Echoes: Sixty-nine

Step into the immersive domestic architecture of Sixty-nine by artist Sidney McMahon with Echoes, Verge's student sound series ​featuring emerging musicians and sound artists from The Conservatorium of Music and Sydney College of the Arts.

Sixty-nine explores the symbolic and emotional terrain of the number 69 as a cycle of life, death, queerness, and intimacy. Join us for an experience in expansive listening as we tune in to sonic works improvised and created in response to these themes of eroticism, grief and repetition in McMahon's Sixty-nine.

Thursday 31 July
Thursday 7 August
Thursday 14 August

Performers to be announced soon!

Free, all welcome. 

To attend, make sure to register via the link above.

ABOUT ECHOES:

Join us as we embark on a listening journey through the Verge Gallery program, tracing the resonances between emerging student artists and established practitioners, across immersive landscapes and expanding planes of perception through deep listening and experimentation with sound. 

About the performers:

Jae Ryder:

Jae Ryder is a contemporary jazz musician from Cammeragyl country. They express themselves intimately and genuinely on the double bass, taking inspiration from the greats that came before them, Paul Chambers, Scott LeFaro, and Ron Carter, in jazz, and looking towards contemporary pioneers such as Helen Svoboda, and Linda May Han Oh. They are deeply involved in the jazz scene, playing in festivals such as Wollongong’s “HONK!”.  Jae’s other notable responses to art can be seen in Sculptures On a Farm in Dungog, responding to the mood, art, and other band members, in a biannual celebration of Sydney’s most innovative sculptors. In responding to art work, they consider deeply the history of the land, queerness, their relationship with Judaism and how that informs each and every thing they do, and the energy of the room, exhibit and people around them.

The Doomslut Collective:

oh yeah doom slut oh yeah doom slut oh yeah doom slut we are the doom slut collective you are the doom slut collective the whole world is the doom slut collective oh yeah oh yeah we make songs oh yeah https://www.youtube.com/@doomslut oh yeah oh yeah https://www.youtube.com/@doomslut oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah

Ft. Connor Chen, Tom Brand, Bryn Thomas, Eleanor Vineburg and Ruby Riggsmith

Learn more about the exhibition and related public programs here.

ACCESSIBILITY

If you have accessibility requirements that you would like to notify us of, please email vergeassistant@usu.edu.au.

VERGE ACCESS

Wheelchair access - there are two lifts available: one on City Rd and one on Maze Crescent.

Accessible and all-gender bathrooms are located about 90 metres from Verge. They are equipped with a handrail. A baby-change table is available.
Guide Dogs and support animals are welcome at Verge.

For detailed access information to the venue, please visit the Access page on Verge's website.

Image: Ruby Firmstone and Martin O'Flynn performing as part of Echoes: On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut, 2025. Image courtesy of Hancheng Wu (IG: @hwuphoto).