SoundOut Festival 2024

Now in our 15th year SoundOut is one of the gateway exploratory music-art events, 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 2024 we have 26 Artists from Australia, France and China 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.

SEE BELOW FOR Session Information / Program Times / Artist list & Artist Bios

There will also be a SoundOut Improvisation Workshops

1. Friday the 2nd from 1 - 4pm improvisation with Guylaine Cosseron [vocals] and Diemo Schwarz [electronics] at the Drill Hall Gallery

2. Saturday 3rd  from 9am - 12  Free improvisation workshop Part 1: Helen Svoboda [double bass] & Maria Moles [drums] ; Part 2: Clayton Thomas [double bass] at the Drill Hall Gallery.

3. Sunday 4th from 9 am - 12am February Improvisation workshop with Jean-Sebastien Mariage (Guitar)

  at the Drill Hall Gallery ANU.

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

This project has been funded by the Australian Government through Creative Australia its Arts funding and advisory body

Times:

Session 1:  Friday Feb 2nd      7pm - 11pm

Session 2 : Saturday Feb 3rd   1pm - 5pm

Session 3 : Saturday Feb 3rd   7pm - 11pm

Session 4 : Sunday Feb 4th      1pm - 5pm

SoundOut 2024 Program 

Session 1: Fri. 2 February 7 - 11pm +

7pm   Biomorph

Rhys Butler: alto sax, Canberra

Richard Johnson: wind instruments, Canberra

7:45  Animal Duo

Diemo Schwarz, electronics, France

Guylaine Cosseron: vocals, France

8:30   Panghalina “charm”

Bonnie Stewart: drums/percussion/vocals, Sydney

Helen Svoboda: double bass / vocals, Narrm
Maria Moles: drummer, Narrm

9:15

Elizabeth Jigalin: accordion, Sydney
Ellen Kirkwood: trumpet, Sydney
Jodie Rottle: flautist, Brisbane

+Nicci Haynes: multi-media live drawing projections Canberra

10:10   Kairos

Jean-Sébastien Mariage: Electric and acoustic guitars, France
Gwennaëlle Roulleau: Electronics, France

10:50    Believe

Clayton Thomas: double bass/percussion, Sydney
Laurence Pike: drums and percussion, Sydney
Novak Manojlovic: piano/percussion, Sydney
Peter Farrar: objects/saxophone, Sydney

Session 2: Sat. 3 February 1  - 5pm

1pm  Alphamale

Hannah de Feyter: viola / electronics, Canberra

1:40

Diemo Schwarz, electronics, France

Gwennaëlle Roulleau: electronics France

Rhys Butler: saxophonist, Canberra

Richard Johnson: wind multi-instrumentalist , Canberra 

Yichen Wang: OP-1 electronics, Canberra/China

2:20 +

Francouis Mathers: SOLO Guitar, France

3:00 +

Danny Wild [Lowflung]: electronics, Sydney
Jamie Lambert: Guitar, Canberra
Melanie-Louise Eden: vocals / accordion, Sydney
Peter Farrar: objects/saxophone, Sydney

3:40 +

Josephine Macken, flautist/composer Sydney
Mark Cauvin: double bass, Portland NSW

Novak Manojlovic: piano/percussion, Sydney

4: 20

"As Weather" ( an outside performance with Jim inviting artists to play)

Jim Denley: wind instr. , Sydney

Session 3: Sat. 3rd February 7 - 11pm +

7pm

Ellen Kirkwood: trumpet, Sydney
Guylaine Cosseron: vocals, France
Maria Moles: drummer, Narrm
Mark Cauvin: double bass, Portland NSW

Richard Johnson: wind multi-instrumentalist , Canberra

7:45

Bonnie Stewart: drums/percussion/vocals, Sydney
Francouis Mathers: Guitar, France
Melanie-Louise Eden: vocals / accordion, Sydney
Novak Manojlovic: piano/percussion, Sydney
Rhys Butler: saxophonist, Canberra

8:30

Jodie Rottle: flautist, Brisbane
Josephine Macken, flautist/composer Sydney
Jamie Lambert: Guitar, Canberra

Peter Farrar: objects/saxophone, Sydney

9:15

Elizabeth Jigalin: piano Sydney
Helen Svoboda: double bass / vocals, Narrm
Jean-Sébastien Mariage: Electric and acoustic guitars, France
Jim Denley: wind instr. , Sydney

Laurence Pike: drums and percussion, Sydney

10: 40

Hannah de Feyter: viola / electronics, Canberra
Danny Wild [Lowflung]: electronics, Sydney
Yichen Wang: OP-1 electronics, Canberra/China

+Nicci Haynes: multi-media live drawing projections Canberra

11:10    Clayton Thomas Large Ensemble

Clayton Thomas: double bass/percussion, Sydney

+ artist that wish to play (see Clayton on the day before)
Rhys Butler: saxophonist, Canberra

Richard Johnson: wind multi-instrumentalist , Canberra

Session 4: Sunday 4th February 1 - 5pm

1pm:

Clayton Thomas: double bass/percussion, Sydney
Helen Svoboda: double bass / vocals, Narrm
Jean-Sébastien Mariage: Electric and acoustic guitars, France

1:40  SoundOut wind / brass ensemble

Ellen Kirkwood: trumpet, Sydney
Jim Denley: wind instr. , Sydney

Jodie Rottle: flautist, Brisbane
Josephine Macken, flautist/composer Sydney
Peter Farrar: objects/saxophone, Sydney
Rhys Butler: saxophonist, Canberra
Richard Johnson: wind multi-instrumentalist , Canberra

2:20

Gwennaëlle Roulleau: electronics, France
Guylaine Cosseron: vocals, France
Jodie Rottle: flautist, Brisbane
Maria Moles: drummer, Narrm
Melanie-Louise Eden: vocals / accordion, Sydney

3:00

Laurence Pike: drums and percussion, Sydney

3:40

Bonnie Stewart: drums/percussion/vocals, Sydney
Diemo Schwarz, electronics, France
Elizabeth Jigalin: piano, Sydney
Francois Mathers: Guitar, France
Jamie Lambert: Guitar, Canberra

4:20

Mark Cauvin: double bass/tape solo :   before all artists join him in the final collective ensemble
SoundOut Collective (all remaining artists)

SoundOut 2024 Artist list

Bonnie Stewart:drums/percussion/vocals, Sydney

Clayton Thomas:double bass/percussion, Sydney

Danny Wild [Lowflung]:electronics, Sydney

Diemo Schwarz, electronics, France

Elizabeth Jigalin:accordion, Sydney

Ellen Kirkwood: trumpet,Sydney

Francouis Mathers: Guitar, France

Gwennaëlle Roulleau:composer, musician / sound artist, France

Guylaine Cosseron:vocals, France

Hannah de Feyter:violin / electronics, Canberra

Helen Svoboda:double bass / vocals, Narrm

Jamie Lambert: Guitar, Canberra

Jean-Sébastien Mariage: Electric and acoustic guitars, France

Jim Denley: wind instruments, Sydney

Jodie Rottle:flautist, Brisbane

Josephine Macken, flautist/composer Sydney

Laurence Pike: drums and percussion, Sydney

Mark Cauvin: double bass/ tape, Portland NSW

Melanie-Louise Eden:vocals / accordion, Sydney

Nicci Haynes:multi-media live drawing Artist, Canberra

Novak Manojlovic: piano/percussion, Sydney

Peter Farrar: objects/saxophone, Sydney

Rhys Butler: saxophonist, Canberra

Richard Johnson: wind multi-instrumentalist , Canberra

Yichen Wang: OP-1 electronics, Canberra/China

Artist Bios:

Bonnie Stewart:drums/percussion/vocals, Sydney

Bonnie is a musician, improvisor and composer. She was drawn to Australia’s definitive sound in the creative jazz scene, and moved from Dublin to Sydney in 2012. Bonnie completed an Honours BA in jazz performance on the drums at Newpark Music Centre, Dublin in 2010. She furthered her studies at the School of Improvised Music New York, with jazz innovators such as Tom Rainey, Ralph Alessi and Drew Gress. She was also awarded a full scholarship in 2008 to attend a summer intensive workshop at Berkelee School of Music in Boston, as well as participating in an improvised music workshop in Salzburg, Austria with the influential drummer Jim Black as her mentor.

Bonnie is regularly collaborating in the experimental improv scene in Sydney and has performed alongside artists such as Jim Denley, Clayton Thomas, Cor Fuhler, Dale Gorfinkel, Laura Altman, and Burchard Beins (Germany). She also plays in The Splinter Orchestra, a large scale ensemble made up of improvisors and sound artists, and has been performing with Splinter at the Nownow festival in Sydney since 2011. Bonnie was selected as a featured artist by The Jazzgroove Association, in 2014 with her quintet “Criss Cross”. Bonnie is also up-and-coming in the folk song writer scene with her self led project “Bonniesongs”, where she performs solo combining voice, mandolin, loops, bass drum and tambourine. Bonnie’s playing combines textural soundscapes, dynamic range and momentum. Her aesthetic includes indian rhythmic concepts, rock song craft, creative jazz and improvisation.

Clayton Thomas:double bass/percussion, Sydney

Clayton is driven by a deep belief in collaboration through improvisation. He has developed a unique approach to the bass, which foregrounds collaborative flexibility, surprise and power. Over the past 20 years he has been a central member of the European improvised music community as both a performer and organiser. He is part of the Believe Quartet: A quartet of rare experience and breadth, this exceptional ensemble of creative musicians is creating a music driven by empathy, flexibility and a deep commitment to beauty. Since coming together in early 2023, BELIEVE has already performed 10 concerts in Sydney, committing themselves to the live experience; learning and exploring in the public eye. Believe plays to experience the elation of shared beauty, drawing on deep experience in electro-acoustic, free and predefined music forms to fuel the ecstasy of discovery in the moment.    https://youtu.be/Ph5rpygU--8   https://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2019/01/clayton-thomas-the-now-now-festival-impossible-things-can-happen-interview-by-bob-baker-fish/

Danny Wild [Lowflung]:electronics, Sydney

Danny Wild is a visual artist and musician based in Sydney, Australia (Gadigal/Wangal Country). Danny is best known under his moniker ‘Low Flung’ - A no restriction sounding board for experimentation and play within the audio visual space. Danny’s work currently takes aim at off-grid minimalism using synthesis, processed field recordings and heavy handed audio manipulation using analog tape and sampler techniques. Drawing influence from electro-acoustic, noise and ambient music; Danny explores the way sound can inform the relationship we have with the natural and built environment. Since graduating from the ANU School of Art in 2013 with a Bachelor of Digital Art, Danny continues to balance the fine line between art and music. Having released over 10 albums over the past ten years whilst running independent record labels Moontown Records, Found Media and Snail Editions; Danny’s practice believes in the value of nurturing DIY communities, supporting fringe dwelling Australian experimental musicians.

https://lowflung.bandcamp.com/album/buchla-concerts-2022

Diemo Schwarz, electronics, France

Diemo is an improvising musician and composer for installations, dance and video. He is also a researcher in real-time musical interactions at IRCAM and a developer in digital arts. He plays with electronic materials rich in timbres and textures, exploring different bodies of sounds using gesture controllers, thus allowing expressiveness and the body to dialogue with the digital instrument. His use of concatenative synthesis recomposes the space of sounds and questions their intrinsic qualities. By freeing them from their usual contexts, they reveal unsuspected riches. He is a member of the ONCEIM (Orchestra of New Creations, Experimentation and Musical Improvisation) and plays with Fréderic Blondy, Richard Scott, Gaël Mevel, Pascal Marzan, Fred Marty, Nicolas Souchal, Benjamin Duboc with the ensemble Icosikehainagone,Massimo Carrozzo among others. Finally, he composes for dance, video and installations, in collaboration with artists such as Sylvie Fleury, Franck Leibovici, Cécile Babiole, Christian Delécluse, and Françoise Tartinville. Since his doctorate in computer science applied to music in 2004, his scientific research has focused on the interaction between musician and machine, and the exploitation of large masses of sounds for real-time and interactive sound synthesis, in collaboration with composers, among others Aaron Einbond, Christopher Trapani, Philippe Manoury, Dai Fujikura, Pierre Jodlowski, Stefano Gervasoni, Emmanuelle Gibello, or for general public installations with intuitive tangible interfaces, such as DIRTI (Dirty Tangible Interfaces). In 2017 he was DAAD Edgar Varese guest professor for computer music at the Technical University of Berlin.

http://concatenative.net

Elizabeth Jigalin:accordion, Sydney

Elizabeth is performer/composer. Elizabeth loves to compose curious sandpits of sound and work with others to collage elements of music, play, theatre and the everyday. Elizabeth collaborates with artists across disciplines, audiences, participants and communities to create unexpected encounters of music. In her music, Elizabeth is often drawn to miniature forms, the colour red, objects, lists, playfulness, ears, instrument building, zine making, DIY electronics, new media, ephemera and creating music ‘outside the usual order of things’. Elizabeth’s music has been performed on the National Carillon in Canberra, premiered at festivals around the world and explored in places like the bush, recital halls, pedestrian bridges, parks and homes. Recent highlights include SOUNDCRAFT (2020) - a suite of virtual and IRL activations that transformed Campbelltown Arts Centre into a sonic playground for kids, EXQUISITE CHORUS (2020)- a web/game opera commissioned by Gaudeamus Muziekweek for SCREEN DIVE,ear crumbs (2021) - 378 postcard-sized scores for a saxophonist, accordionist and percussionist in the open air.   Elizabeth is the founder of creative music collective the music box project who were awarded Excellence for Experimental Music at the 2020 APRA AMCOS/AMC Art Music Awards for shallow listening - a project premiered at BIFEM that featured her music theatre work prelude & pickle (2019). The group have premiered over 40 works by early career composers and present a regular series at The Glebe Hotel Upstairs @ The Glebe. Additionally, Elizabeth has composed music for films (ranging from horror-comedy string epics to film noir pianoscapes), animation shorts (in collaboration with animator Nastia Dyakova) and composed/performed new soundtracks for over 20 silent films (often in collaboration with violinist Jane Aubourg) as part of Australia's Silent Film Festival. Other collaborators include Soundstream, Lost in Books, Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Youth Orchestra, Moorambilla Voices and Kaldor Public Art Projects. She has been an Artist in Residence at Bundanon Trust (2019) and Campbelltown Arts Centre (2020). In 2022, Elizabeth was a finalist in the APRA Professional Development Awards. At present, she is an Ars Musica scholar and Composer in Residence for Voices of Women where she has composed and performed original music for the screen and live performances. In 2022, Elizabeth is an Artist in Residence at the Bondi Pavilion, as part of the inaugural Housewarming program. Awards include 1st Prize Centenary of Canberra Composition Competition and Unbound Flute Festival Competition.    https://www.elizabethjigalin.net/

Ellen Kirkwood: trumpet, Sydney

Ellen Kirkwood is a trumpeter, composer and educator from Sydney, who has received awards and accolades for her works. She has released four albums of her original works and is currently doing a PhD at ANU on decolonising perceptions of place through Indigenous cultural learning, and responding through music creation. She leads explorative nature-inspired jazz quartet Underwards, and is a member of improvising ensembles Splinter Orchestra and S.I.C.K.O. as well as folk and jazz festival favourites On The Stoop and Mister Ott.

https://ellenkirkwood.com/

Francouis Mathers: Guitar, France

"Les accords perdus" is a project of a French musician Francouis Mathers who is composer and improvisational guitarist. He has played on some twenty-nine albums, and has composed a substantial body of music for contemporary dance and cinema. He has collaborated with Stephen Grew (UK); Burton Greene, Marc Edwards, Ben Bennett, and Jack Wright (US) Carlos Zingaro (Portugal) Korvat Auki Ensemble (Finland); and many more. He performs solo in Europe, and in the United States and Canada. He lives in Le Havre in France, where he also teaches improvised music.

Gwennaëlle Roulleau:  Electro-acoustic composer, musician and sound artist, France

Listening to the environment or the sound body, she collects and sculpts sound material in their physicality, transforms it to propose an expressive and sensitive sound experience. Between composition in real-time and writing, between instrumental gesture and set-up, she processes sounds as living organisms, always open to the risk of accident and pleasure. Between her affection for acoustics and the magic of processing and production, she asserts the electronic dimension of her set-up. Like so many subjective filters, processing digs into and extrapolates reality, while synthesis reveals other strata. Her work explores vibratory fields, audible or imperceptible by our senses, electromagnetic fields. She plays with musicians (Thierry Waziniak, Jean-Sebastien Mariage, Reinhold Friedl, Gaël Mevel, Anaïs Moreau, Tarek Atoui, Ramuncho Matta, Jean-Marc Montera...), and developed many projects. She collaborates in theater with M.Bozonnet, R.Olaizola, C.Harbonn, in dance with O.Grandville and Tangible. She creates set-up to interrogate the phenomenon of sound, creating a sensory and sensitive address, mixed with sound dramaturgies. She also seeks to create a special relationship with the public, by creating interactive installations (Caroline Vaillant's wool network, Friche Théâtre Urbain, Fées d'Hiver). Her musical projects are presented in creative music networks, theaters and in situ spaces. Gwennaëlle is in the Duo Kairos with Jean-Sébastien Mariage

http://www.gwennaelleroulleau.com    http://toutcorpsdetat.fr/Kairos-51

Guylaine Cosseron:vocals, France

"My voice explores space and its possibilities, materials, blown sounds, exhaled sounds, overtones, triphonic sounds, glissandi, rattles, trills, voice breaks, voice bearing, held and swollen notes, interjections, clicks, crackles, inspires , exhales, cries, rumblings, melodies etc. Creativity, compositions in the moment brings me joy, nourishes my practice, and takes me out of the routine and the all-troubled paths." Since 2000, Guylaine Cosseron has multiplied musical experiences with national and international artists or musical groups (the vocal group Les Grandes Gueules, Les Babouches Noires, Jaseur de Bohème, Joëlle Léandre, Laurent Dehors, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Michel Donéda , Frédéric Blondy, Pascal Battus, Sophie Agnel, Régis Huby, Toma Gouband, Xavier Charles, etc.). After this period of personal research (as a composer and performer) in the field of voice experimentation in jazz, and also in the sphere of contemporary and improvised music, Guylaine wanted to create her own company in 2013. Since then, several creations related to the voice, sound poetry, improvised music have emerged within the Vocal Illimited association such as Contre-dits with Denis Lavant and Jean-François Pauvros, Tribute to Duchamp with Joelle Léandre and Antoine Berland , Rhrr with Xavier Charles and Frédéric Blondy, Métaxu with Jean-Sébastien Mariage and Sébastien Bouhana or Avant les mots with Emmanuel Ricard. Mater Nature with Birgit Yew Von Keller, Duo with Phil Minton and with Lori Freedman. Animal with Emmanuel Lalande, The Loom with Nicolas Tritchler, Pink Forest with Benjamin Duboc and Frantz Hautzinger. https://youtu.be/LBOZLqdYNU0

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.

Helen Svoboda:double bass / vocals, Narrm

Helen Svoboda is a double bassist, vocalist, composer and nature-enthusiast. Her work explores the melodic potential of the contemporary double bass, intricately weaving extended techniques and overtones with vocal tessiture amidst abstract song-writing and vegetable-themed compositions. “A musician who absolutely defies categorisation” (Andrew Ford – The Music Show, ABC). Svoboda has performed with artists including Scott Tinkler (AUS), Paul Grabowsky (AUS), Emma Pask (AUS), Erik Griswold (AUS), Kari Ikonen (FIN), Kristin Berardi (AUS/SWITZERLAND -Montreux Jazz Festival Vocal Competition Winner), Katie Noonan (AUS - ARIA Award Winner), Cory Smythe (NYC - Grammy Award Winner), Sebastian Gramss (Cologne), Tamara Lukasheva (Cologne) and Mike Roelofs (Netherlands). She has performed at venues including Hamer Hall (Melbourne), Stadtgarten (Cologne), Bonnefantenmuseum (Maastricht) and MONA (Museum ofOld and New Art - Tasmania) and at festivals including the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, Unknown Orbits Festival (Maastricht), Hasselt Jazz Festival (Belgium) and Clocked Out’s Easter @ The Piano Mill (Stanthorpe). In 2019 she attended the renowned BANFF International Workshop for Creative and Improvised Music (2019) under the mentorship of Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer and Okkyung Lee.

https://www.helensvoboda.com/

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-Sébastien Mariage: Electric and acoustic guitars, France

“Beyond a few illustrious (amplified) guitarists who have marked the history of jazz, the great development of the sound qualities of the electric guitar was initiated for the most part by rock guitarists, most often through unconscious and not premeditated experiences. But the possibilities that these musicians revealed are today consciously expanded by a large number of avant-garde guitarists who cannot be equated with rock, jazz or really to electronic music, but which are at the center of the development and concerns of all these musical forms, with the anchor point: improvisation. Jean-Sébastien Mariage is, among others, part of this family of musicians who perpetuate the clearing and who in one way or another, through new techniques or new materials make the instrument evolve, transcend it, open it up to unexpected sounds, to unsuspected music. From Hendrix to Bailey, the electric guitar has become an instrument capable of challenging preconceived ideas about the real nature of music and sound and its true artistic and political functions.” Theo Jarrier.  … “An imposing sound, a biting distortion, strident and massive attacks, living ruptures, almost tactile materials. The proof that there is still and always to do with this stringed instrument.” Jerome Noetinger. Jean-Sebastian is in the duo Kairos with Gwennaëlle Roulleau.http://toutcorpsdetat.fr/    http://toutcorpsdetat.fr/Kairos-51

Jim Denley: wind instruments, Sydney

Jim is one of Australia's foremost improvisers of new music and known for his improvisations on wind instruments and electronics. His radio work Collaborations, produced by ABC Radio National radio won the 1989 Prix Italia for radio production. He was a member of the group Machine for Making Sense with Rik Rue, Amanda Stewart, Chris Mann and Stevie Wishart and has performed in Australia, Europe, Japan and the US with artists such as Chris Abrahams, Clare Cooper, Keith Rowe, Joel Stern, Robbie Avenaim, Jon Rose, John Butcher, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith, Phil Niblock, Trey Spruance, Clayton Thomas, Tess de Quincy, Axel Dörner, Adam Sussman, Ami Yoshida, Oren Ambarchi, Tony Buck, Ikue Mori, Sachiko M, Malcolm Goldstein, Michael Sheridan and Annette Krebs. https://soundcloud.com/jim-denley     https://youtu.be/eTTsouLU8AA              https://splitrec.bandcamp.com/album/submental

Jodie Rottle:flautist, Brisbane

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/

Josephine Macken, flautist/composer Sydney

Josephine Macken is a composer and improviser who lives and works on unceded Gadigal – Eora land (Sydney, Australia). Her practice centres on the concept of ‘interference’ as a tool for music making and an aesthetic framework for articulating the processes which underpin her music. This materialises in her work through mediations of disclosure and secrecy, disturbances unfolding within and across modes of sound production, feedback loops, subversions of agency hierarchies and an unyielding preoccupation with the uncanny. Her research and its practical basis follows the fault lines of resistance patterns and draws from the kinds of translations across expressive modes (notation, sound, text) afforded by the cracks that form. This is the case most recently in her completion of a Masters of Music (composition) on scholarship under Prof. Liza Lim at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as a participant in the 2018–20 award-winning Composing Women Program. Josephine has presented her research at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (2017), Fujian Normal University (2017), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (2018), Harvard University (2019) and Columbia University (2019), the latter two as part of a delegation from the Sydney Conservatorium. In 2021, Josephine’s first opera ‘The Tent’ was nominated for an APRA AMCOS Art Music Award in the ‘Work of the year: Dramatic’ category. https://josephinemacken.com/

Laurence Pike: drums and percussion, Sydney

Laurence is a generational talent, producing music across a broad range of styles with ease. As a member of PVT, Liars and Triosk he has toured the world, recording for pivotal electronic labels WARP and LEAF. His solo records for drums and electronics are regarded as touchstones in Australian electroacoustic music, while his duo with Mike Nock stands as a testament to his power as an acoustic improviser. Laurence utilises an astounding technique in the service of music’s higher goals. He is part of the Believe Quartet: A quartet of rare experience and breadth, this exceptional ensemble of creative musicians is creating a music driven by empathy, flexibility and a deep commitment to beauty. Since coming together in early 2023, BELIEVE has already performed 10 concerts in Sydney, committing themselves to the live experience; learning and exploring in the public eye. Believe plays to experience the elation of shared beauty, drawing on deep experience in electro-acoustic, free and predefined music forms to fuel the ecstasy of discovery in the moment.

Maria Moles: drummer, Narrm

Maria is an Australian drummer, composer and producer based in Narrm/Melbourne. Her solo percussion performances draw on ideas from the Kulintang music of the Philippines and contemporary electronic production to weave hypnotic webs from layers of unmetered pulse that slowly undergo subtle textural transformations. In collaborative contexts ranging from free improvisation, jazz and contemporary composition to experimental pop, Maria contributes an acute sense of touch, placement and timbre, unashamed virtuosity and a powerful rhythmic drive. Maria’s debut EP ‘Mondo Flockard’ was released in 2016 through Perth label Tonelist, and was listed on Avant Music News under Best Albums of the Year. In 2017, she composed and performed a percussion and electronics score for Ben Christensen’s 1922 film ‘Haxan’ at Dark Mofo festival in Hobart, Tasmania. Performing on solo drums, Maria has opened for Claire Rousay, MY DISCO, Clever Austin (Hiatus Kaiyote), Chris Corsano (Bjork, Thurston Moore, Evan Parker), Oren Ambarchi, and Alex Zhang Hungtai (Dirty Beaches). Her solo LP ‘Opening’ was released through Nice Music in January 2019. Her second album, ‘For Leolanda,’ was released via Room4o in 2022.

Mark Cauvin: double bassist, Portland NSW

Mark is an accomplished Experimental Classical Avant-Garde Double Bass Interpreter, Performer, Composer, and Improvisor. He attended the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (DipMus, 2003), SIAPM Perugia (2006), and Stockhausen Courses in Germany (2010). His first multimedia work Die Dunkelkammer (The Darkroom) for Soloist and Electronic Music was presented at the 2013 PNEM Sound Arts Festival (Netherlands). It has since been presented live in Melbourne, with the Anywhere Festival 2015 in Sydney and Brisbane and at Edith Cowan University in Perth (2015). After a performance in Brisbane, Die Dunkelkammer was cited as being reminiscent of the sounds from a David Lynch film. A self taught tape operator/composer, microphone builder and theatre prop maker, Mark’s propensity to embrace the do-it-yourself subculture has enabled him to create his own individual style. He has self-published his own short film, a 7” record of works composed using a tool that combines a planetarium with miniature double basses called Kontrabassarium and a CD album called Installation of Sound. Concurrently, Mark continues to focus on the double bass as his first instrument and has published first time recordings of solo works for double bass by Fernando Grillo, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, and Lazslo Dubrovay and recorded works for the ABC by David Young, Cat Hope, Lindsay Vickery, and Michael Smetanin. Mark has received three grants as an individual artist from the Australian Council for the Arts. He has engaged in activities with Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Sinfonia, SBS Youth Orchestra, Goulburn Regional Conservatorium, National Folk Festival, Illawarra Folk Festival, Cobargo Folk Festival, Major’s Creek Folk Festival, Perth Arts Festival, Adelaide International Arts Festival, Melbourne Arts Festival, Ten Days on the Island Festival, New Music Network, Liquid Architecture, Chamber Made Opera, La Mama Musica, Critical Path, PNEM Sound Art Festival (Netherlands), Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK), SEAM, International Symposium for Electronic Art, International Society of Contemporary Music, Anywhere Festival, Now Now, National Experimental Arts Forum/Symbiotica, Australiasian Computer Music Conference, Australian Broadcast Company & Decibel Ensemble. https://vimeo.com/533070786http://www.markcauvin.com/

Melanie-Louise Eden: vocals / accordion, Sydney

Melanie identifies as a Buddhist trans-disciplinary artist, mad activist and unlearner. She is a member of Sydney’s large scale electro-acoustic improvising orchestra ‘The Splinter Orchestra’. Eden trained most notably with Pansori Master Bae Il Dong, and voice specialist Jorge Parente at The Grotowski Institute in Poland. She is greatly influenced also by informal mentorships with Garry Bradbury and Benni Seidel. Performance highlights; a duo with Greg Kingston at the Salamanca Arts Centre, TAS. ‘POP MUSIC’ with Garry Bradbury for the NOW NOW festival. Solo at the infamous MONA. And brief residence at MAAS as part of the ‘This is a Voice’ exhibition. Eden has released two albums. And as a recipient of Create NSW Small projects grant toured internationally her upcoming third. Her first album ‘Old Friend’ was recorded by film and television producer, composer and sound engineer Geir S Brillian. Second album; ‘공 空' was acclaimed by international music magazine Songlines.

https://www.melanielouiseeden.com/the-artisthttps://melanieeden.bandcamp.com/music

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/

Novak Manojlovic: piano/percussion, Sydney

Novak’s skills as a performer, improviser and composer are making him one of the most in demand pianists in Sydney. Equally at home within jazz, improvised and electro-acoustic music, as well as the occasional opera, Novak has the rare quality of power combined with grace - these qualities awarded him the reception of the prestigious Freedman Fellowship (Jazz) in 2019. Inspired by a radical cohort of creative musicians, it is Novak’s empathetic ear that allows him to bring the unexpected into any sonic situation. He was the 2019 recipient of the Freedman Jazz Fellowship. He is part of the Believe Quartet: A quartet of rare experience and breadth, this exceptional ensemble of creative musicians is creating a music driven by empathy, flexibility and a deep commitment to beauty. Since coming together in early 2023, BELIEVE has already performed 10 concerts in Sydney, committing themselves to the live experience; learning and exploring in the public eye. Believe plays to experience the elation of shared beauty, drawing on deep experience in electro-acoustic, free and predefined music forms to fuel the ecstasy of discovery in the moment.

Peter Farrar: objects/saxophone, Sydney

Peter is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a degree in Jazz Performance. He has wide experience in performance from mainstream settings through to cutting-edge contemporary improvised music. He is known for his combination of dazzling technique and sublime tone, and is one of Australia's most respected young saxophonists. Peter has a passionate interest in teaching, to which he brings a unique, but effective, improvisation-based approach. He has experience not only as a private teacher, but also tutoring outstanding student ensembles and coordinating exciting mentoring projects for younger musicians. Peter has performed with leading Australian and international artists including Mike Nock, Dale Gorfinkel, Jim Denley, Amanda Stewart, Wadada Leo Smith and Cor Fuhler. He also works with such groups as Splinter Orchestra, 8-ball, Dave Panichi Septet and Farfinkel Pugowski. "Peter Farrar on alto nearly stole the show with his solo on "Lieb". He has a tone reminiscent of Ornette Coleman and an expeditious array of ideas." Peter Wockner, Jazz and Beyond 2006. He is part of the Believe Quartet: A quartet of rare experience and breadth, this exceptional ensemble of creative musicians is creating a music driven by empathy, flexibility and a deep commitment to beauty. Since coming together in early 2023, BELIEVE has already performed 10 concerts in Sydney, committing themselves to the live experience; learning and exploring in the public eye. Believe plays to experience the elation of shared beauty, drawing on deep experience in electro-acoustic, free and predefined music forms to fuel the ecstasy of discovery in the moment.

https://splitrec.bandcamp.com/album/avocado

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.bandcamp.com/

Richard Johnson: wind multi-instrumentalist , Canberra

Richard performs with the texture of sound on soprano/baritone 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 – 2022 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 Australia Exhibition 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 Floor Qrt [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 calledLureon the SoundOut label withXavier 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.

https://citynews.com.au/2023/experimental-music-festival-hits-new-heights/

https://citynews.com.au/2023/experimental-music-festivals-quiet-but-sensational-finale

http://www.freejazzblog.org/2018/06/recent-releases-of-french-clarinetist.html

https://soundoutrecordings.bandcamp.com/

http://apraamcos.com.au/news/2015/august/art-music-award-winners/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/canberra-experimental-music-wins-apra-award-20150826-gj80c3.html

Yichen Wang: OP-1/ electronics, Canberra

Yichen (逸宸), is a PhD researcher who works at the intersection of music and computer science. My research encompasses new interface for musical expression, augmented reality and the entangled nature of digital music ensemble in Human-Computer Interaction. She has recently been working the OP-1 controller from teenage-engineering and producing some fascinating sound material and performances.

https://yichenwangs.github.io/