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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

"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 […]

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