SoundOut 2025

Now in our 16th year, SoundOut is one of the gateway exploratory music-art events in Australia, providing a much-needed avenue for brilliant musical endeavors from around the world and Australia. We see our role as fostering continued creative collaborations between some of the best Artists, the world has to offer, and our own brilliant Australian artists and showcasing these to the community. In 2025 we have 26 Artists from Australia, France, Germany, and the USA that will combine, cross-fertilize, and move sound mountains to uplift your ears and replenish the mind during the 3 day event, which spans approximately 17 hrs of music, over 22 sets.

PLEASE: when selecting ticket remember to scroll down to show all sessions.

SEE BELOW FOR  Workshop links / Session Information / ProgramTimes / Artist list & Artist Bios

There will also be a SoundOut Improvisation + Art Workshops

1. Friday the 31st January from 1 - 4pm  visual Artist Locust Jones doing sound drawing workshop with jazz drummer Haley Chan  at the Drill Hall Gallery

2. Saturday 1st Feb  from 9am - 12  at the Drill Hall Gallery. Workshop in free Improvisation with the Hubbub ensemble

[ Frédéric Blondy - piano;  Bertrand Denzler - tenor saxophone;   Jean-Luc Guionnet - alto saxophone;   Jean-Sébastien Mariage - electric guitar;   Edward Perraud – percussion] 

3. Sunday 2nd Feb from 9 am - 12am

  at the Drill Hall Gallery ANU.  Workshop in improvisation with renowned pianist Magda Mayas

Workshops ticket Link here :  https://events.humanitix.com/soundout-festival-workshops-2025

SoundOut 2025 has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal artsinvestment and advisory body; and also supported by the ACT Government via Arts ACT

Times: 

Session 1:  Friday Jan 31st      7pm - 11pm +

Session 2 : Saturday Feb 1st   1pm - 5pm

Session 3 : Saturday Feb 1st   7pm - 11pm +

Session 4 : Sunday Feb 2nd      1pm - 5pm

SoundOut 2025 Program 

To be announced in Dec/Jan

Session 1: Fri. 31st January  7 - 11pm +

7pm   Biomorph

Rhys Butler: alto sax, Canberra

Richard Johnson: wind instruments, Canberra

7:45  

8:30   

9:15

10:10  

10:50    

Session 2: Saturday 1st February   1  - 5pm

1pm  

1:40

2:20 +

3:00 +

3:40 +

4: 20

Session 3: Saturday 1st February   7 - 11pm +

7pm

7:45

9:15

10: 40

11:10   

Session 4: Sunday 2nd February  1 - 5pm

1pm:

1:40  

2:20

3:00

3:40

4:20

SoundOut 2025 Artist list

Alex Tucker:drums, Sydney

Bertrand Denzler: saxophone, France

Brodie McAllister: trombone, Brisbane

Edward Perraud:drums, France

Frédéric Blondy:piano, France

Gabriella Hill: saxophone, Sydney

Gianni Mimmo: soprano sax, Italy

Hannah de Feyter: viola, Canberra

Hayley Chan:drums Sydney

Jamie Lambert: Guitar, Canberra

Jean-Luc Guionnet:alto Saxophone, France

Jean-Sébastien Mariage:guitar, France

Jodie Rottle:flute / objects, Narrm

Karim Camprovin: vocalist, Canberra

Laura Altman: clarinet/ objects, Sydney

Locust Jones:performance (visual Artist), Sydney

Magda Mayas,piano Berlin

MiroSlav Bukovsky, trumpet, Canberra

Monika Brooks: piano, NSW

Nicci Haynes: projected spontaneous drawing, Canberra

Peggy Lee: cellist, Narrm

Phoebe Bognar: flute, Sydney

Rhys Butler:saxophonist, Canberra

Richard Johnson:wind multi-instrumentalist, Canberra

Stuart Orchard: guitar/invented instruments, Canberra

Uma Volkmer: Trumpet, Sydney

Zosha Warpeha: hardanger d’amore, USA

SoundOut 2025 artist bios

Alex Tucker:drums, Sydney

Alex is a Sydney based drummer currently studying at the Conservatorium of Music. His practice involves creating patterning and language which I can both improvise with and create drum set music in solo and Drum Set Ensemble form. He presently performs in groups such as:  Bad Photography (Jim Denley, Uma Volkmer); Splinter Orchestra; Double Trouble (Gabriella Hill, Daniel Raymond, Aidan Wong). https://caterpillarrec.bandcamp.com/album/burst

https://alextucker.bandcamp.com/album/drum-sonata-no-1

Bertrand Denzler: saxophone, France

Saxophonist and composer Bertrand Denzler has worked in some thirty countries across Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia. He is or has been a member of groups such as Sbatax, Trio Sowari, Onceim, Denzler-Grip-Johansson, The Seen or Sunny Murray Trio, and has collaborated with musicians and artists from all horizons. He has taken part́ in more than a hundred publications on labels such as Potlatch, Matchless, Confront, Umlaut, Mikroton or Leo. He has composed pieces for numerous ensembles as well as for film and theatre. He has published texts on music, including "The Practice of Musical Improvisation" (Bloomsbury Academic) in collaboration with J.-L. Guionnet, given lectures, notably at Ircam, and led improvisation workshops, notably at Instants Chavirés. http://www.bertranddenzler.com

Brodie McCalister: trombone, Brisbane

Brodie McAllister is a multi-talented artist based in Brisbane, Australia, with expertise in improvisation, trombone performance, composition, education, and curation. He is passionate about exploring the intersection between improvisation and notation, hyper-extended instrumental techniques, composer-performer collaboration, and community connections.   Throughout his career, Brodie has had numerous compositions premiered by well-known groups such as Kupka's Piano, WAYJO, Clocked Out, and The Enthusiastic Musicians Orchestra. He has also performed with acclaimed artists such as ELISION, BULLHORN, and Lawrence English, and his works have been featured at internationally recognised events, including Piano Mill Easter Sunday.  In addition to his artistic endeavours, Brodie is also the founder of the Brisbane-based record label, MADE NOW MUSIC, where he has worked to showcase the works of talented musicians who are exploring various musical genres around the globe. Some of the featured artists include Helen Svoboda, Dr. Stephen Newcomb, Pat Jaffe, and Callum Mintzis. In 2022, MADE NOW MUSIC expanded its reach to the international scene, featuring award-winning pianist Micheal Malis and genre-defying trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø. In 2023 MNM was awarded the state luminary prize at the APRA/AMCOS art music awards - an award that recognizes significant and sustained cultural investment in the arts. Later that year Brodie was awarded a Brisbane Community Hero award by the Brisbane Festival, for his contributions to the cultural landscape of the city.   He has also served as a creative consultant/producer for community-focused large-scale works, including MNM-fest, Circular Ruins, and Paths of Invention: "The music of Phil Treloar". In addition, he dedicates his efforts to educating the next generation of artists through his private studio practice and work with the talkin' jazz program for high school-aged students.   Brodie's recent work in film scoring is a growing practice, having scored two award-winning short films since 2021 - “when the sky was blue” directed/produced by Rae Choi and “Dry” written by Colin Gregory and Directed by Mel Poole. His ongoing collaborations with Rogue Three, DÜT, his large ensemble “Wattle” and freelance work as a composer/arranger/brass practitioner and graphic designer continue to push the boundaries of his creative practice.  brodiemcallister.com

https://brodiemcallister.bandcamp.com/album/tiny-particle-collider

Edward Perraud:drums, France

A percussionist, drummer and composer trained at Ircam and the Paris Conservatory, Edward Perraud's multiple influences enable him to embrace a broad musical spectrum ranging from alternative rock to contemporary music, including jazz and improvised music. In great demand internationally, he is a member of Supersonic and Das Kapital, and works regularly with Didier Petit, Eve Risser, Elise Caron, Benoît Delbecq, Jean-François Pauvros, Jean-Pierre Drouet and Philippe Torreton.

http://www.edwardperraud.com

Frédéric Blondy:piano, France

Pianist, composer, improviser and artistic director of ONCEIM, Frédéric Blondy is committed to a plastic approach to sound. Over the past thirty years, he has collaborated with a wide range of artists and performed in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia. He has published over twenty recordings on various European labels, and his concerts are regularly recorded and broadcasted by national radios such as France Musique, SWR, BBC, YLE or RTS.

http://fredericblondy.net/

Gabriella Hill: saxophone, Sydney

Gabriella Hill is a Sydney/Eora based saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser and composer, currently in her 3rd year of studying jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium. Current ensembles/projects include Double Trouble (with Aidan Wong, Alex Tucker, Daniel Raymond), Hayley Chan Trio (with Uma Volkmer, Hayley Chan), Mosaic Jazz Collective (as guest artist), Gabriella Hill Trio (with Alex Tucker, Jaqcues Emery), Splinter Orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHprcc2dfUM

Gianni Mimmo:soprano sax, Italy

Gianni Mimmo has built an international reputation for his unique treatment of musical timbre and his exploration of the advanced techniques on the soprano saxophone. His peculiar work is mainly focused on the relationship among distant artistic declinations and his style is based on a deep knowledge of the instrument and on a sound consciousness which is the constitutional element of his voice.  Gianni has developed a unique blend of abstract lyricism and contemporary flavours. His projects have been excellently reviewed by international magazines and webzines.  In the last few years some features of his music have shifted to unsuspected directions and his personal curiosity led him to new connections adding some fresh subtleness to his instrumental tone and developing a more compositional attitude to his improvisation.  As composer he often works with graphic scores where elements coming from different musical languages find a new form where fragments and more unbound ideas ask for a fresher interpretation and performing responsibility.  His pantheon is pretty crowded and includes several names coming from art, music and philosophy: painters like Jackson Pollock, John McLaughlin, Toti Scialoja, Mario Sironi, Felice Casorati; adventurous jazz musicians like Steve Lacy, Roscoe Mitchell, contemporary souls like John Cage, Robert Ashely, Earle Brown, philosophers and beautiful minds like Giorgio Agamben and John Berger, writers like Yasunari Kawabata and Herman Melville, poets like Marina Cvetaeva and Wisława Szymborska.  His current projects include collaboration with musicians as Harri Sjöström, Alison Blunt, John Russell, Daniel Levin, Hannah Marshall, Elisabeth Harnik, Clementine Gasser, Gianni Lenoci, Cristiano Calcagnile, Lawrence Casserley, Martin Mayes, Vinny Golia, Garrison Fewell, Benedict Taylor, Gino Robair, Jean-Michel van Schouwburg, Nicholas Isherwood, Ove Volquartz, Nicola Guazzaloca, Xabier Iriondo, Michele Marelli, Teppo Hauta-hao ,Mario Arcari, Achim Kaufmann, Matthias Bauer, Veli Kujala, Enzo Rocco, Angelo Contini, Stefano Pastor, Stefano Giust, Alessio Pisani,with dancersMarcella Fanzaga, Norontako Bagus Kentus, Sebastian Prantl, photographer Elda Papa, video artists and poets as well.  He extensively tours in Europe and USA invited by international festivals and venues and runs the indie label Amirani Records.  https://www.giannimimmo.com/en

Hannah de Feyter (Alphamale): violin/electronics, Canberra

Hannah de Feyter is a musician and filmmaker from Ngunnawal country / Canberra. Her solo experimental viola project ALPHAMALE explores connections between sound and gender expression. Hannah’s scores for theatrical and film work include Vinegar Tom (Ainslie & Gorman Arts Centres), Unbecoming (Canberra Theatre Centre), and a series of short films with the feminist erotica project A Four Chambered Heart. She performs live scores for silent films which highlight the forgotten work of women in the early film industry. Her short films include Draifa (2019) and Diorama (2020), and her work has played at Stronger than Fiction Film Festival, Lit Windows, You Are Here Festival, and Canberra Short Film Festival. https://chambermade.org/people/hannah-de-feyter/

Hayley Chan:drums Sydney

Hayley Chan is an emerging performer and composer from Warrang/Sydney and is currently studying a Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She has played all along Australia's east coast, performing a wide variety of music, from jazz and neo-soul to experimental and improvised music. Her recent compositions are semi-improvised structures exploring the depictions of landscapes and animals, and the inner workings of the human brain. Hayley has performed at the Sydney Opera House and at festivals such as Bigsound, Kiama Jazz and Blues, and Orange Jazz Festival. She has toured with Australian artists such as Monstress, Sam Windley, and Emily-Rose and the Wild Things. She is also a 2024 Dots+Loops Fellow and will be performing at the Nonstop 2024 Festival in Brisbane.

https://hayleychandrums.com/videos-and-recordings

Jamie Lambert: Guitar, Canberra

Jamie is a guitarist who has recently moved from Sydney. Jamie became involved in free improvisation through the Mt Ainslie Music Club, a free improvisation group based in Canberra, and has since performed as part of the Noise Floor ensemble. Jamie employs a non-idiomatical style of playing and seeks to explore the timbral possibilities of the electric guitar through the use of prepared guitar and effects.

Jean-Luc Guionnet:alto Saxophone, France

Saxophonist and organist Jean-Luc Guionnet is also a composer, visual artist and performer. He studied visual arts and electroacoustic music with Christine Groult, Michel Zbar and Iannis Xenakis, and has worked with Seijiro Murayama, The Ames Rooms, Yann Gourdon, L'Ocelle Mare, Eric La Casa, Thomas Tilly, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jean-Philippe Gross, Pascal Battus, André Almuro and Olivier Benoit. He has written pieces for Dedalus, Ensemble Hodos, Splitter Orchester and Ensemble Un. His music revolves around themes such as listening, sound as a signature of space or the proximity of time passing and the weather. He has published dozens of recordings and numerous theoretical texts. http://www.jeanlucguionnet.eu/

Jean-Sébastien Mariage:guitar, France

Trained in contemporary musical creation by Patricio Villaroel, Jean-Sébastien Mariage develops new techniques and materials that help the guitar evolve, opening it up to unexpected sounds and unsuspected music. He performs solo and in a variety of free improvisation, contemporary music, free rock and noise bands, including Chamaeleo Vulgaris, X_Brane, ONCEIM and Oort, as well as with musicians such as Xavier Charles, Natacha Muslera, David Chiesa, Catherine Jauniaux, Benjamin Duboc and Guylaine Cosseron.  http://jeansebastienmariage.fr...

Jodie Rottle: flautist, Narrm

Dr Jodie Rottle (she/her) is a creative flutist, researcher, lecturer, composer, and improviser working in a variety of settings to explore new sound concepts. Jodie can often be heard collaborating as a chamber musician. Currently, she performs new-folk and contemporary music with two-time Queensland Music Award-winning ensemble Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra and improvises with experimental trio It’s Science And Feelings. Until 2020, she was a member of Kupka's Piano, a Brisbane-based ensemble that focused on new Australian music. With Kupka’s Piano she commissioned over 35 new works—many by emerging composers—and performed nationally across Australia. Her recorded work with Kupka’s Piano can be heard on multiple podcasts with ABC Classic FM and on the album Braneworlds. With the New York-based trio Dead Language, Jodie improvises, composes, and performs interdisciplinary works that include everything from literature and white noise to toys and wolf howls. Dead Language performances have taken place at historic American Shaker villages, the Centre for Fiction NYC, and Seattle’s Wayward Music Series. Jodie is active within the Brisbane new music community and enjoys performing nationally. She recently developed a two-person outdoor show with Vulcana Circus, where she explored physical performance while playing flute. Jodie has performed with Brisbane Music Festival, Dots+Loops, Camerata—Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring (Sydney), Queensland Ballet, and Philharmonia Australia. She has appeared at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music; toured regionally with the Queensland Music Festival; and presented concerts at the Brisbane Festival of Toy Music. As part of the Boundary Riders collective with Clocked Out, she annually performs at the Easter at the Piano Mill events in rural NSW, hosted by Harrigan’s Lane, where she has improvised with native birds and composed for moving mini-buses. Her work as a composer explores the sounds of everyday objects alongside traditional instruments. A central theme of her work is the element of surprise, and to achieve this she often skims the outer territories of performance art, puppetry, and comedy. She primarily writes for solo performers or small chamber ensembles, which have included string quartets, dance collaborations, and site-specific works. Some of her explorations as a composer-performer include prepared flutes and wearable sound objects. She has presented her own participatory and embodied sound-based works at Made Now Music, Make It Up Club, RuckusFest, and the Listening Museum, among others. http://www.jodierottle.com/

Karim Camprovin: vocalist, Canberra

Karim is a vocalist based in Canberra who explores free improv, experimental music, and music from indigenous cultures. Her voice flirts with playfulness through a range of different sounds, textures, and landscapes. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, she started learning classical music at a young age and was later heavily influenced by alternative music, jazz, and music from Latin America and the Caribbean. From the age of 19 Karim started regularly performing boleros, bossa novas, guaguancó, jazz standards, salsa, cha cha chá and traditional Venezuelan music. In 2011, Karim founded Oran Mor, a project exploring Fado and Sephardic music. She researched and curated the repertoire, and the group arranged and recorded some songs in Caracas. Karim’s interest in improvisation grew from two sources: studying a postgraduate in Music Therapy and exploring sound with an experimental theatre group, both in Venezuela. In 2016 Karim studied traditional music from Indonesia in Yogyakarta for two years, on an international scholarship program. Whilst learning gamelan, Karim began studying Sindhenan – Javanese vocal style, and performed in some Wayang Kulit (shadow puppet) performances. Since arriving to Australia in 2019 Karim has been working teaching music for people with a disability and exploring free improvisation with the Mount Ainslie Music Club.

Laura Altman:clarinet / objects, Sydney

Laura  is a clarinetist, improviser and composer. She is based in Sydney, living and working predominantly on Gadigal and Wangal country.  Laura has been an important voice in the Sydney improvised and exploratory music scene for over 15 years. Her collaborations with Australian and international musicians have seen her perform across the country and around the world, and feature on multiple recordings, notably with trio Great Waitress. She is a long-standing member of Sydney improvisation collective Splinter Orchestra and style-free exponents Prophets.  In recent years Laura has ventured into solo improvisation. This practice involves a personalised and intuitive approach to the clarinet underpinned by a curiosity with resonance and explorations of how the instrument interplays and coexists within ‘environments’ of feedback, cassette tapes, tins and small objects.  Other current projects include duos with Low Flung (Couch), Monica Brooks, Melanie Herbert and Nick Ashwood, as well as ARIA-nominated folk-jazz-chamber ensemble, Chaika. More recently Laura has performed and recorded as clarinetist and singer with projects including art-folk band Bud Petal, Bonnie Stewart’s Bonniesongs, and collaborated with formidable songwriter and performer Melanie Eden. She now also plays with ARIA-nominated children’s entertainer Benny Time.   Laura has been very active organising exploratory music events in Sydney, including the NOW now festival and series (2010-2013) and Nights at Tempe (2018-present) and the inaugural Antoun’s Dreamfest with Nick Dan in 2022. She co-hosts a radio show Listening Space on Eastside FM with MP Hopkins and Alexandra Spence, co-founded the Sydney exploratory music calendar www.emus.space, and co-runs a label Caterpillar, featuring digital releases by Sydney-based improvisers and composers and affiliates of Splinter Orchestra.     https://www.lauraaltman.net/about

Locust Jones:performance (visual Artist), Sydney

Locust a visual artist / performer will create a new work in response to the 24-hour news cycle. During the 2 x 40 min performances, Jones will be paired with the ever-brilliant drummer Maria Moles to create engaging rhythms for the primacy of his drawing. He will produce a large-scale graphite work that will be on display until the end of the Festival. In 2010 Locust completed a Masters of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts (Sydney University) where earlier in 1993 he completed an undergraduate degree in Print Media. Since graduating Locust has held over 25 solo exhibitions within Australia and internationally, including: Burn Freeze, David Krut Projects, New York (2014); Descent into the Mass Media Maelstrom, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin (2014);  24HR News Feed, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand (2013) and Some Mistakes were Perhaps Made, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW (2012) Locust has participated in numerous museum exhibitions including: Art Gallery of South Australia, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. His work is held in major public collections including: Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of South Australia; Artbank; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria; Australian War Memorial; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand; James Wallace Trust, Auckland, New Zealand; National Gallery of Australia; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; Kunstwerk Museum; Collection of Peter W. and Alison Klein, Stuttgart, Germany and the Shepparton Art Museum. Born in 1963, Christchurch, New Zealand, Locust Jones currently lives and works in the Blue Mountains, Australia. https://vimeo.com/317758216    https://www.locustjones.com/

Magda Mayas,piano Berlin

Magda is a pianist and composer performer living in Berlin. Over the past 25 years she developed a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. Mayas has developed a set of techniques that draw on the history of prepared and inside piano vocabulary, but are highly individualized and expand the language for internal piano music making.  She holds a PhD in Music Performance and Interpretation from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2019, she is the program coordinator and teaches improvisation at Luzern University of applied Sciences and Arts. Mayas performs internationally solo and in collaboration with a large number of musicians and composers. Current projects are Spill, a duo with drummer Tony Buck, a duo with Christine Abdelnour, Jane in Ether with Biliana Voutchkova and Miako Klein and Filamental,with Christine Abdelnour, Anthea Caddy, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Magda Mayas, Zeena Parkins, Aimée Theriot-Ramos, Michael Thieke.  She has performed and toured in Europe, the USA, Australia, Mexico and Lebanon and collaborated with many leading figures in improvisation and composers such as Marilyn Mazur, John Butcher, George Lewis, Andy Moor, Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Eddie Prévost, Phill Niblock, David Sylvian, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Joelle Leandre, Paul Lovens, Ikue Mori, Ken Vandermark, Okkyung Lee, Nic Collins, Elliot Sharp and Maja Ratkje. https://www.magdamayas.com/news/

Miroslav Bukovsky: trumpet, Canberra

Miro is a distinguished jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator. He spent 6 years in Conservatorium classical studies in Czechoslovakia and moved to Australia in 1968. Studied at the Sydney Conservatorium Jazz Studies becoming a member of faculty; 1981-82 Australia Council funded study in USA, New York and Indiana University; 1999 Commenced full time teaching position at the Canberra School of Music (later ANU School of Music), teaching trumpet, improvisation, composition, arranging and ensemble performance. 2003-2004 Head of Jazz Department at, ANU School of Music, and has continued limited teaching at ANU School of Music, as a Distinguished Artist in Residence since.

https://mirorecords.bandcamp.com/

Monika Brooks: piano, accordion, Katoomba

Monica has modelled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion. As a performer she has collaborated with various fabulous folks such as Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Herminone Johnson, Chris Abrahams, Robbie Avenaim, Kraig Grady, Richard Nuns, Eugene Chadbourne and Joe Talia. She is renowned for the subtlety of her approach on accordion with Magda Mayas and Laura Altman in the trio Great Waitress. https://great-waitress.com/https://monicabrooks.bandcamp.com/

Nicci Haynes: multi-media live drawing Artist, Canberra

Live drawing performances in collaboration with assorted with dancers, musicians and poets has become a significant component of Nicci Haynes’s practice, events at which experimental languages spontaneously emerge between dance, music/sound, visual art/projection. Acts of instantaneous composition and inventive improvisations lead to journeys of wild immersion. Improvisation and inventiveness is the common element throughout a diverse art practice that includes print, drawing, mad-scientist installations and experimental film. Nicci lives and works on unceded country of Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples.
https://niccihaynes.com.au/

Peggy Lee: cellist, Narrm/Can

Cellist, improviser, composer Peggy Lee was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario and now resides in Narr. She studied classical cello, completing a bachelors degree in performance at the University of Toronto as a student of Vladimir Orloff and Denis Brott. She furthered her studies on the cello with lessons with Martha Gerschefski in Atlanta Georgia. In the fall of 1988 Peggy began a year residency with a string quartet at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. It was here that she first became interested in collaborating with artists from different mediums and in veering away from the classical path. This led to a decision to move away from the known and thus to her relocating to Vancouver, B.C. where she now makes her home.  Peggy’s first forays into improvisation in Vancouver happened with dancers at the EDAM (experimental dance and music) studio at the Western Front and eventually led to her meeting and joining guitarists Ron Samworth and Tony Wilson in their respective bands; as well as becoming a member of the New Orchestra Workshop, which went on to have interesting and fruitful collaborations with Butch Morris, Wadada Leo Smith, René Lussier, Barry Guy and George Lewis.  Peggy continues to collaborate frequently with Ron and Tony and with her husband, drummer Dylan van der Schyff, as well as with many other longtime musical associates including Dave Douglas, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Veda Hille and Lisa Miller. She also leads or co-leads a number of musical projects: The Peggy Lee Band, Film in Music, Waxwing (with Tony Wilson and Jon Bentley) and Beautiful Tool (with Mary Margaret O’Hara). She has also collaborated extensively in theatre and dance with companies and artists such as Ruby Slippers, Rumble Theatre, Presentation House, David Hudgins, Peter Bingham and Delia Brett. In 2005, Peggy received the Freddie Stone Award for integrity and innovation in music and in 2010 she was awarded a Jesse Richardson Theatre Award for outstanding composition.  https://www.musicworks.ca/prof...

Phoebe Bognar: flute, Sydney

Phoebe is an Australian-born flutist, performer, and composer, based in Basel, Switzerland. Her approach to creativity is sewn with vibrancy and fluidity, and explores a diverse range of artistic entities, mediums and styles.   Phoebe has performed across the globe renowned venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, KKL Luzern, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Theater Basel and Philharmonie Warsaw. She has performed in a wide range of Festivals notably in the Warsaw Autumn (PL); Lucerne Festival, Zeiträume Festival (CH), Berliner Festspiel, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, cresc… Biennale, Ultraschall Berlin, Acht Brücken, Darmstadt Ferienkurse (DE); Ultima Contemporary Music Festival (NO); Gaudeamus Festival (NL); Rainy Days Festival Philharmonie Luxembourg; Göteborg Arts Sounds Festival (SE); Bang on a Can Summer Festival (USA); Musiikin Aika Time of Music Festival (FI), Sydney Festival, Queensland Music Festival, Dots and Loops Nonstop Festival and the Tyalgum Music Festival (AU).  S he has also performed with notable ensembles and orchestras such as Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble SCOPE and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra.  Since April 2024, Phoebe is a permanent member of the acclaimed Freiburg-based contemporary music group– Ensemble Aventure.  Phoebe delights in collaborating with other creatives and engaging in interdisciplinary projects. Her current projects include ongoing collaborations with composers Anna Sowa and Zara Ali; and her chamber projects: performative and instrumental duo iipm project with Mikołaj Rytowski where they collaborate on new works, and installations and interpret existing pieces; and press.any.key with Manca Dornik, a flute and accordion duo combining instruments with performative elements, composition and interpretation.  https://phoebebognar.com/

Rhys Butler:saxophonist, Canberra

Rhys has come to know the cities he has lived in through improvised and noise music. The trio Dinner Sock (Stephen Roach (drums), David Keyton (feedback), and Rhys Butler (saxophones)) formed from the weekly Fugue State Sessions in Guanzhou. The group performed with local experimenters such as Yan Jun, Feng Hao and Li Zenghui and collaborated with musicians transiting China such as Uwe Bastiansen (Faust) and Lucas Abela. Despite living in different corners of the world, Dinner Sock has continued to participate in China's experimental music scene and played Beijing's Sally Can't Dance festival and NOIShanghai in 2012. In Santiago, Chile, Rhys participated in events run by Productura Mutante and played in the free-for-all Collective Improvisation NO. Now residing in Canberra, Rhys has been working in a duo with Reuben Ingall (live processing). More recently he has been part of the Psithurism trio with John Porter and Richard Johnson, which have a new release called Lure out with French clarinetist Xavier Charles. See the SoundOut bandcamp and Francois Houle site in the following links: https://soundoutrecordings.ban...

Richard Johnson:wind multi-instrumentalist, Canberra

Richard performs with the texture of sound on soprano/tenor saxophone and bass clarinet and is experimenting with use of a bass drum with soprano saxophone to create a language of microtonal textural resonance. Also he has been making instruments from conical gourds from PNG, which allow the stripping back of the wind instruments to their most visceral and most sensuous form and allow for the exploration of extended techniques. He has performed at the SoundOut 2010 – 2024 festivals; What is Music Festival, Nownow Festival; the Make it Now performances; also performances with the Brice Glace Ensemble and the 102 Club Orkestra in Grenoble France; “Whip it“ series in Sydney; various Precipice annual Improv workshops hosted by Tony Osbourne as well as hosting local, interstate, and international improvisation nights in Canberra. He has also been a member and performed with Ngesti Budoyo Gamelan Orchestra of the Indonesian Embassy for 18 years untill recently. He is the Director, Curator, Producer and Administrator at SoundOut festivals. As a sound artist he worked with renowned visual Artist Savanhdary Vongpoothorn for the AustraliaExhibition at The Casula Power House as well collaborated with conceptual-visual artist Denise Higgins on soundscapes. He has performed with the likes of Jaap Blonk, Jon Rose, Hans Koch, Guylaine Cosseron, Jim Denley, Kim Myhr, Annette Giesreigl, Rodrigo Motoya, Antonio Panda Gianfratti, Thomas Rohrer, Luc Houtkamp, Clayton Thomas, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Yan Jun, Laura Altman, Michael Norris, Evan Dorian, etc. Currently performs with Noise FloorQrt [Jamie Gifford, Rhys Butler and Rory Villegas]. Has a wind trio with John Porter and Rhys Butler called Psithurism, which has a digital release with the renowned Canadian clarinetist Francois Houleand a new Cd release called Lureon the SoundOut label with Xavier Charlesin 2017 SO-003. Also in June 2016 released Cd with Rhys Butler; Guylaine Cosseron and Stephen Roach called Swarm on SoundOut Cd’s SO-001. Lure CD Review. He also has a number of field recording releases available from the SoundOut label catalogue bandcamp site.

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Stuart Orchard: guitar/invented instruments, Canberra/Perth

Once described as a ‘wild card’, multi-disciplinary artist Stuart Orchard is as at home behind a microphone singing his quasi-folk songs, as he is rattling seed pods in a new music improvisation. He concurrently keeps alive his rock’n’roll roots whilst separately venturing into experimental composition territory – currently exploring prepared piano, partnering with AI, building instruments to be played by the wind or creating evocative non-pitched textures and ambient evocative soundscapes. Spontaneity and pushing the musical envelope are always at front of mind.  As a recent arrival to Ngunnawal and Ngambri country in Canberra, Orchard continues to expand his creative practice among new audiences and collaborators as he absorbs new lands and waters. Orchard’s music has been played at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Festival and he has released several alt-pop records. Some can be downloaded at https://stuartorchard.bandcamp.com/

Uma Volkmer: Trumpet, Sydney

Uma is a musician and artist working on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia.Her practice is experiment driven with a focus on collaboration, connectivity and an explorative dialogue between visual and sonic forms. Most recently, Uma has been exploring texture, abstraction and materiality within her creative practice and as a trumpet player. Since being introduced to Sydney’s exploratory scene through Splinter Orchestra in 2023, Uma’s love for improvisation has grown and in February 2024 she released a debut album, Burst, with band Bad Photography (Jim Denley, Alex Tucker). She has also had the pleasure of participating in the Australian Art Orchestra’s Creative Music Intensive at Apollo Bay (2023) as well as receiving a mentorship to learn with Jem Savage through the AAO mentorship program (2023).Uma is currently studying a Bachelor of Music Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

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Zosha Warpeha: hardanger d’amore, USA

Zosha is a composer-performer working in a meditative space at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. Using bowed stringed instruments alongside her own voice, her long-form compositions explore transformations of time and tonality. She performs primarily on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed instrument closely related to the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Her current work is informed by the cyclical forms, rhythmic elasticity, and the physical momentum of Nordic folk music.      From Minnesota and currently based in Brooklyn, NY, she is active within folk and improvised music communities in the United States and abroad as a solo artist and collaborator. Notable performances have taken place at the Emanuel Vigeland Museum, Bern Jazz Festival, Drammen Sacred Music Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Vesterheim Museum, and Detroit Institute of Arts. She was commissioned in 2022 to compose and perform a full-length score for a movement piece by choreographer Erin Landers, titled of body of body of, which premiered at MOtiVE Brooklyn. Recent and ongoing collaborations include projects with percussionist Carlo Costa, ambient winds player Craig Schenker, instrument-builder Webb Crawford, and electro-acoustic ambient duo visible worlds. Warpeha’s debut solo album silver dawn(Relative Pitch Records, 2024) has been lauded as a “breathtaking dialogue between Warpeha and her instrument; tradition and experimentation; community and place”   In 2019, Warpeha received the US Fulbright Award for artistic study in Norway. Her Fulbright project and subsequent master’s project involved a practice-based study of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradition and the development of a personal approach to solo performance through Nordic folk music and contemporary improvisation. Her work has also been supported by the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. She holds bachelor's degrees from the New School of Jazz & Contemporary Music and Eugene Lang College in New York City and a master’s degree in Nordic folk music performance from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.

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