Roused At! pres. Lucas Abela [live] at Catalog Music // Meanjin

Roused At! presents: 

LUCAS ABELA live & last minute at Catalog Music, THIS SUNDAY 20th!

What's been described as ‘a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe’ is in fact the utterly unique music of Lucas Abela, formerly known as Justice Yeldham, a maverick improviser who performs on shards of broken glass. Maverick improviser Lucas 'Granpa' Abela has been performing their signature instrument for the past 20 years. Their singular practice spawned from within the international noise music underground, where the glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica. 

Abela performs the shards like a bell-less saxophone, their lips subtly transmitting micro-sonic vibrations into the pane. This signal feeds a complex modular patch producing both raw audio & control voltages, so the dynamics & frequency of their performance modulates itself within varying parallel effects chains. Mixed together they create the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment, forming dense layers of anomalous music.

"While passing through Sacramento on one of his many tours, Abela was invited to record with the popular experimental hip hop group Death Grips. Abela’s contributions would feature on the group’s 2018 album Year of the Snitch.

The collaboration generated an explosion of interest in Justice Yeldham and gave Abela a renewed confidence to continue performing. When he returned to the US in 2019, he discovered he had a whole new young audience, many of whom were only teenagers." - Ron Hanson, White Fungus

**no charge for First Nations punters or trans people of colour wishing to attend. Please note that capacity is very limited.**

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Sunday, October 20th
$15 - $20+bf | 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Catalog Music, 74 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley

This show takes place on the stolen land of the Jagera people and the Turrbal people. We acknowledge that this is a contested space & pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present.