Out West Liminal Sounds

NoizeMaschin!! 168
2026-01-27 19:00 - 22:30 (Australia/Perth) | 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 …

Tone List presents Aviva Endean (Naarm) & Josten Myburgh, Making Out (Ngambri/Ngunnuwal) & Izzy French
2025-12-01 19:00 - 21:30 | 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).

Outcome Unknown 107 - Windhover, Tiffany Ha, Mark Cain
2025-11-29 19:00 - 22:00 | North Fremantle Community Hall, 2 Thompson Road, North Fremantle, WA, 6159, Australia
After a little break, Outcome Unknown returns as a bi-monthly concert series. Join us on November 29 for the music of:M A R K C A I N a composer-improviser who has been a leading figure of WA’s multi-cultural and improvised music scenes since the 80s.T I F F A N Y H A composer and vocalist offering acoustic piano improvisations informed by meditative processes and her practice as a Gestalt psychologist.W I N D H O V E R the long-running project of mainstays Dan O’Connor and Eduardo Cossio. Emerging structures built with zithers, trumpet, voice and electronics.7pm, Saturday 29 of NovemberNorth Fremantle Community Hall2 Thompson Rd, North Fremantle WAEntry: $15/$20/$25/$30 (choose what you pay).

Manjaree Music: Aviva Endean
2025-11-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Manjaree, Bather's Beach Precinct
As the sun sets, musicians and guest artists will soundtrack the golden hour with free live music and concerts at our Manjaree (Bathers Beach) Precinct.
Featuring Aarti Jadu’s devotional and experimental voice, Banjo Lucia’s all fire songwriting, Drea’s soulful R&B, Aviva Endean’s boundary-pushing clarinet, the veena and percussion of IndianEye, and the high-energy improv jazz of Mali Jo$e. Plus special performances from Sonic Earth, a new commission by Natalia Mann, Merinidi Schrieber and Ilona McGuire, weaving saltwater songlines from Samoa to Gimuy to Whadjuk Country, and Wodoi & Jungun led by Leah Umbagai and the Mowanjum dancers.
Our Bar will be open slinging local brews and fresh drops.
LINEUP
Thurs 13 Nov – Opening Night
Fri 14 Nov – Wodoi & Jungun
Sat 15 Nov – Sonic Earth + Praashekh 4
Sun 16 Nov – Sonic Earth
Fri 21 Nov – Sanctuary Within: Muriel Hillion, Salama, Kaloune
Sat 22 Nov – IndianEye + Aarti Jadu
Sun 23 Nov – Banjo Lucia
Fri 28 Nov – Aviva Endean
Sat 29 Nov – Drea + Mali Jo$e

Fremantle Biennale: Whalefall
2025-11-27 - 2025-11-28 | Port Beach Shed, Cnr Tydeman Rd & Port Beach Rd, Fremantle, WA
Artists Ben Frost and Tom Mùller collaborate on Whalefall, a new temporary work conceived in response to the landmark Port Beach Shed — a skeletal, stand-alone structure that stands sentinel at the intersection of Tydeman and Port Beach Roads, gazing out over the vast Indian Ocean.
The work pays homage to a rare and solemn event: the appearance of a lone sperm whale, the largest of the toothed whales, which came dangerously close to Port Beach before becoming stranded on a sandbar near Rockingham. Despite efforts to assist, the whale died, leaving behind a haunting presence.
Whalefall transforms the existing edifice into a sanctuary of sound and light — a spectral memorial to this marine giant. The structure becomes an illuminated carcass, pulsing with sonic echoes that reference the whale’s extraordinary acoustic world. Sperm whales communicate and echolocate through powerful clicks, trumpets, and codas, with vocalisations reaching up to 230 decibels — the loudest of any animal on Earth.
In this work, Frost and Mùller evoke the ghostly resonance of these underwater signals, reimagining the shed as both a beacon and a requiem — a place where land meets sea, memory meets myth, and silence is filled with the language of giants.

Raras Sukardi - Performance Residency
2025-11-24 - 2025-11-26 | _____g.s, Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo, 6000
The return of our long-dormant DIY performance residency series is made possible in partnership with new studio space and gallery _____g.s.
This performance residency series is about offering a musician an opportunity to “sharpen the sword” and test experimental ideas through back-to-back nightly concerts. This is a rarity in Boorloo, where experimental gigs are still relatively infrequent. But it’s essential to some experimental music practices, which thrive on the energy brought by an audience.
We’re pleased to host Raras Sukardi for our first redux of this series. In recent years Raras has been determinedly researching freeform musics throughout Asia by travelling and collaborating. She usually works with suling, clarinet, tubes, noise & feedback. We don’t know what she’ll do for these shows yet. Come find out with us (:
_____g.s’s gallery space is very small, and these performance are deliberately low pressure & micro-scale. You need to book in advance to attend.
About Raras:
Raras Sukardi (she/her) is an Indonesian-born, Australian-raised clarinettist, actively exploring improvised and experimental music. Her Indonesian heritage shapes her identity, creating a deep sense of belonging and natural connection towards Indonesian culture, people, and land. This connection inspires her artistic journey, driving her to explore the interrelationship between art, nature, and spiritual energy. Currently engaged in clarinet teaching, Raras continually seeks to learn new techniques and broaden her community to deepen her artistic practice.
Accessibility:
The performances are held in a very small space which will likely feel crowded. Limited seating is available. Lighting may be dim. Performances may be very loud at times. The space is wheelchair accessible via the courtyard entrance, although the wheelchair accessible bathroom on-site is being serviced at the time of writing. Please feel free to write to info@tonelist.com.au if you have any accessibility concerns.

Boring Divine pres. Lucas Abela ft. Matthew Taggart & Lara Dorling
2025-11-22 20:00 - 23:00 | _____g.s, Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo, 6000
“Lucas is just captivating. It’s incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs” – ZACH HILL. – Death Grips.
“One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube” – David Rees – The New York Times.
Maverick improviser; Lucas ’Granpa’ Abela’s (formerly Justice Yeldham) singular journey performing on shards of broken glass is the stuff of legend. For over twenty years now they have relentlessly toured the globe, the glass evolving over that time from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an incredibly versatile instrument producing organic outsider electronica. Played somewhat like a reed instrument, Abela vibrates the shards edge with their lips, producing both audio signal and control voltages. These feed a complex modular patch of parallel chains where the performance modulates itself to give the instrument the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment that together forms dense layers of anomalous music.
On 31st of October, Lucas Abela & Zach Hill released a collaborative album on Warp Records, “Bag of Max Bag of Cass”.
Lucas will have merch including a limited amount of the new LP on the night.
https://warp.net/bag-of-max-bag-of-cass
https://granpa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/granpa_abela/
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Venue Info:
_____g.s is an art gallery and studio.
Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo
https://www.instagram.com/_____.g.s
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Supports:
Matthew Taggart & Lara Dorling
A new collaboration between Matthew Taggart (yumyab, Never Again, S/M Noise) and Lara Dorling, a body based improviser. Contact mics, channeled sound and movement interplay.
https://www.instagram.com/yumyab/
https://www.instagram.com/laradorling/
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Please note that this is a small venue. Capacity is strictly limited and we are expecting to sell out.
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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.

Manjaree Music: Aarti Jadu + IndianEye
2025-11-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Manjaree, Bather's Beach Precinct

Your Mother's Disgusting Window (Naarm) / Pensive / Mariana / Dieback / Bone Geer
2025-11-21 19:00 - 23:30 | Peninsula Tavern, 223 Railway Parade, Maylands, WA, 6051, Australia
YOUR MOTHERS DISGUSTING WINDOW from Naarm (Melbourne), Australia released their self titled debut album on limited edition cassette and digital September 7th (night of the Harvest Moon) on Marfa Lights records (https://marfalightsrecords.bandcamp.com/…/your-mothers…).
YOUR MOTHERS DISGUSTING WINDOW is a solo project from Darlene Aaron and features a revolving live backup “band” whose only responsibility is to create walls of feedback for Darlene to play sternum dissolving sludge over the top of. Hypnotic downtuned super fuzzed out bass and pummeling drum machine emerge through layers upon layers of droning feedbacking guitars as a space echo drowned vocal relays the bleakness of complete and utter hopelessness.
The songs navigate themes of abandonment, body dysmorphia, gender dysphoria, suicidal ideation and homicidal fantasies, the lyrics derived from neurodivergent and PTSD melt downs. Darlene herself has released music as AA Matheson, Bison Grass, Boquillas, WE1 XAM, Jenny Hickingbotham band, and DARLENE. She is known for intense and emotional live shows often taking place in unconventional venues like underground tunnels, haunted buildings, cinemas and Masonic lodges.
Joining her for these Boorloo/Perth shows include local noise fiends Bilg and Esper as backing feedback to disorient. Local supports include metallic bonepunx Bone Geer, Dieback and their festering death licks, the brutal grooves of Mariana and the frenetic skramz of Pensive.
Sound samples here:@sadlypensive – https://pensiveskramz.bandcamp.com/album/demo@marianaband.au – https://marianaau.bandcamp.com/track/putrid-remains-liveBone Geer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8_t3AOWII@dieback.debtmetal – https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI8pCMkBW6O@yourmothersdisgustingwindow – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sut6aywSiBk
$15 standard entry/$10 for unwaged + first nations mob free entry (drop us a message!)Card or cash accepted: Function room of Peninsula Tavern, 223 Railway Parade, Maylands
This event takes place on unceded Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. We pay respects to elders past/present/rising and endeavour to close the gap.

Tone List x Fremantle Biennale: Sound Sauna w/ Stuart Orchard
2025-11-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Manjaree, Bather's Beach Precinct
Sound Sauna is a one-of-a-kind sensory ritual — a resonance spa at Manjaree (Bathers Beach), perched on the edge of the Indian Ocean. Set within a repurposed shipping container and lined with locally sourced timber, this installation fuses the restorative heat of traditional sauna culture with a transformative sonic experience. This intimate space invites you to sweat, float and dissolve into a curated sonic journey.
Across a series of 60-minute sessions, sound artists, musicians, poets, and cultural leaders create immersive soundscapes designed to deepen connection to place. Inspired by the Fremantle Biennale’s 2025 theme of sanctuary, each session is an exploration in active listening, collective care and embodied transformation. Sound changes with the time of day: morning meditations and vocal landscapes drift toward late-night DJ sets and experimental bass vibrations. Your body becomes a conduit for deep frequency — buoyant, dissolving, alive.
Whether you’re drawn by tradition, curiosity or the lure of sound and heat, Sound Sauna offers a space to reflect, to soften and to feel, floating between breath and rhythm. Come alone or with others. Sit, listen, sweat. Let the ocean hum at your back. The warmth will carry you and the sound will stay with you.

Stuart Orchard is a West Australian composer-performer, sound designer and educator. His work with ambient piano soundscapes, aeolian music, self-made string instruments and adventurous rock music have seen him perform around the world, including at SoundOut Festival (Canberra), Tanzforum (Berlin), and the Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music (Perth). His music has been used in the ABC TV production The Heights (2019); he has also been commissioned by Tone List (Audible Edge Festival, 2020) and by Joseph Simons’ for his solo choreographic work First Thing’s First, which toured in over 40 venues worldwide. He has worked, recorded and played with influential musicians across genres, including Mark Reeder, Jean Luc Guionnet, Jim Denley & Jodie Rottle. He is active playing in an array of bands and improvised collaborations across Perth.
Stuart is interested in immersive listening, and the connection of musicians and listeners to their environment through its natural forces & stories. He has a Bachelor of Music (First Class Honours) in music composition, where he focused on interactive aeolian instruments & sculptures. He has undertaken further intensive studies with Billy Martin (The New School, NYC) and Jim Denley (via Tone List), and also holds qualifications in writing & secondary education.
LIVE SET – Stuart will use his aeolian (wind-powered) instruments to create an improvised piece shaped by the environmental forces at Manjaree.

NoizeMaschin!! 166
2025-11-18 19:00 - 22:30 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Note the date change this month – we have moved it from the usual last Tuesday to the 18th November so we can feat not 1 but 2 amazing interstate guests!! This months amazing lineup:SidiDarlene (Naarm/Melb)Pony TimeMike Nigro (Gadigal/Syd)Allison LabsRaras Sukardi
Door 7pm First Act 7:30pm$15/$10

Boring Divine pres. Lucas Abela w/ Furchick, Bilg & Scientia, onetwotwofour
2025-11-14 19:00 - 23:45 | Buffalo Club, 54 High St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
“Lucas is just captivating. It’s incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs” – ZACH HILL. – Death Grips.

“One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube” – David Rees – The New York Times.

Maverick improviser; Lucas ’Granpa’ Abela’s (formerly Justice Yeldham) singular journey performing on shards of broken glass is the stuff of legend. For over twenty years now they have relentlessly toured the globe, the glass evolving over that time from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an incredibly versatile instrument producing organic outsider electronica. Played somewhat like a reed instrument, Abela vibrates the shards edge with their lips, producing both audio signal and control voltages. These feed a complex modular patch of parallel chains where the performance modulates itself to give the instrument the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment that together forms dense layers of anomalous music.

On 31st of October, Lucas Abela & Zach Hill released a collaborative album on Warp Records, “Bag of Max Bag of Cass”.
Lucas will have merch including a limited amount of the new LP on the night.
https://warp.net/bag-of-max-bag-of-cass

https://granpa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/granpa_abela/

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Boring Divine presents Lucas Abela, on two dates.
14th of November
Buffalo Club, Upstairs
54 High St, Walylup

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22nd of Novemeber
____g.s.
Shop 12, 375 William Street, Boorloo
https://www.instagram.com/_____.g.s

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TICKET LINKS:
14th of November, Buffalo Club Upstairs
https://events.humanitix.com/lucas-abela-buffalo

22nd of November, _____g.s.
https://events.humanitix.com/lucas-abela-_g-s

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Buffalo Club Supports:

Furchick
https://www.instagram.com/fur.chick/

Bilg & Scientia
https://www.instagram.com/bagsstew/
https://www.instagram.com/lelskaye/

onetwotwofour
https://www.instagram.com/one2.2four/

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____g.s. supports:

Matthew Taggart & Lara Dorling
https://www.instagram.com/yumyab/
https://www.instagram.com/laradorling/

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Accessibility
Please note that unfortunately Buffalo Club Upstairs is not wheelchair-accessible.
The show on the 22nd of November at ____g.s. is wheel-chair accessible with a dedicated accessible bathroom.

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These events takes place on stolen Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respect to elders past, present and emerging.
Sovereignty was never ceded.

ALT pres. YOUR MOTHERS DISGUSTING WINDOW (Naarm) + Baptistina + Deth + Inhumane
2025-11-13 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
ALT//THURSDAYTHURSDAY 13 NOV 2025 :: THE BIRD :: BOORLOO
YOUR MOTHERS DISGUSTING WINDOW from Naarm (Melbourne), Australia released their self titled debut album on limited edition cassette and digital September 7th (night of the Harvest Moon) on Marfa Lights records (https://marfalightsrecords.bandcamp.com/…/your-mothers…). YOUR MOTHERS DISGUSTING WINDOW is a solo project from Darlene Aaron and features a revolving live backup “band” whose only responsibility is to create walls of feedback for Darlene to play sternum dissolving sludge over the top of. Hypnotic downtuned super fuzzed out bass and pummeling drum machine emerge through layers upon layers of droning feedbacking guitars as a space echo drowned vocal relays the bleakness of complete and utter hopelessness.
The songs navigate themes of abandonment, body dysmorphia, gender dysphoria, suicidal ideation and homicidal fantasies, the lyrics derived from neurodivergent and PTSD melt downs. The live shows are a complete sensory overwhelm that drowns the audience in relentless miserable and punishing soundwaves. Darlene herself has been a prolific if somewhat reclusive artist releasing music through various projects both solo and in collaborations over a career spanning 20 years on cassette, 7”, 12” and digital through a variety of independent labels. She has released music as AA Matheson, Bison Grass, Boquillas, WE1 XAM, Jenny Hickingbotham band, and DARLENE. She is known for intense and emotional live shows often taking place in unconventional venues like underground tunnels, haunted buildings, cinemas and Masonic lodges.
Supporting her locally include miscreants Bilg and Esper providing live feedback along with the soulful bursts of DETH (ft Hayley Beth), the experimental anguish of BAPTISTINA and INHUMANE debuting their bass/drum led apoplexy.
YOUR MOTHERS DISGUSTING WINDOW:: #sludge #industrial@yourmothersdisgustingwindow
BAPTISTINA:: #avantgarde #drone @cr0nes and @streetpartymarty
DETH:: #postpunk #noiserock@deth.boorloo
INHUMANE:: #powerviolence #bassanddrumft members from @dieback.debtmetal and @false_cobra
DJs 5PM, BANDS 8PM, LIVE ACTS DONE BY 11PM-ISH$15 DOOR ($10 for unwaged, first nations mob please message us for free entry)https://instagram.com/william_street_bird///Accessibility info:The Bird is accessible by wheelchair and has a wheelchair accessible toilet. Don’t hesitate to message us or The Bird directly for more info.///This event takes place on stolen Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respect to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Fremantle Biennale: Sounds of Some Summer
2025-11-13 08:00 - 2025-11-30 17:00 | WA
Sounds of Some Summer is a sprawling soundscape by Fremantle-based artist Bruno Booth, turning the city itself into an instrument. Across Walyalup (Fremantle), five microphones are discreetly installed — tuned to the sounds of the everyday — the wind, port, voices, traffic, and silence. These live audio streams feed into a central mixing station at the installation’s “epicenter,” where the city’s sounds, as summer awakens, are remixed in real time.
Sometimes quiet, sometimes dissonant, the soundscape is in constant flux — modulated by a rotating cast of invited “conductors and performers”, curated by Lyndon Blue. Using distortion, delay, and instruments to sculpt spontaneous compositions from everyday noise, each performer will create a layered audio experience that’s never the same twice.
Inspired by the brain’s Default Mode Network — a state of mind-wandering triggered by ambient stimuli — Booth’s installation offers a space for gentle drift, introspection and imaginative thought. It’s a work that invites you to listen differently: to find new meaning in the familiar, to be still inside a moving world. Bruno Booth’s innovative practice spans sculpture, technology and participation. With Some Sounds of Some Summer, he offers a quiet proposition: that a city might be found in its background noise.

Fremantle Biennale: A Predatory Chord
2025-11-13 - 2025-11-30 | Victoria Hall, 179 High St, Fremantle
A polyphonic signal fractures and scatters throughout the space — dispersed across a suspended field of loudspeakers. Cello-like tones rise and recoil in response to an inaudible threat, echoing the murmuration of prey animals under pressure. The room becomes an evolving environment, a volatile ecology of pitch, pressure, and mass. Sometimes, it breathes. Sometimes, it drops into an uncanny silence.
In A Predatory Chord, acclaimed composer Ben Frost pushes the very medium of his practice: the PA system. Loudspeakers — typically hidden — become spatial and sculptural instruments, shaping sound into form. This is more than music, this is a living intelligent system — reactive, physical, and unpredictable.
Originally commissioned for the Rolex Arts Festival, A Predatory Chord lands at the Fremantle Biennale with its full original scale and tension. From the mind behind award-winning scores such as Dark, Frost’s latest work continues his deep investigation into thresholds of sound, technology, and the unflinching wildness of the natural world.

Date and Time
13-30 Nov (Thur-Sun)
11am-8pm
Location
Victoria Hall

Entry
$15 + booking fee

Fremantle Biennale: Sound Sauna
2025-11-13 - 2025-11-30 | Manjaree, Bather's Beach Precinct
Sound Sauna is a one-of-a-kind sensory ritual — a resonance spa at Manjaree (Bathers Beach), perched on the edge of the Indian Ocean. Set within a repurposed shipping container and lined with locally sourced timber, this installation fuses the restorative heat of traditional sauna culture with a transformative sonic experience. This intimate space invites you to sweat, float and dissolve into a curated sonic journey.
Across a series of 60-minute sessions, sound artists, musicians, poets, and cultural leaders create immersive soundscapes designed to deepen connection to place. Inspired by the Fremantle Biennale’s 2025 theme of sanctuary, each session is an exploration in active listening, collective care and embodied transformation. Sound changes with the time of day: morning meditations and vocal landscapes drift toward late-night DJ sets and experimental bass vibrations. Your body becomes a conduit for deep frequency — buoyant, dissolving, alive.
Whether you’re drawn by tradition, curiosity or the lure of sound and heat, Sound Sauna offers a space to reflect, to soften and to feel, floating between breath and rhythm. Come alone or with others. Sit, listen, sweat. Let the ocean hum at your back. The warmth will carry you and the sound will stay with you.
Ft. Lawrence English, Alice Humphries & Daniel Thorne, Aarti Jadu, LiaT and Jade Vision + more to be announced!

Speechless Album Launch Celebration
2025-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Astral Weeks, Shop 12/60/66 Roe St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Decibel & Tura invites you to celebrate the release of Speechless — Cat Hope’s powerful 2019 opera, performed with Decibel and produced by Tura as part of Perth Festival in 2019 — and now released internationally by Swiss label, Hat Hut.
This Listening Session is curated by Decibel members Cat Hope, Tristen Parr, Aaron Wyatt, Stuart James and Lindsay Vickery who will be present at the celebration across the afternoon, ensemble members will take turns selecting tracks, including music from Speechless and other Decibel albums.
The event also features a live interview with composer and Decibel Artistic Director Cat Hope.
A limited number of copies of Speechless will be available on the day for $20, alongside other Decibel releases. Bundle discounts available — limited copies only. Come and spend time with ensemble members after their Inland Lake concert at The Rechabite on Thursday 6 November.
Free entry by registration. Inland Lake ticket holders receive a free drink on entry.

Home Frequencies: Ẹ Káàbọ̀
2025-11-09 12:00 - 15:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
Join us for a special afternoon of sound, storytelling, and collaboration.
As part of @goolugatupheathcote’s Melville Contemporary 2025, experience an intimate Artist Talk + Improv Jam Session centred on @ayo.busari s new work, Home Frequencies: Ẹ Káàbọ̀ – an immersive sonic world weaving echoes of diaspora, memory, and resilience.
The afternoon begins with an Artist Talk unpacking the creative journey behind the work, followed by an open Improv Jam Session – a collaborative soundscape inviting artists, musicians, performers, poets, and curious participants to play, speak, move, or simply listen.
🎶 Come be part of the collective frequencies.
🗓 Sunday 9 November, 12–3pm
📍 Goolugatup Heathcote
🥤 Light snacks & drinks provided
🎟 Free entry – RSVP via ayobusari.com
Presented by @thetoolevent & @wwimfest in partnership with @mobusent

Tone List presents: Sulla Lingua (IT/AUS), Sara Salt, Gracie Smith
2025-11-07 19:30 - 23:00 | Buffalo Club, 54 High St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
“good-time-math-prog-disco-slow-head-banging” – Improved Sequence
For the weird rock dogs out there Tone List is excited to bring over “the world’s only Australian-Italian electroacoustic noise rock trio”, Sulla Lingua. An alliance between Italian out-improvisers Riccardo la Foresta & Stefano Pilia and the prolific Castlemaine-based composer Anthony Pateras, the trio’s live sets are a truly smashing compendium of drum kit hammering, baritone guitar melodies and Doepfer modular drones. This happens over layers of samples procured from the sonic experimentation each of them is staunchly dedicated to in their solo practice. Silly brainiac rock for those inclined towards the likes of The Dead C, Slint or Lotto.
Joining them on the night is a solo set of unprecedented noisiness from Sara Salt (of hardcore quartet Nervous) & post-metal & free improv experimentalist Gracie Smith back in fine form on solo drum kit.
Event schedule

7:30pm – doors
8:00pm – Gracie Smith
8:50pm – Sara Salt
9:40pm – Sulla Lingua
10:30pm-ish – finish
See also
Each member of Sulla Lingua will play a solo set alongside a performance by Zoe Koong on November 5 at Goolugatup Heathcote, doors at 6pm!
Accessibility
Downstairs at The Buffalo Club is wheelchair accessible via ramp. Some of the pathways in the venue are narrow and can be crowded.
The show will be loud and play with. We have free earplugs available.
The show is indoors and whilst the front door is left open during the show, its otherwise not a well-ventilated space.
Lighting in the performance area is fairly dim; the back part of the venue and the area around the pool table are more brightly lit. No strobes or fast flashing lights (>5Hz) will be used.
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).

Decibel + Lionel Marchetti - Inland Lake
2025-11-06 19:00 - 21:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
We’re back at The Rechabite, Perth on 6 November with Inland Lake (le lac intérieur) – a 45-min electroacoustic work composed in 2022 by Lionel Marchetti in collaboration with Decibel.Written for ensemble and partition concrète – a fixed media part that functions as score, soundtrack, and ensemble member. Instruments weave in and out of a multi-speaker sound field, threaded with harmonicas, ocarinas, singing bowls, strings and winds in a performance that reimagines ‘acoustic ambient’ form.The work is accompanied by Karl Ockelford’s film, created for the Room40 release, with new 3D projection design by Sohan Ariel Hayes.One performance only – we’d love to see you there. Tickets: https://bit.ly/4q3Mhsn

[un/re]becoming - Fred Johnston-Horstman, Oz Kesik & August Pope
2025-11-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Spectrum Project Space, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley, WA

WASO: Pandaemonium
2025-11-06 - 2025-11-07 | State Theatre Centre Studio Underground, 178 William St, Perth, WA, 6000
State of the nation
Nov 6/7, 7:30pm
Jordan MOORE Pandaemonium
Olivia DAVIES New Work (World Premiere)
Lachlan SKIPWORTH Avem Asperitas
Stephen de FILIPPO Micropraxis
Melody EÖTVÖS New Work (World Premiere)
Kate MOORE Art of Levitation
Sam Weller conductor
Explore the exhilarating diversity of music by six of Australia’s most creative composers, led by one of the most exciting young conductors in the country. Works by Lachlan Skipworth, Olivia Davies and Melody Eötvös will be accompanied by evocative moving images. Jordan Moore and Stephen de Filippo will unleash powerful, visceral volleys of sound and Kate Moore explores our sense of time with pulsating clouds of harmony. This is Australian music. Here and now.
Melody Eötvös’ New Work commissioned for WASO by Geoff Stearn. Olivia Davies’ New Work commissioned for WASO by Prue Ashurst.
We will do everything in our power to present the program listed but we may have to vary the repertoire or artists. If that happens, we will let you know.

Goolugatup Sounds x Tone List present Anthony Pateras, Stefano Pilia, Riccardo la Foresta & Zoe Koong
2025-11-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
Tone List & Goolugatup’s stars align once more to celebrate the solo explorations of touring weird-rock trio Sulla Lingua, complemented by the glitch electronics and industrial bass guitar improvisations of local young gun Zoe Koong.
Come for a sunset deep listening soirée, with a dinnertime offering of unbelievable treats by Small Feast (Georgia Herbert and friends).
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Anthony Pateras is one of this continent’s most recognised composers. Mostly recently visiting to perform with a quintet in Perth Festival, Anthony’s solo electronic work is bracing, elaborate and multi-layered – and plays tricks on your ears. Anthony is best known for enduring collaborations with avant-metal icons like Mike Patton & Stephen O’Malley but has an extraordinarily diverse output across the fields of orchestral, chamber music, film soundtrack, sound installation and good hangs.
Riccardo la Foresta is a curator & percussionist based in Modena. His solo work explores the drummophone – a self-made instrument that pushes compressed air onto drumheads in order to make them sing. Instrument-builder geeks can nerd out on the amazing things these instruments do, whilst the immersive quality of the sound makes it easy to forget what’s making it and bathe in washes of raspy organ-like drones.
Stefano Pilia is a composer and baritone guitarist whose solo works investigate a sculptural, almost orchestral palette from the instrument through electroacoustic processing using pedals and modular synthesis. Based in Bologna, his diverse collaborators include Mike Watt, Phill Niblock, Rokia Traorè and Valerio Tricoli.
Zoe Koong is a Boorloo-based composer exploring dark industrial music that centres her fuzzed out bass guitar playing, drawing on a range of influences like Grouper, Ethel Cain, David Lynch & Natural Snow Buildings to make unsettling sonic stories.
