Berada @ Nighthawks

"Berada" is a night celebrating Naarm's long-standing reputation as a convergent hub of innovation, creative ambition, and diversity.  

With three captivatingly innovative acts embodying these qualities through their daring and boundary-pushing approaches to sonic exploration, "Berada" promises to deliver an unforgettable experience that merges cultural influences, experimental sounds, and dynamic performances.

Lineup

Nū
Hantu
R. Reibero/ Josh Wells

Presented by

Nighthawks
Rama Parwata
Leaps and Bounds

Nū
Nū is an Ethiopian Australian sound artist, vocalist and live coder. Her work explores non-western musical traditions, improvisational performance and Afrofuturism spanning across ambient, jazz, RnB and electronic using the program Sonic Pi. Live coding is the real-time programming of code to generate sound and/or visuals. 

Her 2022 Signal Arts Screen and Sound Commission, CODE-SWITCH was exhibited on Flinders walk in the CBD, Signal Art's Digital website and featured on Triple R radio. Since Nū’s performance debut at Melbourne Music Week in 2021, she has opened for band HTRK in December 2022 and performed at sold out shows across Melbourne including Open Studio, Make It Up Club, 86 Festival and the Grace Darling. In October last year she released her debut single Night Time, featured on Triple J radio. This May, she is set to perform at the International Conference for Live Coding in Shanghai.

Isobel D'Cruz aka Hantu. is an ethnomusicologist, multi-instrumentalist and member of Melbourne/Naarm post-punk quartet Hexdebt. 

Carefully recorded and assembled in just one month following a year of global and internal uncertainty, 'Zither EP' flowers into life as a coy travelogue through lonely late nights and one's own inevitably distorted reflection. Its backbone a mellifluous interplay between kinetic field recordings and itinerant zither motifs, D'Cruz augments this story with bass, flute and additional production and instrumentation from Collected Dust.

A waterlogged, wordless dictaphone diary, flat on its back. A panorama from the hill at 5am, of what's not yet tomorrow.

For live performance Hantu also features prominant Melbourne multi-instrumentalist and curator of the evening Rama Parwata. 

R. Rebeiro is an experimental musician whose work explores the boundaries of percussion and the potential of music as language. Typified by its highly dynamic and powerfully cathartic expressions of sound, Rebeiro’s work is rooted in deep listening, both to instrument and space, and highly reminiscent of the solemnity and purification of historical ceremony and ritual. 

Joshua Wells, a Naarm (Melbourne) based musician, engineer and producer. As NERVE, Wells has relentlessly performed, presenting his works of extreme volume rhythm workouts across international and domestic club circuits. For his debut on Heavy Machinery, Wells has utilised the Federation Bells to create four compositions that traverse BPM’s, composition and rhythm that touch on notions of drum and bass, noise, electro, techno and beyond. Wells’ has recorded and performed in many recording projects, known for his energetic live sets and productions which have seen him release recordings on taste-making imprints A Colourful Storm, Downwards, & La Vida Es Un Mus.

An event not to be missed!