Oliver Mann + Stefano Pilia (Italy), Riccardo La Foresta (Italy), Meredith Beardmore + Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung

Oliver Mann + Stefano Pilia (Italy)

‘Precious moments' 

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Riccardo La Forresta (Italy)  

Meredith Beardmore + Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung 

Saturday November 15th 

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7pm Doors

7:30pm Meredith Beardmore + Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung 

8:30pm Riccardo La Foresta (Italy)  

9:30pm Oliver Mann + Stefano Pilia (Italy)

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$5 Vegan Laksa / Bar / Card and Cash accepted

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pay what you can afford sliding scale tix $15-$60

Free First Nations tix

Free companion tix

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For a three-act international lineup, we suggest $30, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $15–$60.

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Precious Moments by Oliver Mann and Stefano PiliaA collaboration with acclaimed Bologna electro-acoustic composer and guitarist Stefano Pilia alongside guest appearances by  Mick Turner, well-loved guitarist of Dirty Three and Italian Political academic and rapper MC Zona

Sculptural, dreamlike and intimately detailed, the album Precious Moments (eastmint009) released on limited edition cassette and Digitally via Eastmint on 25 November  2022. This ephemeral collaboration comes together again to perform remembrances of this acclaimed album and new moments.

Oliver Mann is a Melbourne-based musician known for blending his operatic bass-baritone voice with folk and experimental songwriting. He is also noted for his work in classical and baroque music, including performances with Opera Australia and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

His output as a writer, composer and recording artist has yielded three widely celebrated solo albums –Oliver Mann Sings (2005), The Possum Wakes at Night (2009) and Slow Bark (2013) through influential Australian Music label Preservation – and his keenness for traversing diverse musical languages has seen him hailed as a “singular musician…collapsing worlds to create something entirely new”. 

Stefano Pilia is a guitar player, producer and composer concerned with researching the sculptural properties of sound as well as sound’s relationship with space, time and memory. he has been founding members and collaborators of several seminal projects and bands in between improvisational, electro-acoustical and avant-rock sensibilities such as , In Zaire, Il sogno del marinaio, Massimo Volume, Adrian Utley, Mike Watt,Valerio Tricoli, Silvia Tarozzi, Anthony Pateras, Alessandra Novaga, Katia and Marielle Labeque, David Tibet, David Grubbs, Rokia Traorè, OLiver. Mann, Oren Ambarchi, John Parish, Fire Orchestra!, Erik Kessel, Scanner, Gianluigi Toccafondo, WuMing, Phill Niblock, Z’ev, and many others. His discography, has been released on a number of well established record labels (Die-Schachtel, Maple Death, Improved, Blue Chopsticks, Black Truffle ecc). He has played extensivly all over Europe, USA, Australia and Africa and collaborated with theater, dance and cinema productions.

Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist and sound artist from Modena, Italy whose research of the last few years reveals a variety of sound-related practices.

Since 2015 he’s dedicated to the development of the Drummophone, an aerophone instrument obtained from drums that creates acoustic drones, ancestral melodies and complex beats drastically distancing the instrument from traditional drumming, and questioning the role of the drum as a percussive instrument. 

At the same time, he creates site-specific performances, sound sculptures and installations without limiting his work to percussive-based approaches.
La Foresta intensely toured Europe and UK playing experimental music and presenting sound installations in festival such as: Unsound, CTM (Berghain), Terraforma, Sonica, OSA, Skanu Mesz, Sacrum Profanum, LisboaSoa, LOST, Robot, AngelicA, Tempo Reale, La Digestion, Musica Sanae, Romaeuropa among others. La Foresta is a Shape Platform alumni and curates an artistic residency program at La Torre.

Meredith Beardmore is a flute player based in Naarm. Her original work draws inspiration from personal and collective memory and sensory experiences of place by merging digital, analogue, and historical sound sources through the use of field recordings, sampling, and wooden, historical flutes. Meredith released her debut solo album Scribbly Gums through NUNC in late 2024. The album explores memories of the places she’s called home, creating a type of memoryscape.

To celebrate the album’s upcoming first anniversary, Meredith will revisit these sound memories with Jasmin Yin-Wing Leung on erhu, focusing on season shifts; starting in autumn with the hatching of the scribbly gum moths to the summer sirens of the cicada.

Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung

Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung is a composer and musician who is interested in resonance, rational intonation and playing the Erhu (a Chinese two stringed spike fiddle). Using mathematical and instinctive extractions to reveal moving sonic 'fingerprints' of physical spaces, her work examines the potential of resonance to speculate ideas of secondhand memory. She believes that the act of tuning can create transformative reciprocal experiences.

Her work as a composer and improviser has been presented across Australia, China, Europe and North America, with festivals/presenters including the NOWNow (Sydney), BIFEM (Bendigo), impuls Festival (Graz), Organhaus (Chongqing), Metro Arts (Brisbane), Sound Out (Canberra), Spectrum (New York), Ostrava Days (Czechia), Tone List (Perth) and Liquid Architecture (Melbourne).

Jasmin was raised on Ugarapul and Kitabul country (rural Queensland); studied in Meanjin (Brisbane), Slovenia and Germany; and has lived and worked in Naarm (Melbourne, Victoria) since 2022.

ACCESSIBILITY 

Eastmint is accessible via wheelchair through the non main entrance, there is a small sliding door frame that we can place a ramp over the top of. Please get in touch if you require this option via email eastmintrecords@gmail.com. Closest accessible toilets located at the Peacock Hotel 150m away. Please contact if you require any other info.

This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE