biography
Josten Myburgh (b. 1994) is a musician based on Whadjuk country (Perth, Western Australia). He composes, makes field recordings, and performs in experimental and improvised contexts, most often using electro-acoustic material, saxophone or percussion.
Compositionally his work spans chamber ensemble scores, site-specific composition and music for himself as a solo performer, as well as occasional forays into music for dance, orchestral music, and electronic fixed media work. In performance, he alternately uses digital feedback systems, and prepared alto saxophone, using the instrument as a device for a wide range of air and noise sounds. Recently he has also begun returning to his background in percussion, exploring tactile transducers and tuning forks amplified through drums. Recordings of his music have been released on Shame File Music, Edition Wandelweiser, Flaming Pines and Tone List.
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.
He works an organiser through the label Tone List, where he curates the Audible Edge festival alongside a year-long program of concerts. He is also the coordinator of Tura New Music's iMprov program, and curator for their Totally Huge New Music Festival's Breaking Out emerging composers concert and Club Huge evening 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 he also engaged in study with Alessandro Bosetti, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Joachim Eckl, Jean-Francois Charles, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Richard Barrett and James Ledger. He has been involved in such emerging artists programs as Composers Meet Composers (Wandelweiser), Perth Festival Lab, Composit Festival, Collaborations (Strut Dance), the Speak Percussion Emerging Artists Program, and the WASO Composition Project. He now researches and teaches at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Regular collaborators include the Breaking Waves orchestra, Simon Charles, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Michael McNab, Sage Pbbbt and Daisy Sanders.
Josten Myburgh (b. 1994) is a musician based on Whadjuk country (Perth, Western Australia). He composes, makes field recordings, and performs in experimental and improvised contexts, most often using electro-acoustic material, saxophone or percussion.
Compositionally his work spans chamber ensemble scores, site-specific composition and music for himself as a solo performer, as well as occasional forays into music for dance, orchestral music, and electronic fixed media work. In performance, he alternately uses digital feedback systems, and prepared alto saxophone, using the instrument as a device for a wide range of air and noise sounds. Recently he has also begun returning to his background in percussion, exploring tactile transducers and tuning forks amplified through drums. Recordings of his music have been released on Shame File Music, Edition Wandelweiser, Flaming Pines and Tone List.
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.
He works an organiser through the label Tone List, where he curates the Audible Edge festival alongside a year-long program of concerts. He is also the coordinator of Tura New Music's iMprov program, and curator for their Totally Huge New Music Festival's Breaking Out emerging composers concert and Club Huge evening 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 he also engaged in study with Alessandro Bosetti, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Joachim Eckl, Jean-Francois Charles, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Richard Barrett and James Ledger. He has been involved in such emerging artists programs as Composers Meet Composers (Wandelweiser), Perth Festival Lab, Composit Festival, Collaborations (Strut Dance), the Speak Percussion Emerging Artists Program, and the WASO Composition Project. He now researches and teaches at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Regular collaborators include the Breaking Waves orchestra, Simon Charles, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Michael McNab, Sage Pbbbt and Daisy Sanders.
Photo: Olivia Davies