SoundOut Workshops

The SoundOut Festival is bringing to you 3 workshops of varying kinds from 5 experienced performer improvisors in the realm of free Improvisation and experimental music and the Arts. (See Artist bios in order of workshops below)

Tickets are available for 3 workshops at a cost of $10 each to cover costs and for morning or afternoon tea.

Firstly:  2nd February from 1 - 4 pm @Drill Hall Gallery ANU
Renowned vocalist Guylaine Cosseron and electornic wizard Diemo Scwarz will give a workshop on vocal and electronic improvisations and interactions

Secondly: 3rd February from 9am - 12 @Drill Hall Gallery This will be a workshop free improvisation in music praxis with brilliant drummer from Melbourne Maria Moles + and equally brilliant bassist Helen Svoboda for the first half, then second half we have the out-standing Double bassist Clayton Thomas doing a workshop on Large ensemble playing in a free improvisational / minimal compostional context.

Thirdly: 4th February from 9am -12 @Drill Hall Gallery Solo improvisation Workshop run by Jean-Sebastien Mariage

SoundOut fetival link

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

Workshop #1  Friday 2nd February 1 - 4pm

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

Diemo Schwarz: is a researcher at IRCAM, and a musician and creative programmer.

He performs on his own digital musical instrument based on his CataRT open source software, exploring different collections of sound with the help of gestural controllers that reconquer musical expressiveness and physicality for the digital instrument, bringing back the immediacy of embodied musical interaction to the rich sound worlds of digital sound processing and synthesis.
He interprets and performs improvised electronic music as member of the 30-piece ONCEIM improvisers orchestra, or with musicians such as Frédéric Blondy, Benjamin Duboc, Richard Scott, Gael Mevel, Pascal Marzan, Massimo Carrozzo, Nicolas Souchal, Fred Marty, Hans Leeuw.
He composes for dance and performance (Sylvie Fleury, Frank Leibovici, Françoise Tartinville), video (Benoit Gehanne and Marion Delage de Luget), and installation (Christian Delecluse, Cecile Babiole). His scientific research on sound analysis/synthesis and gestural control of interaction with music is the basis of his artistic work, and allows to bring advanced and fun musical interaction to expert musicians and the general public via installations like the dirty tangible interfaces (DIRTI) and augmented reality (Topophonie mobile).   In 2017 he was DAAD Edgar-Varèse guest professor for computer music at TU Berlin, and in 2022 artist in residence in the Arts, Sciences, Societies fellowship program of IMéRA institute of advanced studies, Aix–Marseille Université.     http://diemo.concatenative.net.

Workshop 2 Saturday 3rd Febraury 9am -12 

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/

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.

Workshop 3 Sunday 4th February 9am -12 

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