Out West Liminal Sounds

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 (Australia/Perth) | 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.
Follow us >> https://linktr.ee/heartsofdarkness

ALT Thursdays: Matsang x Ownlife x R.I.P Sylli x Sunny Flowers
2023-08-10 17:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
ALT x LuvvCompany present a line-up of experimental pop mixing things up at The Bird [A-Z]:
> MATSANG
> OWNLIFE
> R.I.P. SYLLI
> SUNNY FLOWERS
Rituals Residency DJ sets from 5pm-8pm in the courtyard.
Thursday 10th of August @ The Bird – live acts from 8pm.
We acknowledge that this event takes place on Stolen Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respect to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Accessibility: The Bird is a wheelchair accessible venue with an accessible bathroom. The music may be very loud.

Weekends at PICA: Sancintya Mohini Simpson
2023-08-05 11:00 - 12:00 | PICA, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Join us for Weekends at PICA, a morning filled with coffee, performance and conversation with PICA’s Djilba/Kambarang artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson.
Simpson will present An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered. This experimental sound performance incorporates stainless steel vessels, water, salt, the body and breath, creating space to connect with ancestors by reimagining and recreating an ocean space.
Following the performance, Simpson will join artist Shivanjani Lal, a fellow member of the Indian indentured labourer diaspora, to discuss her practice and exhibition ām / ammā / mā maram. The rich, sensory exhibition features objects and paintings that reveal the often-absent narratives of Indian indentured labourers in colonial history.

ALT: LIFE/LIMB + GHOST OF SHE (debut) + HYSTERIA (debut) + ESPER
2023-08-03 20:00 - 23:30 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
ALT presents a night of audio terror descending upon The Bird.
Life/Limb (DISSONANT DEATH/GRIND/NOISE)
Ghost Of She (DRONING DARK AMBIENCE)
Hysteria (AGGRESSIVE GRINDING HARDCORE)
Esper (BLEAK BLACKENED EXPERIMETAL)
Thursday 3rd of August @ The Bird – live acts from 8pm.
$10 entry at the door, $5 for student/concession
We acknowledge that this event takes place on Stolen Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respect to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Yes I'm Listening, Yes I'm Hearing You
2023-07-29 - 2023-08-19 | Old Customs House, 8 Philimore St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
A new exhibition at Old Customs House as part of Artsource’s Creative Connect Program, Yes I’m Listening, Yes I’m Hearing You features Artsource Artists Ellen Broadhurst, Tom Rogers, Jessee Lee Johns, Sanche Zev Weinstein, Amy Perejuan-Capone, Tom Blake, Cara Teusner-Gartland and Elizabeth Millar. Exhibition open 10am-4pm Wednesday to Friday, and 12pm-4pm Saturday.

Goolugatup Sounds 14 - Soda Lite, Segal / Uemoto / Padmanabham
2023-07-28 18:00 - 21:30 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
GOOLUGATUP SOUNDS 14
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SODA LITE (Lutruwita/Tas)
JEREMY SEGAL / NAOKO UEMOTO / JOSIAH PADMANABHAM
Friday 28 July 2023 / from 7pm

As frosty Makuru gives way to the slowly warming, brightening season of Djilba, GOOLUGATUP SOUNDS invites you to its fourteenth ‘Goolugatup Sounds’ – another double bill of unique and inquisitive music by the Derbal Yerrigan riverbend.
The soundscapes of Nipaluna/Hobart-based SODA LITE (aka Alex Last) are crafted in response to local environments, built on field recordings which serve as a ‘mulch’ for the growth of sympathetic timbres, moods and melodic patterns. In Alex’s words, each song is an “attempt to embody the slowly ventilating tempo and vibrant agency of earthly realms.” Keyboards cycle through sound-banks to form cascading phrases over pools of nectar-rich ambience, while deep swollen drones and slurred woodwinds disperse beneath airy, rain-replenished tones. Over the years, Soda Lite has released music with US ambient & experimental labels like Not Not Fun, Constellation Tatsu & Inner Islands. For Goolugatup Sounds, Soda Lite will be joined by June Last (keys) for a captivating set of live electronics and audiovisual immersion. Meanwhile, other facets of Alex’s expansive arts practice unfurl in their gallery show ‘Outside Inn’, opening alongside.
The new improvisatory collaboration between JEREMY SEGAL (electronics), NAOKO UEMOTO (saxophone) and JOSIAH PADMANABHAM (piano) explores live instruments interacting with generative digital sequencing. Picture tumbling, computer-generated rhythms with an uncanny half-likeness to human drumming, mingling with virtuosic piano and saxophone melodics. Between them, the three burrow deeply and patiently into wild sonic possibilities – the distinctive interplay of each instrument and player’s idiosyncrasies, strange and beautiful confluences of harmony, and incalculable arcs of form that might evoke Stockhausen one moment and Arca, Thelonious Monk or Pharaoh Sanders the next. Fossicking in the borderlands of heartfelt expression and austere musical sci-fi, this meeting of minds from three of Boorloo’s musical rising stars is not to be missed.
Join us at Goolugatup Heathcote, Applecross from 6pm, Friday July 28 (music starts at 7). Entry is free, with wood-fired pizza, full bar and two exhibitions opening alongside (‘Outside Inn’ by Alex Last, and ‘triple power of plants’ by Audrey Tan, Jess Tan and Sebastian Temple).
[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.
goolugatup.com
Image: Lyndon Blue

Outcome Unknown #87
2023-07-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Maylands Yacht Club, East St, Maylands, WA, 6051
Outcome Unknown on July 27 features the classical technique, jazz vocabulary and experimental approaches of DUOFOLD, the project of pianist and composer Tiffany Ha and sound artist Joseph Walsh.
Spoken word and cello atmospherics from writer-performer Zoë Barron and musician Fiona Hook as TEACUP WEATHER.
And intractable noise from FURCHICK & NATHAN in their first performance since the release of ‘How Divers Descend to the Depths’ on Dog Park Records.
Doors open at 7pm and music starts at 7.45pm.

Noizemaschin!! 141
2023-07-25 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Noizemaschin!! 141 – July 25th @ The Bird
Juniper Glades – improvised guitar noise, sometimes
soothing and othertimes searing.
storytime – a warm and melancholic set of ambient electronic sounds ahead of a debut EP
S/M – Self-suspension as an instrument.
Augmented Fifth – Pushing some cheap grooveboxes and off the shelf synths to their limits with generative
industrial/techno.
Dead Zone Engineer – Using tone generators and rhythmic sequences to explore a progressive ambient style
Noizekult – A new three piece project exploring Industrial Soundscapes and electronic disfiguration, rising from the bowels of the secret tunnels deep beneath WAAPA
Gruff Chops – Dual MPC beat madness

SODA LITE (Nipaluna/Tas) + PALE RIBBONS TOSSED INTO THE DARK + SLOW POINT
2023-07-22 15:00 - 19:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Pouring Dream is proud to present an afternoon of deep ambience at The Bird.
Featuring live performances by:
SODA LITE (Nipaluna/Tas) Not Not Fun/Inner Islands
Soda Lite is the new age/ambient project of Alex Last, with their latest record ‘Aqua Solar Cura’ released by the legendary Californian record label Not Not Fun. The record’s a 44-minute deep dive through lutruwita’s ecological landscapes, empowered and influenced by its diverse wildlife and eucalypt valleys. Eschewing formal song routes, Soda Lite’s music prefers to tremor and bubble, sometimes evolving and often drifting, unravelling slowly like oozing sap while awash in the vibrant pulse of birdsong and an array of instruments generated by a pair of old 90s keyboards. The incredible ‘Aqua Solar Cura’ can be heard here:
https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/album/aqua-solar-cura-2
PALE RIBBONS TOSSED INTO THE DARK
Pale Ribbons Tossed into the Dark are the instrumental trio of Michael Terren, Djuna Lee, and Jameson Feakes. Each player is heavily involved in Boorloo/Perth’s exploratory music scene, Lee as a jazz bandleader (jalan jalan, Rif Mountain), Feakes as a guitarist in various projects (Heathcote Blue, GreyWing Ensemble), and Terren as an experimental electronic musician and pianist. Together, their work is informed by traditions like post rock, ambient, improvised music and electro-acoustic music, while unbeholden to any of them. Pale Ribbon’s immersive, intricate & therapeutic self-titled debut Long player can be heard here:
https://prtd.bandcamp.com/
SLOW POINT
Formed in 2016, Slow Point is the solo experimental project of Perth based Glenn Palmer (Mt. Mountain). Rooted in electronic minimalism, Slow Point explores influences from the worlds of Ambient, Drone and Krautrock – creating immersive and textural walls of all-encompassing sound, through the use of modular synthesis. Slow Point’s latest offering ‘Garden’ continues their form of creating beautiful, considered and quite frankly mind-blowing compositions:
https://slowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/garden
SAT JULY 22 — 3PM — $10 — THE BIRD
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please contact Pouring Dream/Erasers for door list.
Poster by Alex Last.
Pouring Dream acknowledges this event takes place on the stolen lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people. We pay our respects to Elders across the region. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Accessibility notes
Wheelchair access by ramp at the front. Bathrooms are not wheelchair accessible.
Volume: occasionally in excess of 85dB
Stage lighting: no strobe lighting
Lighting/mobility in the audience area: generally dark, with movable seating
Masking requirements: none

A2 Orchestra - Canvas
2023-07-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Callaway Auditorium, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009
a2. Orchestra presents Canvas – an exploration of the connections between music and visual art. This is university student-run, student-led and student-organised concert featuring a highly talented, motivated and skilled 45-piece orchestra conducted by Josh Spirek. The program includes soloist Tiffany Lee performing Debussy’s Cello Sonata as well as original compositions by Nick Kyriakacis and Josh Spirek.
PROGRAM
Nick Kyriakacis and Josh Spirek – “The New Pictures at an Exhibition”, a reimagining of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” that follows the history of art movements.
– Interval –
Claude Debussy – “Cello Sonata”, arranged for orchestra and solo cello
Väinö Raitio – “Four Colour Poems for Piano” Op. 22, arranged for orchestra
Franz Liszt – “Hunnenschlacht, Symphonic Poem, No. 11”
ARTISTS
a2. Orchestra
Josh Spirek, conductor & composer
Tiffany Lee, solo cello
Lisa Smith, concertmaster
Nick Kyriakacis, composer

Kinds of Light 6: Little leaves are waving
2023-07-15 19:30 - 21:45 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Kinds of Light is a concert series for creative music at PS Art Space. Curated by composer and improvising musician Josten Myburgh, Kinds of Light celebrates ambitious experimentation, careful musicianship, and sounds that are relevant to this place and time. It is programmed across style and genre, excited by the love and rigour that goes into music that defies categories.
Kinds of Light 6 is the occasion of Tone List’s 7th birthday celebrations. Please join us to celebrate a lucky number of years holding space for exploratory music in this place!
LAND’S AIR (Eduardo Cossio: amplified zithers & electronics, and Josten Myburgh: alto saxophone & electronics)
VANISHING ISLAND GROUP (Lyndon Blue: acoustic bass, Jake Webb: electric guitar, Talya Valenti: drums, Jet Kye Chong: vibraphone & percussion, and Julia Wallace: keyboard & flugelhorn)
EMMA DAISY [Fairy / DJ]
For the second Kinds of Light of 2023, Land’s Air will present a homecoming concert after a 15-show tour which took them through Austria, Czechia, Poland, Germany and Norway. Having increasingly refined their sound on the dense touring schedule, they return with a focussed attention on slow-burn unravelling of strange and phenomenal drones, utilising alto saxophone & zithers as ancillaries of some otherworldly liturgy.
The rarely-outed Vanishing Island Group, led by Lyndon Blue, is a local supergroup of sorts: a haunting dark-jazz outfit that play glacially slow, lingering compositions of powerful affect. Acoustic bass, vibraphone, flugelhorn, electric piano, percussion and highly effected guitar make up an atmospheric sonic tapestry that is unlike anything regularly heard in this place.
Radio presenter, musician, writer and photographer Emma Daisy is best known for an idiosyncratic, committed and careful presence on RTR.FM 92.1’s Difficult Listening and Golden Apples of the Sun, and for her considered photographic portraits of bands and musicians throughout Boorloo. As birthday fairy for Tone List’s 7th birthday party she brings her remarkable sound curating sensibilities to Kinds of Light to set the tone for the evening as it flows on, threading recorded music, found sound and field recordings in diaphanous weaves.

Signals Sound Lab: Lab Launch Party
2023-07-14 19:00 - 23:00 | Old Customs House, 8 Philimore St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Gaëtan Schurrer & Will Axten invite you to come party with them to celebrate their new Fremantle sound laboratory. Yes, we are back in the hood in an ultra cool new space!

The lab is inside the historic Old Customs House building, which will be fully open at 7.00pm to explore. There will be artist activities and mini-events in spaces throughout the building. Plus the Lab will have toys to explore and plethora of performances from ambient explorers Stellar Beams Collective and test equipment tweakers Burnt Seeds, with visuals from AV artist Nathan Thompson. Plus a special set from Felicity Groom, and vinyl will be spun by DJ Paul Malone.

You’ll be able to play with the Lab equipment (if that is your thing) or simply chill out and socialise in the amazing heritage building, and drink from the cheap bar. Enter the OCH building through the main double doors on Phillimore St (right next to the CAT bus stop) and follow the signs to the Lab.

Ghost Tunes
2023-07-13 18:00 - 20:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Ghost Tunes is a collaborative arts project created by sound artists and writers from Australia and Scotland, exploring language, landscape and culture.
Currently part of the Fremantle Arts Centre residency program, Ghost Tunes artists include Cass Lynch (Boorloo/Perth), Mei Swan Lim, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey (Naarm/Melbourne), Theresa Sainty (Lutruwita/Tasmania), Cass Ezeji (Scotland), Quinie (Scotland), in collaboration with Counterflows – an internationally acclaimed Glasgow-based contemporary music festival.
Through a series of exchanges which began in 2021, the artists have created a full-length album and publication. Whilst in Fremantle for their residency they will be presenting a night of performance, sound, film and talks.
ARTISTS
Cass Lynch (Boorloo/Perth, Australia) is a writer and researcher living on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She has recently completed a Creative Writing PhD that explores deep memory features of Noongar oral storytelling tradition; in particular sotries that reference the last ice age and the rise in sea level that followed it. She is a descendant of the Noongar people and a student of the Noongar language.
Mei Swan Lim (Boorloo/Perth, Australia) is a practicing sound designer and visual artist whose work centres on the environmental, emotional and spiritual importance of place, inter-cultural investigation and storytelling. She is also an electronic musician who has been performing and writing under the name Mei Saraswatic since 2010.
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey (Australia) are Australian artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by curiosity and questioning about sound in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions.
Theresa Sainty (Lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia) is a Pakana woman, from Lutruwita (Tasmania), and is part of a very large, wellknown Tasmanian Aboriginal family. Theresa has worked extensively with Aboriginal Education Services, DoE where she co-developed and provided Aboriginal Cultural Awareness training, and produced curriculum resources focusing on Pakana culture; translated script and coached actors in the film The Nightingale, collaborated on various films and projects and has been an Aboriginal Linguistic Consultant with the palawa kani Language Program of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre since 1997. Theresa recently began a Senior Indigenous Research Scholarship at UTAS.
Cass Ezeji (Scotland) is a singer and performer of critically-acclaimed bands Laps and Golden Teacher. She is interested in Scotland’s role in colonialism and its erasure from our national psyche. Her essays and prose reinsert black and mixed-race narratives into the Scottish context and call for accountability.
Quinie (Scotland) aka Josie Vallely, is based in Glasgow. She sings primarily in Scots, with a style inspired by the traditions of Scottish Traveller singers Lizzie Higgins (1929 – 1993) and her mother Jeannie Robertson (1908 – 1975).

The Reckoning
2023-07-08 21:00 - 2023-07-09 02:00 | PICA, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
As part of a three-week residency at PICA, Joshua Pether, Janine Oxenham and Helah Milroy revisit their durational performance ritual The Reckoning, created in 2021 through a creative development at PICA.

The first performance outcome was a seven-hour performance ritual that utilised First Nations wisdom and knowledge whilst also taking inspiration from Butoh, a form of Japanese dance theatre developed in response to the trauma of the bombing of Hiroshima. The development involved the performers ‘reckoning’ with themselves and geographical sites of significance to First Nations people. Pether, Oxenham and Milroy revisit their performance methodology, extending the work to a 16-hour durational performance.
Workshops take place 10am-6pm (view the PICA website for details). Performance takes place at 9pm-2am.

Witness the moment of reckoning.
Responsive to history, place and time, the knowledge of bodies access stored and hidden information. Midnight has come and so too has an understanding – we must build the monument

Witnesses are invited to experience a contemporary dance/theatre performance across five hours in the PICA Performance Space. Visitors are welcome to come and go for this part of the ritual, featuring music and sound created by improvisational musician Josten Myburgh.

Malleefowl 6
2023-07-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Meltham Cultural Precinct, Private location, Bayswater, WA, 6053, Australia
House concert featuring E Millar.
About the work…
rare entertainment II
sound object installation at times performed
“I began creating kinetic sound sculptures in 2017. These are assemblages of materials and recycled electronic components which generate repetitive, slowly-evolving textures. Let’s enjoy listening to them in the context of the ambient sound in Josten’s living room.”
Want to come?
Please:
– RSVP to unhearable.chords@gmail.com. Include dietary needs and an address request if you don’t know the venue yet. Hospitality generous, actual space very limited.
– bring a donation (cash or bank transfer). Covers my costs and then pays E.
– BYO drinks.
– tell or invite your friends, but make sure they (or you) tell me they are coming.
More about the artist
E Millar works primarily with acoustic and electronic sound, texture, repetition, duration and structure. She creates sound sculptures from small electronic components and found materials, composes and performs text and video scores, and collaborates across the disciplines of installation, choreography and videography. She has performed and presented works in Australia, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.
emillar.net

Formations Vol 2 (ALT X VOLTA)
2023-07-06 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Formations presents volume two of our event series focusing on new blood and fresh mutations, where we invite live debut performances of new sets, new projects and fresh collaborations across all the genres and styles ALT and VOLTA are known for:
Christopher J Brown x Ben Waters: blistering dark techno and industrial from two modular synthesis wizards
instagram.com/everythingdies69 x instagram.com/yallerhon
Kim Little x Lana Rothnie // one-off improvisation collaboration set
instagram.com/keanu.raves x instagram.com/lanarothnie
Eduardo Cossio x Jeremy Segal // gestural entanglements via acoustic [zither] and digital materials [max/msp]
instagram.com/eduardo__cossio x instagram.com/seremyjegal
GA1J1N // cinematic synthpunk solo project
instagram.com/beau_menace
Nigella Screaming // haunted lo-fi pop duo
instagram.com/nigellascreaming
Visuals: Yumyab x Simulacra //
instagram.com/yumyab x instagram.com/simulacra.mp4

Josten Myburgh & Naoko Uemoto - Recital
2023-07-01 20:00 - 21:30 | Swanbourne Church of the Resurrection, 105 Shenton Rd, Swanbourne, WA, 2023, Australia
A recital by two young saxophonists united by a shared interest in improvisation and experimental practice on their instruments. Each artist will perform an ambitious solo work, and perform a duo improvisation together.
Saccades by Ted Moore is an electro-acoustic solo work using feedback processes and neural networks to emulate the process of saccadic masking in human vision. Saturated, layered and stimulating, it includes striking interplay between acoustic and electronic sound, and elaborate, contemporary processes for generating electro-acoustic sound textures.
A manorina nest at the edge by Josten Myburgh is an extended electro-acoustic solo that takes the poetics of ecotones and edge effects in ecosystems as a departure point for intricate workings with field recordings, live electronics and acoustic alto saxophone. Undulating, gentle and unusual, it is the next in a series of works by the composer which strive to understand emerging relationships between place, self and music. The piece was recently performed at MONO (Room40, Brisbane) and Wakushoppu (Punctum, Prague); this is it’s Western Australian premiere.

Melville Midwinter
2023-07-01 17:00 - 20:00 | Dyoondalup Point Walter, Honour Ave, Bicton, WA, 6157, Australia
Welcome to the most enchanting arts celebration of the winter solstice and an opportunity to mark the change of seasons. Featuring live performances of song, dance, visual art, spoken word and puppetry at the famous Dyoondalup Point Walter, this annual celebration asks you to pause, stop and begin again; reflect on the year that’s been and the year to come.
5.00pm: Arrive and be welcomed to the grounds of Dyoondalup Point Walter with a personal Acknowledgement of Country by the fire, before exploring the foreshore at your own pace, embracing the atmosphere of roving performers, enjoying the delicious winter spread food and hot drinks as the sun goes down and you await the lanterns of the night.
6.00pm: Make your way up to the hill and find performances that will capture the imagination of children and adults alike. With a musical line-up featuring Jet Kye Chong and fellow percussionist Euphina Yap, an installation sound work by Jake Webb and Lyndon Blue, the compositions of Julia Wallace, as well as performances from Brooke Leeder and Dancers, and first time performers, recent graduates from the Stories under the Stars workshops, facilitated especially for the event by City Libraries and the Storytellers Guild of WA.
Warm yourself by a fire, toast marshmallows, and be mesmerised by story and shadow puppetry by Rickeeta Walley as well as up-close puppet work from Tessa Laing.
7.00pm: Toward the end of the night, witness a grand finale from atmospheric band and jazz ensemble, Vanishing Island Group, with their never-before-heard music composed for the event, alongside poet and Elder Gerrard Shaw.
7.30pm: As a final coming together of community, you’re invited to plunge into the icy waters of the Swan River to renew your energy and inspire a lively year to come.
