Out West Liminal Sounds

Mandjoogoordap Sound Improvisation Workshop
2023-10-14 13:00 - 15:30 (Australia/Perth) | 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
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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

Sprouted Sessions 1 @ Vinyl Cafe
2023-09-13 18:30 - 22:00 | The Vinyl Cafe, 636 Newcastle St, Leederville, WA, 6007, Australia
Burnt Seed Records collaborates with Vinyl Cafe at their awesome new digs!
The first ever Sprouted Sessions showcases four amazing artists all with recent releases on the BSR label:
Plyanci
storytime
Petrohex
onetwotwofour
Come and enjoy some great music and sample some lovely food from the new menu, as well as beers on tap and the famous Vinyl Cafe expresso martini!

$10/$5

Kinds of Light 7: Simon Charles & Lara Pollard
2023-09-08 19:30 - 21:30 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Kinds of Light is a concert series for creative music at PS 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.
SIMON CHARLES – new electro-acoustic compositions
https://www.sibercha.com/
LARA POLLARD – solo for guitar and electronics
https://larafay.bandcamp.com/
Kinds of Light 7 sees York-based composer Simon Charles present new works emerging from his committed and enigmatic practice. Often using Nagra analogue tape machines and digital delays to process delicate field recordings, alto and soprano saxophones, harmonium and other instruments in his studio, the soundworld of Simon’s work recalls multiple eras of experimental music simultaneously, attentively revisiting lost avenues and recombining what’s found into something entirely new. Simon has performed internationally, often as part of the award-winning experimental ensemble Phonetic Orchestra, including in festivals and concerts in Oslo, Porto, Los Angeles, Berlin, Marseille and throughout Australia. He works regularly with visual artist Katie West, poet Jessica Wilkinson, and many musicians including Callum G’Froerer, Jameson Feakes, Djuna Lee, Josten Myburgh, Jim Denley and Rebecca Lane.
Young composer Lara Pollard is best known for their thoughtfully ramshackle indie folk project under the name Lara Fay, writing gorgeous and atmospheric songs that convey effortless talent. In their solo electro-acoustic performances they combine looped guitar, no-input mixer and effects processing, bringing the effortlessness of their songwriting into delicately lush improvisations. Lara has worked in a variety of projects in town, including writing new choral music for the Vanguard Consort, and performing in bands Ocean Cosmonaut, Vacuum Dreamer and Honour Culture.
Doors and bar open from 7:30pm, with live music starting a little after.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can, with a suggested price of $25 or $15 depending on your means. Free tickets are available for First Nations people, companion card holders, and those experiencing financial hardship.
Accessibility: The venue is wheelchair accessible, with accessible bathrooms. There is ample seating available and the venue is very spacious. The music will at times be very quiet.
Kinds of Light is presented by Tone List and PS. Tone List and PS operate 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.
http://tonelist.com.au/

Myriad Sun, with Nervous + Bad Whip + Siɛrə Wɪski
2023-09-08 19:00 - 23:30 | The Milk Bar, 981 Beaufort St, Inglewood, WA, 6052, Australia
Myriad Sun, the experimental rap/ electronic/ Audio Visual group have never played ‘Milk Bar’ before, heard it’s a mad spot and thought it was time to introduce the North side to their unique brand of sonic revelry.
You can expect amazing projections and mind altering sets from some of Perths best musicians:
Nervous
Bad Whip
Wiɛrə Wɪski*
(*if you dont know em, do yourself a favour and look them up!)
This show will also be known as the ‘Ben Aguero Special’ !
Meaning the best dancer of every set receives 2 free drinks from recently returned, national touring artist and Myriad Sun producer ‘Ben Aguero’.
He has now proved himself on the national stage, made bank and been given all the props, showing the east coast that there truely is another place with musicians other than Sydney and Melbourne.
Join us in celebrating this, we want you! We need you!
You know we’re gonna treat you!
Myriad Sun acknowledge this event is held on stolen land and acknowledge the Wudjuk people of the Noongar nation as the rightful custodians of this land.
We also pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Always was & always will be first nations land.
[Editor’s note: Accessibility details were not provided by the event organisers for this event.]

SINE at Wallace
2023-09-01 - 2023-11-24 | 346 William Street, 346 William Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
SINE is the provocation of sound made visual. SINE is a mathematical series where the operation adds infinite quantities to a given equation. Mathematics, music and visual art expand common threads of thinking and expression around thoughts of order.
Artist, musician, maker combine to mediate expressions through material object, instrument, performance, and the graphic to form the exhibition SINE at Wallace. Each contributor is invited to show an existing work or develop/adapt a concept for the exhibition taking a deep dive into SINE space.
Artists:
Leah Curtis
Cat Hope
Rex Bruce
Jonathon Stockman
Sze Tsang
Matt Dickmann
Eduardo Cossio
Nic Compton
Bill Busfield
Russel Davey Wossy
Ian Weir
Cameron Robbins
James Morton
Matt Dickmann
Guest performers:
Stu Thomas
Miah Smith
Aya Smith
Curator:
Jon Tarry
Opening night 1st Sept 2023 6pm – 8pm
346 William Street, Perth
Show runs till 24th Nov 2023

Red Room Poetry presents EXPERIMENTAL POETS OF PERTH
2023-08-31 19:00 - 21:30 | WA
Red Room Poetry presents EXPERIMENTAL POETS OF PERTH: an evening with cutting-edge artists from across Boorloo, scrutinising the fringes of poetic expression.
Join us on Thursday 31st August at the Fremantle Navy Club as the poets delve into their practice, integrating spoken word, song, instrumentalism, & improvisation. Sonic worlds collide over culminating poetic histories.

Tickets $10/$15/$20 via https://events.humanitix.com/experimental-poets-of-perth
JENNY HICKINBOTHAM
DR CLAIRE FURCHICK PANNELL
JOHN PANNELL
BEC BOWMAN
ZOE BARRON
FIONA HOOK
LUKA BUCHANAN
BEN BUCHANAN

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JENNY HICKINBOTHAM
As writing, performing and making arts are much more fun than listening to annoying voices, Jenny spends her time creating. Jenny was awarded the RMIT Liquid Architecture Graduate Prize for Sound Art in 2020 and was supported by curator Joel Stern to put on an exhibition of her songs at Blindside Gallery as her prize.
This year Jenny returned to Emerging Writers Festival to perform with Miriam Webster in Distraction & its (dis)contents, and with Arts Access’ CEO Caroline Bowditch in Into the Hybrid: a Dialogue of New Works.

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DR CLAIRE PANNELL & JOHN PANNELL
Dr Claire Pannell, aka Furchick, is best known as an experimental musician, but she has a long history of poetry and lyric writing going back to the 80s.
Claire has released several poems with musical accompaniment on Dog Park Records. She writes about her personal life experiences and doesn’t hold back speaking her mind. She takes you on a personal journey through words.
She will be joined by her 92 year old father, John Pannell. John became a self published writer at the age of 87 with a book of verse called The Whimsical Menagerie. At the Red Room, he will be sharing his more adult work reflecting on his challenging life.
Claire incorporates a DIY and punk attitude into her creations which fuse arts, technology and science with Dog Park aiming to challenge the frontiers of sound and how music is made; from using household items and home made automata as musical instruments to recording live at home with musical collaborators.

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BEC BOWMAN
I spent my adolescence in the wilds of suburban Perth as a grunge. I brought myself up reading the adventures of people in other places, and as soon as I could I was on a plane overseas. Since then I’ve been reading and travelling my way through my own adventures.
I decided in 2015, quite randomly, that I wanted to be on radio. It took me another 18 months before I was in Perth at the same time the course was on. I loved every minute.
When asked by Station interviewer what was the best thing about hosting Artbeat every Friday 9am -12 noon, Bec said, Feeling like part of something bigger than myself. Getting to discover new music through other presenters. Trawling through music in the middle of the night and excitedly sharing my finds.

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ZOE BARRON & FIONA HOOK

Teacup Weather combines spoken word and strings to create an experience that is as unique as it is deeply moving. A cello resonates at roughly the same frequency as the spoken voice – that’s why it gets you in the guts. Zoe speaks in the key of G. Her stories tease out nuance from the mundane: sometimes playful, sometimes dark, they pick apart relatable experiences of suburbia, love and domesticity, and poke at social conventions we’ve learned to take for granted.
Fiona’s cello turns the whole thing visceral. She makes sounds you haven’t heard a cello make before – weird ones, ugly ones, some so beautiful they go right through you. Teacup Weather is funny and strange, beautiful and reflective. You will hear yourself among the notes.

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LUKA BUCHANAN & BEN BUCHANAN
Luka Buchanan (they/them) is a visual artist, poet, & musician from Boorloo. Always informed by a passion for improvisation and DIY methods, Luka’s artistic practice involves painting, drawing, collage, performance, and spoken word. Their work is speculative, often emotional, and investigates love, trauma, & gendered body-hood.
Luka will be joined by their brother, Ben Buchanan (he/him), who is a cellist and musician currently studying composition at WAAPA.
Together their performance explores poetic relationships in sound, using cello & spoken word to convey complex emotional landscapes.

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Fremantle Navy Club is located at 64 High St, Fremantle (Corner Packenham St).
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Experimental Poets of Perth is hosted at Walyalup, on Whadjuk Noongar boojar. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Smalley at Large Festival: Closing Concert
2023-08-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Callaway Auditorium, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009
The UWA New Music Collective led by Adam Pinto, Paul Tanner & Chris Tonkin will be joined by Cara Daly, Carissa Soares and Declan Ryan in Ceremony I for percussion quartet, Music for an Imaginary Ballet, and Transformation for piano and electronics.
This is a free event.
The Callaway Auditorium is a wheelchair accessible venue. An accessible bathroom is located immediately outside the venue.

ALT//NOIZE presents UBOA [Naarm/Melbourne] + TERRITORY + FLESH PRISON + PUKE + DOXX EPHEMERA
2023-08-26 20:00 - 2023-08-27 01:00 | Badlands Bar, Unit 1/3 Aberdeen St, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Uboa is the solo drone/noise project of Xandra Metcalfe, Naarm/Melbourne-based sound artist specialising in both dreamy ambience and nightmarish caverns of harsh noise. A testament to Uboa’s intense live shows, she will be touring the East Coast this year with Liturgy (US) having recently shared the stage with DIS FIG (Berlin), previously opening for Gabber Modus Operandi (ID) and Trepaneringsritualen (SW).
Drawing lyrical inspiration from her experience as a transgender woman, Xandra Metcalfe’s work as Uboa condenses a wider range of influences into a frightening soundscape of its own. Fans of Purgist, Facialmess, Endon, Locrian, Nurse With Wound, along with artists on the No Rent and Triangle Records labels will find themselves right at home with her soundscapes.
Her most recent album, The Origin of My Depression is critically acclaimed, and led to Uboa being signed to The Flenser (dark experimental record label based in San Francisco). Also, you may know her from her ambient-noise-black-doom split release with Bolt Gun back in 2018.
Also featuring noise, grind, hyperpop and emo from Territory, Flesh Prison, Puke and Doxx Ephemera.
[A note from Owls: Accessibility info for Badlands Bar unknown – sorry. Please contact the event organiser with questions.]

Outcome Unknown 7 Year Anniversary - Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio
2023-08-26 14:00 - 16:00 | WA
The final event of the 7 Year Anniversary will feature a performance by Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio on ruined pianos and zithers respectively; a photobook launch by Antoinette Carrier; and a solo saxophone set by Naoko Uemoto.
Register to the Outcome Unknown Newsletter to receive details of this event starting at 2pm on August 26.
RSVP required due to limited capacity.

Smalley at Large Festival: Symposium
2023-08-26 - 2023-08-27 | University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
Marking the 80th and 100th anniversary of Roger Smalley AM and György Ligeti respectively, this 2-day symposium features key-note addresses by Professor Amy Bauer (USA) and Dr Chris Mark (UK) as Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Scholars.
Other speakers include: Dr Adam Pinto (UWA), Dr Paul Tanner (UWA), Dr Stuart James (WAAPA), Dr Federico Favali (Italy).
[A note from Owls: Accessibility details have not been provided for this event.]

Outcome Unknown 7 Year Anniversary - night #4
2023-08-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Old Customs House, 8 Philimore St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
The Outcome Unknown 7-Year Anniversary celebrates the diverse voices within Boorloo’s experimental music community.
On August 22, we team up with NoizeMaschin!! for a night of new projects and first-time collaborations. August 23 offers a program of delicate music for acoustic and electronic instruments.
In partnership with ALT, August 24 features VJs responding to the work of iconoclastic music-makers. And on August 25 join us for a night of deep listening and experimental electronica.
Matthew Taggart
Michael Terren
Veils
Accessibility: Old Customs House is ramp accessible via a separate entrance on the side-street. There is an accessible bathroom. The music may at times be very loud.

Smalley at Large Festival: Concert
2023-08-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Callaway Auditorium, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009
The UWA Symphony Orchestra and soloist Adam Pinto give a rare performance of Roger Smalley’s Second Piano Concerto, followed by a selection of works by Ligeti and Smalley, performed UWA students and staff.

Outcome Unknown 7 Year Anniversary - night #3 with ALT
2023-08-24 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
The Outcome Unknown 7-Year Anniversary celebrates the diverse voices within Boorloo’s experimental music community.
On August 22, we team up with NoizeMaschin!! for a night of new projects and first-time collaborations. August 23 offers a program of delicate music for acoustic and electronic instruments.
In partnership with ALT, August 24 features VJs responding to the work of iconoclastic music-makers. And on August 25 join us for a night of deep listening and experimental electronica.
Axel Carrington
Half Child & Meg
OneTwoTwoFour
Parity Check [VJ]
Petrohex
Plyanci
polite.society
Simulacra [VJ]
Vetch [VJ]
Accessibility: The Bird is wheelchair accessible with an accessible bathroom. The music may be very loud. Projections may contain flashing lights.

Outcome Unknown 7 Year Anniversary - night #2
2023-08-23 19:00 - 21:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
The Outcome Unknown 7-Year Anniversary celebrates the diverse voices within Boorloo’s experimental music community.
On August 22, we team up with NoizeMaschin!! for a night of new projects and first-time collaborations. August 23 offers a program of delicate music for acoustic and electronic instruments.
In partnership with ALT, August 24 features VJs responding to the work of iconoclastic music-makers. And on August 25 join us for a night of deep listening and experimental electronica.
Land’s Air
Jane Stark
Storytime
Accessibility: This event is held upstairs at PS Art Space. The upstairs area of the venue is not accessible via wheelchair.

Smalley at Large Festival: Adam Pinto & friends play Roger Smalley (lunchtime concert)
2023-08-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Callaway Auditorium, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009
Join Adam Pinto and friends in an exploration of the music of Roger Smalley including a performance of Gamelan from Pinto’s brand new CD In Memoriam.
Accessibility: The Callaway Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. An accessible bathroom is located immediately outside the venue.

Outcome Unknown 7 Year Anniversary - night #1 with NoizeMaschin!!
2023-08-22 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
The Outcome Unknown 7-Year Anniversary celebrates the diverse voices within Boorloo’s experimental music community.
On August 22, we team up with NoizeMaschin!! for a night of new projects and first-time collaborations. August 23 offers a program of delicate music for acoustic and electronic instruments.
In partnership with ALT, August 24 features VJs responding to the work of iconoclastic music-makers. And on August 25 join us for a night of deep listening and experimental electronica.
Full program:
Craig Pedersen, Djuna Lee & Peter Evans
Ghostland
Gracie Smith & Sage Pbbbt
Jon Myers & Splodge
Merle Fyshwick & Stu Orchard
More Options
Accessibility: The Bird is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms. The music may be very loud.

ALT Thursdays: Gaffer x Errorserror x Kompromat x Alf
2023-08-17 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
// GAFFER
>> https://heltaskeltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo-cs-2
// ERRORSERROR
>> https://www.instagram.com/errorserror.exe/
// KOMPROMAT
>> https://kompromat-perth.bandcamp.com
// ALF
>> recorded sounds coming soon…
Accessibility: The Bird is a wheelchair accessible venue with accessible bathrooms. The music may be very loud.
Hearts of Darkness // ALT are dedicated to providing a safe and inclusive space for all bodies + identities. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment or harmful behaviour at our events, + 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 + 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 Hearts of Darkness // ALT is holding this event on Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respects to elders past, present + emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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