Sonic Explorations Experimental Meditations with Birdsong, Gongs and Cello Join us for an enchanting journey into sound exploration and experimental meditation led by Lesley Kaye (Scientia) and Jean-Michel. Take a moment to touch base with Western Australian nature, with a spatial field recording of birdsong played back on a surround sound system. Immerse yourself within synergies of birdsong, resonating gongs, crystal and Tibetan bowls, and the dulcet tones of cello. Our aim is to provide a tranquil environment for relaxation and participants are invited to engage with the soundscape in any way that resonates with them, allowing the integration of […]

Opt-out is a workshop focused on 'opting out' of the attention economies of capitalist platforms and developing alternatives that foster listening online. Facilitated by Ben Byrne, it will feature a presentation of some of his work with Avantwhatever, a forum for digital sound, art, and design. This will include the decentralised social media server Avantwhatever.org, which workshop participants will be able to experiment with and will be provided as an online gathering space during the Audible Edge Festival. Participants will be invited to share their own struggles, with the infinite scroll of commercial social media, listening to and paying for music deliberately […]

This participatory workshop focusses on experimental and critical writing practices, techniques and histories in their alignment with experimental art and music cultures. It's an invitation to discover the role and possibility of writing in our underground music community. Any experience levels are welcome. We will explore how writing (including the adjacent areas of art writing, artists’ writing, and art criticism) aligns itself with the affective dimensions of music and listening practices. These are practices that might require capabilities of being attentive, playful, experimental, interrogative, porous, open, site-responsive, and reflective. We will also consider the changing role of critical writing, reading and self-publishing within contemporary audio art and experimental music cultures and […]

Step into a world where art and nature converge. COMPOST is an immersive site-specific installation that activates the dystopian "public green space" using cutting-edge generative sound technology. By connecting two diodes to a plant and harnessing a delicate electrical signal, we unveil the plant's secrets. Its resistance dances in enigmatic patterns, responding to touch, light, and sound. Join sound artists Leisl Lucerne-Knight and August Pope in ceremonial sonic symbiosis to reignite connections between fellow organisms on Sunday April 7, 3pm – 5.30pm at a Secret Outdoor Location to be revealed.

Edited by Frédérik Lesage and Michael Terren, Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production explores how creativity is increasingly designed, marketed, and produced through digital products and services which, the editors argue, are not politically, economically or culturally neutral. For this Night School session Michael Terren will lead a discussion building off of ideas expressed in the book. This will explore how artistic praxis has been co-opted by the service economy, rebranding it as the 'creative industries'. It will explore the consequences of this co-opting: insecure work as the norm, erosion of work-life balance, erosion of unions, and so on. Terren […]

UWA students and their mentors converge in a performance of Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, for two ‘New Pierrot’ ensembles featuring flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano. Join the mesmerising performance of this special work by one of the most influential composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Experience a site-specific audio-visual installation by Cassandra Tytler & E Millar, and a worm workshop with Peg Davies at the Inglewood Mount Lawley Community Garden. 5-6pm : Worm Workshop with Peg Davies (RSVP required via website link below) 6-8pm : Audio-visual installation by Cassandra Tytler and E Millar & Refreshments All welcome! FREE EVENT ‘Think like a Worm’ is all about soil. Soils are fascinating and diverse ecosystems that support multitudes of life forms, and many interconnected processes of growth and decay. Often we forget what is under our feet, and how important soil is to sustaining life on Earth. […]

★★★ James K (NYC) - Live At PS Art Space | 17/04/24 ★★★ Pres. by Portal Tapes X Halcyon X Wishful Thinking James K, is a multi-disciplinary artist and experimental musician from NYC, well known for her musical output under this alias and others, with standout releases on labels including Incienso, AD 93, PAN, Dial, & unique and memorable collaborations with Hoodie, Yves Tumor, and Beta Librae. Wednesday - 17/04/23 6:00PM - 10:00PM PS Art Space 22 Pakenham St, Fremantle With local support from: ★ Lia T ★ Mike Midnight ★ Lovefear Door sales will be available on the night. […]

Join us for Outcome Unknown on April 17 at Spectrum Project Space. Featuring: Annika Moses Djuna Lee Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio 7pm, Wednesday 17 April Spectrum Project Space Building 3, Bradford St, ECU Mount Lawley $10-$20 pay scale Spectrum Project Space is a wheelchair accessible venue How to get here This event is co-presented with Mystery & Wonder. It is concurrent with visual art exhibitions by Eduardo Cossio and Craig Pedersen. Annika Moses' work leans towards experimental, radiophonic, and (occasionally) notated music. Her compositions have been performed by Ensemble Offspring and Decibel New Music Ensemble. She is a member of the record […]

Tactus: derived from Latin, ‘to touch’, also a term for a 15/16th-century rhythmic measurement. In 2017, a renaissance flute was recovered from a shipwreck in the Markermeer, North Holland. Made materially fragile by the passage of time, the instrument was nevertheless preserved intact in its watery solitude for 500 years. Archeologists and historians can only speculate on the flute’s origin, directed by material clues, including a small roll of Germanic text found curled inside the instrument. Replicas have since been made of the flute, reviving a sound lost to the ocean for centuries. The instrument’s journey unfolds in Tactus, a new […]

This April, GOOLUGATUP SOUNDS and TONE LIST join forces to present a treasure trove of adventurous music. Witness the iconic free improv drumming of SHOJI HANO, on tour from Japan, alongside local saxophone heroes JOSTEN MYBURGH and ERIN ROYER, performing music by Myburgh and Philip Glass – plus dj CURLISU.

Sound Exploration Fremantle is a monthly community workshop series at Sullivan Hall in White Gum Valley. This month, we join them to co-present a workshop with Japanese improvising legend Shoji Hano. Born in 1955, Hano has played with historical titans in improvised music like Peter Brotzmann, Johannes Bauer & Kaoru Abe. Participants are invited to listen to and play duos with Shoji, and hear a lecture from him about core concepts in his work. We’ll share in a reflective group discussion, and finally play all together. Snacks and tea available for the breaks. Accessibility The Sullivan Hall is a wheelchair […]