A new musical work by Ad Lib Collective featuring Wind Up Bird, in collaboration with Andrew Nicholls Throughout human history solar eclipses have been viewed as omens of pending disaster. Inspired by the 2023 total solar eclipse in Exmouth Western Australia, celebrated contemporary artist Andrew Nicholls has conceived a suite of visual art works speculating about the disaster that this particular eclipse may have been foretelling, to be showcased at Holmes à Court Gallery @ No. 10 throughout February. You are invited to join us at Holmes à Court Gallery for the world premiere of a musical work commissioned by […]

Join composer and sound artist Elizabeth Millar to explore a variety of historical graphic scores and alternative forms of musical notation including images, video and text. Discussion will be interspersed with group playing. In the second workshop we will explore further examples and workshop graphic scores proposed by group members. These sessions are open to people from all backgrounds and levels of experience. Participants should come ready and willing to experiment with sound and music in a group setting. Sound objects and materials will be available. Musical instruments welcome. Maximum capacity of the workshop is 15 people. Bookings are essential. […]

The first GOOLUGATUP SOUNDS of 2024 is poised to ring out through the warm evening air on Friday February 16. Catch beloved Boorloo experimentalist EDUARDO COSSIO pulling otherworldly tones from zithers and electronics as only he can; before WA/Naarm/Tromsø-based daredevil KIM LIL weaves a web of gothic synthpop and mercurial club sounds. Entry is free from 7pm... local food vendors, full bar and captivating new gallery shows alongside.

_S_s_improv_ballads_poetry_noize_comedy_games_doodles_s_S_ :: Liquid Rigidity Project :: Perth exile returns from Taiwan with drummer in tow. improv ensues. :: Jack Crooks + friend :: shy guy seeks self through hip hop. discovers more sweet that bitter. :: Maisy Moo :: ballads of a millenial claustrophobe. claustophobia of the heart. very relatable. :: CAPCOM 42 :: a high order tangent. they told me almost nothing about themselves. :: Izzy French :: noize ambiance from ordained DM, it puts the edge on to take it off again. :: Patrick McCarthy_Z.G. Wayman_Kimberly Zeneth :: two card-carrying poets and a comedian in diguise. --artwork by […]

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. Kinds of Light kicks off in 2024 with a co-curation with Boorloo-via-Montreal label Mystery & Wonder. E Millar will present a live instantiation of her artificial field recording project. Craig Pedersen, joined by Michael […]

Three of America’s most cosmic and visionary artists join forces for an incandescent collaboration. Mystic performer and visual artist Lonnie Holley and prophetic jazz poet Moor are joined by revolutionary free-jazz ensemble Irreversible Entanglements, who will also perform new material from their Impulse! Records debut, Protect Your Light. Lonnie Holley and Moor Mother bring their collaborative chemistry together as well as performing their own, universally acclaimed recent releases — Lonnie Holley’s Oh Me Oh My, which was named Best New Music on Pitchfork, and Moor Mother’s Jazz Codes, which The Guardian hailed as ‘a stunning continuum of Black music’. The interwoven energies of these three artists […]

Join innovative music pioneer Michael Rother and some of his influential friends as they revisit the legendary NEU! canon for a new audience (and old fans). As a founding member of NEU!, Michael Rother (alongside his companion the late Klaus Dinger) has cast a line of inspiration that has shaped numerous musical generations. From his first musical genesis as a member of Kraftwerk and his work as Harmonia with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, Michael has etched out an entirely personal sound world, most recently captured on a string of solo and collaborative albums. Joined by long time collaborators Hans […]

Welcome to the 148th edition of Noizemaschin!! This month's stellar lineup with set times: 7.30 LOOPD 7.45 JTarr 8:00 Kompromat (Sage Pbbbt, Lesley Kaye and Stewbags) Intermission aka chats and drinks 8.45 Dimity 9:00 Measures of Distance 9:15 BITCHNOISE $10/$5 We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land where we live and work, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, and recognise their continued custodianship and connection to the land, waters and community. We pay our respects to them and their Elders past, present and emerging.

'an intervening space, especially a very small one' is a new body of work built upon a collaboration between visual artist Tessa Beale and composer Daniel Harrison in response to the Dwerda Weelardinup (Cantonment Hill) site. The artists are interested in the transient nature of observed shifts in light, shadow, texture and movement and the potential for quiet moments encountered in nature when in unhurried time. Via sound and visual output, Harrison and Beale go about extracting particular qualities, properties and characteristics, changing the scale at which things are observed and establishing new conditions for these observations. The composition and […]

Join us on February 29 for Outcome Unknown at the Maylands Yacht Club.  Featuring:▪️ Experimental duo Diöde (Kevin Robertson & Jenny Griffiths) using a 3-channel speaker array across the venue.▪️Chris Cobilis' deep dives into media archaeology and e-waste.▪️Umbra the trio of Holli Scott, Dom Barrett, and Peter Evans bringing their brand of minimalist improvisation. The club is a wheelchair accessible venuePoster by Eduardo Cossio

Composer Dan Harrison shares his methods and creative process with participants in this workshop. Walking around Dwerda Weelardinup (Cantonment Hill), participants will gather field recordings using their personal devices and return to the gallery where Dan will run through his editing process using the material captured by the group. Participants will need to bring their own smart phone to capture field recordings. This event is free for first nations people, please email gallerycurrent@gmail.com for attendance. THIS WORKSHOP RUNS IN CONJUCTION WITH THE CURRENT EXHIBITION: 'an intervening space, especially a very small one' Visual artist Tessa Beale and composer Daniel Harrison […]