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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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.

_S_s_improv_ballads_poetry_noize_comedy_games_doodles_s_S_ :: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]