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Are you an emerging sound curator wanting to further your practice or a sound artist looking to develop your curatorial skills?

Applications are now open for Blindside’s annual Emerging Curator Mentorship - a re-establishment of Blindside and Liquid Architecture’s ongoing ‘Sound Series’ collaboration!

The successful applicant will work closely with mentor and Liquid Architecture Associate Curator, Laura McLean who will guide curatorial research, assist in artistic exchange, project management and funding applications, culminating in an exhibition at Blindside in November 2024, and inclusion in Blindside’s 20th anniversary radio program.

Applications due midnight Friday 16 August 2024

Follow link for more information https://bit.ly/BlindS_LA

Would you like to talk through your application with someone? Email [email protected]

⌚️Set times for this Friday 26 July:

7pm - Kavil (DJ)
8pm - Carolyn Connors
9pm - Evelyn Ida Morris
9.55pm - April Guest

Level 2, 195 Flinders Lane
Alpha60, Chapter House

Book via link below :)

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In the first of its kind nationally, the inaugural ‘Listening to Country — First Nations Experimental Sound Commission’ provides critical support and a unique pathway for one First Nations sound artist to develop a new sound work, co-commissioned by Liquid Architecture and The Substation. The program offers significant creative and financial support to the selected artist and aims to restore the balance of access and visibility in experimental sound for First Nations Artists. Realised in a premiere season at The Substation in 2025, this initiative offers the selected artist a unique opportunity to develop new creative languages and forge new creative futures through experimental sound

We’re thrilled to announce that Anaiwan gedyura artist Gabi Briggs is the selected artist for this inaugural program pilot.

Gabi Briggs is a research-based artist, weaver, and community organiser. Her practice reflects a commitment to returning back to Indigenous knowledges specifically through the walking of Country and embracing Anaiwan principles and ways of being and knowing, grounding her practice in place. Briggs engages with the complexities of race, power, and truth-telling through her art, seeking to amplify Indigenous sovereignty and enact self-determination with an emphasis on slow, considered and meaningful practice.

As part of her PhD research, Briggs is undertaking a 100km walk on Country. This commission allows her to sonically explore this journey, using field recordings and oral histories. Briggs’s sonic exploration will highlight the interconnectedness and resilience within the Anaiwan Skin System, extending on her Grandmother's research into Anaiwan kinship. By contrasting these with archival recordings of colonial narratives, the exploration prompts reflection on settler colonialism and the need to eliminate the 'native' to maintain colonial power structures.

Co-commissioned by Liquid Architecture and The Substation as part of the ‘Listening to Country — The First Nations Experimental Sound Commission’.

This work forms part of Gabi Briggs' ongoing project at West Space as part of her 2024 West Space Commission.

The ‘Listening to Country — The First Nations Experimental Sound Commission’ is generously funded by the City of Melbourne.

The Substation

For over four decades Carolyn Connors has pushed the boundaries of vocal art and performance, eschewing language and the typical emotive qualities expected of singers. Now, Connors reflects on the memory of the body, the serious business of humour, and the potentiality of the voice.

NEW IN DISCLAIMER: The Body Remembers: Vocal Art of Carolyn Connors by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Read the article via https://disclaimer.org.au/

April Guest based in Naarm, is a vocalist, beatboxer, and composer who ventures into the uncharted territories of sound.

Her work is dedicated to expanding the sonic potential of the human voice, both biologically and technologically, and probing the interplay between these dimensions to uncover new layers of meaning.

Guest's live looping and ambient performances are a testament to her innovative approach, featuring extended vocal and beatbox techniques that generate deep, expansive drones and intricate percussive textures. Utilising her raw voice as a foundation, she seamlessly integrates technology to delve into the vast timbral possibilities of the human body, crafting a unique auditory experience that challenges and redefines conventional boundaries.

April will be performing at the next Liquid Architecture Presents alongside Carolyn Connors, Evelyn Ida Morris and DJ Kavil with food by Matisse and Dora.

7pm, Friday 26 July
ALPHA60 Chapter House
Level 2, 195 Flinders Lane

🎟️ Tickets via link in bio.
Free for First Nations
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This presentation is generously supported by Creative Australia and Chapter House.

Liquid Architecture Presents: Carolyn Connors, April Guest, Evelyn Ida Morris, Kavil (DJ)

7pm, Friday 26 July
ALPHA60 Chapter, L2/195 Flinders Lane

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/carolynconnors

Esoteric Voice Practices.

Within the sandstone walls and carved-oak vaulted ceiling of St Paul’s Chapter House, Liquid Architecture presents Carolyn Connors, April Guest and Evelyn Ida Morris in three distinct performances exploring the expanse and possibilities of the human voice in artistic practice.

Carolyn Connors performs ‘The Faint and Subtle Clapper’, a voice-based performance that includes objects, and sounds from ‘Dispersion’, an unrealised lockdown project with Terry McDermott and the Bells at Birrarung Marr. Carolyn Connors is a legendary Melbourne-based vocalist, composer, pianist, and accordionist who creates new works in the fields of contemporary music and for theatre. For the past 20 years, Carolyn’s vocal work extends the possibilities of the acoustic voice, expanding its limits to the edge. In 2015 Carolyn was awarded the Age Melbourne Music Award for Avant-garde and Experimental Music.

April Guest is a Naarm based vocalist, beatboxer and composer. Her work focused on pushing the sonic capabilities of the human voice both biologically and technologically, as well as exploring how these two aspects intertwine to create meaning.

Evelyn Ida Morris will be performing an improvised exploration of his voice and piano, publicly vocalising for the first time since they started testosterone. Leaning into the new cracks and breaks that have developed in their voice, an intimate showcase of a relationship as it is in the midst of transition. In the lead up to this show Ev has created documentation of the process in the form of a series of video works called Voice X.

Kavil is an artist, DJ and founder of Naarm-based record label Absorb. With an ear for fickle textures and unwonted forms, Kavil compiles moving soundscapes designed to stretch the boundaries of electro-acoustic music.

This event is generously supported by Creative Australia and Alpha60.

NEW IN DISCLAIMER: “I scream into it, and it screams back at me.”

Known for her visceral performances of screaming using only a microphone and guitar amplifier, our profile on Kusum Normoyle delves into her practice, unpacking how the voice is never just a sound but also the politics of space and immersion, regulation and transmission, socialisation and interpretation.

You can catch Kusum Nomoyle performing at the next Liquid Architecture Presents, alongside Jannah Quill and Joee Mejias (PHL)

7pm, Friday 10 May
Norla Dome, Docklands
Tix via https://liquidarchitecture.org.au

DISCLAIMER and Liquid Architecture Presents is generously supported by Creative Australia

https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/art-screams-the-voice-of-kusum-normoyle

Art Screams: The Voice of Kusum Normoyle on Disclaimer Editorial Associate: Tiarney Meikus FB. TW. IG. YT. SC. MX. Subscribe, Contact, Submissions. Contribute sustainably to Liquid Architecture’s publishing activities, via PATREON. Supported by Creative Australia

NEW IN DISCLAIMER: ‘Musickin as in Free Palestine: Vulnerable listening in violent times’ and ‘Dissonant Resistances: Jamal Nabulsi in conversation with Han Reardon-Smith’.

We are proud to publish two interconnected pieces on the role of music, art, and culture in ongoing struggles for Palestinian freedom and liberation.

In their essay, 'Musickin as in Free Palestine’, musician, producer, and community organiser Han Reardon-Smith maps out the contours of an intersectional decolonial politics that understands ‘soundmaking as kinmaking’, in support of Palestinian, Indigenous, q***r, and other movements for justice.

In ‘Dissonant Resistances’, Palestinian activist, writer, and rapper Jamal Nabulsi, in conversation with Reardon-Smith, reflects on the role of street cultures, specifically graffiti and hip-hop, in articulating a form of ‘affective sovereignty’, expressions of resistance and belonging that continue to resonate under the brutal pressures of occupation.

Read the article and the interview via link. https://disclaimer.org.au

✨✨ Guest edited by Joel Stern

Kusum Normoyle on the streets of Melbourne 🔥

Kusum Normoyle - S.I.T.E: Screaming In The Everyday Screaming in the every day Melbourne 2009. A site specific vocal noise performance practice.

‘We are capable of processing pain, experiencing joy, sharing joy, lifting others and fighting for the world we all deserve.’ — Dorian Wood

5.30pm, Tuesday 11 June
Forum Melbourne Upstairs
Tix here: https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/dorian-wood

Dorian Wood is a singer, composer, performance artist, visual artist and writer based in California. She has been described as a goddess warrior protecting LGBTIQA and women’s rights for decades.

Tutored by her Costa Rican grandfather the pianist Calasanz Alvarez, has played with LA experimental orchestra Killsonic, and recorded minimalist jazz freakouts. Plus, they’ve transformed the songs of Fiona Apple, Sia and Prince, created 12-hour long chamber music experiences, and composed whispering metallic clouds of ambience.

For RISING Dorian will be presenting ‘Musa Cerdota’. Dorian Wood's Musa Cerdota (Spanish for ‘Pig Muse’) is a multisensory fever dream born from the artist's fluid reflections on body autonomy, beauty and ancestral/transcestral energy.

After the project's 2022 premiere in Barcelona, music magazine Muzikalia noted: ‘It was not a concert: this was an exorcism from which I did not want to return.’

In collaboration with RISING this presentation of Dorian Wood's work has been programmed by Liquid Architecture.

Liquid Architecture presents: Corin (Lux Aeterna), Duré Dara x Mararara x Eek, 莎瑜 ShaYu, Mon Franco, 非 Fēi

7pm, Friday 15 March
Meat Market, North Melbourne
Book via link https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/corin-lux-aeterna-dure-dara-x-mararara-x-eek-shayu-mon-franco-fei

Sonorous practice and the bridging of eras.

In the iconic Cobblestone Pavilion of the Meat Market in North Melbourne, Liquid Architecture presents the first Melbourne performance of Corin's celestial audio-visual masterpiece 'Lux Aeterna' and a collaborative premiere from legendary avant-garde percussionist Duré Dara, electronic musician Mararara and moving-image mastermind Eek.

In support of the two key performances will 莎瑜 (Shā Yú), a collaborative project between ZHI and 黑芝麻 (Hēi zhī ma) and DJ's Mon Franco and 非 Fēi.

Naarm-based performer and musician Mara MacDonald released her debut album ‘I’m just One Person’ on JPEG Artefacts in January 2023, and her forthcoming sophomore album will be released on First Light Records in early 2024. She is a regular performer across Melbourne and has worked with such organisations as Liquid Architecture, Miscellania, SIGNAL, and ADM+S. Brad Rose of Foxy Digitales said of her debut: “This music creates space for those who don’t often find it … each word, each sound echoes into forever.

Henry Lai-Pyne aka Eek is Naarm based new-media artist working across moving image, live multi-media performance, game design, broadcasting, and experimental music. His creative practice often involves ‘kitbashing’, the merging of forms, processes, and found matter to create new narrative and world-building. Henry’s interests are centred in post-human theory and visual media.

莎瑜 (Shā Yú) is a collaborative project between ZHI and 黑芝麻 (Hēi zhī ma). ZHI is an experimental artist whose work includes poetry and anything that takes his fancy (nail art and crochet at the moment). 黑芝麻 is a sound artist who weaves topics of cultural identity and belonging, environmentalism, and sensuality using field recordings, spoken word, texts and music. Together, they create works focused on coming to terms with q***rness, q***rness in the context of cultural identity and love.

Mon Franco is a Naarm-based Filipino DJ and co-curator of Open Seen collective, a party for and by q***r POC. Mon explores contemporary electronic dance music that weave into their culture to global DJ sounds, high-energy and fast paced club beats.

非 Fēi (MY) is a dynamic dj, curator and promoter working with diaspora communities around the Naarm club scene. An emblem of global convergence, 非 Fēi’s curatorial narrative encourages cross-cultural discourse that showcases a niche sound world that is situated at the peripheral of the popular gaze of the west.

Food on the night will be available from the popular micro-celebrity "My Name Chef".

This event is generously supported by Creative Australia

❌ Big announcement time ❌

Joining the inimitable Rully Shabara at Darebin Arts Centre on Wednesday 24 April will be Peruvian artist Ale Hop, making this show an international double bill.

Based in Berlin, Ale is an artist, researcher, and experimental instrumentalist. Her music blends electronic and electroacoustic elements, incorporating noise, pop, avant-garde, and ambient influences. Using extended techniques for electric guitar and real-time sampling devices, she crafts performances marked by physical intensity, layered distortion, and captivating atmospheres.

Rully Shabara’s Xhabarabot Voice Machines will also be presented with Australian artists Brian Fuata, Abby Sunborne and Jocelyn Tribe. Led by Rully this ensemble will present an evening of improvisation showcasing the diverse application of AI Voice Machines. This project will play with varied methods, styles, and instruments to delve into the potential of these new technologies. In anticipation of the main event, a workshop will be conducted with the artists, to dive deep into the creative processes and techniques involved in working with Artificial Intelligence and voice. This ensemble work explores artistic possibilities inherent in the intersection of new technologies and musical expression.

Read here... 🥭

Mainit Illusion - Arts House A multi-disciplinary exhibition bringing together the creative forces of Saluhan Collective and Liquid Architecture.

Liquid Architecture presents legendary multi-instrumentalist musician and sound artist, Satch Hoyt.

The eternal Afro Sonic Signifier, a sounding cartography of Afro-futurist Black Atlantic Journeys from Slave Ship to Space Ship.

4pm, Saturday 17 February
Testing Grounds, Melbourne CBD
Book via https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/afro-sonic-signifier-satch-hoyt

Of Jamaican-British descent, Hoyt was born in London (1957) and currently lives in Berlin. Having also spent time in New York, Paris, Mombasa, and Australia’s Northern Territory, all points on the many-sided and ever- expanding star that is the African Diaspora, he is an intimate observer of the sites of convergence where the Diaspora comes together to sing, shout, and be, reflecting itself to itself. Employing the shared tool kit to connect, express, and commiserate across centuries and oceans, Hoyt taps into aural and oral echoes as well as into those retained in the historical and material record.

Satch Hoyt is a spiritualist, a believer in ritual and retention. A visual artist and a musician, his diverse and multifaceted body of work, whether sculpture, sound installation, painting, musical performance, or musical recording, is united in its investigation of the ‘Eternal Afro-Sonic Signifier’ and its movement across and amid the cultures, peoples, places, and times of the African Diaspora.

Those four evocative words (a term coined by Hoyt) refer to the ‘mnemonic network of sound’ that was enslaved Africans’ ‘sole companion during the forced migration of the Middle Passage.’ lt was, and is, a hard-won somatic tool kit for remembering where you come from and who you are. and maybe, where you’re going, against all the many odds.

Through research of histories, mythologies and cosmologies Hoyt’s eclectic oeuvre employs a plethora of epistemological materials such as guitar plectrums, police batons, drum sticks, burnt electric guitars, vinyl records.

Generously supported by the City of Melbourne

Photo credit by Dale Grant

LA x Saluhan Collective

Bringing together the creative forces of Saluhan Collective and Liquid Architecture, Mainit Fantasy is a one-night curated spectacle of sweet and salty art, sound and performance.

9pm, Saturday 24 February
Arts House, 521 Queensberry St,
North Melbourne

🥭 Book via https://ow.ly/EHl950QufXz

Join the artists for Mainit Fantasy, a one-night curated spectacle of sweet and salty art, sound, and performance. At 9pm, Mariam Ella Arcilla presents an aperitif of A mango is shaped like a heart, but its own heart is a stone, a new video installation and reading. Then at 9.30pm, join our Venus, Kenneth Suico for a voyeuristic rendition of the Pointer Sisters in a steamy clam. At 10pm, descend on the smokey basement for a tropical refreshment and back-to-back DJ sets by the Holy Trinity of Kuya Neil x Del Lumanta x Various Asses, presenting their rendition of experimental club meets NuMetal, prepped for the dancefloor.

Be sure to pack your sweatrag.

This event is a part of Mainit Illusion, a multidisciplinary exhibition informed by voyeurism and the post-paradise palate of the Philippines.

Image credit: MJ Flamiano, Mainit Illusion (visions of Limasawa Island), 2024, digital collage.

Description: There is a landscape photograph of the front of a house with a tropical garden. There is a small shop front in the right-hand corner with a corrugated roof. In the background there is a large tree towering over the shop front. The photograph is highly-saturated in the colours of purple, yellow, and green with a grainy texture. The words '*Mainit Illusion' are superimposed on the image in red with small yellow lines running through each letter.

*Mainit is a Filipino word meaning hot or humid.

Algorithmic Poetry

How may sound poetically speak with algorithms? What are the limits of creativity when it comes to machine learning? Should algorithms become noisy to make room for the unexpected? These and other questions kicked off the 19th Web Residency entitled Algorithmic Poetry.

Liquid Architecture collaborated closely with Akademie Schloss Solitude’s 19th Web Residency Digital Solitude program and now the outcomes of the Web Residency projects Algorithmic Poetry are online along with accompanying interviews with the artists.

Created within the last months, the six works presented here engage critically, poetically, and playfully with sound and our everyday data-driven world. By using sound, listening, and/or recording practices the works expand the notion of algorithms and the ways in which data sets are managed and information is gathered. Echoing technological implementation, experimentation with slippages,in-betweens,negative spaces, crafting and glitching, as well as embodiment of words is the through-line of the works.

See the work here https://ow.ly/RuCf50QiYCx

Fig. 1: Moritz Nahold und Kenneth Constance, Ghost in the Cog: A Poetic Score
Fig. 2: Bola Chinelo , Sound is the [REDACTED] of the World
Fig. 3: kirby, dispersal
Fig. 4: Sherese Francis, ALTeks, NGLitcholalia. Sound as Search Engine
Fig. 5: Fileona Dkhar,Of Roots and Portals: With-nessing
Fig. 6: Shamica Ruddock and Hannan Jones, Re-Imagining In-Conversation: A New Poetics

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In amidst these precious times , Had the honour of having a chat with sis Rhianna Patrick in September just before heading to South Africa for piece for Liquid Architecture around my creative journey recently including my development of my work through my sound and language based project Minyerra.

Grateful to have an opportunity for one of the dearest and foremost writers in the country to share my thoughts and experiences with and to be captured in such a way that only can be done by another First Nations person.

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Image taken on sacred Khoisan lands in South Africa by

Liquid Architecture presents Indonesian artist Rully Shabara (Senyawa) in collaboration with a special lineup of Melbourne/Naarm based musicians and vocal artists (TBA) for an evening of sound experiments and presentations with and against Rully’s Artificial Intelligence XhabaraBot Voice Machine.

7.30pm, Wednesday 24 April
Darebin Arts Centre, 401 Bell St. Preston

‘The exploration of human voice in terms of singing and vocalisation, even by the greatest singers would still have limitations. Physical design, organs, and age are factors that preset the limits of human voice exploration.’

Since 2022, Rully has been busy tinkering with ways to push and workaround these limitations.

'The first stage of this experiment is to prove that the human voice actually has superior sound potential if it is not dependent or bound to its parent instrument; the body. Without the body, it does not require pauses to breathe or to think. It is also not affected by mood or physical instability that weakens over time. Therefore, first and foremost, our voice must be separated from the body by turning it into data.’ – Rully Shabara

Suitable for ages 18+

Approximate running time: 2 hours, with interval

🎟 Book via link https://bit.ly/Xhabarabot

TONIGHT!

x/o (live)
Ptwiggs (dj)
Von Adamas (dj)
非 Fēi (dj)

8pm, Thursday 16 November
Miscellania
401 Swanston St, Naarm

✨✨ Tix on sale via link https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/x-o-ptwiggs-von-adamas-fei

Join us for the next conversation in the Poly-rhythmic talk series where we will examine traditional music practices for contemporary presentation and the possible tensions with experimentation.

3-5pm, Sunday 19 November
Hope St Radio, Collingwood Yards
Collingwood.

✨ ✨ Booking via https://bit.ly/poly3_musictalkeats
Free for First Nations

Putu Septa is a highly accomplished Balinese gamelan composer, musician, and dedicated teacher, based in Ubud, Bali. Hailing from a long family lineage of Balinese gamelan musicians, he began his musical journey at a young age. An exceptional talent, Septa started teaching gamelan to communities in Balinese villages at the age of 12.

He composes numerous works with his own ensemble Nata Swara and is actively engaged in the creation of diverse musical compositions, collaborating with artists both locally and internationally. His body of work is remarkably diverse, spanning instrumental music, dance compositions, film scores, and more.

Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung's music is interested in the possibilities of resonance, and is informed by acoustic theory, historical tunings and rational intonation. She plays various Eurasian fiddles, and has notably developed an extended practice for the Erhu. She believes that the act of tuning can create transformative reciprocal experiences.

Rama Parwata is a Melbourne based musician, composer, curator, and sound artist who has a distinguished reputation for his audacious and technical aural explorations in sound, texture and rhythm on the drum-kit, drawing influence from Jazz, Extreme Metal, and Gamelan music from his Balinese and Indonesian heritage. Rama has been a committee member and co-curator of the legendary Make It Up Club, one of the world’s longest-running experimental concert series (starting in 1998), which hosts weekly improvised music and sound performances.

Moderated by Tito Ambyo
Tito Ambyo is an award-winning writer, journalist, and journalism lecturer with the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He is also a co-host of the Talking Indonesia podcast and vice-president of the Melbourne Press Club.

After the discussion please join us for food and a special performance by Bli Putu Septa.

Eats by Pondok Rempah
Music by Jahan Xanlü (Salaam Radio)

This event is funded by the City of Yarra

Artist Talk: Bli Putu Septa

Join Balinese Gamelan composer Bli Putu Septa as he unpacks his approach to composing for Gamelan and electronics.

7pm, Monday 20 November
Composite Gallery
Collingwood Yards

Limited to 20 spots
🔗 Book via link https://bit.ly/artist_talk_putu_septa

Bli Putu Septa is a highly accomplished Balinese gamelan composer, musician, and dedicated teacher based in Ubud, Bali. Hailing from a long family lineage of Balinese gamelan musicians, he began his musical journey at a young age. An exceptional talent, Septa started teaching gamelan to communities in Balinese villages at the age of 12.

His dedication and expertise in gamelan earned him international recognition. In 2009 and 2010, he toured with Dewa Alit’s Salukat Ensemble in Berkeley, CA, the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston, and the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Septa's creative spirit has blossomed through the composition of numerous works with his own ensemble, Nata Swara. His commitment extends to collaborating with artists, both locally and internationally, resulting in diverse musical compositions.

Beyond his roles as a musician and gamelan instructor, Septa is an active participant in various artistic communities. His portfolio of work is strikingly diverse, encompassing instrumental music, dance compositions, film scores, and a wide spectrum of artistic expressions.

This event is funded by the City of Yarra.

Poly-rhythmic #3
Music//Talks//Eats

Next conversation in the Poly-rhythmic talk series will examine traditional music practices for contemporary presentation and the possible tensions with experimentation. This topic brings up important questions about how it affects cultural identity and heritage, how communities react, and the role of technology in this process. We will explore these ideas from the perspective of the artists who are making this work.

3-5pm, Sunday 19 November
Hope St Radio, Collingwood Yards
Collingwood.

✨ ✨ Booking link in bio
Free for First Nations
https://bit.ly/poly3_musictalkeats

The panel will consist of Bli Putu Septa a Balinese gamelan musician and composer who comes from a long lineage of gamelan musicians from Ubud in Bali, Rama Parwata a Melbourne based musician, composer, and sound artist who draws influence from Jazz, Extreme Metal, and Gamelan music from his Balinese heritage and Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung a musician who plays the Erhu, developing an extended practice for this instrument both as an improviser and through expanded installation works.

The discussion will be moderated by award-winning writer, journalist, and journalism lecturer Tito Ambyo.

After the discussion please join us for food and a special performance by Bli Putu Septa.

Eats by Pondok Rempah
Music by Jahan Xanlü (Salaam Radio)

This event is funded by the City of Yarra

Liquid Architecture presents

x/o (live)
Ptwiggs (dj)
Von Adamas (dj)
非 Fēi (dj)

8pm, Thursday 16 November
Miscellania
401 Swanston St, Naarm

Fractured pop from the sonic abyss.

Vietnamese-Canadian artist x/o is a sonic storyteller, producer, performer a multidisciplinary artist whose music floats between contrasting fields of delicate soundscapes and distorted percussive detail, a juxtaposition which extends into their artistic practice through conceptual layering of ideas and textures.

Described by Wire Magazine as having "…a complex, compelling affect hardly heard in digital music...", x/o combines genres and references to build new worlds around sound and songwriting.

x/o has presented work internationally, (incl. 3HD Festival, Vivid Sydney, and New Forms Festival) and in 2019 was selected for the MUTEK Amplify residency at Somerset House Studios UK, as well as Red Bull Bass Camp Calgary at the National Music Centre.
x/o is a founding member of s.M.i.L.e., a music events collective in Vancouver.

Ptwiggs
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Ptwiggs otherwise known as Phoebe Twigg is a producer and qualified audio engineer. Morphing audio into pulsing waves of emotion, Ptwiggs delivers a sound that is delicately detailed yet powerfully destructive, swinging between constant poles of tranquility and turmoil. Weaving an organically forming tapestry between the external and internal world, Ptwiggs smothers the senses leaving drippings of various genres, references and styles.

Ptwiggs released on November 22nd 2019 through UK indie heavyweight Opal Tapes. This EP follows her debut EP (2016) and 3-track (2018). This 6 track release sees Ptwiggs pushing her sound to new heights, obliterating boundaries and dissolving the intersections between ambient and club music. Darkening Of Light offers celestial vocals nestled in a bed of droned out melodies and pounding polyrhythmic drums. The EP hatches a reformed notion of power and strength, one that repurposes these foundations from a place of softness and vulnerability.
Ptwiggs has shared bills with artists Nicholas Jaar, Yves Tumor, IC3PEAK & Coucou Chloe and has performed internationally and locally for the likes of Unsound, Dark M**o, Angelwave in Moscow and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She's also responsible for Sydney based experimental label and club night Eternal.

Von Adamas
Von Adamas is an artist persona created by producer and composer Diamond Lee. His work hones in on production, composition, DJ sets and live performance incorporating improvisation and exploratory practice. Von Adamas uses sound to engage with spirituality, exploring religion and belief systems while contextualizing his research within the internet age. In constant search for identity, the work of Von Adamas encompasses vagueness and embraces a feeling that conveys a celestial energy that is both compelling and confronting.

Interested in presence and deep listening through personal experience, Von Adamas manifests thematic work through the use of ambience, soundscape, texture and rhythmic pulse by working with electronics, altered voice and instrument.

非 Fēi
非 Fēi (MY) is a dynamic dj, curator and promoter working with diaspora communities around the Naarm club scene. An emblem of global convergence, 非 Fēi’s curatorial narrative encourages cross-cultural discourse that showcases a niche sound world that is situated at the peripheral of the popular gaze of the west.

lx/o photo credit