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Love ChantsNotated composition Bidawal, Dhudhuroa and Gunai–Kurnai Country, Whadjuk Noongar boodja, and Prague |
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Bidawal, Dhudhuroa and Gunai–Kurnai Country, Whadjuk Noongar boodja, and Prague | 2024 |
An electroacoustic work for five performers (clarinet in Bb, steel-string guitar, violin, contrabass and electronics). Work composed for Ian Mikyska & the Prague Quiet Music Collective for the Alternativa Festival, 2024. My visit to Alternativa is supported by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, with thanks. Performances: |
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<3 love songSage J Harlow Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Sage J Harlow |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2024 |
I've been working as Sage's producer for the last few years. This is her first foray into a theatre space with a work that combines poetry and experimental composition. "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." Sage J Harlow - writing, directing, performance |
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Audible Edge FestivalWhadjuk Noongar boodja |
Audible Edge | Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2017–2024 |
Audible Edge is a festival exploring the marginal and not-normal in sound and listening, in Boorloo and Walyalup. Operating since 2017 on Whadjuk Noongar land, we have carefully grown a platform for experimental and tangential approaches to music and other sound-based art. We’ve persisted through COVID disruptions, taking on many new shapes and forms in the process.
Our program is full of wild and weird high-contrast bookings. Sometimes they contain contradictory approaches, unresolved tensions. Through open invitation and absolute permission, Audible Edge listeners and makers alike are thrown into the messy process of ‘making sense’, whatever that might mean, together. Audible Edge is presented by Tone List, an artist-run, Boorloo-based label for exploratory music founded in 2016. Audible Edge was awarded an Art Music State Luminary Award in 2023 by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre, recognising five years of contributions to the creative music culture of the west coast of the continent. It has received 4.5 and 5 star reviews in Limelight Magazine, and been covered by various other publications. Josten Myburgh - project manager, co-curator |
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Tour of Aotearoa with Daisy SandersJosten Myburgh & Daisy Sanders Aotearoa |
Josten Myburgh & Daisy Sanders | Aotearoa | 2023 |
In August 2023, Daisy Sanders and I travelled through Aotearoa, performing five times and giving an artist talk over the course of a week. 6.8 - Yours, Ōtepoti The tour received support from the University of Otago Division of Humanities Performing Arts Fund, and my flights over were sponsored by the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries via another project. Josten Myburgh - alto saxophone |
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Saxophone solo archiveBadimia & palawa country, Tlaxcala, Menang Noongar boodja |
Solo improvisation | Badimia & palawa country, Tlaxcala, Menang Noongar boodja | 2019–2023 |
Rough recordings of alto saxophone solos, often made outdoors. |
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A Resting MessA Resting Mess Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
A Resting Mess |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2018–2024 |
Since 2019 I have provided live music for Daisy Sanders' expansive dance lifework, A Resting Mess. This large-scale, immersive performance installation hosts an ensemble of performers that explore human and planetary fatigue and focuses on healing through its exploration of chaos, care, community and climate crisis. In this piece I play mostly electroacoustic percussion, leaning into the core concepts of the work (rest and mess) to inform ways of improvising on the drum kit. The piece has so far been presented in partnership with 10 Nights in Port (Walyalup), PICA (Boorloo), Dunedin Dream Brokerage (Ōtepoti), Hothouse Theatre Company (All Saints College, Boorloo) and Winter Nights Festival (The Blue Room Theatre, Boorloo). |
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Reflections on a European tourGermany, Austria & Gadigal Country |
Land's Air | Germany, Austria & Gadigal Country | 2023 |
A dispatch published whilst on tour in April/May 2023. Written by Josten Myburgh & Eduardo Cossio. |
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Land's AirWhadjuk & Ballardong Noongar boodja |
Land's Air | Whadjuk & Ballardong Noongar boodja | 2023 |
Eduardo Cossio & Josten Myburgh are a duo of improvisers based in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). Having played together in various formations over many years, they began refining a duo language in 2021 towards this unexpectedly melodic release. Josten Myburgh - alto saxophone, electronics, recording |
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owls.placeWhadjuk Noongar boodja |
owls.place | Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2023 |
OWLS is a calendar and resource list for exploratory music and sound art occurring in Boorloo (Perth), Walyalup (Fremantle), and broader Western Australia. Pedro Alvarez - social media |
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The ReckoningJoshua Pether, Helah Milroy & Janene Oxenham Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Joshua Pether, Helah Milroy & Janene Oxenham |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2021–2023 |
The Reckoning is a decolonisation project that aims to generate a First Nation’s performance methodology, that addresses the intergenerational trauma of Australia’s colonial past and the collective amnesia surrounding this. It will explore this by facilitating reflective engagement and healing through a First Nations paradigm and performance pedagogy. First Nations ways of being and knowing have been critical sites of resistance in the process of decolonisation, and a First Nations paradigm privileges embodied knowledge and aims to achieve right relationships with both human and non-human forms. The performance methodology will connect mind, body and spirit and ways of learning as both a collective experience and thus become an act of decolonisation as it seeks to both explore and honour First Nations ways of being and doing. I'm privileged to have provided live music for the performance at both of its creative development showings at PICA, in 2021 and 2023. |
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Kinds of LightWhadjuk Noongar boodja |
Tone List | Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2022–2024 |
Kinds of Light is a concert series for creative music at PS Art Space in Walyalup/Fremantle which I curate. Kinds of Light celebrates ambitious experimentation, careful musicianship, and sounds that are relevant to this time and place. We program across style and genre, excited by the love and rigour that goes into projects that defy categories. Josten Myburgh - curation |
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Live at WA Museum Boola BardipWhadjuk Noongar boodja |
Ghost Gum Reverb | Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2022 |
Live recording of a performance for the Perth International Jazz Festival. Jameson Feakes - electric guitar |
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New North Concert 4: MahagonnyWhadjuk Noongar boodja, Wurundjeri Country & Berlin |
Mahagonny | Whadjuk Noongar boodja, Wurundjeri Country & Berlin | 2022–2022 |
A performance enacted simultaneously in Berlin, Naarm/Melbourne and Walyalup/Fremantle using the telematic performance software JackTrip. Hosted by New North and the Audible Edge Festival of Sound. Lena Czerniawska - visuals, text |
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Two Scrolls from Western AustraliaJameson Feakes, Josten Myburgh & Michael Pisaro-Liu Whadjuk Noongar boodja & Chumash, Tongva, Fernandeño Tataviam, and Kizh lands |
Jameson Feakes, Josten Myburgh & Michael Pisaro-Liu | Whadjuk Noongar boodja & Chumash, Tongva, Fernandeño Tataviam, and Kizh lands | 2022 |
“When one contemplates there is no form, but when one examines, there is coherence.” "Two Scrolls from Western Australia was written in collaboration with Jameson Feakes and Josten Myburgh. I asked each musician to select a location in Western Australia and then to make a set of field recordings there at different times of day. These recordings form the basis of the two scrolls. As with scroll paintings made in China from the Song dynasty onward, poetic characters (here represented by music for the two instruments) are placed above the landscape. Michael Pisaro-Liu Jameson Feakes - electric guitar, field recordings |
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Banksias under snow (temporal mirror)Notated composition Whadjuk & Wiilman Noongar boodja & palawa Country |
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Whadjuk & Wiilman Noongar boodja & palawa Country | 2022 |
A piece for flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, electric guitar, pedal harp & electronics (five performers). The duration of the piece is between 18' and 23'. Banksias under snow (temporal mirror) is a piece which explores the idea of translocation and transtemporalisation of place through sonic metaphors. Field recordings from palawa and Wiilman Noongar country are collaged together and veiled by bandpass filters tuned to pitches appropriated from the first movement of Peter Sculthorpe's 1971 work, "Night Pieces". Commissioned by GreyWing Ensemble directed by Dr Lindsay Vickery as part of their project of the same name Performances: Recording by: |
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Sculthorpe StudiesNotated composition Mandjoogoordap Bibbulmun & Wiilman Noongar boodja, palawa Country, and Bidawal Country |
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Mandjoogoordap Bibbulmun & Wiilman Noongar boodja, palawa Country, and Bidawal Country | 2021 |
A conceptual score situating harmonies from Peter Sculthorpe's body of work against field recordings. Jet Kye Chong - vibraphone, crotales Lee Buddle - recording, mixing, mastering at Crank Recording The recording and production of the CD was supported by the Western Australian Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. |
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variations without a theme (drones ongs)Whadjuk Noongar boodja & Haan, Germany |
Sage J Harlow | Whadjuk Noongar boodja & Haan, Germany | 2022 |
I produced and performed in this CD by Sage J Harlow of her suite of compositions of the same name, written in 2016. Published on Edition Wandelweiser Records. Performed by: |
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Of Cloven Hoof in HoneyNika Mo Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Nika Mo |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2021 |
I play percussion, clarinet and sing a bit on this wonderful record by indie-folk-freakazoid Nika Mo. Annika Moses - voice, synth, recorder, guitar, percussion, composition Recorded by Annika Moses |
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We do not see from aboveNotated composition Whadjuk Noongar boodja and Gadigal Country |
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Whadjuk Noongar boodja and Gadigal Country | 2018–2021 |
Work composed for bass flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, electronic keyboard, percussion with electronics (five performers). There is an alternate, half-finished version for alto saxophone, electronics, electric guitar & percussion that might get completed one day. Composed for the Ensemble Offspring Hatched Academy. |
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Blessed, Very BlessedNotated composition Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
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Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2015–2016 |
A work for double bass, piano, small choir (at least four voices) & fixed media electronics, of 11' duration. Written for my Honours graduation recital, this piece was then released on mini-CD by Flaming Pines. A paean to the cultural deserts of outer suburban Perth. Recording by: |
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The silver morning shifts their birds from tree to treeNotated composition Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Notated composition |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2017 |
Work for three or four performers (open instrumentation) and generative electronics. The duration of the piece is open, usually 10' to 20'. Easily customisable to most smaller ensemble sizes and performance durations, feel free to write in. In this piece a text score indicates a range of available responses to sonic prompts raised by the generative electronic part. Title is from a poem by Robert Lax (with the pronoun changed). |
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Where and how to gatherWhadjuk, Wiilman and Wadandi Noongar boodja, Wurundjeri Country, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Berlin |
Audible Edge | Whadjuk, Wiilman and Wadandi Noongar boodja, Wurundjeri Country, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Berlin | 2021 |
A multi-artform mixtape of works assembled out of the funding from the COVID-disrupted Audible Edge Festival in 2020. ‘The sound of my own voice butchering transliterated quranic arabic’, Aisyah Aaqil Sumito |
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The Lion Never SleepsNoémie Huttner-Koros Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Noémie Huttner-Koros |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2018–2020 |
I worked as the sound recordist and sound designer for Noemie Huttner-Koros on this project, re-enchanting the streets of Northbridge through audio recordings & walking tours focusing on the history of queer activism in Perth, especially amidst the AIDS crisis. The project specifically focuses on queer elders; our interviewees include Mark Reid, Janet Carter, Claire Bushby, and Carl Gopalkrishnan. The work was nominated for 4 PAWA awards in 2020, including 'Best Sound Design'. Noémie Huttner-Koros - writing, concept |
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What is written upon a leaf, what is held within a seedElizabeth Pedler Menang and Goreng Noongar boodja |
Elizabeth Pedler |
Menang and Goreng Noongar boodja | 2022–2024 |
I contributed recordings, software programming and composition for Elizabeth Pedler's exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Elizabeth Pedler - concept, sculpture, video, projections |
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Sounding TogetherBallardong & Wadandi Noongar boodja |
Tone List | Ballardong & Wadandi Noongar boodja | 2018–2020 |
With few intensive workshop opportunities for improvisation and experimental sound practice in Australia, Sounding Together investigates the possibility of collective mentorship in this field, with the simultaneous goal of growing richness of practice in Boorloo/Perth and strengthening a sense of community in the field of improvised music at both a local and national level. Jim Denley - mentor (2018, 2020) |
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TuneNoiseTuneWhadjuk Noongar boodja |
Tone List | Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2022–2023 |
TuneNoiseTune is a concert series co-presented by the Perth Jazz Society and Tone List. We host avant-garde jazz, improvised music and other creative musics which take influence from these two fields. We host one concert every two months, usually at the Four5Nine bar. TuneNoiseTune had 9 concerts between 2022-2023, and also facilitated a new commissioned work by Naoko Uemoto, Jeremy Segal & Josiah Padmanabham. The concert series has been on hiatus since co-curator Kate Pass took off for Masters studies in New York. Hoping to pick it back up eventually. TuneNoiseTune's first season was supported by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and Carl Erbrich. Lyndon Blue - graphic design |
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Berlin SplitEmilio Gordoa, Matthias Müller, Josten Myburgh, Adam Pultz-Melbye Berlin |
Emilio Gordoa, Matthias Müller, Josten Myburgh, Adam Pultz-Melbye |
Berlin | 2019 |
After playing sporadic sessions across three years since their first meeting in Berlin in 2015, Adam, Emilio and Josten produced this energised trio in a flat in Wedding in 2018. With a rapid rate of change and a tendency towards playful subversion, it's exploratory and colourful, while still precipitating in many moments of clarity and intensity. Lena Czerniawska - artwork, design |
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Walyalup Weekend of Improvised MusicWalyalup Weekend of Improvised Music Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2023 |
The Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music is a new festival held at PS Art Space in Walyalup/Fremantle which began in June 2023. It is dedicated to community-building around improvised music, a thriving sub-community of Boorloo’s broader exploratory music scene. Our program revolves around two evenings of first meeting plays of improvised music, complemented by a variety of workshops, talks, and more. Stalls with merchandise, information, newsletter sign-up and EOI forms from local organisations connected to improvised music. WWIM pays the rent to Save Our Songlines, of an amount equal to 2% of our income from ticket sales & donations. Izzy French, Nicholas Kyriakacis, Josten Myburgh, Saskia Willinge - co-organisers |
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As Below, So AboveJoshua Pether Whadjuk Noongar boodja, Gadigal and Wurunderi Country |
Joshua Pether |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja, Gadigal and Wurunderi Country | 2022 |
We stand at the interface of a new beginning; four connected through histories past and futures. But we begin at the end and arrive at the beginning, with one eye to the sky and one ear to the ground. “The Call to Prayer” pulls us deep into the depth of the earth, histories and lineages vibrate and shimmer as they rise to take their place in “Gods” clouds. We arrive at a junction between the thresholds of light and dark—four connected in the shape of the cross. As Below, So Above is a 20 minute ritual for personal deliverance and atonement, and a choreographic investigation into the concepts of reversal and inversion. Ritual after ritual As Below, So Above repetitively allows the performer to enter into a space that seeks familiarity whilst asking to uncover the hidden spaces that exist in the known. Joshua Pether - choreographer, performer Devised for the Kier Choreographic Award, 2022. Performances at CarriageWorks and DanceHouse. |
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Siren CallJoshua Pether Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Joshua Pether |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2020 | |
Site-specific work devised by Joshua Pether for the short works program Situ8. Siren Call was viewed from above, and involved myself and Simon Charles playing as (I guess) haunted bartenders. The titular sirens of the piece belong to the water that Boorloo is built on: wetlands displaced by bricks and concrete. Water still drips through the brickwork at times, especially in the bsaement level. Simon and I increasingly folding our incidental soundings into a score that tried to give voice to the life of the water and its inhabitants, and involved a few sonic magic tricks. Joshua Pether - choreography |
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un lieu pour être deuxJameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh | Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2018 |
The first performance by Josten Myburgh of Antoine Beuger's 2007 work 'un lieu pour être deux' was with guitarist and electronic musician Andre O Möller at Klangraum Festival in Düsseldorf, as part of a performance which spanned all fifty pages of the work and which lasted upwards of three hours. Josten found the rich experience of playing the piece captivating and has endeavoured to perform it and share it in other ways many times since this first encounter. Antoine Beuger (composition) |
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We hold you closeKatie West Ballardong and Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Katie West |
Ballardong and Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2022 |
I contributed some field recordings of the collective natural dyeing and stringmaking process undertaken to produce some of the artefacts in this work, and to inform the shape of the final installation. These were used in the eventual composition by composer Simon Charles. The show was exhibited in Perth Festival 2022. Katie West - lead artist |
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Room to RestDaisy Sanders Whadjuk Noongar boodja and Wurunderi Country |
Daisy Sanders |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja and Wurunderi Country | 2021 |
Presented as part of Alter State, a festival curated by disabled artists, Room to Rest was a durational online work by dancer Daisy Sanders. Daisy Sanders - creator, performer, host |
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Hearing place through its demonsWhadjuk Noongar boodja |
Audible Edge | Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2022 |
I wrote a short article for Cool Change on some emergent, highly emplaced musics in Western Australia, with particular attention paid to Seacrest Gardens, Simon Charles and Sage Pbbbt. Some nods to Katie West, Ross Bolleter and others. The text is available in the Cool Change "two-and-a-half yearbook" published in November 2022. |
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BunkerNick Ashwood, Emilio Gordoa, Michael McNab & Josten Myburgh palawa Country |
Nick Ashwood, Emilio Gordoa, Michael McNab & Josten Myburgh |
palawa Country | 2019–2020 |
Excerpts from a quartet improvisation recorded in a military battery in lutruwita/Tasmania, August 2019. Published on Emilio Gordoa's digital label WildSonico. Nick Ashwood - guitar, room released July 31, 2020 |
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Some alpine translocations: a clusteringNotated composition Bidawal, Dhudhuroa, Gunai–Kurnai and Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
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Bidawal, Dhudhuroa, Gunai–Kurnai and Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2024 |
An electroacoustic work for two to three performers. The duo version has the two performers playing alto saxophone, sustain pedal, delay pedal, computer & synthesizer, and alto saxophone, baritone saxophone & sustain pedal respectively. The trio version puts the synthesizer and computer parts in the hands of the third player. The duration of the piece is about 25' to 30'. Finished score forthcoming, please write in to request to see it. Work partly composed during a residency at the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture. My visit to the centre was supported by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, with thanks. Performances: |
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Such and suchRoss Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2023 |
Thanks to Eduardo Cossio for the invitation to write the liner notes to his stunning record with Ross Bolleter. On Such & Such, each time Ross’s finger compels a hammer to strike three adjacent strings on one of his ruined pianos, their individual tangential tunings ring out in a gong-like sonority. Splintering harmonics and difference tones echo through a Bayswater kitchen in fractal patterns. Their unsettled-ness is ours. Inherited, translocated cultural forms and acoustics turn into a being-with the ngaangk/sun’s heat as it distends strings and floorboards to the cyclical rhythm of six seasons, splitting a poised twelve-tone intonation into something ever-new. The becoming-place of the piano, being-with ruination. Place is also culture-in-place. Ross's maverick explorations belong in some way to our collective sonic worlding in Boorloo. Perhaps Eduardo has been listening and researching closely enough to find and transform the traces of this in himself. Viewed this way, when Eduardo switched from his frenzied guitar explorations and settled for the patient drones of two never-tuned hand-me-down harps, we weren't witnessing a creative departure, but a return - to this emplaced practice of sonic ruination. And where Ross’s ruination is revealed in the pointillism of plucks and strikes, Eduardo's zithers ring out constantly in eternally renewing micro-rhythms, sounding the pace of entropic unravelling. Stability on the precipice of collapse: a poem to the potency for rupture present in moments that seem inert. Ruination practices entangled across generations of our culture. I hear other kinds of returns in the music, too: the frantic energy of Eduardo’s guitar manifests in pick scrapes across zithers; the modernist harmonic concepts that begat the honing of Ross’s listening into the potential of his ruined companions appear in detuned form in the album's final third. Ruination of story. Time is not a line. And I hear a friendship blossoming, and I see candlestick banksias and marri gums and moodjar boorna (Christmas trees) burst through the cracks in the brickwork of Kensington, Naarm, from where I write this. At times I am moved to tears. |
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Shoulder deep undergroundWhadjuk Noongar boodja |
Audible Edge | Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2022 |
I wrote a short article for Limelight Magazine about the ethics of how Audible Edge organises. Thanks to Jo for the invitation. |
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PrechordingÉric Normand Whadjuk Noongar boodja & Rimouski |
Éric Normand |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja & Rimouski | 2021 |
Recording of a composition written by Éric Normand. Éric visited the Audible Edge Festival in 2019, and during the pandemic made this piece for some of the musicians he met to play together. We recorded the piece at the now-closed Soundfield Studio with Stuart James, making use of lightglobes, a CRT TV, and acoustic instruments. Jameson Feakes - guitar |
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Melville MidwinterJameson Feakes, Stuart James, Djuna Lee, Josten Myburgh, Daisy Sanders, Holli Scott, Naoko Uemoto, Lia T Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Jameson Feakes, Stuart James, Djuna Lee, Josten Myburgh, Daisy Sanders, Holli Scott, Naoko Uemoto, Lia T |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2024 |
A site-specific, large ensemble, spatial performance developed for the finale of City of Melville's Winter Solstice event. A cross-disciplinary ensemble explored improvising in a harmonically consonant space, with a high level of attention paid to textural detail, depth-of-field and the incidental counterpoint of overlapping cycles of different lengths. Cass Lynch's amazing text drawing on the parallels between the syrinx and the morphology of the river was the material from which Holli improvised; we also ruminated on the poetry in the hope that some of the ideas might inform how we sounded. I also assisted with some of the curation of the event, in particular coordinating the creation of a new short contemporary dance work by Daisy Sanders, Lara Dorling & Lia Tsesmelis. Jameson Feakes - guitar |
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Residency at Goolugatup HeathcoteJosten Myburgh Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Josten Myburgh |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2024 |
Josten Myburgh's residency involves the development of a concert-length electro-acoustic work for solo alto saxophone, projected through a triangle of speakers with Josten in the middle. The work centres a technique Josten has been developing combining non-standard tunings and electronic processing on the instrument. They will be using the residency to develop this technique in detail, looking for unusual combinations of frequencies which produce psychoacoustic phenomena, such as surprisingly loud sub-bass tones and rhythmic pulsations. Their focus is on a tender, embodied relationship to composing and playing, that comes out of a curious and idiosyncratic approach to their instrument and how its sound resonates in space and perception. Within this residency project I also hosted "Rational Playtime", a co-learning space for just intonation theory and practice. Rebecca Lane, James Rushford, Erin Royer & Patrick Gunasekera - mentors Adelaide Harney - lighting This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. |
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Bogong Centre for Sound Culture residencyBidawal, Dhudhuroa and Gunai–Kurnai Country |
Solo improvisation | Bidawal, Dhudhuroa and Gunai–Kurnai Country | 2023 |
In November 2023 I undertook a solo residency at the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, developing site-specific recorded works using alto saxophone. Release of the audio forthcoming. Supported by the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. |
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Programming for Tura New MusicTura New Music Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Tura New Music |
Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2014–2018 |
Between 2014 and 2018 I worked for arts organisation Tura New Music on their programs Club Zho, Church Series and iMprov, as well as occasional ad-hoc programming and programs within their Totally Huge New Music Festival. During this time I organised concerts for Will Guthrie, Félicia Atkinson, Aviva Endean, Lucas Abela, Rosalind Hall and many more. Club Zho was a long-running experimental music series which I curated a few instances of alongside Traianos Pakioufakis and Tos Mahoney during my years working with Tura. Church Series was a short-lived series of concerts dedicated to experimental chamber music. iMprov was a program of workshops and concerts focussed specifically on cultivating improvised music culture in Western Australia. Some of this programming has been quite influential on the present state of the local experimental music scene. In the 9th edition of ADSR Zine, Eduardo Cossio wrote that "the iMprov program fostered exchange with local and visiting artists from different backgrounds. The safe environment of the workshops did much to enable the individual practice of its participants." From my perspective, the iMprov workshop series catalysed the latent interest of a small group of people, most of whom are still actively involved in the scene. It was a gathering space and boost of energy needed to start a scene. It was a privilege to be involved in this! |
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Tracing presence on landEmilio Gordoa, Josten Myburgh & Sabine Vogel Cuernavaca, Fünfseenland, Paretz, Ocotitlán, Wadandi and Whadjuk Noongar boodja |
Emilio Gordoa, Josten Myburgh & Sabine Vogel |
Cuernavaca, Fünfseenland, Paretz, Ocotitlán, Wadandi and Whadjuk Noongar boodja | 2024–2025 |
Emilio Gordoa, Sabine Vogel and myself share an interest in improvising “as weather”: playing with and as the sounds of the environment. Based between Cuernavaca, Mexico City, Boorloo, Potsdam, Paretz and Berlin, we're quite geographically displaced as a trio (and sometimes as people). Our project “Tracing presence on land” is a composition or language emerging out of us sharing space out-doors in the places we were all born, highlighting the way our musicking holds the stories and echoes of the places we are (in). Their project involves short residencies each in Paretz, Fünfseenland, Meelup (Dunsborough) and Yagan mia (Wireless Hill, Boorloo/Perth), followed by a concert tour of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand including performances at the Audible Edge Festival of Exploratory Music, COMA, the Audio Foundation and Pyramid Club. Contributions from human and non-human collaborators throughout the journey will be woven into the composition. Emilio Gordoa (percussion, composition, recording, electronics) Supported by the Goethe Institut through the International Co-production Fund. My travel to Germany for the initial project stage was also supported by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. Press photo by Carina Khorkhordina. |
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Residency at Ting Shuo Hear Say 聽說Siraya land (Tainan) |
Land's Air | Siraya land (Tainan) | 2024 |
Eduardo and I are in residence working on new approaches to tuning and collage within our duo project this December. We'll also be touring through Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung City, Hsinchu and Taipei. This project was supported by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries (Arts SNAP program). |
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