Out West Liminal Sounds

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 (Australia/Perth) | _____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
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

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.

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.
