Out West Liminal Sounds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Congregation of a different kind: vocal improvisation workshops
2023-07-01 16:00 - 2023-07-02 12:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
This workshop invites collective thinking by doing, asking what it means to have a voice and a body and to use both in a group improvised setting. It is also an opportunity to think about hope, faith and congregation of a different kind; practicing group singing in a non-denominational context. You do not need to have any prior vocal training or experience in improvising — all levels of experience and vocal proficiency are welcome and encouraged.

Workshops directed by Annika Moses. Registration essential, snacks provided.

Outcome Unknown 86
2023-06-30 19:00 - 21:30 | Old Customs House, 8 Philimore St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Matt Jones & Lindsay Vickery create feedback networks on theorbo, bass clarinet and Pure Data programming; composer-performers Pedro Alvarez & Josten Myburgh explore complex timbres in space using the quena and alto saxophone respectively; and dance ensemble PiP Collective query social processes.

ALT Thursdays
2023-06-29 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
BLACKANTLERS – WITCH HOUSE GOTH TRAP (soundcloud.com/antlers-4)
PUKE – SKRAMZ BLACKGAZE SCREAMO
YUMYAB – ELECTRONIC EXPERIMENTAL DRONE (https://yumyab.xyz/)
GRIFT – HARSH GRINDING DOOM

Peter Brotzmann at the Government House Ball Room
2023-05-16 22:00 - 22:30 | four5nine, 459 Fitzgerald St, North Perth, WA, 6006, Australia
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