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 […]

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

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.

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). * * * 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

"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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]