Surrounding Sound: Building your music community
Event description
Writing music can often feel like a solitary endeavour, but music thrives through connection and collaboration.
This session explores ways of building and cultivating communities. Josten Myburgh (co-director, Tone List and director, Audible Edge Festival of Sound) will share their insights on identifying gaps in the exploratory music scene, and creating your own opportunities for collaboration, audience development, and building spaces for musical exploration.
This session is suitable for music creators across all art music practices and career stages, especially those looking for entrepreneurial new ways of creating, collaborating, and presenting music.
Registrations are free for AMC members
General admission $10
About the Speaker
Josten Myburgh is a musician based on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja in Boorloo. They are interested in musicking in-and-as-place (in Linda Russo's sense of 'inhabitory' making, or Jim Denley's concept of playing 'with weather'), and in the way that places are expressed and translocated through culture and community. They are drawn to materials that hover in ambiguous spaces on the spectra of melody-harmony-timbre and pitch-rhythm. They express these interests through a practice which combines location sound recording, writing, improvisation, notated composition, and an experimental approach to saxophone, drums and electro-acoustic instruments.
Josten is co-director of exploratory music label Tone List, and director of their acclaimed Audible Edge Festival of Sound. They also work as an independent curator and have collaborated with artist-run initiatives and major institutions alike.