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Acknowledgment
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I acknowledge and pay my respects to Whadjuk Noongar boodja and its custodians and Elders.
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Biography
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I'm a musician based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). I work with a practice that spans and combines location sound recording, collage, and an experimental approach to alto saxophone and electro-acoustic instruments.
Since 2013, I have been active as a community organiser for the Western Australian exploratory music scene, co-running record label Tone List, producing innumerable concerts and workshops, and curating the annual festival Audible Edge. In recent years the collective effort of an indefatigable and enthusiastic crew of artists here have helped to create a vibrant community which is defining its own direction, grounded in place whilst being critically informed by global musical developments. Perhaps most importantly, we are a group of people that care a lot about each other and seem to care very little about upholding notions of elitism or exclusivity. This is proving to be infectious in myriad ways, even to those who might initially find the music we are making impenetrably strange. In the catastrophic times in which we live I believe wholly in the vitality of grassroots and experimental arts spaces - the way they embody a resistance to the flattening of our cultural ecology by massive international capitalist projects, and the way they produce independent, vital and situated ways of thinking and making together. In thinking about and understanding what we do and why we are doing it, I am immensely grateful for the mentorship of Jim Denley, Michael Pisaro, Antoine Beuger, Lindsay Vickery, my peers and friends in Australia and abroad, and Elders and custodians of Noongar country. PRESS VERSION
Josten Myburgh is a musician based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia), making with techniques from the worlds of electro-acoustic music, radio art, free improvisation, field recording and experimental composition. He plays saxophone and electronic instruments most often, and occasionally works with clarinet and percussion. He is a part of Tone List, a Perth-based record label for exploratory music, and initiated their acclaimed annual Audible Edge festival in 2017, which he now co-curates with Annika Moses. Tone List has been described as the "go-to organisation for experimental music in Perth". His skills and interests in concert and community organisation grew out of a role as emerging curator for Tura New Music's iMprov and Club Zho series' between 2013 and 2017, during which he also organised late night concerts within the Totally Huge New Music Festival and co-ordinated their emerging composer concerts. He has since engaged in further curatorial projects with Liquid Architecture and SymbioticA. He has performed solo and collaboratively in concert series and festivals across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, including the Fremantle Biennale, Supersense Festival of the Ecstatic (Melbourne), Festival Cable#8 (Nantes), the NOW now (Sydney) and Inland Concert Series (Melbourne & Perth). He has released solo work on Another Timbre and Flaming Pines, and collaboratively on Tone List, Shame File Music, WildSonico and Edition Wandelweiser. He has created new works for Liquid Architecture, AusDance, The Blue Room Theatre & Tura New Music, as well as the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. He maintains many collaborations as an improviser and deviser, and has worked with Nick Ashwood, Simon Charles, Lena Czerniawska, Jim Denley, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Noemie Huttner-Koros, Lenny Jacobs, Annika Moses, Dan O'Connor, Joshua Pether, Adam Pultz-Melbye, Michael McNab, Daisy Sanders and Katie West, amongst others. He holds a BMus (Hons) in Composition & Music Technology from WAAPA, and is currently completing studies in Conservation Biology. He won the Schenberg Fellowship in 2019, and has been supported by funding bodies including the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the WA Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. He teaches sessionally at WAAPA, and presents on community radio station RTR.fm 92.1. Formative mentors have included Lindsay Vickery, Michael Pisaro, Antoine Beuger, Alessandro Bosetti, Annette Krebs, Jim Denley, Will Guthrie and Bae Il-Dong, and informally hundreds more. 
Photo: Keelan O'Hehir
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