Out West Liminal Sounds

Perth International Jazz Festival: Delay 45
2023-11-04 21:00 - 22:00 (Australia/Perth) | 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.
goolugatup.com
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).

Noizemaschin!! 144
2023-10-31 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Come one and all to 144th edition of Noizemaschin!!
(Extra) spooky Halloween edition!!
Featuring the amazing
Christopher John Brown
WE1 XAM
Pastoral Care Seance
Spectacular Decay
Ghost Of She
Scientia and Tenebrae
Jo Rider & Jean-Michel (feat Unknown Bird)
504
$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.

Jason Kahn: On Listening
2023-10-29 10:00 - 13:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
On Listening
Workshop: October 29, 10am-1pm at Goolugatup Heathcote’s Mandoon Hall
Pay-what-you-can entry (suggested $10-$20), registrations essential
Presented by internationally renowned experimental musician Jason Kahn (Zurich), visiting with the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
The workshop On Listening investigates the activity of listening in the context of an artistic practice. Active listening, as in the sense of a listening intervention, is something that each of us can do without any special training or skills, but which many of us might not have thought of doing before. Much has been made of the art of field recording, but what if we put away the microphones and sound recorders and just tried to focus on the essence of a particular place through concentrated listening?
The workshop runs for around three hours, depending on the number of participants. After a brief introduction from each of the participants and myself about our practice, we move outside to spend around one hour listening at a particular place. This does not involve the use of sound recorders, taking notes or using a mobile phone. People are just meant to sit and listen and reflect on what listening means, what the sounds they are hearing produce in terms of how they perceive the space around them, both as a physical as well as social entity. After the listening session we will spend the final hour of the workshop discussing our experiences.
The workshop is not geared towards producing any answers or finished products, but to open up a discussion about what it means to listen to our environments as a creative practice. It is open to anyone who is interested in listening. There are no technical requirements or skills required.
Part of our workshop day with Sound Exploration Fremantle.
Sign-up at bit.ly/TLSEF.
jasonkahn.net
The Mandoon Hall at Goolugatup Heathcote is wheelchair accessible and accessible bathrooms are available on site. The route taken on the listening component of the workshop can be tailored to diverse access needs.

Tone List Presents: Jason Kahn (Zurich), Dale Gorfinkel (Naarm), Laura Altman (Sydney) & Sage Pbbbt, WE1 XAM (Naarm) & wetpuddlss
2023-10-28 19:00 - 22:30 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
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 with feedback and input from contact microphones and electromagnetic pickups. Wild and outta control yet with a focus and presence that comes only from great experience.

Laura Altman, our artist in residence visiting from Sydney, plays a fascinating and delicate setup using clarinet in tandem with gentle feedback between cassette players, resonating chambers and small speakers. She delicately blends the sound of the clarinet and the electronic sounds, making them almost indistinguishable. She joins local exploratory vocalist Sage Pbbbt, a long-running but infrequent collaborator of hers, for a duo set of detailed, subtle sounds.

Naarm-based instrument builder Dale Gorfinkel’s new solo project “Headbanging” involves the use of drums from as many as four drum kits alongside numerous auxillary percussion instruments, all played by one musician using more than ten mallets simultaneously with the aid of a custom-made helmet. Outrageous, hilarious and brilliant.

WE1 XAM – Jaslyn Robertson & Darlene Aaron from Naarm – play idiosyncratic drone meltdowns using multiple layers of analogue and FM synthesis. Ecstatic and enveloping.

Weird party energy and interim ambience brought by wetpuddlss (Ailsa Waddell), presenter on RTR.FM‘s trainwreck, contemporary artist and regular performer about town.

A hint of Audible Edge energy for yas!

Doors, DJ and bar open at 7:00pm, live music starts just after 7:30.

Tone List events work on a pay-what-you-can principle: you are welcome to pay any amount. For this gig we suggest $30, $20 or $10.

Accessibility: This event is held upstairs at PS, which is only accessible via two flights of stairs. Gender-neutral accessible bathrooms are located on the ground floor. The music will at times be very loud or very quiet. No flashing lights or strobes will be used.

Tone List is a Boorloo-based exploratory music label, operating on the lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. We pay our respects to custodians and elders of this boodja past, present and future.

Sound Exploration Fremantle: "Red Hot Go" with Lyndon Blue
2023-10-22 14:00 - 16:30 | Sullivan Hall, 2 Nannine Ave, White Gum Valley, WA, Australia
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 name and guises such as Leafy Suburbs, Solar Barge, and Heathcote Blue. Lyndon’s musical output appears in past, present and intermittent collaborations including Spice World, Methyl Ethel, Seams, Spirit Level, Vanishing Island Group, Moses & Blue and many more. Though their main interest lies in the construction and deconstruction of song-forms, Lyndon has been a regular improviser in Boorloo and Naarm and composed for theatre, dance, film, and installation works. They are currently Music Curator at Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery, Applecross and a regular presenter on RTRFM’s Difficult Listening show.
entry by donation: $10/15/20
(all contributions go towards paying the professional musicians who guide our workshops and to rental for the hall)
The Sullivan Hall is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms.

Outcome Unknown 94: Craig Pedersen Ensemble / Julia Wallace / The Lenny Crevice
2023-10-19 19:00 - 22:00 | Maylands Yacht Club, East St, Maylands, WA, 6051
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 a nomination for Industry Representative of the Year at the West Australian Music Awards.
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Outcome Unknown gratefully acknowledges the support of Tura New Music.

WAAPA Composition & Music Technology presents: Shock of the New
2023-10-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Richard Gill Auditorium, Building 1, Room 110 (1.110), Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley, WA, 6050
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:

Mandjoogoordap Sound Art Showcase
2023-10-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Mandurah Performing Arts Centre Dance Studio, Ormbsy Terrace, Mandurah, WA, 6210, Australia
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 instruments, nature recordings and computer-generated electronic sounds to produce beautiful and highly textured sounds for immersive listening.
Limited spaces available. Light catering provided.
Enjoy this performance on its own, or as part of a triple-billed night of contemporary performance alongside tiny revolutions by pvi collective and BRUCE by The Last Great Hunt for a special price. Call Mandurah Performing Arts Centre on 9550 3900 to book for all three shows.
This event is part of the Mandurah Arts Festival, 22 September – 22 October 2023
Presented by Tone List in association with Sound Exploration Fremantle.

Mandjoogoordap Sound Improvisation Workshop
2023-10-14 13:00 - 15:30 | Mandurah Performing Arts Centre Dance Studio, Ormbsy Terrace, Mandurah, WA, 6210, Australia
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 – or even how to play music!
The workshop is presented by experienced improviser Josten Myburgh, a Mandjoogoordap-born, Boorloo-based saxophonist and composer. Josten has performed improvised music internationally in festivals and concerts in Africa, Australia, Asia and Europe, and is active as a performer and curator throughout Western Australia.
Workshop is free, but registrations are required. Light catering provided. Please bring an instrument, some things that make sound, or just your voice.
Location – Mandurah Performing Arts Centre (ManPAC), Dance Studio
Date – Saturday, 14 October 2023
Times – 1pm – 3:30pm
Bookings – Free to attend, bookings required – BOOK NOW
Accessibility – wheelchair accessible, ACROD parking, accessible toilet onsite

ALT x Living Chaos pres. Obliteration Fest Pre-Party
2023-10-12 17:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
@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 [Ben + Angus] & NO FUTURE [Kyle + Clare] spinning trax in the outdoor courtyard 5pm-8pm
$10 on the door // $5 students, concession
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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_

Malleefowl 7: Pedro Alvarez, Djuna Lee & Josten Myburgh
2023-10-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Meltham Cultural Precinct, Private location, Bayswater, WA, 6053, Australia
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 of Malleefowl and plays saxophone in a variety of experimental settings.
They have never played a trio before. Let’s all hear it for the first time together.
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.
NB: Malleefowl cannot accommodate dinner for RSVPs made after October 6. 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.

ALT x VOLTA x Rituals pres: Christopher J Brown x Ben Waters + Neapolaxi + Ben Aguero + OneTwoTwoFour + Aeriel Silver
2023-10-06 19:30 - 23:00 | Convenients, 35 Lake St, Perth, WA, 6003, Australia
ALT x VOLTA x RITUALS presents
LIVE ELECTRONIX INSIDE // RITUALS DJs OUTSIDE [COURTYARD]
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 breakcore territory (!)
// benaguero.bandcamp.com //
OneTwoTwoFour
// aka Izzy French, digital experimental noise artist
// instagram.com/one2.2four // izzzyfrench.weebly.com //
Aeriel Silver
// guitar + electronics-based cinematic hazey post-club vaporwave.
// aerielsilver.bandcamp.com //
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Friday October 6
@ Convenients
$15 on the door // $10 student/concession
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We would like to acknowledge that Hearts of Darkness 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

TuneNoiseTune 9: Saskia Willinge & Sage Pbbbt + Harry Josland & Joshua Cusack
2023-10-05 19:00 - 21:30 | four5nine, 459 Fitzgerald St, North Perth, WA, 6006, Australia
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 to explore integrating his recent forays into electronic music production, extending on the hints of digital synthesis that crept their way into his PJS-funded recording project Playing Well With Others.
https://joshuacusack.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-codex
Committed young improviser Saskia Willinge plays a rare microtonal Kingma-system flute, exploring a full-spectrum sound language by playing and singing into the instrument simultaneously. Sage Pbbbt’s deep investigation into virtuosic vocal improvisation, throat singing and otherworldly sounds has made her one of Western Australia’s most beloved live acts in the local experimental music scene. Their duo makes a web of sounds which slip and slide between rich, vocalised sonorities and strange, uncanny whispers.
Bio

Incidentally, this duo collaboration comes after Saskia’s return from the Australian Art Orchestra Creative Music Intensive, and a performance at the world-famous Make It Up Club. We’re excited to see what she’s learned.
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Please note that the ticket pricings are “pay-what-you-can”: each ticket offers the same access to the event, with the money going to support future projects. The four5nine website offers three price options ($30/$20/$10); flexible pricing is available for walk-ins. Please contact us if you’d like to reserve a free ticket for reasons of financial hardship, if you are a First Nations person, or if you are a carer for a person with a disability who will be attending.
Accessibility: The four5nine is not easily accessible by wheelchair. Wheelchair users can access the space via the entrance off 459 Fitzgerald St, which has one short step. Assistance is required from staff to open the door, which Tone List are happy to arrange; we or four5nine staff can also assist with the step. An all-gender wheelchair accessible bathroom is available in the courtyard of the Rosemount Hotel. Accessing this bathroom requires exiting the venue onto the street and looping around to the courtyard. There is a small amount of seating available. The music will at times be loud. Please feel free to contact us or The Rosemount Hotel with any questions.
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TuneNoiseTune is a co-presentation of Tone List and the Perth Jazz Society, and is proudly supported by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and through the generosity of Carl Erbrich. Tone List and the Perth Jazz Society acknowledge the Whadjuk Noongar people as the custodians of the land on which we live and work and pay respects to Elders and custodians past, present & emerging.

Outcome Unknown 93: Callum O'Reilly, Ayo Busari & Matt Aitken, CO + 2
2023-09-28 19:00 - 22:00 | Maylands Yacht Club, East St, Maylands, WA, 6051
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.

Tone List Presents: Josten Myburgh & Daisy Sanders, Kelsey Diamond & Soph Kruse, Mute Care Unit
2023-09-27 19:30 - 21:30 | Maylands Yacht Club, East St, Maylands, WA, 6051
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 state and intensity and a palpable trust, its a powerful, patient (and occasionally very playful) project.
https://jostenmyburgh.com/
https://daisysanders.com/
Kelsey Diamond and Soph Kruse have been collaborating together as musicians, interdisciplinary artists, hosts of experimental dinner parties, and considered event curators for many years. This new duo project explores a subtle, droning ambient soundworld using modular synthesis, found objects, violin and other materials in striking and unusual assemblages.
https://burntseedrecords.bandcamp.com/track/amygdala
The first live performance of Dylan Terranova’s project Mute Care Unit explores amplification of tiny acoustic sounds, sparse twitches of analogue synthesis and electroacoustic feedback, and silence. Known for stark and brutal electro-acoustic works and punishing harsh noise, Mute Care Unit sends the extremity in the other direction towards the threshold of audibility.
https://kilised.bandcamp.com/album/fragments
Doors at 7:30pm, with music starting shortly after (around 7:45pm).
Tone List events work on a pay-what-you-can principle: you are welcome to pay any amount. We usually suggest $25 or $15.
This gig is all ages. Non-alcoholic drinks will be available for purchase.
Accessibility: The Maylands Yacht Club is a wheelchair accessible, via a ramp at the exterior of the space, and a wheelchair lift on the interior. An accessible all-gender bathroom is located in the hallway on the ground level. ACROD parking is available outside the space. The music will often be very quiet, and may also have moments of sudden loud volume.
Tone List is a Boorloo-based exploratory music label, operating on the lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. We pay our respects to custodians and elders of this boodja past, present and future.
https://tonelist.com.au/

SoundExplorationFremantle: playing in time with Naoko Uemoto
2023-09-24 14:00 - 16:30 | Sullivan Hall, 2 Nannine Ave, White Gum Valley, WA, Australia
SoundExplorationFremantle coordinates workshops led by respected practitioners of improvised musics. Participants listen, explore, and create, using an eclectic range of sound-making objects, musical and other instruments, and our voices. SEF workshops suit people with all levels of experience (or none) in music and/or improvisation.
Naoko Uemoto will present a workshop exploring movement as an extension of expressive rhythm; she’ll guide us through ways of bringing or creating the energy rather than waiting to react to it – and, we’ll delve into feeling the beat as a social phenomenon, and ways to incorporate this into an improvised setting.

Sullivan Hall, Nannine Ave., White Gum Valley, WA
the venue is wheel-chair friendly
entry by donation: $10/15/20
(all contributions go towards paying the professional musicians who guide our workshops and to rental for the hall)

soundexplorationfremantle@gmail.com
facebook.com/soundexplorationfremantle

Conditions of Growth
2023-09-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas Street, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
A tapestry of exquisite contemporary chamber music, sensor driven lighting and projected generative animation, Conditions of Growth is a new collaborative performance project presented by Ad Lib Collective. Working with the music of Ravel and Rossen the work holds the seeds of connection to the things that need nurturing. Small tendrils of sound, granular close-ups, and full body sound experiences offer us a space to consider what the conditions are that we need to quietly grow.
Repertoire:

Miroirs Suite – Maurice Ravel, arr. John Rotar for Piano and Percussion
Ochre for massed flowerpots, bells and sensor driven LED lights – Thea Rossen (world premiere)

Conditions of Growth is created by percussionist/composer Thea Rossen and media artist Sohan Ariel Hayes in collaboration with:

Piano: Alex Raineri
Electronics and coding design: Nick Stark
Producer: Holly Norman
Lighting Design: Alex Spartalis GSD
Videography: Andrew Clarke – Edify Media

Bar open 7.30pm,
Performance 8-8:50pm
Bar remains open until 9.30pm after the show.
Wine sales available [NB. cashless purchases only]
The performance will last for 50minutes, there is no interval.
Supported by the Minderoo Foundation and Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10 with partnerships from Australian National Academy of Music, All Saints College, Wesley College.
If you’d like to support the creation of this new West Australian work, please consider making a tax deductible donation to our Australian Cultural Fund Campaign here.
Accessibility:
The venue is one open gallery warehouse space, there is wheelchair access throughout the venue including to the bathrooms.
The lighting design will be very dark at times, and while there is no strobing, lighting states will shift throughout.
The venue is not temperature controlled, so dress warm on the night if it is cool weather.
Parking is likely to be limited on Friday night in particular due to another festival-like event going on in the area. Please arrive early to secure a spot or consider public transport, or ride share services.

NoizeMaschin!! 143
2023-09-19 19:00 - 22:30 | Johnny Ma Studios, 305A Railway Pde, Maylands, WA, 6051, Australia
This month we are at the fabulous Johnny Ma Studios in Maylands on Tuesday 19th Sept
Featuring:
Chris Cobilis
Rich Wh
Jeremy Von Kobra
New Hesperia
Weaving Worlds
Doth
Deep Ecology
Ousougene/Scientia/Bilg
$10/$5
We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation and pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was always will be.

Perth Poetry Festival: Reverberations
2023-09-17 15:00 - 18:00 | Switch Theatre, 555 Wellington St, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia
$15 Regular/$10 WAPoets/Concession: https://www.trybooking.com/1088098
To participate in this event via Zoom ($10) click on this link: https://www.trybooking.com/1088398
ReVERBeration is sound poets and poets working with sound. This features a huge variety of sound from classical cello to found sounds, from sweet viola to the noisiest electronic cacophony, and poetry from modern classics to contemporary textual experiments, via haiku and early modernism, to dionysian mania.
ReVERBeration features

MC Chris Arnold, introducing —
Catastrophe, Two Uneasy Pieces,
texts and sounds by Mar Bucknell and Ray Grenfell
Natalie D-Napoleon with Cathi Olivieri on viola, Voices of the Broken Butterflies
bozo vs subaware, bozo and subaware’s delightful sonic journey into ecocide:
an artificially intelligent exploration of environmental destruction
text and electronica by Allan Boyd with Tonja Boyd on vocals
Chris Arnold, Vox Haul
Coral Carter and Marcus John, Trainspotting from the Bedroom Window, found text, photographs and found sounds by Coral Carter
Susanne Harford and Micheli Maszniew, No More Petrol, haiku and sounds by Susanne Harford with paintings by Micheli Maszniew
Mar Bucknell, The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud in a new translation by Mar Bucknell, vocals and electronics
Liana Joy Christensen, Tap Rap C.D., Tap into this whirlwind tour of the origin and evolution of Charles Darwin’s famous theory
Sage, barbarous words
Kevin Gillam, Bach and Inbetweens, Bach cello suites with poetic interventions on vocals
Splodge, SOS.:)xxx, Apocalyptic Sounds n Noises Giggles n a Smiggen of Splodge wrapped in the freedoms shared when melodic memories n thorts to bee had R aired out to dry hugged by the wind n teased by the hope of one’s daily practice of . . . . . . ???

[Editor’s note: Some accessibility information is provided on the website, but none has been provided for Switch Theatre.]

The Journey Down
2023-09-16 18:30 - 20:00 | European Foods Warehouse, 77 Francis St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
The Journey Down is an animated and vibrant celebration of dance, song, projections and otherworldly sound coming together to transform an old bush wreck into a travelling canvas of story and culture.
Six years in the making, The Journey Down tour features the sonic sculpture Warnarral Noorrngoorrool (Gija for old car), on tour from Kununurra through the expanse of regional and remote WA to its final destination in Perth, where it’s been acquired by WA Museum Boola Bardip. Warnarral Noorrngoorrool includes paintings depicting stories of dreaming, vehicles and journeys by significant Gija artists including Shirley Purdie, Gabriel Nodea and Gordon Barney.
Warnarral Noorrngoorrool will be accompanied by powerful performances by Mirriwoong and Gija songmen and dancers including Chris Griffiths and Andrew Daylight, Yamatji didjeridu virtuoso Mark Atkins with leading Australian musicians Aviva Endean, Tristen Parr and Vanessa Tomlinson, interwoven with animation and video design from Sohan Ariel Hayes (Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak).
Presented in Perth for one night only, The Journey Down will transport audiences to new worlds in a celebration of intercultural collaboration, the vibrancy of our regional communities and the stories and sounds that connect us.
Additional Information
Warnarral Ngoorngoorrool is pronounced Wah-nah-rool Noom-er-rool and is Gija for “old car”
The Gija people are from the East Kimberley area of Western Australia, about 200 km south of Kununurra. Many Gija people now live around localities such as Halls Creek and Warmun.
The land of the Miriwoong people covers a large tract of country straddling the Western Australian and Northern Territory border and includes the township of Kununurra in the East Kimberley.
Acknowledgements
Tura acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and create. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. With solidarity and friendship we say thank you.
The Journey Down tour has been supported by the State Government of Western Australia through the Regional Arts and Cultural Investment Program, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its Arts Funding and Advisory Body.
[Note from Owls] Accessibility details not provided.

"Listen" with Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh, Lia T & Rok Riley
2023-09-15 18:30 - 21:30 | Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
LISTEN
6.30pm, 15 September
Taking its cue from the haunting lullaby of GOOD NIGHT, this three-hour event presents local composers and producers to perform experimental musical responses to the work and the Perth city skyline it overlooks.
Listen line-up
6.30pm Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh
7.30pm Lia T
8.30pm Rok Riley
About the exhibition
Working across video, sound, performance, and installation, Özgür Kar’s cross-disciplinary practice is an exploration of contemporary existentialism with a particular focus on the interconnectivity of digital media and the body.
Kar’s installations feature black and white minimally animated characters trapped within television screens. Taking inspiration from Ottoman and Persian folklore, experimental theatre, early animation and 1990s MTV cartoons, his works are devised as theatrical scenes with each character playing its part within a non-linear script. Often working with voice actors and instrumentalists, Kar layers his source materials to create deceptively simple looping part soundscapes that become increasingly fraught and profound with repeated viewing.
In Good Night (2021) an almost eight-metre-long animated skeleton lies confined within the edges of television screens as they sing a haunting lullaby. This monumental yet cramped figure of Death gazes apathetically towards a murky city skyline. Their melancholic song expanding outwards beyond the visual confines of its digital coffin as the lullaby gently drifts, drones, and grows still, reverberating its sorrowful tune into the listener’s body.

ALT: EXPERIMENTIA w/ Aeriel Silver, Plyanci, Rosa & Power Corrupts
2023-09-14 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
This coming Thursday we are excited to present to you four acts each exploring different approaches to live performance of electronics-oriented experimental music.

Featuring [A-Z]:
AERIEL SILVER https://aerielsilver.bandcamp.com //
Guitar + electronics-based cinematic hazey post-club vaporwave.
PLYANCI https://plyanci.bandcamp.com //
Fractal core / hyperwave / soft tronics / hard candy breaks solo project from experimental electronic artist Oz Kesik.
POWER CORRUPTS
Haunting soprano vox + chilling looped atmospherics from members of BLACKANTLERS and Physical Release.
ROSA [debut]
Introducing new experimental trio featuring members from Goodbye Forever and Yosh.
Be challenged by the raw and unconventional creativity of the artists as they push the defined boundaries of music and explore the possibilities of sound. From the subtlety of ambience to the intensity of breakcore, expect to be left with a new appreciation for experimental music as an artform.
RITUALS RESIDENCY [DJ sets] from 5pm-8pm in the BIRD//YARD
linktr.ee/rituals.perth

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Thursday September 14
@ The Bird
$10 on the door // $5 student/concession
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Hearts of Darkness are dedicated to providing a safe and inclusive space for all bodies and identities. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment or harmful behaviour at our events, and we work together with the lovely & like-minded folks at the Bird to ensure the safety and enjoyment of all our guests. Look after one another, advocate for everyone’s safety and if you are feeling uncomfortable or witness someone feeling the same, let us, the venue staff and/or the performers know.
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.

Accessibility: Full venue accessibility for The Bird is available here: https://www.williamstreetbird.com/accessibility
