Tone List presents Aviva Endean (Naarm) & Josten Myburgh, Making Out (Ngambri/Ngunnuwal) & Izzy French
2025-12-01 19:00 - 21:30 (Australia/Perth) | Local and Aesthetic, 769 Beaufort St, Mount Lawley, WA, 6050
Tone List presents a lineup of interstate-local collaborations at Local & Aesthetic. Two high-contrast duos exploring thoughtful blends of electro-acoustic sound, one dynamic & noisy, the other evasive & subtle.
Aviva Endean & Josten Myburgh have recently been experimenting with a duo language that combines softly humming layers of electronics generated by sustain pedals, under their acoustic clarinet & saxophone. Playing at whisper-quiet volumes and gliding in and out of silence, the electronic tones are like a mirage behind the acoustic layer: all the sounds weaved together, almost indistinguishable. This is their first live performance of this project after recording it on Dja Dja Wurrung Country earlier this year.
Making Out (Rosa Bassett) and Izzy French meet for the first time in a first-meeting performance. With a shared investment in noise, electro-acoustic improvisation and experimental rock music, both artists employ games, restrictions and challenges to discover new possibilities in improvisation and composition, and are active organisers in their respective scenes. They work with aesthetics that can at times be bracing & brutal and at others dynamic, intense and unusual. Lots of alignments – but as they’ve never played before we will only find out what they’ll do on the night.

Event schedule
7:00pm — doors
7:30pm — Making Out & Izzy French
8:20pm — Aviva Endean & Josten Myburgh
9:00pm — finish

Accessibility
Both entrances to Local & Aesthetic are accessible: the front door at street level, and the side door via ramp. The venue has multiple accessible bathrooms. The venue is spacious. One set will be very soft and subtle, the other may be very loud and stimulating at times. No strobes or fast flashing lights will be in use.
Acknowledgments
Tone List operates on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to Elders and custodians across time. We dream of a culture of sounding & listening which supports restorative justice and the Lore of the land.
Tone List’s operations for ’25/’26 are supported by the Western Australian state government through the Department of Cultural Industries, Tourism & Sport (CITS).

WWIMakeshift
2025-12-12 16:00 - 21:00 | King Street Arts Centre, 357 - 365 Murray St, Perth, WA, 6000
~~ Making, co-posing, rupturing, overlapping, permeating, percolating …~~
If you came to WIMMake-shift last year, this one is slightly different! A 2 hr workshop will be facilitated by the very special AliceC and Annika Moses, artists who bring their brilliant knowledge and passion for improvisation, embodiment, movement and sound. Following this is a 1-hr long open improvisational performance for workshop participants, with an audience. Everyone is welcome to join the workshop (RSVP below!) and the performance is for public viewing!
AliceC says
‘Through my love and commitment to improvisation, I am interested in cultivating practices that shift, transform and elucidate states of moving and being.’
Alice is an interdisciplinary artist, working in dance, film, performance and installation, with a 40 year history of contemporary performance making. She is a provocative and versatile performer whose enduring aesthetic enquiry into the moving body creates work that interrogates and disrupts social and cultural narratives. The materiality of her work emerges from an attention to inner and outer worlds, inviting an intimacy with the body and place, wrestling an entwinement of personal/artistic, colonial and planetary histories. Alice has been an educator and mentor to a generation of Australian artists, influencing diverse disciplines of dance, theatre, writing, sound, visual art, sculpture and film making. Since returning to Boorloo/Perth in 2022 she has been actively engaged with STRUT Dance teaching and mentoring young and mid-career artists. Her most recent work terra first realised as performance, Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth (2024) and further film iterations by Cobie Orger with global distribution as a 3-channel 4K video installation and single channel HD video.
Annika says
‘Every musician has a body, though Western music has spent centuries trying to obscure this fact, and every movement artist makes sound. Since the beginning of my improv practice in 2016, I have been curious about the ways musicians and movement artists can get slippery with those labels, cultivating curiosity in the between-space that is neither Sound nor Dance but something more like Listen.’
Annika lives and makes on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo (Perth), so-called Australia. On this land she also likes to write, play, listen, and sew. Annika contributes to the musical projects Nika Mo, Great Statue, Didion’s Bible and Lyndon Blue, and is co-director of Boorloo-based exploratory music org Tone List. She has developed a practice of improvisation alongside sound-makers and movers since 2018.
… ….. The Finer details —-> ….
Friday December 12th
Workshop 4-6 pm, studio 1
Performance 7:30 pm, studio 3
at King Street Art Centre, Level 2
*Bring soft clothes + instrument/sound making object
Click this link to RSVP by the 8th December

We hope to see you in December!

…. also, we’re bringing cake again for everyone to enjoy at the end of the evening …

NoizeMaschin!!
2025-12-14 15:00 - 19:00 | Hyde Park Stage Area, Vincent St, Boorloo, WA, 6000, Australia
The last NM for the year is curated by the amazing Furchick and will be at the Hyde Park Stage Area on Sunday 14th Dec from 3pm to about 7pm

FurchickAn experiment in live sound source capture and manipulation
Falcon Bay Noise Complaints
A Furchick & dont know improvised collaboration with voice, words and electronic music

dont know dont know crafts hypnotic industrial soul music using synth, drummachine and loopers. Expect improvised rhythms and evolving patterns that shift organically in the moment

onetwotwofour (Izzy French) A transfeminine researcher and artist situated in Boorloo who’s curious about articulating intensity and playing games within noise and improvisation

Listening Wind Nat and Matt, some wind chimes, a synth, a small gamelan and the sea breeze
“The wind in my heart, the dust in my head, come to drive them away” – Talking Heads

Radiation Wobbly synth, lo-fi guitar and loop manipulation by June Last and Nathan Kelly newhesperia.com.au

Tone List presents Will Guthrie (Naarm/France), Flora Carbo (Naarm) & Radiation
2025-12-20 19:30 - 22:00 | _____g.s, Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo, 6000
For the noise heads & jazz fiends alike we are stoked to present a concert headed up by one of the world’s most jaw-dropping drum kit players, Will Guthrie, joined by prolific Naarm-based saxophonist Flora Carbo & elusive ambient noise duo Radiation.
Will Guthrie‘s drum solos are unbelievable in their combination of head-nodding rhythmic intensity, hardcore physicality and unashamed virtuosity. At the same time as being brutal workouts they are undeniably nuanced and driven by a synthesis of influences as diverse as chopped & screwed hip hop, rhythmic avant-jazz, classic electroacoustic music, noise & gamelan music. Will has released on Black Truffle Records, Erstwhile, Editions Mego and many others, played with legends from Mark Simmonds and Roscoe Mitchell to Richard Dawson, Oren Ambarchi and Mark Fell, and founded Naarm’s celebrated institution, the Make It Up Club. After some knock-out sets more than a decade ago in Boorloo under Tura’s stewardship, we are thrilled to bring Will back to the west coast.
https://will-guthrie.com/
Flora Carbo is among the continent’s most recognised and exciting young jazz saxophonists, and an unbridled lover of music & music community. Her saxophone playing is grounded in melody and the voice-like qualities of the instrument. Flora’s solo sets piece together folk-like tunes, wobbly electronics & drum machines in a mix that recalls Arthur Russell’s evasiveness, the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s playfulness, the moody thrill of a late-night trad session, and the intimacy of singer-songwriter performance. The recipient of multiple awards and commendations for her involvement in the jazz scene, Flora’s recent solo performances sit in a new, emerging place in her broad practice.
https://floracarbo.com/
Radiation are the duo of June Last & Nathan Kelly on synthesizers & guitar respectively, layering distorted string skronk and submerged melodic waves. Their recent cassette publications on New Hesperia are captivating, textured & mysterious.
https://newhesperia.bandcamp.com/album/27-may-2024
Event schedule
7:30pm — doors
8:00pm — Radiation
8:50pm — Flora Carbo (Naarm)
9:40pm — Will Guthrie (Nantes)
10:10pm — finish
Accessibility
____g.s. is accessible via wheelchair, however note that there is a tiny step (less than 5cm tall) between the main entrance in the back of the space. There is a wheelchair accessible bathroom onsite. The music will be very loud, percussive, rhythmic and intense at times. The room will be small and crowded and with limited ventilation other than the back door, which can be kept open during the sets.
Acknowledgments
Tone List operates on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to Elders and custodians across time. We dream of a culture of sounding & listening which supports restorative justice and the Lore of the land.
Tone List’s operations for ’25/’26 are supported by the Western Australian state government through the Department of Cultural Industries, Tourism & Sport (CITS). We pay fee guarantees to all of our artists through this funding, and recoup costs with ticket sales.

Will Guthrie: Poly-rhythmic / Poly-metric
2025-12-21 11:00 - 13:00 | _____g.s, Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo, 6000
Join renowned Australian drummer Will Guthrie for an in-depth workshop exploring polyrhythmic and polymetric techniques in contemporary percussion. Drawing on his collaborations with Mark Simmonds and Mark Fell, as well as influences from Gamelan traditions and Carnatic rhythmic systems, Guthrie will guide participants through complex rhythmic concepts in both theory and practice. This session is ideal for drummers, electronic musicians, and rhythmically curious artists interested in pushing time beyond the grid.
Please bring: Your instrument. For drummers it’s recommended to just bring one smaller instrument rather than a full kit. A PA is available if required. Keep it simple 🙂
Schedule
10:30am — space opens for participants to set up
11am — workshop begins
1pm — workshop ends
About Will
Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He plays solo using different combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics, and leads the contemporary hybrid percussion / gamelan group ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH. His music has been released on labels such as Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, Gaffer Records, Hasana Editions, 23five, iDEAL and his own label Antboy Music.
Guthrie first made a name for himself within the Australian jazz scene, establishing himself at a young age as a major presence by winning the Wangaratta National Jazz Awards for drums in 1997 and going on to perform with many of Australia’s most celebrated jazz musicians such as Mark Simmonds, Julien Wilson and Ren Walters. In the new millennium, his work took a long detour away from the drum kit through junk electronics, extreme amplification and electro-acoustic techniques, documented on a series of solo and collaborative recordings from these years.
Alongside continuing his electro-acoustic work, in the last decade, Guthrie has returned to the drums with a vengeance, developing a series of solo works marked by a radical single-mindedness, from relentless rhythmic workouts to earth-quaking explorations of the bass frequencies of gongs and other metal percussion instruments. In the crowded world of free jazz/improv percussion, Guthrie’s work is distinguished from the delicately pointillist approach of much European improvisation by its rhythmic sophistication, unashamed virtuosity and undeniable physicality, touching on aspects of world musics from Javanese gamelan to South Indian Carnatic music.
As a dedicated grassroots and DIY concert organiser, while still a student in Melbourne Guthrie (alongside Ren Walters) established the weekly concert series ‘Improvised Tuesdays’, now known as the Make It Up Club, Australia’s longest running performance series for improvised and experimental music. On moving to Nantes, Guthrie joined the collective CABLE#, curating and organising regular concerts and an annual festival.
Guthrie has released over 50 Albums, as both soloist and in collaboration, on labels such as his own Antboy Music, and also Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Gaffer Records, Ideal, Ipacac and Clean Feed. He has performed at countless venues and festivals all over the world including Lieu Unique (Nantes), Cafe Oto (London), Berghain (Berlin), Super Deluxe (Tokyo), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht), Meta House (Phnom Penh), MONA FONA (Hobart), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal), Lampo (Chicago), Oct Loft Jazz Happening (Shenzhen) and the Geometry Of Now (Moscow).
Regular collaborators past and present include Oren Ambarchi, Container, Sarah Hennies, Mark Fell, Roscoe Mitchell, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, James Rushford, Ghassen Chiba, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Erell Latimier, Chulki Hong, Mark Simmonds, Jérôme Noetinger, Keith Rowe, David Maranha, Ava Mendoza, the film maker Hangjun Lee and choreographer/dancer Mette Ingvartsen.
Acknowledgments
Tone List operates on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to Elders and custodians across time. We dream of a culture of sounding & listening which supports restorative justice and the Lore of the land.
Tone List’s operations for ’25/’26 are supported by the Western Australian state government through the Department of Cultural Industries, Tourism & Sport (CITS). We pay fee guarantees to artists presenting in our program and recoup costs with ticket sales.

Outcome Unknown + New Hesperian: Brendon Foley, Naoko Uemoto & Eduardo Cossio, Mel Hall
2025-12-21 11:00 - 16:00 | Buffalo Club, 54 High St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Outcome Unknown and The New Hesperian bring their low-key publications to Dead Merch Fair. Check out a stall of zines and tapes alongside curated live performances. Featuring:Brendon Foley – rough-hewn ambient guitarMel Hall – wayward folk songs Naoko Uemoto & Eduardo Cossio – slippery strands of alto sax & zithers11am-4pm, Sunday 21 of DecemberFremantle Buffalo Club54 High St, Walyalup WADEAD MERCH FAIRDead Merch Fair is an art market and open day at The Fremantle Buffalo Club. With screen printing workshops, resident record labels, curios, exhibits, DJ Sets and more. THE NEW HESPERIANThe New Hesperian is a print-only zine and publisher of Western Australian outsider art. OUTCOME UNKNOWNOutcome Unknown is a concert series for experimental music running since 2016, recent events have included visual art exhibitions and artist talks.

Pilgrims of the Mind (CAN) / Montana / Phil Stroud & Matthew Hatch / Lia T
2026-01-17 18:00 - 23:45 | Mojos Bar, 237 Queen Victoria St, North Fremantle, WA, 6159, Australia
For a laaaast minute summer silly season soiree ONO Records and MOVE team up to present Vancouver dance music legend PILGRIMS OF THE MIND!
After a 25 year hiatus from touring, Pilgrims of the Mind has made their maiden voyage to Australian shores performing live at Un:send festival and Miscellania in Naarm this summer so far. A downright seminal figure in the 90’s and early 2000’s Vancouver scene, producer Stephane Novak released a string of stone-cold classic records showcasing his utterly unique and forward thinking psychedelic house, tripped-out downtempo and shimmering ambient productions. From his early house and bleepy techno excursions on labels Outersanctum, Interchill and Map Music (The track ‘Who. Is. That.’ being an ONO favourite) to dropping two classic LP’s on Map Music, ‘Welcome to the Lotus Land’ & ‘What’s Your Shrine? ‘ defining the Pilgrims of the Mind sound. Novak’s work is so coveted that most of these records have been reissued over recent years, on labels such as Echovolt and Heels & Souls.
To pair with POTM’s smooth sounds we have a stellar lineup of local legends…
Phil Stroud & Matthew Hatch (Live)
Montana (Live)
Lia T (DJ)
A beautiful evening of beautiful music, and truly a special occasion!
This is a ‘do not miss’ typa night.
Mojo’s Bar Fremantle
Saturday January 17
Tickets $25 + fee via Oztix
$30 on the door
See you there!
Artwork by @llannddau

Tone List presents: Jean-Philippe Gross (FR), Rich Wh, Morals and Ethics
2026-01-18 18:00 - 21:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Tone List presents a double bill of electro-acoustic experimental music buoyed by extended curiosity-piquing DJ sets by two of Boorloo’s finest. Throughout the event try having a yuzu soda or prosecco alongside handmade veggie samosas & vegan patra by Khanna (Means Food).
Jean-Philippe Gross is an electroacoustic musician based in France. He is a self-taught musician and an exceptional improviser on the no-input mixer (a mixing desk transformed into an instrument using feedback). Jean-Philippe’s music is marked by its compositional precision, decisiveness, and attention to the grain and texture of lengthy sustained drones. Jean-Philippe sustains collaborations with forward-thinking musicians globally including Clare Cooper, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and the orchestra ONCEIM. Contemplative, risky, frisson-inducing stuff.
Rich Wh is a local electronic musician working with a refined sound palette on modular synthesisers. In his music, chaotically interacting drones, pulses and crackles are sounded with a sense of veiled darkness. He performs and releases frequently in the orbit of Burnt Seed Records, NoizeMaschin!! and the Boorloo modular synthesis community.
Morals and Ethics are the emergent DJ collaboration between indie scene mainstays Jameson Feakes & Rhian Todhunter (the former a Tone List founding member, the latter of outgoing Out to Lunch fame). Collagistic, pan-genre deep-diving and joyous intrigue.
Event schedule
6:00pm — Morals and Ethics (also playing between sets), Khanna (Means Food)
7:00pm — Rich Wh
8:00pm — Jean-Philippe Gross (FR)
9:00pm — finish
Accessibility
PS is wheelchair accessible via street level with an accessible all-gender bathroom. The venue is spacious but not well ventilated with only the front door left open during performances. Chairs, rugs and cushions will be available for seating. Both sets may be unpredictable and occasionally silent, quiet or very loud. No strobes or fast flashing lights will be in use.
Acknowledgments
Tone List operates on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to Elders and custodians across time. We dream of a culture of sounding & listening which supports restorative justice and the Lore of the land.
Tone List’s operations for ’25/’26 are supported by the Western Australian state government through the Department of Cultural Industries, Tourism & Sport (CITS).
Jean-Philippe Gross’s tour of Australia happens with the support of Rise / La Muse en Circuit – Musica.
Poster by Oliva Joi Rawlings.

NoizeMaschin!! 168
2026-01-27 19:00 - 22:30 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Join us for the first NoizeMaschin!! of the year for this cracking line up!
Kim LittleonetwotwofourRadiationRich WhScientia and BilgZoe and Jane
See you at the Bird!
Event photo by Lels Kaye.

Goolugatup Sounds: Phil Durrant & Christoph Gallio / Simon Charles / Raras Sukardi / DJ Izzy French
2026-01-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
Goolugatup Sounds presents a midweek spectacular, featuring free-improv legends Phil Durrant (@phil_durrant, UK; mandolin and electronics) and Christoph Gallio (@christoph_gallio, Switzerland; saxophone) in their celebrated duo mode. Plus, dynamic sound-adventurers Simon Charles and Raras Sukardi, each presenting unique sets for inquisitive eardrums; the mercurial Izzy French on the decks, an open improv session and more. Capacity limited; stay tuned for the ticket link very soon

Outcome Unknown #108 - Valentina Macias, Eduardo Cossio & Simon Charles, Plyanci
2026-01-29 19:00 - 22:00 | Maylands Yacht Club, East St, Maylands, WA, 6051
Join us for another edition of Outcome Unknown, where musicians from different backgrounds and persuasions experiment with sound.Playing on January 29 is pianist and composer VALENTINA MACIAS, soft-tronics collagist PLYANCI, and the duo of electro-acoustic mainstays SIMON CHARLES & EDUARDO COSSIO.7pm, Thursday 29 January Maylands Yacht ClubEast St, Maylands WA Entry: $15/$20/$25/$30 (choose what you pay).Poster by Eduardo Cossio

Circuit Central Live: Artificial
2026-01-31 18:30 - 23:30 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
31.1.26–> for the first cab home for the year we’re cruising into a puritanically LIVE event that skirts the edges of music you know, love and have never heard before.
Over at CC HQ we are still pinching ourselves that the kernel of the eve should be Artificial (a.k.a Nicole Skeltys), an artist who has released across the temporal and aural spectrum. We’ve experienced her projects as feeling out liminal sounds; serenely staunch IDM, acidic boppers and tinkling jingles to have you twirling into the early morning. You may have crossed paths with her music under the guise of B(if)tek (with Kate Crawford), an essential staple of nineties & noughties Aus. It’s true that tweeny Circuit Central was raised on nothing but a Saturday morning bowl of cornflakes and an endless loop of Biffers on Rage.
There’s too much to say about the special musicians who will be sewing the sonic quilt before Artificial. Lia T & Lyndon Blue will teach us new things about the viola, a presumed dubbed out exploration of Basic Mind with Clouds Come Rain, the syrupy hip shakers of Blood Knows, and a moment pouring one out for our favourite kind of surface with Dedicated Floor.
As always, loving you all too much for gassing up these events- we’re taking a temporary pause from parties after this one so would love to give you all a big squeeze on the 31st @ PS.

Goolugatup Sounds: R. Rebeiro / Josten Myburgh & Jules Reidy / Patience
2026-02-07 17:00 - 21:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
Coming up on Saturday, February 7, Goolugatup Sounds No. 29 welcomes the fierce electronics and avant-club experiments of Naarm legend R. Rebeiro (@r_rebeiro); alongside, for the first time, the wild intercontinental combo of sax + sound enchanter Josten Myburgh (@jostenmyburgh) in sonic dialogue with Berlin-based, Boorloo-born guitar/electronics powerhouse Jules Reidy (@jules_reidy). As if that wasn’t enough, new exhibitions open and twinkling selections through the night from ascendant star Patience (@tamaramarrington)

Perth Festival: Roomful of Teeth
2026-02-13 19:30 - 22:00 | St Mary’s Cathedral, 25 Victoria Ave, Perth, WA, 6000
Grammy Award-winning and globally acclaimed, Roomful of Teeth are dedicated to reimagining the expressive potential of the human voice. By engaging collaboratively with artists, thinkers, and community leaders from around the world, the group seeks to uplift and amplify voices old and new while creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music.
The band defies traditional conventions with their adventurous world-building and contemporary classical precision. Drawing from their lauded album Rough Magic alongside a kaleidoscope of works from their expansive catalogue, this high-powered and poignant octet dissolves boundaries between ancient music and cutting-edge experimentation.
Founded in 2009 by Brad Wells, Roomful of Teeth were incubated at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), where members studied with some of the world’s most extraordinary singers and teachers. Through experimentation, exploration and plenty of failures, the group learned that the boundaries of the human voice are never what they seem, that rules can be bent, even broken – and perhaps they should be.
Through their unique collaborative process, Roomful of Teeth have worked with many of today’s most compelling musical creators to build a significant and continuously growing repertoire. They have collaborated with a wide range of artists and ensembles spanning genres and art forms.

Radio DADAA x Ryan Borrett - soundwalk
2026-02-14 10:00 - 11:30 | DADAA, 92 Adelaide Street, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Join us for a Soundwalk with Radio DADAA’s Ryan Borrett
Where: DADAA Fremantle and surrounds.
Meet at the DADAA courtyard.
When: Saturday 14 February
Time: 10am – 11.30am
The walk will go for approximate 45 minutes

Immerse yourself in the unique sounds of Fremantle as we walk, listen and discover with our ears. A Soundwalk is an activity ‘whose main purpose is to listen to the environment, exposing your ears to every sound around us no matter where we are.’

This will be a guided sonic tour offering participants the chance to explore on their own. We will meet outside DADAA Fremantle and then gather for sharing session inside the DADAA building after the walk. You are welcome to bring a recording device (phones can work), or just you and your ears!
Free Entry, all welcome.
This is a satellite event of the radio DADAA launch happening on Wednesday night 11 February, and one of many radio DADAA events to come. Link to the radio DADAA launch event page here.
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“Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.”
Pauline Oliveros
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About Ryan Borrett:

Ryan Borrett is a PhD student studying soundscape ecology at Murdoch University with the ARC Centre for Healing Country. Parts of his project include monitoring threatened wetlands using ecoacoustics, and exploring how sharing and engaging in soundscapes can benefit nature and people. He has previously worked as a science communicator and journalist. Ryan is also a musician, playing in local bands and his own project Brushtail over the last decade, and runs the record label Rockton Records where he organises and promotes artists and events.

Emily Green-Armytage and Adam Pinto - Hallelujah Junction
2026-02-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Callaway Auditorium, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009
Hallelujah Junction is an eclectic concert of scintillating music for two pianos, featuring great works from the 20th century and an exciting new collaboration. Join the acclaimed musicians of Duo 2:10 – Emily Green-Armytage and Adam Pinto – in their twentieth year of collaboration as they present the world premiere performance of a new commission by award-winning Australian composer Olivia Davies, alongside masterpieces from the two-piano repertoire including Hallelujah Junction by John Adams. Each work celebrates the unique and colourful voice of its composer, creating an engaging and diverse program that ranges from the virtuosic to the experimental, which will resonate with both seasoned listeners and newcomers alike.

Perth Festival: The Trial (Philip Glass)
2026-02-17 - 2026-02-21 | Forrest Chase
Contemporary thriller meets operatic fever dream in this Australian premiere of Philip Glass’ The Trial. Under a blaze of fluorescent lights and with the shuffle of endless paperwork, the action unfolds in a chilling maze of a forgotten office space in Forrest Chase, where order masks chaos and every corner hides a secret.

Liquid Architecture Presents
2026-02-18 18:00 - 22:00 | Lawson Flats, 4 Sherwood Ct, Perth, WA, 6000
Liquid Architecture and Perth Festival present a lens to Asia-Pacific’s unrulier sound currents. The program traces a line from conceptual composition to scorched-earth noise praxis to the outer edges of contemporary rap.

From Yogyakarta arrives Aditya Pandu Wijaya, a key figure in Indonesia’s noise vanguard and the force behind Bergegas Mati, his harsh-noise vehicle known for its eroding, heat-warped extremity. Pandu’s networked practice spans global collaborations, split releases, raw-collage digital art and his cassette-driven imprint Gerpfast Records, which has quietly become a clearing house for scenes that refuse to align – shoegaze, hardcore, metal, electronica and the vast detritus between. His new project, D.O.V.E., pushes further into violent oscillatory abrasion, reaffirming noise as both rupture and communion.
Cutting through these intensities is Pette Shabu, the Quezon City rapper shaping a distinctly Southeast Asian reading of experimental hip-hop. Her work fuses boom-bap, metal, ballroom, industrial and rave architectures into a kind of incendiary vernacular theatre – language as protest, pulse and provocation. On her recent debut SPRAK, she fractures genre into a riotous, multilingual cipher: political, playful, deeply embodied. Live, Pette operates at a threshold where club energy collides with underground poetics, a charged presence carving out new trajectories for regional rap.
Failing Upwards, the ongoing alias of Chris Cobilis, works in the long shadow of late-20th-century conceptualism, folding film scoring, installation and procedural performance into a practice that treats sound as both material and thought experiment. From self-duplicated record-shop replicas to the multi-device micro-drama of INSTAPHONICS, Chris navigates the frayed interfaces between technology, perception and non-music with a misanthropic humour that feels increasingly diagnostic.
Ben Aguero selects some recorded music on the night, playing selections before and between performances.
Together, these artists outline a terrain where form blurs, pressure builds and sound becomes a vector for instability, resistance and raw proposition.
Part of Summit at Lawson Flats – an unmissable series for the curious and thoughtful. Join us at Luis’ for a drink before the event or stay on for dinner afterwards. Reserve a table via Lawson Flats Reservations or email concierge@lawsonflats.com to book directly.

Sophia Hansen-Knarhoi (UK/AUS) w/ Nika Mo & Ben Buchanan
2026-02-20 19:30 - 22:30 | Rosemount Hotel, 459 Fitzgerald St, North Perth, WA, 6006, Australia
Sophia performs live at Rosemount Hotel on Friday February 20, joined by supports Ben Buchanan and Nika Mo. This rare, intimate seated performance offers a close-up experience of her music and is not to be missed.
Sophia Hansen-Knarhoi is a detail focused experimental ambient-folk songwriter, combining expansive evocative sound worlds with intimate storytelling.
With her first album Undertow, London-based composer/singer-songwriter Sophia Hansen-Knarhoi reveals stark vulnerability nestled in a dark ambience that is both intimate and expansive. Voice and cello provide the bedrock of a detail focused record, that threads together memory, grief, growth and connection. Undertow took its shape during an acclimation of sensuality and self, through a period of processing trauma, and all of life, love and loss that it surrounds and intertwines with. ‘Undertow’ binds this intimacy with the corporeal, spanning violation and deep trust. It deals with the fallout of the victims of violence against women, voyaging through fear and pain to absolution.
“The cello is widely considered the closest instrument to the voice. This is something that continually bleeds into my practice, finding the connection between voice, cello and body. The physicalization of this combined practice creates a sense of corporeality in my sound. I let it be intuitive, my playing and singing guided by my breath and the way my body moves. I found the duality of this expression informed reflections of sensuality and intimacy throughout the album.”
Undertow coalesces in a unique combination of clarity in its folk/singer-songwriter storytelling with a wholly alive and reactive bed of instrumentation. Instead of traditional structures and overly virtuosic solos, all aspects of production and performance lean heavily into spontaneity and gut feeling, reaching closer to a sense of unfiltered emotional truth. The result is an act of reification: songs with a sense of touch, of ears and eyes and flesh, coming to life around the mouth.
With the skilled Brooklyn producer Randall Dunn as a collaborator, Undertow pushes further into the abstract, a dark and dissociative space. Dunn carves intricate space with vast void-like atmospheres and cinematic intensity, with an unrelenting foregrounding of vulnerability. With instrumentalists Peter Zummo, Marilu Donovan, Henry Fraser, Luke Bergman and Brent Arnold, the arrangements on Undertow draw breath into a minimalistic sonic landscape, occupying a cohesive improvisational latitude.
Born in Perth, Hansen-Knarhoi grew up surrounded by the natural world. ‘Undertow’ draws on the stark landscapes and vast waters of Western Australia. At moments, field recordings are woven into the work, while at others, arrangements reflect its beautiful barren environment through memory. “Engulfing myself in nature has always been a way for me to process the world, to bring me back into my body and my senses”. ‘Undertow’ revels in this remote sonic landscape, submerging stories in the depths of truth.

Pneumatic & Wishful Thinking presents Fergus Jones (UK - Live), Melānija and Rare Faction
2026-02-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Ode to Sirens, 25 High St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Join us for a night of beautiful live music from special guest Fergus Jones, joined by Melãnija, and Rare Faction at Ode To Sirens in Wayalup, Fremantle.

Fergus Jones (UK/FELT):
Fergus Jones is a Scottish artist living and working in Copenhagen. A producer and DJ lauded by Boomkat as “one of the underground’s key, if liminal, hyper-connectors,” he runs the label and event series FELT, which has released records by the likes of Civilistjävel! & Carrier.
Previously known as Perko, Jones released his acclaimed debut album Ephemera on Numbers in 2024. Developed with collaborative energy as the creative priority, the album was produced by Jones alongside an extensive list of like-minded musicians, lyricists and vocalists, including Huerco S, James K, Koreless, Birthmark, ELDON and Withdrawn of Bristol’s Cold Light crew, Laila Sakini and Lia T. Ephemera featured on numerous Best of 2024 lists by publications such as The Quietus, Phonica, Gorilla vs. Bear, and First Floor, with Pitchfork columnist Philip Sherburne highlighting “Heima” as the year’s best trip-hop single and Resident Advisor recommending its “masterful storm of trip-hop, dub and downtempo.”
Ephemera followed three releases on Numbers under the Perko alias – 2018’s NV Auto, 2020’s The City Rings, and 2023’s Prang, which was included on Resident Advisor’s Best Tracks of 2023 – and 2020’s Galerie on Denmark’s Posh Isolation.
Praised for his productions, live performances, and DJ sets, Jones has notably contributed mixes to the long-running FACT and Truants series, and is a frequent guest on radio stations such as NTS, Rinse, and the Lot. He has toured in Australia, China, and Japan, and performed at clubs worldwide, including Berlin (Tresor), London (Ormside Projects), Barcelona (Nitsa), Glasgow, and in his adopted city of Copenhagen.

Live support sets from:
Melãnija (LIVE)
Rare Faction (LIVE)

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𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧; 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐤 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠.

Accessibility:
No strobes will be used; a hazer/smoke machine might be in use.

Ming Qi - Elision Ensemble at UWA
2026-02-24 18:30 - 19:30 | Callaway Auditorium, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009
MING QI

6:30pm, Tuesday, February 24th
Callaway Music Auditorium, University of Western Australia, Perth
Tickets through UWA
Aaron Cassidy 27. Juni 2009 (2021) 10’30
for Eb clarinet
Evan Johnson contemptus mundi (2021) 14’
for clarinet in C and piano
Matthew Sergeant [terrains] (2016) 11′
for solo flugelhorn with preparations
Liza Lim Ming Qi (2000) 4’
for oboe and percussion
Liza Lim Magnificat (2025) 8’
for solo percussion
Liza Lim Ghosts make form (2024) 14’
for violoncello and piano
John Rodgers Amor (1999) 5’
for flute and oboe
Victor Arul new work (2025) 7’
for oboe, clarinet. trumpet, and piano

Smerz
2026-02-25 20:00 - 23:30 | Freo.Social, Parry St, Fremantle, WA, 6160
Norwegian duo Smerz make their long-awaited Australian debut at Freo.Social on 25 February 2026, celebrating their new album Big City Life (2025). With their moody avant-pop, minimalist production and hypnotic, almost-whispered vocals, the pair have built a significant cult following for music that drifts between club culture, performance art and late-night introspection.
Smerz have earned major international acclaim for their distinctive sound, and they’re now in Australia for a limited run of shows and festival appearances, offering a rare chance to step into their lucid, slow-burn dream world.
We honour and acknowledge the Whadjuk Nyoongar people as Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and live. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging and recognise that the land and sovereignty has never been ceded.
TICKETING INFO
*18+ LICENSED SHOW – MINORS PERMITTED WITH A LEGAL GUARDIAN
SET TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
When ticket sales have closed on the day of the show they may still be available at the door.
Once purchased tickets are non-refundable & non-transferable
A booking fee applies to all advance tickets
VENUE INFO:
Photo ID is essential, acceptable ID is a current and valid Australian Photo Drivers Licence or Passport
The venue reserves the right to refuse admission to any person.
Intoxicated persons will not be admitted.
Dangerous behaviour including Crowd Surfing, Stage Diving, Moshing and Violent Dancing is not allowed and will result in your immediate removal from this venue.
Inappropriate behaviour at this venue will lead to your banning.
*Minors are permitted with a legal guardian. When on premises minors must be accompanied at all times.
COVID-19 SAFETY GUIDELINES:
Due to the lifting of COVID-19 mandates in WA, Freo.Social is operating at full capacity and restriction free!
We still encourage our patrons to observe good hygiene practices and encourage you to stay at home if you are unwell.

Boring Divine & Error Festival present a punk & noise showcase
2026-03-05 18:30 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
In collaboration with @error.festival and @alt.live.perth
𝕭𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕯𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖘
A PUNK AND NOISE SHOWCASE
𝑻𝑶𝑻𝑨𝑳 𝑫𝑬𝑭𝑬𝑨𝑻 | DIY HARDCORE
𝑨𝑭𝑭𝑰𝑹𝑴𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺 | BLACK/DEATH PUNK
𝑪𝑯𝑹𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑷𝑬𝑹 𝑱 𝑩𝑹𝑶𝑾𝑵 | DEATH INDUSTRIAL
⸸ TWO NEW PROJECTS ⸸
𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑺𝑰𝑬𝑹 | POWER ELECTRONICS + TECHNO DRUMS
𝑾𝑰𝑻𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑶𝑶𝑴 | IMPROVISED. EXPERIMENTAL. INDUSTRIAL NOISE. DOOM.
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MARCH 5TH @william_street_bird
DOOR SALES ONLY
LIMITED CAPACITY
RESPECT PEERS AND PLACE
BE THERE EARLY
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DOORS 6.30
20$ WAGED
15$ UNWAGED
DJs IN THE COURTYARD 5-8PM
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NEXT DOOR @winstonsmallbar
PANEL DISCUSSION w James Jovanoski ft Perth Promoters
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POSTER: @skullmeat_
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This event takes place on stolen Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Outcome Unknown 109
2026-03-05 19:00 - 21:30 | Lightworks, 112 Murray St, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Join us at Lightworks, one of the few remaining Artist-Run-Initiatives in the Perth CBD, for the next Outcome Unknown!Featuring solo sets by Kyla-Rae Ashworth, Callum O’Reilly, and Pedro Alvarez.7pm, Thursday 5 March112 Murray Street, PerthEntry: $15/$20/$25/$30 (pay see what you can)This concert is part of REDACTION TOOLKIT a collaborative, interdisciplinary visual arts exhibition by Stirling Kain, Harrison Waed See, Jordee Stewart, and Jacob Canet-Gibson. KYLA-RAE ASWORTH is a musician, performer and educator. She is active across a wide range of performance spaces, including classical, folk, contemporary/experimental and improvisation. Kyla-Rae has performed and toured internationally with both the Australian Youth Orchestra and the West Australian Youth Orchestra across Europe, China, Japan and Singapore. PEDRO ALVAREZ is an independent composer, improviser, educator and activist born in Chile. Having been professionally trained in the European classical tradition, in recent years his musical practice has increasingly focused on free improvisation and Andean folk music, looking for meaningful ways of articulating these three musical streams in his creative work. CALLUM O’REILLY is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and multimedia artist. He enjoys pushing traditional convention and contorting the limits of the classical ensemble. He incorporates elements of electronic music, hip-hop, pop, and modern jazz, creating sonic worlds that are original and deeply embedded in modern culture while also murmuring the musical legacy of the past. ACCESSIBILITY: The venue is not wheelchair accessible. There are two flights of steps leading to the small exhibition space. Cushions and some chairs will be provided. Toilets are located inside the space.Photo of Lightworks and design by Eduardo Cossio

Music in N-Dimensions
2026-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | The Derksen Studio (WAAPA), ECU City, 500 Wellington Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Step inside an extraordinary world of sound as WAAPA presents the first spatial music performance in its new immersive audio performance space. Designed to envelop audiences in three dimensions of sound, this unique concert explores movement, depth, and perspective through innovative spatial audio techniques.
Led by spatial music expert Stuart James and featuring new works by Composition and Sonic Arts students and staff, the performance transforms the venue into a living, breathing soundscape – the music surrounds, shifts, and evolves from every direction. Experience a bold reimagining of musical space, where listening becomes an immersive, physical encounter.

ALT. pres VIDEOPOLIS [FR] & PTMC
2026-03-22 18:30 - 22:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
VOLTA [live electronics] PRESENTS VIDEOPOLIS [FR]
World renowned French audiovisual artists Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt present their new live performance VIDEOPOLIS.
A powerful live audiovisual duo, blending intense electronic sound with generative visual systems. Vigroux’s raw, physical approach to electronic music meets Schmitt’s algorithmic and conceptual visual art, creating performances that explore tension, rhythm, and control. Together, they craft immersive, high-impact AV experiences where sound and image interact as a single, evolving structure. Their very last work Videopolis emerges from the chaos of a world overwhelmed by images corrupted by dark forces. These images saturate both the visual and cognitive fields to better manipulate the masses, rendered docile. Toxic algorithms metastasize all truths ; blur spreads across perception, and viewpoints cancel one another out. This raises a fundamental question : how can Vidéopolis be countered?
With support from local composer/producer PTMC.

ACCESSIBILITY: Note that strobe lights are used in this event.

Outcome Unknown
2026-03-26 19:00 - 21:30 | Maylands Yacht Club, East St, Maylands, WA, 6051
On March 26, come down to the Maylands Yatch Club for Outcome Unknown. Featuring:Jane Stark & Craig Pedersen ~ percussion & bass imbricationsRobert Cook ~ minimal ambient guitarMani Mae Gomes & Ainslie Allan ~ movement and vocalisations7pm, Thursday 26 MarchEast Street, MaylandsThe club is a wheelchair accessible venueEntry: $15/$20/$25/$30 (pay what you can)BYO

Audible Edge '26 Program Launch
2026-04-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Patio, 4/3-13 Essex St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
“The best thing in Boorloo every year.”
“The only festival I’ve been to that leaves me with more energy after a set than when I arrive.”
“Just joyful. I could not fault anything with the way it was run.”
Audible Edge (AE) returns for 2026! Be the first to hear about the AE’26 program by attending our program launch at Patio Bar in Walyalup/Fremantle.
Audible Edge is an artist-led, international festival of exploratory music. It’s held annually on Whadjuk boodja since 2017. This year it will take place entirely in Victoria Hall in Walyalup/Fremantle from May 1 to 3. That’s three days overflowing with extremely good and strange music, a wholesome, warm atmosphere, dances, treats, sessions and strolls.
For the program launch, we’re pleased to invite Rose KB (Fringe World Tour Ready Award, 2026) to host a live talk show, throwing curveball questions at your festival curators and artists from this year’s program. A fun, slightly unhinged way to get an insider’s look at what will happen in this year’s festival. Come gather with us and make your festival plan with your mates.
Before and after the interviews, hang out, read the program together, have something to eat and drink and enjoy selections and improvisations by Ben Aguero & Nelson Mondlane of Myriad Sun.
The launch event is free, but you can nab an advance festival pass now, or donate to the Audible Edge Seed Fund to help make new works by WA artists happen in this year’s festival. (You may note that this event’s program consists of two past Seed Fund artists 💪).
Event schedule
6:00pm — Myriad Sun DJs
7:00pm — Rose KB & special guests
8:00pm (ish) — Myriad Sun DJs
9:00pm (ish) — fin.
The venue is open from 4pm—late; you’re most welcome to come early and stay after.
Accessibility

Patio Bar is wheelchair accessible. The space will likely be crowded and busy, so please consider and prioritise access for the people around you. There will be some dedicated free spaces for mobility aid-users, who are also welcome to change these seating arrangements around. Be conscious of not standing/leaving your things in places that might block accessibility for others.
The space is well-ventilated and open to the outdoors.
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, and food, are available at the venue (menus on their website).
Lighting will be dim and warm. No strobes or fast flashing lights will be used.
The music may be loud and stimulating at times.
Seating is available throughout the space (bar stools and lower table seating). The event will likely involve a seated audience closer to the performance, with bar stools and standing room further back, and more seating in the outdoor area.
Tone List have a small accessibility budget set aside for any attendees who need financial assistance in order to attend. That could be to pay a support person to come with you, or to get an uber to and from the venue door. Get in touch with us at info@tonelist.com.au.

Acknowledgments
Tone List operates on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to Elders and custodians across time. We dream of a culture of sounding & listening which supports restorative justice and the Lore of the land.
Tone List and AE’26 are principally supported by the WA government through the Department of Cultural Industries, Tourism & Sport (CITS), with additional support from the City of Fremantle, the Australian Cultural Fund, Audio Foundation, Liquid Architecture, Culture Ireland and Fremantle Small Projects.
Graphic design by Michael Gunson (Mike Midnight).

Jsuk Han - Organs, Breathes, Salt
2026-04-24 - 2026-04-26 | The Naval Store, 141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
A site-specific sound installation in which the Naval Store becomes a living organ. Acoustic feedback loops are generated and modulated by interconnected systems: real-time Fremantle weather data — wind speed, humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure — flocking algorithms that govern the collective behaviour of sound across space, and the resonant frequencies of the microphones and the building itself.
Found objects suspended from the ceiling trusses act as speaker units, connected by cables radiating from a central control system. The installation evolves slowly and unpredictably over the exhibition period, accumulating and shifting like salt itself.
‘Organs, Breathes, Salt’ is an outcome from the ongoing Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre and Incheon Art Platform Artist in Residence reciprocal exchange.

Opening hours:
Friday 24 April 2026
Doors 6pm, Live Performance 7pm
Jsuk Han will be collaborating with Raras Sukardi (clarinettist) and Sage Pbbbt (ritual vocalist) during the live performance.
Saturday 25 April, 1-7pm
Sunday 26 April, 1-7pm
Audiences are invited to view the site-specific installation and Jsuk Han will be present to discuss the residency exchange and project.
JSUK HAN
Jsuk Han is an artist working across sound, sculpture and installation, with a practice grounded in feedback, resonance and spatial listening. Using self-built audio systems, Han creates site-responsive works that make audible the often-unseen relationships between place, memory and environment.
ABOUT WALYALUP FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE RESIDENCIES
WFAC’s Studio Program offers artists across all disciplines the opportunity to explore and develop their work within a vibrant and supportive environment. Residencies range from one to six months, and artists are provided a studio best-suited to their practice. The program fosters innovation and collaboration, creating a dynamic community for artistic exploration.
ABOUT INCHEON ART PLATFORM
Incheon Art Platform is a contemporary arts complex located in the historic port area of Haean-dong, Jung-gu, Incheon. Housed within renovated heritage buildings, IAP supports national and international artists through a diverse residency program spanning multiple creative disciplines.

Audible Edge Festival of Exploratory Music
2026-05-01 18:00 - 2026-05-03 21:00 | Victoria Hall, 179 High St, Fremantle
“The best thing in Boorloo every year.”
“The only festival I’ve been to that leaves me with more energy after a set than when I arrive.”
“Just joyful. I could not fault anything with the way it was run.”
AE is an artist-led, international festival of exploratory music. It’s held annually on Whadjuk boodja since 2017. It includes delightfully strange songs, forward-thinking club sets, brazenly weird experiments, bracing noise, virtuosic improvisation, anti-virtuosic improvisation, listening through dancing, new directions for ancient music, dinners, treats and strolls.
Our mission is to make a low pressure, fun atmosphere, and a powerful, attentive listening culture. We carefully curate a program of stuff that is really good, putting little-known experimentalists on a prominent stage. We invite you to experience a festival with no headliners, that is more about realness, kindness and building culture together.
In a radical and unprecedented turn (🤪), AE’26 is all in one venue: Victoria Hall in Walyalup. We’re taking over the whole space, with room for impromptu participatory play, resting or dining between sets, courtyard boogies or massive sets in the main hall. If AE has a theme this year it is “ease”: the festival is still Quite The Journey, but everything you need is close to hand.

Program & Lineup

So far we have announced only our four Seed Fund artists: amby downs (Naarm), Simon Charles & John Kinsella, Lia T & R. Glacken, and Saskia Willinge with Uma Volkmer (Warrang) & Naoko Uemoto. Donate to support new work by these artists now via the Australian Cultural Fund – all donations above $2 are tax deductible.

The full program will go live at 6PM AWST on April 9, 2026. Come to the Program Launch event at Patio.

Accessibility

Victoria Hall is an 8 minute walk from Fremantle Station (about 550m) over footpaths and paved roads. 915 and 502 bus routes stop immediately outside the venue.
Victoria Hall is wheelchair accessible. Some steps separate the bar from the outdoor courtyard, however there is an alternative accessible pathway around the other side of the main hall. We’re currently looking into a ramp for these steps.
The music in the festival is extremely diverse, ranging from extremely quiet, minimal music to loud, repetitive and rhythmic music, noise and drone. Each set is succinctly described in the program to help you decide whether something is for you.
Lighting is a mixture of natural light and warm, ambient light. No lights flashing faster than 5Hz, projections, or strobe lights are used in the festival.
There is a dedicated quiet, low-stim space in the venue. There are also indoor and outdoor social spaces which can be used for a rest between or during sets.
Snacks are available during morning programs, and dinner is available for purchase inside the venue in the evenings. Lunch is best found by going for a short stroll, there’s plenty close by in Fremantle.
We have a small accessibility budget set aside for any attendees who need financial assistance in order to attend. That could be to pay a support person to come with you, or to get an uber to and from the venue door. We encourage disabled folks to get in touch with us to have a chat if you require financial support in order to make your attendance more comfortable.

Acknowledgments
Audible Edge is a project of Tone List, a Boorloo-based label for exploratory music founded in 2016.
Tone List operates on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to Elders and custodians across time. We dream of a culture of sounding & listening which supports restorative justice and the Lore of the land.
Aboriginal and Palestinian folks are welcome to flexible-price or free tickets to our program as a token of our acknowledgment of their continuing struggles for justice.
Tone List and AE26 are principally sponsored by the WA government through the Department of Cultural Industries, Tourism & Sport (CITS), with additional support from the City of Fremantle, Liquid Architecture, the Audio Foundation, Culture Ireland, and Fremantle Small Projects.
Graphic design by Michael Gunson (Mike Midnight).
