ALT // Hearts of Darkness presents...

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela
+ S/M & Lara Dorling / Saskia Willinge
Sixty Cats, 6th October (7 to 10pm)

$20 OTD / $17.50 Pre-sales

"Lucas is just captivating. It's incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs" - ZACH HILL. - Death Grips.

"One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube" - David Rees - The New York Times.

Maverick improviser; Lucas ’Granpa’ Abela’s (formerly Justice Yeldham) singular journey performing on shards of broken glass is the stuff of legend. For over twenty years now they have relentlessly toured the globe, the glass evolving over that time from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an incredibly versatile instrument producing organic outsider electronica. Played somewhat like a reed instrument, Abela vibrates the shards edge with their lips, producing both audio signal and control voltages. These feed a complex modular patch of parallel chains where the performance modulates itself to give the instrument the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment that together forms dense layers of anomalous music.

https://granpa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/gran...
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A combined performance art and noise music performance, S/M utilises contact microphones incorporated into the rope harnesses of a Shibari self-suspension. Sounds are collected via wireless transmitters, then amplified and modulated. As the rope is taut, and under the strain of weight, it vibrates and resonates similar to a string of an instrument. As the rope moves against itself and Serena, each movement is seen, heard, and felt by the viewer.
https://www.instagram.com/sm_n...

Matthew Taggart is an arts worker, artist and musician. As well as S/M, they regularly perform live across Boorloo as part of the projects yumyab, Never Again, Drowned God and Satellites. They have performed at Perth Festival, WAMFest, Strange Festival and most
recently at WA Museum Boola Bardip’s Lunar Lounge. Their work explores the possibilities of future sounds and the human experience
https://www.instagram.com/yumy...

Serena Cribb is a practising Neuropsychologist and student of Shibari.
https://www.instagram.com/dr__...
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Saskia Willinge is a flautist and singer who is active in the local improvisation scene. She has played at events including Audible Edge, Kinds of Light, Tune Noise Tune, Outcome Unknown, NoizeMachin!!, Melville Midwinter, and Make It Up Club (Naarm). She is a member of the Sound Exploration Fremantle team, and co-curator of the Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music alongside Izzy French. In 2024 she has participated in the Perth Festival Lab, pvi collective’s KISS Club, and co-curated an exhibition for Cool Change Contemporary at PS Art Space. She also plays in local bands Cryptids and Heathcote Blue.
https://www.instagram.com/sask...

Lara Dorling is a German/Australian body-based artist, creative producer and published researcher based in Boorloo/Perth. Lara has performed and participated in 600 Seconds presented by STRUT and The Blue Room Theatre, Melville Midwinter, Outcome Unknown, pvi’s KISS Club, and the Perth Festival LAB 2024. She directs Make-Shift Evenings, a bi-monthly performance evening supported by STRUT Dance that encourages spontaneous improvisational practice as performance, and uses her love for improvisation to engage her local artistic community. Lara is currently a research assistant at WAAPA, working with motion capture to create VR/immersive experiences with weather data.
https://www.instagram.com/lara...

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Venue: Sixty Cats fka Golden Boy Jade Girl, 77 St George's Terrace, Perth CBD

This event takes place on stolen Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay respect to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.