Out West Liminal Sounds

NoizeMaschin!! 166
2025-11-18 19:00 - 22:30 (Australia/Perth) | 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.

Sound Spectrum 2025.2
2025-10-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Richard Gill Auditorium, Building 1, Room 110 (1.110), Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley, WA, 6050
Bold, inventive, and extraordinary! WAAPA’s Composition and Sonic Arts program focusses the spotlight on outstanding student work for both acoustic and electronic instruments. New voices and groundbreaking sounds come alive across a diverse array of performances, featuring chamber ensembles, the hearNOW Art Orchestra, West Australian Laptop Orchestra (WALO), Listener Ensemble, modular synthesis, and other exciting creative projects. This will be a captivating showcase of fresh music, performed by outstanding students from the music program.

Noise Event: Blue Communications (VIC) & CC_DXCL (WA)
2025-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Current, 141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
NOISE EVENT
A free public event where the gallery will be opened to hold space for an evening of noise and exploratory sound performances by Blue Communications (VIC) and Cc_DXCL
Saturday 18th
7-9 BYO
Free event
CURRENT Gallery
141 Queen Victoria St, Walyalup

Sanche Zev - Must be Somewhere
2025-10-16 - 2025-10-26 | Current, 141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Must Be Somewhere’ by Sanche Zev
Opening Night:
Thursday 16th October
6-9pm
Exhibition runs:
Thursday – Sunday 11 – 4pm
”Must Be Somewhere” is an ongoing project by Sanche Zev that explores the intersection of the desert’s soundscape and human presence. Using payphones as field recorders, Zev calls public phones across the Western, Central, and Southern desert regions, capturing both conversations with strangers and the silence of the desert when calls are answered by no one.
This evolving collection of audio, transcriptions, and photographs examines the voyeuristic nature of these interactions, offering a poetic reflection on the intrusion into public spaces. Through this work, Zev investigates long-distance communication and the coexistence of built environments with the vast, arid landscapes they inhabit.
Sanche Zev (b. 1990, Boorloo | Perth) is a photo-based artist whose work spans photography, print, sound, and artist books. His practice engages the imagination to challenge and rethink contemporary notions of technology and art. Through designing installations, Zev takes a multidisciplinary approach to documentary art, using it as an entry point to create narratives that explore our understanding of human interaction and the landscapes we inhabit.
Working with experimental sound and listening practices to evoke shared experiences has become a key aspect of his work, fostering conversation, and generating new ideas. Zev is deeply curious about connecting with the unfamiliar; this sense of wonder has fueled his storytelling. His most recent project, Must Be Somewhere, is an ongoing exploration of listening to arid landscapes. It has evolved from his interest in our connection to communication and the vast desert regions.
Thanks to our partners Otherside Brewing and Freo Doctor for continuing support for our gallery events.

SSWWIM (Sydney Spontaneous Splinter Spring WWIM)
2025-10-15 18:00 - 22:00 | Earthwise, 315 Bagot Road, Subiaco.
SWWIM featuring Ellen Kirkwood and Mary Rapp!!!
S for Sydney (where Ellen and Mary are based), S for spontaneous because we started planning this a few days ago, S for Splinter Orchestra which Ellen is a long-term member of and is a group that hugely inspires many improvisers in Boorloo, and S for spring for alliteration purposes even though it’s actually Kambarang right now x
Ellen and Mary are long-term collaborators and iconic improvisers in the national scene and will play a duo set, supported by a first-meeting play from Fynn Evans-Ocharen, Sage Pbbbt, Eva Tucker, and Saskia Willinge. We will then have an open jam/ play/ read through of one of Ellen’s scores, so bring a sound-making object (or be ready to use your voice) if you’d like to join in. Maybe we could … swim in some cool sounds together… just an idea.
Entry by donation suggested $20/10/5, no one turned away for lack of funds, and money will be split between the artists.
We will also have some WWIM merch for sale and our library up and running.

Accessibility
The room and one of the 3 toilets are fully wheelchair accessible.

Parking and Public Transport Information
There are 5 bays available on site, but these may not be available during the week and on Saturday morning. Parking is available at the Subiaco Theatre parking area or in Bagot Rd – both are paid options during the week between 8-6pm but are free at other times.

Earthwise can be accessed via Transperth bus services 27 and 28, and is a 15min walk from Subiaco train station and 10 min from Daglish station.

NoizeMaschin!! Denmark
2025-10-12 16:00 - 18:30 | Denmark Arts
Emerging in the season of Djilba, when yellow acacias bloom and the country is alive with change, the channel is open: a space for new sounds, new experiments, and unexpected connections to flow.
This October, NoizeMaschin!! returns to Denmark for its second edition. This one-of-a-kind afternoon of sonic exploration. It is a meeting point for experimental music, sound art, improvisation, and performance.
The format is simple: 6–8 short sets, each up to 15 minutes. Anything goes, from finely crafted compositions to spontaneous experiments, works-in-progress, or pure sonic chaos.
A cosy bar with warm drinksHearty curry on the goLive drawing and visuals
A welcoming space for curiosity, discovery, and communityEntry: Pay What You Can – $10 / $15 / $20

W. Sze Tsang Site-Specific Residency Performance - The Last Stand
2025-10-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Current, 141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Join us for a final performance, two weeks from now; on Sunday, 12 Oct 4-6 pm. The culmination of Sze’s Site-Specific Residency; WIP – The Last Remaining Stand.
Sze will be performing ’The Last Stand’, a digital haunting in two parts: constructed from field recordings, 3D scanning and an autonomous digital instrument made from a map of the area.
About the artist:
W. Sze Tsang / samarobryn is an audio-visual artist working across temporalities and histories. Tsang’s practice explores how combining sounds, visuals, geospatial information and environmental data can express the multi-layered narratives on history and climate within place.
The Site-Specific Residency is a paid opportunity, and realised through our open call and the generous donations of artists and the community.These paid opportunities are the backbone of our programming. CURRENT recognises the time, intellect, labour and skill that an artist/creative/curator expends in creating works and making them available to the public. We hope to lead by example, paying artists for their contribution to society and creating the change we wish to see. We wish that these programmes can lead to debate and dialogue around contemporary practice and its future.
All programmes aim to empower artists who are challenging the formats, the boundaries and the way the space is occupied and used.
Thanks to our partners Otherside Brewing and Freo Doctor for continuing support for our gallery events.

Tone List presents: Current Bias (Pōneke) / Ellay W (Tāmaki Makaurau) / Montana
2025-10-03 19:30 - 23:30 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Tone List returns with another of our intermittent experimental club nights. Come down to the Bird for off-kilter DJ sets pushing and pulling between the rapidfire rhythms of jungle & footwork and the introspective textures of downtempo, ambient & electroacoustic music. Or, in less coded words: a show of unpredictable, sonically immaculate and really fun music to get moved by.
Current Bias has been working at a textured & wild approach to dance music since relocating from Boorloo to Te-Whanganui-a-Tara some years ago. With a digital, ambient & electroacoustic sound palette, their music is adventurous, playful and joyously weird, driven by rhythms that morph and evolve.
https://relatedarticles.bandcamp.com/album/frontal
Ellay W heads up Phys Ed, an esteemed Tāmaki Makaurau-based platform for unorthodox club music. He’ll be dovetailing with Current Bias to finish the night. Ellay W’s sets trend towards synthetic sound design and high tempo twitching rhythms.
https://on.soundcloud.com/XsSmRV6CkKvsFStYA
Boorloo’s own Montana works on the contemplative mix series Personal Space and has been increasingly venturing into her own live performances of meditative music informed by the the soft-focus sound worlds of dream pop, downtempo & shoegaze. She’ll open the night with a DJ set.
https://music-montana.bandcamp.com
Event schedule

7:00pm – doors
7:30pm – Montana
8:30pm – Current Bias
10:30pm – Ellay W
Closing around 11:30 – 11:45.
Accessibility
Most of The Bird is wheelchair accessible via ramp, including an accessible bathroom in the back courtyard. The raised part of the courtyard is not wheelchair accessible, but the show will take place in the main indoor space, so this won’t affect your ability to participate in the event.
The show will be loud and musically high-stim and fast paced. The Bird has free earplugs available at the bar.
The show is indoors and whilst the front and back doors are left open during the show, its otherwise not a well-ventilated space. It may be crowded.
Lighting in the space is very dim. 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).

A fundraiser for Gaza
2025-09-26 20:00 - 23:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Independent labels jade//vision, Rockton Records & Tone List join at PS on September 26 in a show of solidarity for Palestinians, and to directly support two families living in Gaza through mutual aid.
As Israel’s campaign of starvation, forced displacement & genocide escalates we are calling on our communities to continue to speak out, act & help to provide material support to families suffering on the ground.
The line-up for the night draws from artists from our respective scenes, alongside writers & activists, to create a reflective space for grieving, processing, recharging, organising & fundraising. We are glad to be united in support of freedom in Palestine and in fostering free expression locally.
With (alphabetical order):
Delivery Buoy
jade//vision Live with Hannah Magar, POW! Negro & other special guests
Moses & Blue
Bar run by PS. Snacks & merch TBA.
100% of profits from ticket sales will be donated to two Gazan musicians we are directly in contact with. This will provide a direct pipeline of funds to them and their families.
This event takes place on Whadjuk Noongar boodja.
Design by @oli.svg.
Accessibility
PS is wheelchair accessible. Lighting will be dim in the performance space. The music will be amplified and generally ambient and reflective, with louder live percussion in some of the sets. The space is large and tends to have room for social distancing; the door is kept open for airflow during the event.

Middle of Nowhere / Subterranea
2025-09-20 19:00 - 23:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
RTRFM’s MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND SUBTERRANEA COME TO YOU LIVE SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
RTRFM fans can visit the Middle of Nowhere and Subterranea on Saturday 20 September at The Buffalo Club and PS Artspace, as two of our newest shows get their first live gig.
At the Buffalo Club we go alt-country and folky to the sounds of Middle of Nowhere with sets from Harry Foxton, Good News Now We Can Eat All The Vampires, Pearl, Tom Brown and Brushtail, and Wayward Johnson and the Adjustment.
Plus, enjoy solo sets from Matt Cal, Sam Jane, Sol and Tanaya Harper.
Down the road and around the corner at PS Artspace we celebrate the station’s newest show, Subterranea, with live sets from Ben Aguero, Lia T and sleepthink, as well as deep DJ sets from Tash Thomas and Voss.
Join us on a musical journey with two of our newest shows in the heart of the West End in Fremantle.
Tickets available now via Oztix.com.au or RTRFM.com.au. Gold subscribers, use your Gold Ticket code to access your free ticket via Oztix
WHEN: Saturday 20 September, 7pm – 12pm.
WHERE: The Buffalo Club and PS Artspace
WHO: Ben Aguero (Live), Harry Foxton, Good News Now We Can Eat All The Vampires, Lia T (Live), Matt Cal, Pearl, Tom Brown and Brushtail, Sam Jane, sleepthink, Sol, Tanaya Harper, Tash Thomas, Wayward Johnson and the Adjustment, and VOSS
TICKETS: rtrfm.oztix.com.au

Goolugatup Sounds 27: Ayo Busari / Melanija / DJ Sliding Doors
2025-09-20 17:00 - 21:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
GS27 ~ ∘° ❀ °∘
featuring:
Ayo Busari
Mela7anija
dj Sliding Doors
Saturday, 20 September | Free entry from 5.00pm
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Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio - "Glint" Listening Party
2025-09-20 14:00 - 16:00 | State Library of Western Australia, 25 Francis St, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Join us for a Listening Session and an Artist Talk with Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio at the State Library. The duo present their latest album GLINT and share the story of its making with musician-curator, Josten Myburgh.
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Saturday 20 September
State Library of WA, Southern Room (Level 4)
2pm – 4pm
Entry by donation
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Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio are among the most prolific experimental musicians in Boorloo. Ross is a composer, poet, and Zen master described by The Wire as “a true original of Australian composition”. For more than four decades he has explored the unique and resonant sounds of Ruined Pianos.
Eduardo is a musician, visual artist, and the organiser of Outcome Unknown. He is known for an idiosyncratic approach to electro-acoustic music using de-tuned zithers, voice, and harmonicas.
The duo began working together in 2022. They have since released Dark Shine (2023), Such & Such (2024) – both on the French label Thödol Records – and Glint (2025). Their co-written article ‘Casting a Net for Synchronicities’ will be published by UnMagazine in September.
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Josten Myburgh is a composer, improviser, saxophonist and organiser of experimental music. They are co-director of not-for-profit organisation Tone List, and since 2017 has curated their Art Music Award-winning Audible Edge festival.
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Accessibility
The public lifts go to the 3rd Floor and from there the Great Southern Room is accessible via two flights of stairs. If you have trouble using stairs, please notify Library staff at the Welcome Desk and they will assist you to access the venue via the staff lifts.

un Magazine 19.1: Resonant imaginaries and sound clashes: contemporary – political – disruptive – polyrhythmic. WA Launch
2025-09-19 17:00 - 21:00 | _____g.s, Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo, 6000
un Magazine 19.1: Resonant imaginaries and sound clashes: contemporary – political – disruptive – polyrhythmic. Ed. Lucreccia Quintanilla   WA Launch event
_____g.s
Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo
Friday, September 19, 5 – 9pm
Featuring a panel talk with WA writers:
Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio,
Samuel Beilby,
and mgmgmgmg (Chandler Abrahams, Paul Boye, Levi Mclean & Samuel Beilby).
Facilitated by Dr. Sarah Collins.
Also featuring live performances by:
Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio,
mgmgmgmg
Un magazine 19.1 features contributions on experimental walking radio work, polyrhythms and singeli music, decolonising legacy sound art, Taiwanese noise scenes, ecological-focused sound workshops, and more.   Please join us for a night of noise, experimental music, performance art and discussion. The publication will be available to purchase at the event.

Ryosuke Kiyasu (JPN) + DogWash
2025-09-18 19:00 - 22:00 | _____g.s, Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo, 6000
Ryosuke Kiyasu
Ryosuke Kiyasu is a pioneering snare-drum soloist who has redefined percussion since 2003. Alongside his viral 2018 Berlin set (23 million+ views. also featured by BBC News and VICE), he drums for noise-grind duo SETE STAR SEPT, the Kiyasu Orchestra, Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha, and co-founded Canada’s cult hardcore unit The Endless Blockade. From Überschlag—the world’s largest classical-percussion festival—to Finland’s Outsider Art Festival and Dr. Martens Fest, Kiyasu’s 2022-24 itinerary placed him on premier stages across Europe. His performance film at the 2023 Edinburgh Art Festival sparked art-world buzz, while a capsule line with Swedish label Our Legacy pushed his aesthetic into fashion. With 200-plus releases spanning solo work and band discographies, Kiyasu continues to tour globally, delivering a singular, high-impact blend of extreme dynamics, physicality, and avant-garde vision that has made the snare drum a headline instrument.
Links: Web º Shop º Instagram º Youtube
DogWash
on support duties, the masked noise-rock duo of drums and bass; DogWash. DogWash is Mal Clark on drums (no cymbals, plenty of cowbell) & Benjamin Witt on distorted and pitch-shifted bass. Samples of dogs barking will be abundant.
Free entry for First Nations People
We would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians, the Whadjuk People, of the land on which this event is taking place on and pay respects to elders past & present. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
Venue / Accessibility Info:
Venue is wheelchair accessible
BYO drinks
Venue: _____g.s
Address: Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo

NoizeMaschin!! 165
2025-09-16 19:00 - 22:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
NoizeMaschin!! 165 is here at The Bird on Tuesday September 16!
We have an absolutely epic line up for you, featuring:Ambient Death Machine (Stewart Shepherd and Stuart Orchard)Cosmic SnailDroning Riff MantraScientiaStephanie SlaughtertranSient + CCCXXXIII
We look forward to seeing you for a night of experimental mayhem, where anything could happen!

Diffusion
2025-09-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Cheap Tongue Gallery, Cnr Beach & James St, Fremantle, 6160
Part performance, part exploration, Diffusion invites you to move through sound. Step into shifting fields of frequencies where space becomes an instrument. Walk through the music and listen with your whole body.
Featuring very special guests Chip Hazard, Naoko Uemoto, and Deco Zymm.
Supported by WWIM and Case Frames.

More announcements coming soon.

Liz Pelly (NY) & Michael Terren: Mood Machine
2025-09-02 17:45 - 19:30 | The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street Mall, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
For this one-night-only event, independent labels Tone List and Rockton Records join forces to bring US journalist Liz Pelly into conversation with local musician and educator Michael Terren. Drawing from complementary areas of research, the two will discuss how contemporary culture is being shaped by digital tools for creative production and consumption, such as Spotify and Ableton.
Liz Pelly’s book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist is an unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism. Hard copies of Mood Machine will be available for purchase on the night, supplied by Rabble Books.
Michael Terren is co-editor of the book Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production. The book explores how creativity is increasingly designed, marketed, and produced through digital products and services, which are not always politically, economically or culturally neutral.
As independent music labels operating in grassroots communities, Tone List and Rockton Records recognise the need to divest from extractive, unethical streaming platforms like Spotify. We hope this evening of discussion sparks reflection, criticality, and further action amongst the Boorloo music scene.

Schedule:
5:45PM — Doors open
6:00PM — Discussion begins
6:50PM — Questions
7:15PM — Wrap up
7:30PM — Doors close

PS. Tone List are presenting O,D,E, an experimental opera by Sage J Harlow at The Blue Room Theatre on the same night, in the same building at 8:00pm, upstairs in the theatre. Ticket holders to the Tuesday night O,D,E show can access discounted ticket prices to this event.
Acknowledgments
Tone List operates on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to boodja, and to Noongar birdiya (elders) and custodians across time. We dream of a culture of sounding and nih (listening) which supports restorative justice and the Lore of the land.
Tone List stands for a Free Palestine: for peace, for freedom from occupation and apartheid, for self-determination, the right to return for Palestinians in their homelands, and for safe, liberated expression in cultural spaces.
Accessibility
The Blue Room Theatre is a wheelchair accessible space. This event is held in the Kaos Room, which is on the ground floor. Accessible, all-gender bathrooms are located on the ground floor. The venue will be lit by a mixture of fluro and natural lighting. Windows can be opened in the space for ventilation. This event will also have a link to attend remotely via live video meet.

Brutal Waves - Ben Buchanan
2025-08-31 18:30 - 20:30 | Patio, 4/3-13 Essex St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
BRUTAL WAVES PRESENTS
Ben Buchanan
Patio Bar
August 31st
6:30pm – 8:30pm
FREE ENTRY
Join us for an evening of emotive, experimental cello. Red wine essential. Existential contemplation desired. See you there x
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Ben Buchanan (he/him) is a composer and cellist based in Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth). He is passionate about collaborating with like-minded artists through both improvised and exploratory music, as well as creating solo lo-fi freak folk projects. His compositions are texturally driven, pop-inspired and characterised by their eccentricity and whimsy.
