Audible Edge '24: All the clouds go to school

Part of the Audible Edge Festival of Exploratory Music. View the full program at ae.tonelist.com.au.

NB: Event start time has moved to 3pm.

All the clouds go to school is a curve-ball afternoon gig that celebrates local legends in the north-side home of indie music, The Bird. Grab a cold one and ease into this playful, curious and wandering array of live sets from the best of Boorloo’s underground DIY scene. 

Experimental post-rock geniuses The Definitives combine unassuming yet profound lyricism with charming ocker delivery and way-out instrumental grooves. They perform as a large collective with spoken word, guitars, drum machines and synthesizers. The music they make together is free-form and raucous, yet also tender and personal.

Multi-disciplinary artist Luka Buchanan collaborates with emerging composer (and sibling!) Ben Buchanan, in a compelling duo of cello and spoken word. Together they explore poetic relationships in music, conveying complex emotional landscapes in nuanced detail. Their sound is informed by a passion for improvisation, lo-fi aesthetics and DIY methods.

Local improvising trio Anaxios create melodic ambience in a time-stretched dream state. Featuring Cohen Bourgault, the prolific David West (Rat Columns, Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation, Scythe), and Tim Loughman (Basic Mind), Anaxios unite their individual sensibilities towards acoustic DIY and ambient electronic practices.  

We recommend you check out Patrick Gunasekera’s After Lili durational performance in the State Library of Western Australia’s Theatrette before hand. After The Bird, you can keep the party rolling with evening drinks and social hangs at Betweens, featuring selections from Cooper Cooper at Astral Weeks, before kicking on to Three flutters in the evening.

Accessibility

Tone List have an accessibility form that can be used to make requests for AUSLAN interpreters, accessible taxi transfers to and from events, and other specific provisions. Find it at ae.tonelist.com.au/accessibility.

The Bird is a wheelchair accessible venue at street level from the pavement, the stage area and courtyard are ramp accessible. It has one gender-neutral, wheelchair accessible bathroom in the courtyard. The music will have moments where it is loud, repetitive, percussive or highly stimulating. Alcohol will be served at the venue. The venue is large, and the front and rear door will be kept open for the duration of the performance, but no windows in the interior space can be kept open. Music is broadcast to the courtyard and can be listened to from there if preferred. The centre of the area, and the bar, may be very crowded at times. Projections and lights will be used which may be bright at times, but no flashing lights or strobes will be used, and performers using projections have been briefed on access considerations for photosensitive epilepsy. There is no dedicated check-out space booked for the space.

Acknowledgments

Audible Edge is presented by Tone List, a Boorloo-based label for exploratory music.

Audible Edge is proudly supported by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, the Australian Cultural Fund and the Goethe Institut.

Audible Edge’s venue and presenting partners are Cool Change Contemporary, Goolugatup Heathcote, WA Museum Boola Bardip, The Flaming Galah, Pneumatic, Portal Tapes, PS Art Space, The Bird, the State Library of Western Australia, Astral Weeks and Local and Aesthetic.