Out West Liminal Sounds

Noizemaschin!! 149
2024-03-26 19:30 - 22:30 (Australia/Perth) | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Noizemaschin!! 149 will be at the Bird on the 26th March
Featuring the amazing talents of:
Eduardo Cossio
onetwotwofour
Deep Ecology
Isaac Beers
Ousougene
E Millar
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land where we live and work, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, and recognise their continued custodianship and connection to the land, waters and community. We pay our respects to them and their Elders past, present and emerging.

Bathing Swan (Saskia Willinge & Josten Myburgh) outdoor sunset performance
2024-03-24 17:30 - 18:30 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
-32.002366433010586, 115.84188093569541
Saskia and Josten will play for about an hour as the sun sets.

Audible Edge Night School: Hand-made music albums, a hands-on workshop
2024-03-24 10:30 - 13:30 | State Library of Western Australia, 25 Francis St, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Boorloo-via-Montréal label Mystery & Wonder are known for their lovingly-made merchandise including hand-assembled CD cases, woodcut-printed vinyl sleeves, and ubiquitous black-and-white tote bags. They’ve toured extensively internationally, taking boxes of merch with them. In this workshop you are invited to make a merch item from scratch – die-cutting and folding paper, ink-stamping and gluing, and even burning audio onto a CD-R (or bringing your own dubbed tape). The workshop will discuss not just the art of making the thing, but also the love and care behind independent artistry, and how this extends to making and sharing merch.
Participants are invited to bring their own materials (paper, stamps, Lino cuts) if they have a preference, and a CD-R or dubbed cassette. Otherwise, participants can simply use all the materials provided to make a sleeve and burn a CD with their digital files at the workshop. Participants can also bring a digital copy of liner notes and album credits for printing, if available. It’s also fine to show up totally empty-handed and start from scratch.

Accessibility

The State Library of Western Australia Geographe Room is a wheelchair accessible venue. It is located on the ground floor. There are numerous wheelchair accessible, all-gender bathrooms located throughout the library. The event is alcohol-free and all-ages. The room will be brightly and clearly lit. Live captioning can be arranged for the workshop. The workshop will use shared tools: hand sanitiser will be available. The venue is enclosed with no windows that can be opened. It will not be overcrowded, but depending on in-person attendance numbers, it may not have spare for more than 1.5m physical distancing.

Zuli (irsh, Cairo, EG), Lia T, Effective Power, Curlisu
2024-03-22 20:00 - 2024-03-23 01:00 | Si Paradiso, 1/446 Beaufort St, Highgate, WA, 6003
Ahmed El Ghazoly aka ZULI, is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and sound artist from Cairo, Egypt.
Internationally, ZULI is best known for his releases on Lee Gamble’s UIQ – which included a string of EPs as well as his debut LP Terminal, an album that highlighted the depth in his productions, as he simultaneously combines experimentations in rap/hip-hop with music for listening as well as the dancefloor. The Italian Haunter Records also saw the release of the infamous Trigger Finger EP which went on to be remixed by the likes of TSVI, AYA, Acre and more.
In 2019, ZULI launched a video series ‘irsh’ together with Rama where they curated and invited artists to play video recorded sets in a social setting. Only having the chance to record two episodes before the pandemic struck, they launched a label and released the first irsh compilation in September 2020 which highlighted talent from Cairo and the Middle East. The second compilation is currently in the works.
Locally in Cairo, ZULI is best known for his work in the Hip-hop scene, particularly with rapper Abyusif (who appeared on ZULI’s 2018 album ‘Terminal’) but also in the Electronic music scene as part of the now defunct collective Kairo Ist Koming (KIK) between 2012-2015. It’s there he founded Cairo’s alternative music venue and club, VENT, together with Asem Tag aka ($$TAG$$), which existed between 2013-2015 before transforming their project into a namesake club night and festival. Around the same time, VENT London was established at the now closed Dance Tunnel venue by a third partner, Mohamed Elshourbagui.
ZULI’s music garners support all over the board ranging from the likes of Aphex Twin and Autechre, to Ben UFO and Bradley Zero, even Richie Hawtin through its wide ranging sound. He joined the NTS Radio roster in 2016 with a monthly show that includes a dedicated hour to guest appearances from up and coming DJs and ones he meets touring around the world. Most recently ZULI released a live album entitled “Digla Dive – Live” on the legendary Nashazphone, and has many new projects in the works including a live a/v show with Omar El Sadek.
“Probing that tension between dance floor connection and loner headtrip, ZULI seems to enjoy antagonising club norm” – Angus Finlayson for Resident Advisor
“The producer whose music is too weird for Cairo, it turns out, is a few steps ahead of European clubbers, too.“ – Philip Sherburne for Pitchfork
“An amalgam of both global and regional electronic subgenres, All Caps has everything one can expect from a contemporary vanguard producer: a signature style, ultramodern sound design, inventive recombinations of past forms, and sociopolitical references to the here and now.” – Jaša Bužinel on the EP “All Caps” for The Quietus
on local support duties:
Effective Power
Lia T
Curlisu
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it is a privilege to be able to live & create on this land. We acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Whadjuk people and we pay our respects to elders past, present & emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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[Editor’s note: The Si Paradiso basement is not wheelchair accessible.]

Zuli (Cairo), Great Statue, Leon Osborn
2024-03-21 19:00 - 21:30 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
*** ZULI will be performing a very special live set on the night! ***
Ahmed El Ghazoly aka ZULI, is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and sound artist from Cairo, Egypt.
Internationally, ZULI is best known for his releases on Lee Gamble’s UIQ – which included a string of EPs as well as his debut LP Terminal, an album that highlighted the depth in his productions, as he simultaneously combines experimentations in rap/hip-hop with music for listening as well as the dancefloor. The Italian Haunter Records also saw the release of the infamous Trigger Finger EP which went on to be remixed by the likes of TSVI, AYA, Acre and more.In 2019, ZULI launched a video series ‘irsh’ together with Rama where they curated and invited artists to play video recorded sets in a social setting. Only having the chance to record two episodes before the pandemic struck, they launched a label and released the first irsh compilation in September 2020 which highlighted talent from Cairo and the Middle East. The second compilation is currently in the works.
Locally in Cairo, ZULI is best known for his work in the Hip-hop scene, particularly with rapper Abyusif (who appeared on ZULI’s 2018 album ‘Terminal’) but also in the Electronic music scene as part of the now defunct collective Kairo Ist Koming (KIK) between 2012-2015. It’s there he founded Cairo’s alternative music venue and club, VENT, together with Asem Tag aka ($$TAG$$), which existed between 2013-2015 before transforming their project into a namesake club night and festival. Around the same time, VENT London was established at the now closed Dance Tunnel venue by a third partner, Mohamed Elshourbagui.
ZULI’s music garners support all over the board ranging from the likes of Aphex Twin and Autechre, to Ben UFO and Bradley Zero, even Richie Hawtin through its wide ranging sound. He joined the NTS Radio roster in 2016 with a monthly show that includes a dedicated hour to guest appearances from up and coming DJs and ones he meets touring around the world.
Most recently ZULI released a live album entitled “Digla Dive – Live” on the legendary Nashazphone, and has many new projects in the works including a live a/v show with Omar El Sadek.
“Probing that tension between dance floor connection and loner headtrip, ZULI seems to enjoy antagonising club norm” – Angus Finlayson for Resident Advisor
“The producer whose music is too weird for Cairo, it turns out, is a few steps ahead of European clubbers, too.“ – Philip Sherburne for Pitchfork
“An amalgam of both global and regional electronic subgenres, All Caps has everything one can expect from a contemporary vanguard producer: a signature style, ultramodern sound design, inventive recombinations of past forms, and sociopolitical references to the here and now.” – Jaša Bužinel on the EP “All Caps” for The Quietuson
supporting this gig, very stoked to have:
Leon Osborn – https://soundcloud.com/leonosb…
+ more TBA
poster/artwork by Lyndon Blue
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accessibility: wheelchair accessible
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Free entry to all First Nations people, please contact me prior to the event to arrange, so that i can sort this.pls email: ben.aguero@hotmail.com
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it is a privilege to be able to live & create on this land. We acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Whadjuk people and we pay our respects to elders past, present & emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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MELT #3 - Chip Hazard, Portia, Josten Myburgh & Josh Chan
2024-03-17 19:00 - 22:00 | Booyembarra Park Ampitheatre
Very excited to announce the third edition of MELT; ambient music in the park. This is a family-friendly event, everyone is welcome, dogs also. Byo rugs, cushions and water. Entry is free but donations are encouraged. Please keep alcohol to a minimum and clean up after yourself.
There is a small fence to jump, sadly no wheelchair access.

Transports (Eduardo Cossio) & extracts from text score archive (Craig Pedersen)
2024-03-15 - 2024-04-17 | Spectrum Project Space, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley, WA
Concurrent exhibitions at Spectrum Project Space featuring the photography and “video scores” of experimental musician Eduardo Cossio, and the text score archive of composer-performer Craig Pedersen.

Opening: Thursday 14 March, 5pm–7pm
Exhibition dates: 15 March to 17 April
Building 3, 2 Bradford Street, ECU Mount Lawley

Gallery opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday, 10am–4pm
Saturdays March 16 and April 13, 10am-3pm

Audible Edge 2024 - Program Launch Party w/ Group Therapy & Sookie
2024-03-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Astral Weeks, Shop 12/60/66 Roe St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Join us on Wednesday March 13 from 6pm at Astral Weeks for a drink to celebrate the return of the festival and be the first to see the program in full.

The night features contributions from two projects which carry Audible Edge’s spirit of contrast, play and improvisation.

Audible Edge’s very own web designer and oddball experimentalist Sookie will present one of their fabled DJ sets between 6-9pm. Weaving vinyl, lo-fi field recordings and Youtube video samples together the vibe is joyfully intimate and impeccably strange.

At 7pm, Avant-jazz quartet Group Therapy, featuring Djuna Lee (bass), Jessica Carlton (trumpet), Simon Charles (saxophones) and Pete Evans (drums), will play a live set of driving and rhythmic improvised music.

There might be other silly antics, maybe a brief speech or two. Festival curators Annika Moses & Josten Myburgh may share some strange items from their record collections later into the night.

Printed programs will be there in abundance and maybe some other surprises. Astral Weeks’ wine list is really good — and be sure to take a punt on the in-house curated cocktails.

Entry is free, but we encourage you to donate generously to the Audible Edge fundraiser.
Audible Edge is a festival of exploratory music presented by Tone List. It’s geared towards exploring the marginal, experimental, and not-normal. It happens yearly in Boorloo and Walyalup, on Whadjuk Noongar land. In 2024, it begins at sunrise on April 26, and ends at moonrise on April 28.
Audible Edge is proudly supported by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and the Australian Cultural Fund.
We will reveal our full list of festival partners at the program announcement.
Tone List is a Boorloo-based label for exploratory music, based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. We acknowledge boodja and pay respects to custodians and elders past, present & emerging.

Josten is 30 - Jameson Feakes / John Na'em Snobar / Ingrid Lyons / Soror Sage Pbbbt / Lyndon Blue / wetpuddlss
2024-03-10 16:00 - 22:00 | Buffalo Club, 54 High St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Party is open to the public
Under-18s can attend with a legal guardian
Venue is wheelchair accessible
Generous donations at the door help pay artists (this instead of gifts please!)
The Buffalo Club is at 54 High Street, Walyalup (Fremantle).
Drinks available from the Buffalo Club bar
Live music at 5pm (Jameson Feakes) and 7pm (Lyndon Blue)
Poems, storytelling, magic, karaoke (?!), fiddle at 6pm
Boogie from 8pm til close (and also whenever else you want to)
Respect the venue, staff, and each other
No room for discriminatory violence
Free Palestine

Sound walk with Dan Harrison
2024-03-09 10:00 - 13:00 | Current, 141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Composer Dan Harrison shares his methods and creative process with participants in this workshop. Walking around Dwerda Weelardinup (Cantonment Hill), participants will gather field recordings using their personal devices and return to the gallery where Dan will run through his editing process using the material captured by the group.
Participants will need to bring their own smart phone to capture field recordings.
This event is free for first nations people, please email gallerycurrent@gmail.com for attendance.
THIS WORKSHOP RUNS IN CONJUCTION WITH THE CURRENT EXHIBITION:
‘an intervening space, especially a very small one’
Visual artist Tessa Beale and composer Daniel Harrison are excited to present their collection of new works at Current Gallery opening Wednesday 28th February. This exhibition is a collaboration between the two artists, sharing and responding to material from the site of Dwerda Weelardinup (Cantonment Hill, Walyalup). The result is a collection that spans prints, photography, compositions, projections, and field recordings.
Opening Wednesday 28th February, 6-9pm
The exhibition will be happening at CURRENT Gallery [housed in the former substation of the Naval Store, Walyalup] between the 28th of February to the 11th of March 2024.
We wish to acknowledge the Whadjuk Noongar people as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and practice. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

Outcome Unknown #99 - Diode / Chris Cobilis / Umbra
2024-02-29 19:00 - 21:30 | Maylands Yacht Club, East St, Maylands, WA, 6051
Join us on February 29 for Outcome Unknown at the Maylands Yacht Club.

Featuring:▪️ Experimental duo Diöde (Kevin Robertson & Jenny Griffiths) using a 3-channel speaker array across the venue.▪️Chris Cobilis’ deep dives into media archaeology and e-waste.▪️Umbra the trio of Holli Scott, Dom Barrett, and Peter Evans bringing their brand of minimalist improvisation. The club is a wheelchair accessible venuePoster by Eduardo Cossio

an intervening space, especially a very small one - Daniel Harrison & Tessa Beale
2024-02-28 - 2024-03-11 | Current, 141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
‘an intervening space, especially a very small one’ is a new body of work built upon a collaboration between visual artist Tessa Beale and composer Daniel Harrison in response to the Dwerda Weelardinup (Cantonment Hill) site.
The artists are interested in the transient nature of observed shifts in light, shadow, texture and movement and the potential for quiet moments encountered in nature when in unhurried time. Via sound and visual output, Harrison and Beale go about extracting particular qualities, properties and characteristics, changing the scale at which things are observed and establishing new conditions for these observations.
The composition and interpretation of these environments is based on a tacit contemplation of the sounds and the microenvironment that it was sampled from. By identifying a shadow, a movement, a quality of light or a texture detected in the surrounding natural environment of this site we aimed to create an immersive experience for the viewer.
Visual artist Tessa Beale and composer Daniel Harrison are excited to present their collection of new works at Current Gallery opening Wednesday 28th February (6-9pm). This exhibition is a collaboration between the two artists, sharing and responding to material from the site of Dwerda Weelardinup (Cantonment Hill, Walyalup). The result is a collection that spans prints, photography, compositions, projections, and field recordings.
The exhibition will be happening at CURRENT Gallery [housed in the former substation of the Naval Store, Walyalup] between the 28th of February to the 11th of March 2024.
We wish to acknowledge the Whadjuk Noongar people as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and practice. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

Noizemaschin!! 148
2024-02-27 19:00 - 22:00 | The Bird, 181 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Welcome to the 148th edition of Noizemaschin!!
This month’s stellar lineup with set times:
7.30 LOOPD
7.45 JTarr
8:00 Kompromat (Sage Pbbbt, Lesley Kaye and Stewbags)
Intermission aka chats and drinks
8.45 Dimity
9:00 Measures of Distance
9:15 BITCHNOISE
$10/$5
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land where we live and work, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, and recognise their continued custodianship and connection to the land, waters and community. We pay our respects to them and their Elders past, present and emerging.

Michael Rother & friends / Pale Ribbons Tossed Into the Dark
2024-02-23 20:00 - 22:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Join innovative music pioneer Michael Rother and some of his influential friends as they revisit the legendary NEU! canon for a new audience (and old fans).
As a founding member of NEU!, Michael Rother (alongside his companion the late Klaus Dinger) has cast a line of inspiration that has shaped numerous musical generations. From his first musical genesis as a member of Kraftwerk and his work as Harmonia with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, Michael has etched out an entirely personal sound world, most recently captured on a string of solo and collaborative albums.
Joined by long time collaborators Hans Lampe (La Düsseldorf), Franz Bargmann (exCamera) and Vittoria Maccabruni, this performance celebrates 50 years of NEU! and its groundbreaking legacy. It takes the now legendary NEU! canon and reworks it as a tribute to Klaus Dinger and in recognition of Michael Rother’s continued exploration of his utterly unique and profound way of music making. Hear a selection of favourite tracks from Michael´s long career, including fast-forward tracks from NEU! and Harmonia as well as solo works.
Support on the night comes from Pale Ribbons Tossed Into The Dark.
The Rechabite Hall is wheelchair accessible elevator. A gender neutral accessible bathroom is located at basement level.

Lonnie Holley & Moor Mother with Irreversible Entanglements
2024-02-22 19:00 - 21:30 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Three of America’s most cosmic and visionary artists join forces for an incandescent collaboration.
Mystic performer and visual artist Lonnie Holley and prophetic jazz poet Moor are joined by revolutionary free-jazz ensemble Irreversible Entanglements, who will also perform new material from their Impulse! Records debut, Protect Your Light.
Lonnie Holley and Moor Mother bring their collaborative chemistry together as well as performing their own, universally acclaimed recent releases — Lonnie Holley’s Oh Me Oh My, which was named Best New Music on Pitchfork, and Moor Mother’s Jazz Codes, which The Guardian hailed as ‘a stunning continuum of Black music’.
The interwoven energies of these three artists add up to a magical, life-affirming brew of cosmic jazz, afrofuturist poetry, folk, blues and uplifting anthems of resistance and triumph.
Accessibility:

There will be a dedicated space on the Rechabite Hall ground floor for patrons with accessibility requirements
The balconies in the Rechabite Hall are only accessible by staircase
The Rechabite entry has a small step from the footpath to the main entrance of the building, there is a level accessible entrance to the left of the main door
Pick up and set down is available along William Street
Please contact access@perthfestival.com.au if you have any questions

Kinds of Light 9: E Millar / Cobilis, Lee, Myburgh, Pedersen, Pbbbt, Terren
2024-02-21 19:30 - 22:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Kinds of Light is a concert series for creative music in the striking surrounds of PS Art Space in Walyalup/Fremantle. Curated by composer and improvising musician Josten Myburgh, Kinds of Light celebrates ambitious experimentation, careful musicianship, and sounds that are relevant to this place and time. It is programmed across style and genre, excited by the love and rigour that goes into music that defies categories.
Kinds of Light kicks off in 2024 with a co-curation with Boorloo-via-Montreal label Mystery & Wonder. E Millar will present a live instantiation of her artificial field recording project. Craig Pedersen, joined by Michael Terren, Djuna Lee, Josten Myburgh & Sage Pbbbt, will perform his composition “residues”.
E Millar is a builder of intricate kinetic sound sculptures using recycled consumer-grade electronics and found objects. Her instruments together accumulate to form what sounds uncannily like a tiny forest: bristling and subtly shifting.
https://mwrecs.bandcamp.com/album/artificial-field-recording

Craig Pedersen is a composer and trumpet player. His collective compositional output, largely in the form of text-based scores on index cards, embodies the dream of an ever-shifting body of work, flexible to the expressive needs of the present. At Kinds of Light he’ll present a suite of compositions titled “residues”, exploring themes of place, time, body and collective biographies, performing on electric bass alongside friends from the local scene, Chris Cobilis (electronics, guitar), Michael Terren (electronics), Djuna Lee (double bass), Josten Myburgh (saxophone, percussion) and Sage Pbbbt (voice, percussion).
https://mwrecs.bandcamp.com/album/dismissal
Known for gorgeous and detail-attentive handmade packaging, Mystery & Wonder are a label based in Boorloo since 2023, and in Montreal prior to that. In their own words: “Many of our releases focus on sound art, improvisation and compositional works that give attention to the musical possibilities inherent in combining or superimposing closely amplified elements with acoustic elements. We are interested in work that takes care with sound and timbre, structure and form, is close, direct and in high-definition. But most off all, we are interested in work that defies our understanding of all this and moves us in ways we don’t expect, work that stands on its own.”
mwrecs.com
Doors and bar open from 7:30, with the music starting shortly after. Each artist will present a performance of 30-40 minutes duration, with a break in-between.
Accessibility: The event is held on the ground floor of PS which is wheelchair accessible on even concrete flooring at street level. Gender-neutral and accessible bathrooms are located down the stairs on the ground floor. There is ample seating available and the venue is very spacious. The music is dynamic and may at times be extremely quiet or quite loud. No strobes or flashing lights will be used.
Tone List acknowledge the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the traditional custodians of where we work (Walyalup and Boorloo).

Jugular: Early Worm
2024-02-21 18:00 - 22:00 | Buffalo Club, 54 High St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
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:: Liquid Rigidity Project :: Perth exile returns from Taiwan with drummer in tow. improv ensues.
:: Jack Crooks + friend :: shy guy seeks self through hip hop. discovers more sweet that bitter.
:: Maisy Moo :: ballads of a millenial claustrophobe. claustophobia of the heart. very relatable.
:: CAPCOM 42 :: a high order tangent. they told me almost nothing about themselves.
:: Izzy French :: noize ambiance from ordained DM, it puts the edge on to take it off again.
:: Patrick McCarthy_Z.G. Wayman_Kimberly Zeneth :: two card-carrying poets and a comedian in diguise.
–artwork by @liquorice_ruby–
$10 Entry Waged
$00 Entry Unwaged
$15 Negroni’s
$?? Fried Snacks
Contrary to our art-punk-witch aesthetics, we need to get to bed on time. We’ve gotten it in our heads that this is a common experience. If so, then Early Worm is the answer to many concerns of todays work-a-day anarchist poet.
It’s got that dank maybe-I’ll-sit-and-not-dance vibe. The whole event is held in a corner. There are fried snacks, cheap negronis, and all our performers and poets are guaranteed shut-ins; transferred to the venue under the duress of their damnable muse.
A midweek wander through a delicate pulp of mixed mediums from performers. Bravely attempting to call down the early birds, to somehow be seen and not eaten.
“harsh the vibe and I’ll kick ya oot” – Zane

Graphic Scores in Exploratory Music Workshop Part 2
2024-02-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Belmont Hub, 213 Wright Street, Cloverdale, WA, 6105, Australia
Join composer and sound artist Elizabeth Millar to explore a variety of historical graphic scores and alternative forms of musical notation including images, video and text. Discussion will be interspersed with group playing. In the second workshop we will explore further examples and workshop graphic scores proposed by group members.
These sessions are open to people from all backgrounds and levels of experience. Participants should come ready and willing to experiment with sound and music in a group setting. Sound objects and materials will be available. Musical instruments welcome.
Maximum capacity of the workshop is 15 people. Bookings are essential.
Venue on the ground floor is wheelchair accessible and has wheelchair accessible bathrooms.
MWRecs acknowledge the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the traditional custodians of where we work.

Goolugatup Sounds - Eduardo Cossio / Kim Lil
2024-02-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Goolugatup Heathcote, 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross, WA, 6153, Australia
The first GOOLUGATUP SOUNDS of 2024 is poised to ring out through the warm evening air on Friday February 16. Catch beloved Boorloo experimentalist EDUARDO COSSIO pulling otherworldly tones from zithers and electronics as only he can; before WA/Naarm/Tromsø-based daredevil KIM LIL weaves a web of gothic synthpop and mercurial club sounds. Entry is free from 7pm… local food vendors, full bar and captivating new gallery shows alongside.

Graphic Scores in Exploratory Music Workshop Part 1
2024-02-10 10:30 - 13:00 | Belmont Hub, 213 Wright Street, Cloverdale, WA, 6105, Australia

Portent (a ritual)
2024-02-04 20:00 - 21:30 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas Street, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
A new musical work by Ad Lib Collective featuring Wind Up Bird, in collaboration with Andrew Nicholls
Throughout human history solar eclipses have been viewed as omens of pending disaster. Inspired by the 2023 total solar eclipse in Exmouth Western Australia, celebrated contemporary artist Andrew Nicholls has conceived a suite of visual art works speculating about the disaster that this particular eclipse may have been foretelling, to be showcased at Holmes à Court Gallery @ No. 10 throughout February.
You are invited to join us at Holmes à Court Gallery for the world premiere of a musical work commissioned by the artist from acclaimed contemporary classical ensembles Ad Lib Collective and Wind Up Bird. Mimicking the timing of the Exmouth eclipse, audiences will experience a sense of the drama and beauty of this extraordinary solar event, with its frenetic build-up of energy, and the uncanny awe of the ‘moment of totality’. Part sonic performance experience and part-magickal ritual, Portent (a ritual) represents a unique collaboration of creative disciplines spanning the visual and performing arts.
Performance #1
5.30pm – doors and bar open
6.00pm – performance

Performance #2
8.00pm – doors and bar open
8.30pm – performance

Performance duration: 50minutes
Holmes à Court @ No. 10,
10 Douglas Street Gooyaman/West Perth
Tickets $35.00 concession; $40.00 full price
Ensemble
Ad Lib Collective: Thea Rossen (Percussion), Ashley Smith (Clarinets)
Wind Up Bird: James Ledger (Synths), Josiah Padmanabham (Synths)
Lighting: Alex Spartalis GSD
Sound: Azariah Felton
Audiences are then invited to return to Holmes à Court Gallery @ No. 10 on Wednesday 7 February for the official launch of the Portent exhibition, as part of the 2024 Perth Festival which features the recording of this live performance.
Accessibility:
The venue is one open gallery warehouse space, there is wheelchair access throughout the venue including to the bathrooms.
The lighting design will be very dark at times, and while there is no strobing, lighting states will shift throughout.
The venue is not temperature controlled, so dress appropriately on the night if it is hot weather.
Parking is likely to be limited. Please arrive early to secure a spot or consider public transport, or ride share services.

Tone List Presents: Guylaine Cosseron & Diemo Schwarz (France) / MGMGMGMG / Kirsten Symczycz & Ben Greene
2024-01-31 19:30 - 22:00 | PS, 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
Tone List presents the third concert in our ad-hoc series for experimental music, upstairs at PS in Walyalup/Fremantle.
The collective MG create work reflecting a shared interest in world building, alternative cosmology, experimental lorecraft, and situated transgression. They have integrated video, musical improvisation, drag performance, noise, light, wet materials, spoken word and written word, and embodiment practices.
Guylaine Cosseron is an animalistic singer exploring a ‘total voice’ where all components of vocal sound are part of musical expression. Diemo Schwarz is based in Paris and an active contributor both to improvised music practice using computers, and to emergent research on concatenative synthesis, a technique where tiny particles of sound are re-assembled algorithmically into new sonic realities. Their duo folds exploratory voice and fragmented electro-acoustics in strange communions. Might remind hardcore Tone List fans of James Bradbury and Sage Pbbbt’s collaboration on one of our earliest releases, Biomimicry.
http://concatenative.net/
Accordionist Kirsten Symczycz & drummer Ben Greene (orphans, Dez Cartez) return for their first on-stage duo collaboration in some time. Both jazz-trained but influenced by post-rock, doom and improvised musics, they’ve a precise control of both delicate and dense textures in improvising.
Doors and bar open at 7:30pm, live music starts a little after.
Tone List events work on a pay-what-you-can principle: you are welcome to pay any amount. For this gig we suggest $25 or $15. These prices help us to pay the artists something reasonable. Paying more will support the artists, and may also in effect subsidise those that are unable to afford to pay. We encourage carers, companion card holders, Indigenous people and people in difficult financial situations to enter for free.
Accessibility: This event is held upstairs at PS, which is only accessible via two flights of stairs. Gender-neutral accessible bathrooms are located on the ground floor. The music will at times be very loud or very quiet. No flashing lights or strobes will be used.
Tone List is a Boorloo-based exploratory music label, operating on the lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. We pay our respects to custodians and elders of this boodja past, present and future.
https://tonelist.com.au/

Noizemaschin!! 147 - Online
2024-01-30 20:00 - 22:00 | WA
January NM will be online, and what a lineup we have for you!
Featuring:
Panamuna Triangle (Mandjoogoordap)
Madeleine Cocolas (QLD)
Facetoucher (Gippsland)
Dr Trousers (Naarm)
Dea Karina (Berlin)
salllvage (Kombumerri)
Scientia (Boorloo)
tid.bit (SA)
bilg (Boorloo)

Link to stream on NM Youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EoP2EPRdY0

Sprouted Volume 3 Launch Picnic
2024-01-27 14:00 - 18:00 | Hyde Park Stage Area, Vincent St, Boorloo, WA, 6000, Australia
Come and help us celebrate the launch of our new compilation ‘Sprouted Volume 3’ on Saturday 27th January at Hyde Park (stage area) from 2pm. There will be performances by some of the artists and a sausage sizzle. Kid and dog friendly. Bring snacks, drinks and good vibes.
Performances (in alphabetical order) on the day from:
Bilg
Isaac Beers
Jean-Michel
Lürgid
Ousougene
Plyanci
Petrohex
Radia Lyon
Rich Wh
Samarobryn
Scientia
tranXista
Weaving Worlds

The Edge of Reality
2024-01-20 20:30 - 21:30 | The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street Mall, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
A night of incantatory spoken-word and experimental music by two acts working on the margins.
The Definitives are the resident band at DADAA Midland. This motley crew of poets and visual artists draw on their lived experience of mental illness to create whimsical vignettes propelled by freewheeling rhythms. Their work has been hailed by experimental music legend Robbie Avenaim, while collaborations with local musicians Josten Myburgh, Annika Moses and Eduardo Cossio have brought the band a word of mouth following.
Jenny Hickinbotham inhabits multiple voices, perspectives and temporalities to explore mental ill-health with pathos and playfulness. She teams up with softronics producer Plyanci for a new set of experimental song-poems.

2024-01-19 - 2024-01-27 | The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street Mall, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Three people meet at the same moment. They embark on a relationship that radically challenges conceptions of romantic love–other people’s and their own. Their love will be tested by the misunderstandings and assumptions of everyone else in their lives. Will they cope? Written by beloved experimental singer, composer and poet Sage J Harlow (Sage Pbbbt),
<3 love song is a queer love poem exploring the joys, hurts and dangers of non-normative love, set to live original music played by avant-garde dream team Annika Moses (Nika Mo, Great Statue), Lyndon Blue (Heathcote Blue, Leafy Suburbs) and Josten Myburgh (Land’s Air, Ghost Gum Reverb). This is a quietly ambitious, tender work by a special local artist exploring new facets of her practice.
6 performances total on January 19, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 27 at 7PM.

Outcome Unknown #97 - Antoinette Carrier Ensemble / Josten Myburgh / 504
2023-12-28 19:00 - 22:00 | Maylands Yacht Club, East St, Maylands, WA, 6051
Join us at the Maylands Yacht Club for the last Outcome Unknown of the year.504 (Alexander Turner & Lachlan Kettell) create live collages from personal archives using custom software and tape. Saxophonist Josten Myburgh presents an improvisation working with concepts developed during his residency at the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture.And the avant-garde composer Antoinette Carrier premiers a piece for ensemble and fixed audio written 51 years ago. Featuring Ross Bolleter (accordion), Michael Terren (synthesizer), Naoko Uemoto (alto saxophone), Eduardo Cossio (objects & electronics), and Sage Pbbbt (vocals).7pm, Thursday December 28Maylands Yacht ClubThe club is a wheelchair accessible venueEntry $10-$25 (pay scale)Outcome Unknown gratefully acknowledges the support of Tura New Music.
Poster image by Eduardo Cossio

Gun Fu Live at Astral Weeks
2023-12-23 16:00 - 17:30 | Astral Weeks, Shop 12/60/66 Roe St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
Gun Fu is an experimental jazz group with influence from Malian Kora music, Nigerian Afro-Beat, Afro-Cuban jazz, Chinese erhu music & the New York downtown jazz & No-Wave scenes of the 80s. The band’s set will consist of the recital and improvisational exploration of Benjamin Witt’s original compositions written for the “Mod Dogs” painting exhibition by Stephen Brameld and Jay Staples. Alongside Witt, the band consists of Perth jazz heavyweights Harry Mitchell, Ben VanDerwal, Jayden Blockley and Marc Earley.
Tickets are limited with a small venue capacity, so get your tickets to ensure a spot at this intimate show.
[Editor’s note: To our knowledge, Astral Weeks is wheelchair accessible with an accessible bathroom.]

Noisemaschin!! 145
2023-12-19 06:00 - 23:00 | Old Customs House, 8 Philimore St, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
A very special collaboration between Noizemaschin!! and Signals Sound Labs featuring performances from (A-Z):
David Lawrence
Entangled Lifeforms
Felicity Groom and WIll Axten
Isaac Beers
Malcom Clark and Gaetan Schurrer
Slave Pit Full Of Slaves (feat members of Bolt Gun)
Stellar Beams
Washington Monument
To keep the vibe cool this is strictly limited to 50 tickets so get in quick!
All tickets purchased will go in the draw to win two tickets to the Kraftwerk Live show in Perth on Dec 15th!!!
Purchase tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/noizemaschin-145
Prize will be drawn on Monday 11th Dec so get in quick to be in the draw

Decibel: Sound Drawing in Space
2023-12-13 19:30 - 21:00 | The Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge, WA, 6003, Australia
This is a world premiere program of chamber music as you will never had experienced it – music that uses creative forms of notations exhibited in 3D space. Facilitated by media artist Sohan Ariel Hayes, the music notation is animated in projections that are shared with the audience as well as the musicians, creating an immersive and innovative performance experience for both. Expect experimental and exciting sounds you may not have heard before, alongside immersive, animated video and lighting that challenge your idea of what a music score can be. This is Decibel’s first and only performance in WA for 2023.
World premieres from Brenda Gifford (NSW), Kate Milligan (WA), Donna Hewitt (NSW), Kezia Yap (NSW), Dave Brown (VIC) as well as WA premieres of music by Jaslyn Robertson (VIC) and a special reworking of Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006) by Decibel member Lindsay Vickery to honour the composers’ centenary.
“Adventurous, inquisitive, challenging. Decibel honour and sabotage modernist traditions.” Cool Perth Nights.
“Decibel blows the traditional out of the water” Limelight.
Founded in WA in 2009 by artistic director Cat Hope, Decibel are world-leading interpreters of graphic notations and pioneer digital score formats for chamber music composition and performance. Whilst rooted in western art music tradition, Decibel aim to remove stylistic boundaries in their commissioning and performance approaches, which focus on the combination of acoustic and electronic sounds in experimental music performance settings. Decibel have extensive experience in presented these ‘visual scores’ – both in exhibition environments (Drawn From Sound (2012), Sounding Art (2017) and their regular concerts – this program takes their work with music notation to a completely new level.
