri 17 Nov, 6pm – Jameson Feakes
Accessibility: The Er Pavillion is wheelchair accessible. See the Fremantle Biennale website for more details including accessible bathroom locations nearby.

Perth International Jazz Festival: Matthew Sheens & Ben Vanderwal
2023-11-05 15:30 - 16:30 | Liberty Theatre, 81 Barrack Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Nice To Meet You: pianist Matthew Sheens and drummer Ben Vanderwal play together for the first time
First meetings rarely play out in public, but they will at this unique series of shows. Nice To Meet You brings together two world-class musicians who have never played together and puts them in front of an audience that can watch in wonder as they navigate this new musical relationship in real time.
In this performance, New York-based Australian pianist and composer Matthew Sheens is paired with globally renowned Perth drummer Ben Vanderwal. How will these two unique forces in the world of jazz find their way forward? Will it be a meeting of musical minds or a clash of musical titans? No-one will know until they hit the stage of the atmospheric and intimate Liberty Theatre. – and you could be among the only people to witness this premiere performance. Because there can never be another first time.

Perth International Jazz Festival: Josh Meader & Sam Anning
2023-11-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Liberty Theatre, 81 Barrack Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Nice To Meet You: guitarist Josh Meader and bass player Sam Anning play together for the first time.
First meetings don’t always play out in public, but they will at this unique series of shows. Nice To Meet You brings together two world-class musicians who have never played together, and puts them in front of an audience that can watch in wonder as they navigate this new musical relationship in real time.
In this performance, Sydney guitarist Josh Meader will meet Melbourne bass player Sam Anning. Will these two powerhouse players create musical fireworks, or slip into subtle, sonoric serenity? No-one will know until they hit the stage of the atmospheric and intimate Liberty Theatre. – and you could be among the only people to witness this premiere performance. Because there can never be another first time.

Perth International Jazz Festival: Shannon Barnett & Helen Svoboda
2023-11-05 12:30 - 13:30 | Liberty Theatre, 81 Barrack Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Nice to Meet You: trombonist Shannon Barnett meets double bassist and vocalist Helen Svoboda.
First meetings rarely play out in public, but they will at this unique series of shows. Nice To Meet You brings together two world-class musicians who have never played together, and puts them in front of an audience that can watch in wonder as they navigate this new musical relationship in real time.
In this performance, Australian-born, German-based trombonist Shannon Barnett will meet Melbourne double bass player and vocalist Helen Svoboda. Will this duo create musical magic of spartan simplicity or radically robust improvisations? No-one will know until they hit the stage of the atmospheric and intimate Liberty Theatre. – and you could be among the only people to witness this premiere performance. Because there can never be another first time.

Perth International Jazz Festival: Tom Avgenicos & Jessica Carlton
2023-11-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Liberty Theatre, 81 Barrack Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Nice To Meet You: trumpeters Tom Avgenicos and Jessica Carlton play together for the first time.
First meetings rarely play out in public, but they will at this unique series of shows. Nice To Meet You brings together two world-class musicians who have never played together and puts them in front of an audience that can watch in wonder as they navigate this new musical relationship in real time.
In this performance, Australian trumpeters Tom Avgenicos and Jessica Carlton will take to the stage under these unique circumstances. Will it be duelling trumpets or a scintillating soundscape of haunting beauty? No-one will know until they hit the stage of the atmospheric and intimate Liberty Theatre. – and you could be among the only people to witness this premiere performance. Because there can never be another first time.

Perth International Jazz Festival: Delay 45
2023-11-04 21:00 - 22:00 | Goodwill Club, 224 William St, Northbridge, 6003, Australia
Tom Avgenicos presents Ghosts Between Streams, an ode to nature via a rich tapestry of sounds, with Delay 45.
Ghosts Between Streams is an interdisciplinary work by 2022 Freedman Fellow, composer and trumpeter Tom Avgenicos. It blends chamber music, contemporary jazz and electronics to explore the power struggle between nature and urbanisation. With an overarching environmental concern, the work captures the notion of solastalgia – the sadness felt at the loss or change of a beloved place in nature.
Inspired by Avgenicos’ daily walks through Stringybark Creek Reserve on Cammeraygal Country (Sydney), Ghosts Between Streamspaints a vivid picture of the reserve’s rich flora and fauna, now threatened by urban development. This is reflected in the work through an exploration of contrasts: light and dark, consonance and dissonance, smooth and jagged, acoustic and electronic.
Ghosts is performed by Avgenicos’ long-standing quartet, Delay 45, featuring Roshan Kumarage (piano), Dave Quinn (bass) and Ashley Stoneham (drums). Together they create a rich tapestry of sounds and textures that are woven together into an epic work that promises to take audiences on a spellbinding journey brimming with emotional power and resonance.

Perth International Jazz Festival: Helen Svoboda (solo)
2023-11-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Goodwill Club, 224 William St, Northbridge, 6003, Australia
A “whimsical and free” solo performance for double bass and voice.
Helen Svoboda is a double bassist, vocalist and composer. In the words of the ABC Music Show’s Andrew Ford, she is “a musician who absolutely defies categorisation”. Her work explores the melodic potential of the contemporary double bass, intricately weaving extended techniques and overtones with vocal tessitura to explore themes of sonic unity amidst abstract songwriting. Her performance practice emits a childlike, quirky energy, with a flair for “allowing difficult ideas to sound whimsical and free”, according to vocalist Kristin Berardi.
For this performance, she presents a series of new solo works for double bass and voice, composed during her time in Finland as part of the Helsinki International Artist Programme earlier this year. Inspired by the arctic biosphere on Suomenlinna, the materials feature extended overtone techniques and short songs akin to a stream of sonic consciousness.

Fremantle Biennale: Kastoms performance with Taloi Havini, Ben Hakalitz & Mario Celestino
2023-11-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Old Customs House, 8 Philimore St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Kastoms is a new iteration of Taloi Havini’s Answer to the Call, an immersive twenty-two speaker installation, composed in dialogue with contemporary arts practice, scientific investigation and customary wisdom.
Originally created after her residency onboard the R/V Falkor (Schmidt Ocean Institute) and premiered with the TBA21-Academy at Ocean Space, Venice (2021), this significant work is now re-imagined in Australia for the first time, resounding in a series of cycles specifically for the Old Customs House in Fremantle.
An island platform will lie at the centre, its shape and blue tones will evoke the depth and expanse of our understanding of Oceania from the viewpoint of the artists homeland, the island of Buka, Bougainville. Listeners will be absorbed into a meditative and gradual evolving soundtrack, designed by Hayley Forward. Hydrophone recordings of sea floor sonar mapping are layered with ocean chants and Indigenous instruments composed by musician’s Ben Hakalitz and Mario Celestino. Traversing beyond a scientific lens, Kastoms utilises an ancient call and response method as an invitation for all to enter a temporal space created for deep-listening and relating.
Like the ocean, Kastoms is a work of sensory depth, ancient dialogues and cultural contemporary resonance. Alongside the installation, Kastoms will include an intimate live performance and in-conversation between Taloi Havini and collaborating musicians Ben Hakalitz and Mario Celestino.
Traditional Composition & Instruments: Ben Hakalitz, Mario Celestino, Past Hakö elders chants
Composition & Sound Design: Hayley Forward
Sound Engineer: Felix Abrahams
Sound Mixing: Jeremy Turner
Producer: Angela Duffy
Originally commissioned by the TBA-21 Academy at Ocean Space, Venice, 2021.

Perth International Jazz Festival: Shannon Barnett Quartet
2023-11-03 21:00 - 23:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Trombonist Shannon Barnett and her quartet blend German precision with Australian humour and musical mastery.
Described as a “soul-meltingly communicative brass player”, trombonist Shannon Barnett brings her German-based quartet to the Perth International Jazz Festival for the time. Building on her already impressive performance background in Australia, Barnett moved to Cologne in 2014, where she soon crossed paths with David Helm (bass), Fabian Arends (drums) and Stefan Karl Schmid (tenor saxophone) and subsequently formed this quartet. They have released three albums together (Hype, Bad Lover and Alive at Loft) and have toured throughout Europe and Australia, including performing at the 2016 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Sydney Women’s Jazz Festival.
Predominantly playing Barnett’s compositions, audiences can expect German precision mixed with Australian humour and a great deal of exciting musical interaction in between.
“Barnett is a trombonist who tells stories with her instrument, seemingly squeezing out words and sentences, whistling meoldies and trills – completely at peace with herself and her tool.” – Dylan Cem Akalin, jazzandrock.com
“… a soul-meltingly communicative brass player” – Matty Bannond, Free Jazz Collective
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
[Editor’s note for accessibility: The Rechabite is accessible via the side entrance off of William Street. The Hall is on the first floor and is accessible via lift. FOH staff should be able to direct you there. It has wheelchair accessible bathrooms on the basement level via lift.]

Goolugatup Sounds - Laura Altman (Syd) / SCRATCHING / Marcus Whale (Syd)
2023-11-03 18:00 - 21:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
GOOLUGATUP SOUNDS 16
w/
SCRATCHING
MARCUS WHALE (eora / nsw)
+ LAURA ALTMAN (eora / nsw)
Friday 3 November 2023 / Free entry from 6pm
GS16 finds us in the height of Kambarang season, welcoming three acts who illuminate different threads connecting familiar genre tropes with freeform sound exploration. Each offers their music alongside vivid modes of performance – where elements of theatre, human movement,
SCRATCHING is the ever-evolving collaboration of Grace Sanders and Ezekiel Padmanabham, augmented live by some of Boorloo’s finest players and sound-shapers. With Grace’s introspective-yet-sprawling songwriting and Ezekiel’s omnivorous production approach, Scratching can veer from futuristic dance-pop to lo-fi folk; ambient balladry to chiming electronica; even to noise and accelerationist pop-punk without once breaking the spell of their distinctive soundworld. Never the type to rest on their laurels, Scratching have hinted at an extra-special set for Goolugatup Sounds 16; whatever it is is likely to be bold and bright, emanating life-affirming creative energy.
Travelling West from Sydney/Gadigal country is MARCUS WHALE, one of the most unmistakeable presences in the Australian DIY music scene. When he’s not making avant-pop with long running duo Collarbones or gothy punk with Perfect Actress, Marcus’ solo practice excavates the “blurry intersection between desire and religion” and “the poetics of memory and ghostliness.” His crystalline voice is typically front and centre – with dramatic electronics, heady percussion and warped club rhythms forming a an ornate, at times grotesque architecture for it to inhabit and diffuse. Effortlessly folding in the aesthetics of opera, horror cinema and hyperreal erotica, Marcus crafts singular moods and an entirely unforgettable live show.
LAURA ALTMAN, also based on Gadigal Country, is a cherished fixture in Sydney’s experimental sound community – known for her roles in projects like Splinter Orchestra, Prophets, Great Waitress, Couch (with Low Flung) and many more. As a composer and solo performer, Laura explores everything from painterly drones and “extended techniques” to song-forms, social practice and the zoomed-in details of timbre and resonance. Tone List (who alongside Goolugatup are presenting Laura’s artist residency at Yagan Mia / Wireless Hill) remark that “Laura has an extraordinary and unique practice of improvising with clarinet, cassette tapes, resonators and acoustic feedback from small speakers, in a manner where it’s hard to distinguish what thing is making what sound.” Whatever their puzzling origins, Laura’s sounds are bound to captivate, thrill and intrigue.
PLUS – an open studio and pop-up shop from local makers VOLIM, food from local providores, full bar and the opening of Goolugatup’s annual site-specific exhibition TILT – this year featuring Lisa Liebetrau and Shannon Lyons in a show curated by Brent Harrison.
[www.goolugatup.com/exhibitions]
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We acknowledge the Bibbulmun as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we stand and pay respect to the Whadjuk people, and Elders past, present, future.
ACCESS –
Physical access: Goolugatup gallery is wheelchair accessible via footpaths / low-incline ramps, and ACROD parking is available nearby. Main entry is 1.4m wide, and accessible toilet doors are 0.9m wide. Toilets are unisex. Performances will take place in the outdoor courtyard.
Audiovisuals: Lighting and sound levels are of moderate intensity. Dynamic projected visuals may be used, but no strobes or intense fast-flashing lights.
If you require an AUSLAN interpreter please contact us and we’ll facilitate wherever possible. Goolugatup Heathcote does not currently have Hearing Loop facilities.
Transport: Goolugatup Heathcote is a cultural precinct comprising heritage buildings and a nature reserve, located on the shores of the Derbal Yerrigan in the suburb of Applecross, just south of the centre of Boorloo Perth, WA. It is a 10 minute drive from the CBD, and ample free parking is available onsite. The closest train station is Canning Bridge, and the closest bus route the 148.
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Image: Lyndon Blue

Fremantle Biennale: Resonant
2023-11-03 - 2023-11-19 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Resonant is an exhibition bringing together two distinct installations at PS Art Space by Bori Benko and Rob Kettels. In conversation with space, time and, one another. Resonant will transport viewers into an entangled vibrational and sonic world, into a space of shared visual lyricism and intertwined histories.
Bori Benko’s Songs to the Universe makes visible the vibrating forces beyond our perception. Everything in our world, in the digital landscape and within our bodies, hum with vibrational energy. Bori captures these different frequencies and unique tunes in her moving mechanical sculptures. Revealed in this exhibition are the harmonies, patterns and travelling waves that are usually invisible to the human eye.
Rob Kettels’ installation delves into the legacy of maritime time-balls – now obsolete navigational instruments – which served as signalling devices for mariners beginning in the early 19th century. Inspired by a historical incident in 1911 when Fremantle’s time-ball malfunctioned, dropping at the incorrect time, Rob’s artwork unfolds in a fictional narrative portraying a ship’s disorientating return to Europe with its timepiece mistakenly set. Electromechanical assemblages and animated sequences playfully expose and challenge settler colonial notions of mastery and control of time.
Gallery hours: 10am-8pm, Thursday to Sunday.
[Editor’s note: PS Art Space’s ground floor is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms. The event website has further accessibility information.]

Fremantle Biennale: Kastoms
2023-11-03 - 2023-11-19 | Old Customs House, 8 Philimore St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Kastoms is a new iteration of Taloi Havini’s Answer to the Call, an immersive twenty-two speaker installation, composed in dialogue with contemporary arts practice, scientific investigation and customary wisdom.
Originally created after her residency onboard the R/V Falkor (Schmidt Ocean Institute) and premiered with the TBA21-Academy at Ocean Space, Venice (2021), this significant work is now re-imagined in Australia for the first time, resounding in a series of cycles specifically for the Old Customs House in Fremantle.
An island platform will lie at the centre, its shape and blue tones will evoke the depth and expanse of our understanding of Oceania from the viewpoint of the artists homeland, the island of Buka, Bougainville. Listeners will be absorbed into a meditative and gradual evolving soundtrack, designed by Hayley Forward. Hydrophone recordings of sea floor sonar mapping are layered with ocean chants and Indigenous instruments composed by musician’s Ben Hakalitz and Mario Celestino. Traversing beyond a scientific lens, Kastoms utilises an ancient call and response method as an invitation for all to enter a temporal space created for deep-listening and relating.
Like the ocean, Kastoms is a work of sensory depth, ancient dialogues and cultural contemporary resonance. Alongside the installation, Kastoms will include an intimate live performance and in-conversation between Taloi Havini and collaborating musicians Ben Hakalitz and Mario Celestino.
Traditional Composition & Instruments: Ben Hakalitz, Mario Celestino, Past Hakö elders chants
Composition & Sound Design: Hayley Forward
Sound Engineer: Felix Abrahams
Sound Mixing: Jeremy Turner
Producer: Angela Duffy
Originally commissioned by the TBA-21 Academy at Ocean Space, Venice, 2021.
[Editor’s note: Accessibility details available via the event website.]

Fremantle Biennale: The Port's Call
2023-11-03 - 2023-11-12 | Victoria Quay & Inner Harbour, Fremantle Port, Victoria Quay & Inner Harbour, Fremantle Port, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Fremantle’s Inner Harbour will be transformed by The Port’s Call, an expansive sonic installation by Thomas Supple and Byron J Scullin. Beginning at dawn on the first day of the Biennale and continuing until dusk on Sunday 12 November, the arrival and departure of each large vessel (regardless of the time of day), will be signalled by a bespoke soundscape.
With each passing vessel, a continually changing symphony of sound, using long-range acoustic technology, will echo throughout the Port. Stretching across a square kilometre, from the South Mole into Victoria Quay, the harbour will become a living stage for this sound experience, attuned to the rhythms of industry.
Combining human voices and subtle electronics, this auditory voyage invites listeners to consider anew the cacophony, movement and epic orchestra that is our global system of commercial goods.
Resonating across the surfaces of these iconic ocean goliaths, The Port’s Call is an unrepeatable experience calling us to voyage and this place of safe harbour.
[Editor’s note: Accessibility details available on the event website.]

Kinds of Light 8: AA Matheson (Naarm) / Land's Air
2023-11-02 19:30 - 22:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Kinds of Light is a concert series for creative music in the striking surrounds of PS Art Space in Walyalup/Fremantle. 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.
The final Kinds of Light for 2023 takes place on November 2 with doors and a bar opening at 7:30pm, followed by the music starting shortly after. The concert features songs by AA Matheson and experimental improvisations by Land’s Air, linked by their slow-burn pace and an utmost care for tiny nuances in sound.
Heartbreaking and slower-than-slow, AA Matheson’s songs burn beautifully with struggle and grief, often unfolding so gradually that every note feels radically important. Whilst most easily categorised as alt-country, influences to her songwriting seep in from field recordings, ambient music, and the minimalist end of experimental composition. The result is truly unique and personal. Her debut record “Trying” folds multiple spaces and times together, recorded in multiple locations and conjuring images of the wheatbelt, the Californian desert, and the cold eucalypt forests of Victoria.
https://marfalightsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/trying
Land’s Air is made up of prolific experimental musician and organiser Eduardo Cossio, and Kinds of Light curator Josten Myburgh. Playing completely improvised concerts with an unusual combination of alto saxophone, amplified zithers, cassette tapes and effects pedals, the sound world their music creates is vivid and distinct. Their debut release on Tone List explored haunting microtonal melodies over endless, ringing drones, sounding like music for an otherworldly liturgy. Recently returned from a 15-show tour of Europe, their sound has arrived at new places marked by gradual pace and a striving to combine the diverse sounds they make into one totality.
https://tonelist.bandcamp.com/album/lands-air
Each artist will present a performance of 30-40 minutes duration, with a break in-between.
Accessibility: This event will be held upstairs at PS due to the usual ground floor space being unavailable. This floor can only be accessed by two flights of stairs and as such is not wheelchair accessible. Gender-neutral and accessible bathrooms are located down the stairs on the ground floor. There is ample seating available and the venue is very spacious. The music will at times be very quiet.
Tone List acknowledge the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the traditional custodians of where we work (Walyalup and Boorloo).
