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)
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 +
7pmBiomorph
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
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--8https://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.
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.
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.
"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
"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.
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-denleyhttps://youtu.be/eTTsouLU8AAhttps://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.
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.
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.
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.
