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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 experimental music scene, co-running record label Tone List, producing innumerable concerts and workshops, and an annual festival Audible Edge. Along with other folks here, we have encouraged a new generation of experimental and improvising artists to play, record and collaborate with significant voices in the national and international scene. In precarious times and with an uncertain future, fostering community and growing connection to place are priorities which shape my own work and the collaborations I involve myself in. I'm 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, who have helped grow my understanding of this. 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 is a part of Tone List, a Perth-based record label for exploratory music, and initiated their annual Audible Edge festival in 2017, which he now co-curates with Annika Moses. 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 events within the Totally Huge New Music Festival. 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 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 Simon Charles, Lena Czerniawska, Jim Denley, Emilio Gordoa, Noemie Huttner-Koros, Lenny Jacobs, Annika Moses, Dan O'Connor, Joshua Pether, Adam Pultz-Melbye, Daisy Sanders and Katie West, amongst countless others. He holds a BMus (Hons) in Composition & Music Technology from WAAPA. 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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