biography
I'm a musician based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar country (Perth, Western Australia). I compose, make field recordings, perform and improvise, most often using electro-acoustic material, saxophone or percussion. I also (putatively) curate, teach and research.
Compositionally, my music spans chamber ensemble scores, site-specific composition and pieces for myself as a solo performer, as well as occasional forays into music for dance, orchestral music, and acousmatic music. In performance, I alternately play with digital feedback systems, and alto saxophone, using both instruments as devices for a wide range of noise sounds and tones, and sometimes complementing these sounds with voice and percussion. Recently I've also begun returning to my background in drum kit playing, exploring tactile transducers and tuning forks amplified through the drums. I'm fascinated with the adventure of inventing facility in specific little worlds that I discover through playfulness, immersion and interdisciplinary research.
Notable performances include High Tide/Fremantle Festival, Supersense Festival of the Ecstatic (Melbourne), Festival Cable#8 (Nantes), KLEX Festival (Kuala Lumpur), Klangraum Festival (Düsseldorf), Inland (Melbourne), AudioArt Festival (Krakow), numerous performances at the Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth), and at Success gallery for their Perth International Arts Festival opening. Recordings I have been a part of, or compositions or improvisations I've made, have been released on Shame File Music, Edition Wandelweiser, Flaming Pines and Tone List.
I'm part of the team behind the label Tone List, where I program the Audible Edge festival alongside many of our regular concerts and other projects, inclusive of collaborations with SymbioticA and Propel Youth Arts. I'm also the coordinator of Tura New Music's iMprov program, and recently have been the curator for their Totally Huge New Music Festival's Breaking Out emerging composers concert and Club Huge concerts. Other projects include the non-hierarchical group Field Recording Club, and curatorial involvement with concert series' NoizeMaschin!!, RAFT Sounds, Church Series and Club Zho.
Key mentors have included Lindsay Vickery, Stuart James and Antoine Beuger; through various programs I also studied with Alessandro Bosetti, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Joachim Eckl, Jean-Francois Charles, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Richard Barrett and James Ledger. I have been involved in such emerging artists programs as the Robin Fox Composer Workshop (Perth), Composers Meet Composers (Neufelden), Perth Festival Lab, Composit Festival (Rieti), Strut Dance Collaborations (Perth), the Speak Percussion Emerging Artists Program (Melbourne), and the WASO Composition Project (Perth), as well as the upcoming Ensemble Offspring Hatched Academy (Sydney). I'm currently studying my PhD and teaching at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Regular projects and collaborators include the Breaking Waves orchestra, Simon Charles, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Adam Pultz-Melbye, Michael McNab, Sage Pbbbt, Joshua Pether and Daisy Sanders.
I wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I live, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, and pay respects to elders past and present. I acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region. Sovereignty was never ceded.
I'm a musician based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar country (Perth, Western Australia). I compose, make field recordings, perform and improvise, most often using electro-acoustic material, saxophone or percussion. I also (putatively) curate, teach and research.
Compositionally, my music spans chamber ensemble scores, site-specific composition and pieces for myself as a solo performer, as well as occasional forays into music for dance, orchestral music, and acousmatic music. In performance, I alternately play with digital feedback systems, and alto saxophone, using both instruments as devices for a wide range of noise sounds and tones, and sometimes complementing these sounds with voice and percussion. Recently I've also begun returning to my background in drum kit playing, exploring tactile transducers and tuning forks amplified through the drums. I'm fascinated with the adventure of inventing facility in specific little worlds that I discover through playfulness, immersion and interdisciplinary research.
Notable performances include High Tide/Fremantle Festival, Supersense Festival of the Ecstatic (Melbourne), Festival Cable#8 (Nantes), KLEX Festival (Kuala Lumpur), Klangraum Festival (Düsseldorf), Inland (Melbourne), AudioArt Festival (Krakow), numerous performances at the Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth), and at Success gallery for their Perth International Arts Festival opening. Recordings I have been a part of, or compositions or improvisations I've made, have been released on Shame File Music, Edition Wandelweiser, Flaming Pines and Tone List.
I'm part of the team behind the label Tone List, where I program the Audible Edge festival alongside many of our regular concerts and other projects, inclusive of collaborations with SymbioticA and Propel Youth Arts. I'm also the coordinator of Tura New Music's iMprov program, and recently have been the curator for their Totally Huge New Music Festival's Breaking Out emerging composers concert and Club Huge concerts. Other projects include the non-hierarchical group Field Recording Club, and curatorial involvement with concert series' NoizeMaschin!!, RAFT Sounds, Church Series and Club Zho.
Key mentors have included Lindsay Vickery, Stuart James and Antoine Beuger; through various programs I also studied with Alessandro Bosetti, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Joachim Eckl, Jean-Francois Charles, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Richard Barrett and James Ledger. I have been involved in such emerging artists programs as the Robin Fox Composer Workshop (Perth), Composers Meet Composers (Neufelden), Perth Festival Lab, Composit Festival (Rieti), Strut Dance Collaborations (Perth), the Speak Percussion Emerging Artists Program (Melbourne), and the WASO Composition Project (Perth), as well as the upcoming Ensemble Offspring Hatched Academy (Sydney). I'm currently studying my PhD and teaching at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Regular projects and collaborators include the Breaking Waves orchestra, Simon Charles, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Adam Pultz-Melbye, Michael McNab, Sage Pbbbt, Joshua Pether and Daisy Sanders.
I wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I live, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, and pay respects to elders past and present. I acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Photo: Keelan O'Hehir
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