biography
I'm a musician and community organiser based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar boodja (Perth, Western Australia). My music practice involves composition, making field recordings, performing and improvising, most often using electro-acoustic material, saxophone or percussion. As an organiser I am committed to caring for the ecology that is the Perth experimental and improvised music scene and its relations to scenes nationally and internationally. I am part of what appears to be a wave of passion and love for this community, and share with many others a belief in its potential to continue to grow into something specific and rich.
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 also initiated the Sounding Together project alongside Tone List, where a mentor facilitates collective learning in listening and improvising in regional Western Australia. 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.
Notable performances of mine 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. Performers such as Jameson Feakes, Kaylie Melville and Catherine Ashley have commissioned works from me.
Key mentors have included Lindsay Vickery, Stuart James and Antoine Beuger; through various programs I also studied with Alessandro Bosetti, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Kira O'Reilly, Robin Fox, Jim Denley, 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 and community organiser based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar boodja (Perth, Western Australia). My music practice involves composition, making field recordings, performing and improvising, most often using electro-acoustic material, saxophone or percussion. As an organiser I am committed to caring for the ecology that is the Perth experimental and improvised music scene and its relations to scenes nationally and internationally. I am part of what appears to be a wave of passion and love for this community, and share with many others a belief in its potential to continue to grow into something specific and rich.
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 also initiated the Sounding Together project alongside Tone List, where a mentor facilitates collective learning in listening and improvising in regional Western Australia. 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.
Notable performances of mine 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. Performers such as Jameson Feakes, Kaylie Melville and Catherine Ashley have commissioned works from me.
Key mentors have included Lindsay Vickery, Stuart James and Antoine Beuger; through various programs I also studied with Alessandro Bosetti, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Kira O'Reilly, Robin Fox, Jim Denley, 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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