Vessel & Tone List present James Bradbury

Following the success of Tone List & Vessel's collaboration last year, we wanted to do it again!

Vessel Contemporary and Tone List are proud to present an intimate session with composer, coder & electronic musician James Bradbury on Wednesday 2 September, from 7.30 - 9 pm. The concert takes place within Between Suns, a large scale, multi-media exhibition of nearly three decades of artworks by Khaled Sabsabi, also open from 1 - 7pm the same day.

We hope that the session allows audiences to engage deeper with the exhibition through another medium. People can dance or relax, close their eyes, and feel lost in cycles that may never resolve.

From James:

“I'll be improvising using my laptop and working with some new pattern generation techniques. It'll sit somewhere between gastric-sub-amorphous-rubber-banding and ultra-pointilistic-techno. I'll also be remixing some older work as I go.

I'm keen on the misadventures of machines that can "listen" and which can discover, in their own way, organisations of sound that are surprising and reflexive. I like to make music that is challenging and unrelenting, while also exploring liminal textures and forms. Ideally my computer sounds like a computer.”

Bio:

James Bradbury is a creative-coder and sound artist from Boorloo/Perth, active in Tone List's program since 2016. In the last few years, he has been interested in building digital tools for devising musical structures and exploring pattern generation. He has worked with the Fluid Corpus Manipulation project, released solo works on Superpang and tokinogake, and developed software with Rian Treanor & Mark Fell. He is currently a Lecturer of Music at the University of Western Australia.

https://jamesbradbury.net/

Accessibility

The Naval Store is fully accessible (see Vessel's website for more details including parking locations) and quite spacious. Seating is available. The music may be loud, stimulating and bass-heavy at times. The concert is 100% aural with very limited visual elements outside of the surrounding exhibited work, and can be fully appreciated as a work by blind or low vision audiences.

Acknowledgments

This concert takes place on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity.

Tone List's annual program is supported by the Western Australian state government.

The collaboration between Tone List and Vessel highlights our mutual commitment to experimentation in our respective fields, and to interdisciplinary collaboration.

https://vesselcontemporary.org/

https://www.tonelist.com.au/