SoundOut Festival Workshops 2025

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Collaboration is the heart of musical growth. That's why this edition of SoundOut is proud to offer three astounding workshops open for participants of all ages and skill sets. From local artists to international improvisers and composers, these affordable daytime workshops will help professional and emerging artists build skills and experience.

Workshop 1: Locust Jones and Hayley Chan (Australia)Working at the intersection of visual media and music, this workshop will provide a live example of Locust Jones' extraordinary approach to live art, accompanied by Sydney based percussionist Haley Chan. Their workshop will provide insight into the process and offer participants a chance to explore new approaches to self expression.

Workshop 2: HUBBUB (France) Hubbub's unique sound, deep listening, intensity, group dynamism and ensemble interplay have made them one of the world's great exponents of free improvisation. "Using essentially extended techniques to transcend the traditional identity of their instruments, the five musicians gave greater place to low dynamics and an overall high level of activity. Their workshop offers professional and emerging musicians and artists the chance to interact, question and experience this group of master improvisers in close quarters, learning about a unique philosophy of music in close quarters.

Workshop 3: Magda Mayas (Berlin)Magda Mayas is a gifted composer, improviser and teacher with over 20 years of experience at the cutting edge of pianistic technique. As a player deeply rooted in the human experience, her workshop will explore the role, implementation and impact of extended techniques on contemporary music, offering participants the chance to explore and experience a new way to hear themselves.

1.    31st January 1 - 4pm Locust Jones and Hayley Chan drawing to improvised music/sound Workshop (please bring your own materials for drawing)  Costs are associated to the afternoon tea provided on the day

2.  1st February 9am -12 Hubbub, Ensemble free improvisation Workshop. Costs are associated to the morning tea provided on the day

3. 2nd February 9am -12 Magda Mayas improvisation Workshop. Costs are associated to the morning tea provided on the day

Link to the SoundOut Festival https://events.humanitix.com/soundout-2025

ARTIST Bios Below

1. 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 Hayley Chan 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/

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

2. Hubbub:

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

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/

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...

3.  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/