The trio of Emilio Gordoa, Josten Myburgh & Sabine Vogel focus on sounding “in-and-as place” together. Based between Mexico, Boorloo and Germany, they work experimentally with percussion, saxophone, flutes, electro-acoustic extensions of these instruments, and location recordings. Their project “Tracing presence on land” is a name for the musical grammar they have built through collective research in the sonic cultures of their birthplaces and homes: Noongar Boodja, Cuernavaca, Paretz, Bavaria and Berlin.
Sharing time together in culturally and ecologically rich settings in these places, they imagine music that respects land and origin, and the complex ways this is entangled in their collective sounding. Equally important is the depth of trust and friendship that allows their distinct approaches to gesture & tonality to be held together. Their collaborations extend over a decade across projects including Splitter Orchester, Mahagonny, Land Stages, and countless improvised collaborations. Having performed as a trio in Germany, 2025 will see them tour internationally together through Aotearoa and Australia.

Emilio Gordoa Rodríguez (b. 1987, Mexico City) is a Mexican sound artist, percussionist, and composer whose work focuses on sound and performance as primary means of expresion. Based in Berlin since 2012, he has been an active contributor to the city's Echtzeitmusik (real- time music) scene and is involved in the international avant-garde music community. His projects include solo and ensemble performances, sound installations, and compositions for film, theater and dance. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Jérôme Noetinger, Ingrid Schomliner, Yuko Kaseki, Burkhard Beins, Don Malfon, John Butcher and Sabine Vogel.Josten Myburgh
Josten Myburgh (b. 1994) is a composer, improviser, saxophonist and organiser based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo. Their work employs just intonation, near-silence, field recordings, and site-attentive ways of making, expressing a commitment to the entanglement of music, perception and place.

Josten Myburgh is co-director of not-for-profit organisation Tone List, and since 2017 has curated their award-winning Audible Edge festival. They also work as an independent curator and producer and have collaborated with numerous festivals and institutions to present exploratory music programs, including the WA Museum, Liquid Architecture, Tura New Music and the State Library of WA.
Frequent collaborators include Eduardo Cossio, Jim Denley, Aviva Endean, Lena Czerniawska, Sabine Vogel, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Joshua Pether, Sage Pbbbt, Michael Pisaro- Liu and Daisy Sanders.

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