Tone List Presents: Jason Kahn, Dale Gorfinkel, Laura Altman & Sage Pbbbt, WE1 XAM, wetpuddlss
Event description
Jason Kahn (Zurich) - feedback-driven modular synthesis
Laura Altman (Sydney) & Sage Pbbbt - clarinet, cassette players, analogue feedback, small speakers, voices
Dale Gorfinkel (Naarm) - "Headbanging" solo for multiple drum kits
WE1 XAM (Naarm) - analogue synthesisers
wetpuddlss - DJ
We are super excited to present this line-up of outrageously good experimental music from artists active internationally, curated by Annika Moses & Josten Myburgh. Sometimes deadpan and intense, sometimes goofy and wild, always committed to fascinating new possibilities with sound and performance and having a Good And Interesting Time.
Zurich-based artist Jason Kahn has spent over playing and writing about experimental music internationally. His idiosyncratic approach to modular synthesis involves directly touching the instrument's patch cables to use his body to complete circuits, and overdriving the instrument with feedback and input from contact microphones and electromagnetic pickups. Wild and outta control yet with a focus and presence that comes only from great experience.
Laura Altman, our artist in residence visiting from Sydney, plays a fascinating and delicate setup using clarinet in tandem with gentle feedback between cassette players, resonating chambers and small speakers. She delicately blends the sound of the clarinet and the electronic sounds, making them almost indistinguishable. She joins local exploratory vocalist Sage Pbbbt, a long-running but infrequent collaborator of hers, for a duo set of detailed, subtle sounds.
Naarm-based instrument builder Dale Gorfinkel's new solo project "Headbanging" involves the use of drums from as many as four drum kits alongside numerous auxillary percussion instruments, all played by one musician using more than ten mallets simultaneously with the aid of a custom-made helmet. Outrageous, hilarious and brilliant.
WE1 XAM - Jaslyn Robertson & Darlene Aaron from Naarm - play idiosyncratic drone meltdowns using multiple layers of analogue and FM synthesis. Ecstatic and enveloping.
Weird party energy and interim ambience brought by wetpuddlss (Ailsa Waddell), presenter on RTR.FM's trainwreck, contemporary artist and regular performer about town.
A hint of Audible Edge energy for yas!
Doors, DJ and bar open at 7:00pm, live music starts just after 7:30.
Tone List events work on a pay-what-you-can principle: you are welcome to pay any amount. For this gig we suggest $30, $20 or $10.
Accessibility: This event is held upstairs at PS, which is only accessible via two flights of stairs. Gender-neutral accessible bathrooms are located on the ground floor. The music will at times be very loud or very quiet. No flashing lights or strobes will be used.
Tone List is a Boorloo-based exploratory music label, operating on the lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. We pay our respects to custodians and elders of this boodja past, present and future.