Current
Duo with Daisy Sanders
​Photo: Eduardo Cossio
Improvised sound (alto saxophone) and movement duo.

Documentation forthcoming.
Duo with Eduardo Cossio
​Land’s Air is the experimental, improvised duo of Boorloo-based musicians Eduardo Cossio (amplified zithers, harmonica & electronics) & Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone & electronics). We make striking music which explores the superimposition of multiple tuning systems in timbrally complex settings, and the dynamic between drone and pointillist textures. Our music is grounded in melody and harmony with incidental and emergent logics.

Eduardo & Josten are among the most active community organisers and performers in the Western Australian experimental music scene. Between the two of them, Josten & Eduardo have released music on Another Timbre, Edition Wandelweiser, Flaming Pines & Tone List, and have performed at concert series and festivals including Sacred Realism (Berlin), Cable#8 (Nantes), Supersense (Melbourne), the NOW now (Sydney), Inland (Melbourne), the Fremantle Biennale, Hidden Treasures (Fremantle), Audible Edge (Perth) and the Perth International Jazz Festival. They have worked with improvisers including Jim Denley, Casey Moir, Emilio Gordoa, Annette Krebs & Sage Pbbbt.

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Duo with Jameson Feakes
​Photo: Olivia Davies
Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh are Perth-based musicians active in contemporary, experimental and improvised music fields. As a duo, their focus is on the composition & performance of music that explores conceptual, open-ended processes with minimal material. They have performed at KLEX Festival (Kuala Lumpur), Inland (Perth and Melbourne) and Tilde Festival (Melbourne), and concert series in Singapore, New Zealand, Perth and Adelaide. They have commissioned works by Jon Heilbron, Sage Pbbbt, Simon Charles, Alissa Cheung and Olivia Davies, and performed pieces by Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro, Eva Maria Houben and more. In 2019, they released a recording of Antoine Beuger's composition "un lieu pour être deux" with commissioned prints by Volim. In 2022, they realised a collaboration with Michael Pisaro-Liu, "Two Scrolls from Western Australia", released on Edition Wandelweiser Records.
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Ghost Gum Reverb
​Photo: Eduardo Cossio
​Ghost Gum Reverb is an avant-garde improvising group, playing music that brings the expression and intensity of free jazz together with the and the hypnotic, trance-like repetitions of ambient music and the expanded sound pallette of free improvisation.

Comprised of Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone), Djuna Lee (double bass), Jameson Feakes (electric guitar) and Ben Greene (drums), the group has an idiosyncratic sound that defies genre, strengthened by the rich collaborative history of the performers across a variety of projects in the last eight years. Ghostly, fragile bowed strings meet sombre harmony, propulsive drumming and highly textured, circular-breathed saxophone phrases.

Ghost Gum Reverb have performed in ambient, jazz, electronic & pop contexts alike, including concerts at the Perth International Jazz Festival, Aesoteric (WA Museum Boola Bardip), Goolugatup Sounds and AM/EX.

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​Press:
  • "From ambient sounds to frenetic deluges, these musicians’ ability to listen and respond to minute variations in tempo and mood is extraordinary."
    A heady weekend of jazz in WA (Francesca Sasnaitis, Australian Book Review)

  • "At one stage Myburgh disengaged the sax mouthpiece and created an amazing shimmering hissing effect utilizing electronics and his right hand above the bell. Lee moved to pizzicato and although there was never a tempo per se there was an overriding feeling of pulse with the ensemble coming to a crescendo at the 35 minute mark. Again the music took the listener on a logical journey and the ability and willingness of each musician to embrace silence showed a very clear strong relationship and trust within the quartet. At 40 minutes the ensemble moved into a decrescendo and masterfully brought their performance to a conclusion utilizing an accumulation of silences. Ghost Gum Reverb, despite their younger age, possess a clarity of concept with what they wish to achieve. This certainly is an ensemble that will be worth supporting into the future."
    New sounds in new venue (Garry Lee, SeeSaw Magazine)
Mahagonny
Photo: Josh Wells Photography
​​Mahagonny is an interdisciplinary project consisting of visual artist Lena Czerniawska and composer-performers Emilio Gordoa, Michael McNab & Josten Myburgh. The project exists at the interstice between theatre, electro-acoustic composition, improvised music & installation, working with multi-screen projection, multi-channel sound, networking technology & instrumental performance across vibraphone, percussion & saxophone. The group playfully draw out the innate theatre and poetry in experimental music performance. The ensemble has performed and presented workshops throughout Australia, through Tura New Music, COMA, the Make It Up Club, Monash University, the Museum of Old and New Art, the Australian National University, SoundOut, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and more. In 2022, they collaborated telematically as part of New North and the Audible Edge Festival of Sound, working simultaneously from Berlin, Naarm and Walyalup in an audiovisual improvisation.

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Tchake
Photo: Josh Wells Photography
Tchake is the electro-acoustic improvisation duo of Melbourne drummer Michael McNab and Perth-based electronic musician Josten Myburgh. They have performed at Supersense Festival of the Ecstatic (Melbourne), Cable#8 Festival (Nantes), the Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth) and in numerous concerts across Australia and Europe. In 2015 they made a release in collaboration with Berlin-based vibraphonist Emilio Gordoa, released on Shame File Music. In 2017, they participated in Dan O'Connor's Residence series in Perth through the Tone List label, creating recordings and performances, from which they created their debut duo release Both and Net, also including a collaboration with Jameson Feakes. Their earlier works used extensive electro-acoustic processing and dense sound design; more recently they have worked with a harsher, reductionist aesthetic, making heavy use of found object percussion, feedback systems, silence and stasis.
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Inactive
Duo with Lenny Jacobs
Duo with the incredible drummer Lenny Jacobs.

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Listening to Dryandra Woodland
Simon Charles, Josten Myburgh & Katie West
​Dryandra Woodland is a unique habitat on Noongar Wiilman boodja, home to endangered species such as the numbat and woylie, and a predator-proof area for boodies, malas and bilbies. This small woodland sits like an island within the vast sea of the western wheatbelt—the largest land clearing event in history.
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Listening to Dryandra Woodland is an expansive, video-captioned sound installation, representing accumulated efforts to foster relationships within this place. Over five hours of recordings comprising conversations, music, and field recording, are assembled generatively in a piece situated somewhere between documentary and installation. 

Dyed fabrics hang in the room, imbued with the woodland’s shapes and colours, as these recordings are sounded by four speakers and tactile vibrations.

Listening to Dryandra Woodland was commissioned by Liquid Architecture, and has been supported by Tone List and the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. It was exhibited at Cool Change Contemporary in 2021 as part of the Audible Edge Festival of Sound. The artists acknowledge the Wiilman Noongar people as the custodians of Dryandra Woodlands, and would also like to thank the woodland caretakers, John and Lisa, and sonic contributors Jim Denley and Dale Gorfinkel.
One-offs
​(for now)
Meelup Moonrise), Boranup (Sunrise) (2020) Audio Website
Sounding Together orchestra.

Bunker (2019) Listen & download
Nick Ashwood (guitar) Emilio Gordoa (snare drum), Michael McNab (percussion), Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone)

Moers Schlosspark (2019) Video
Emilio Gordoa (snare drum), Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone)

Berlin Split (2019) Listen & download
Emilio Gordoa (vibraphone), Josten Myburgh (electronics), Adam Pultz-Melbye (double bass)

Berlin Split (2019) Listen & download
Matthias Müller (trombone), Josten Myburgh (electronics)

Quintet at The Wild Beast (2019) Listen
Douglas Farrand (trumpet), Eugene Kim (piano), Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone), Sivan Silver-Swartz (guitar), Ben Rempel (percussion)

I wanna be a tree (2019) Listen
Laura Altman (clarinet), Dharma (guitar), Andy Butler (mandolin), Eric Normand (electronics), Jameson Feakes (objects), Jim Denley (flute), Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone) Noemie Huttner-Koros (bass flute), Dan O'Connor (trumpet) and Lenny Jacobs (objects)

Sounding Together: Koorda (2018) Listen
Jim Denley and Josten Myburgh (alto saxophones), Stuart Orchard (aeolian installations), Jameson Feakes and Nick Ashwood (guitars), Be Gosper (mandolin) and Ev Snook (voice
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Both and Net  (2018) Listen & download
Jameson Feakes (guitar), Michael McNab (percussion), Josten Myburgh (electronics)

eszetts at Automatic Sound Series (2016) Video
Jameson Feakes (guitar), Djuna Lee (bass), Alana MacPherson (alto saxophone), Josten Myburgh (electronics), Dan O'Connor (trumpet), Alex Reid (drums).

passive transport (2015) Listen & download, Review
Emilio Gordoa (vibraphone), Michael McNab (percussion) & Josten Myburgh (electronics)
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