The Venues

Austramax House Garden- 151/153 Melville Rd, Brunswick West *outdoor venue-
St John’s AnglicanChurch-
cnr Victoria & Melville road West Brunswick
4th Brunswick Scout Hall- 14A Jolley St, Brunswick West

* in the case of inclement weather an indoor venue will replace Austtramax House-

Friday 29th The Dreamers

5pm St John’s Church
Adrian Sherriff’s Oynsemble (ASCME)
Improvised ensemble led by Adrian Sherriff
Music with occasional shards of traditional Japanese music, Afro-Cuban Bata and refractions of South East and South Asian musics.
Sahul Sakti
It's psychedelic, hypnotic, experimental, avant-garde, atmospheric, jazzish, folkish, with hints of electronica, folk, music from different parts of the world.

6.30pm St John’s Church
Bhairavi Raman and Nantesh Sivarajah
Raman, from South India, and Sivarajah, from Sri Lanka, draw lines that connect Western practice and Carnatic tradition

7pm Austramax House
DJ Flora
music music music- did we leave anything out?

7pm Scout Hall
Matt Hoyne's Slow Poke
Slow Poke makes music slowly; not necessarily slow music but music that takes its time, in no rush to prove itself.

8pm Scout Hall
DJ - Elations Recordings
Elations Recordings label operates by the guided the ethos, approach and love of music.

8pm St John’s Church
Return of the Airpoets
Occupying a unique space between contemporary experimental music and avant jazz.

9pm Scout Hall
Rachel Lewindon and Merinda Dias-Jayasinha
Rachel Lewindon’s work explores the electro-acoustic intersection of composition and sound design, crafting immersive sonic experiences. 
Merinda Dias-Jayasinha vocalist-improvisor-composer
This performance is a debut outing for the duo. 

Saturday 30th The Romantics

4pm St John’s Church
Voyage
Free improvisation with live effects processing

5.30pm St John’s Church
Mary Doumany Trio
Mary Doumany harp/voice
Robbie Melville guitar
Gideon Brazil woodwind

6pm Austramax House
Hand Clap
The music sits at the crossroads of ambient music, electronic experimentation, string composition, and visual art.

7pm Scout Hall
Meredith Beardmore
Flute + Field Recordings (new music x improvisation x ambient)
Meredith Beardmore, Flutes, sampler, cassette tape, & effects

7.30pm St John’s Church
Fiona Burnett + Vincent Ward
Fiona Burnett saxophone
Vincent Ward cello

8pm Scout Hall
DJ Molfy

8.30pm Austramax House
Star Veneers
Muddied and cut up/ gangly visceral sonics emerge, a word-gun reloading, cuts through The Personal to find Some(thing) Univers(al)

9pm Scout Hall
Bouba/Bassidi

 

Sunday 31st The Groovers

The Groovers

3pm Austramax House
I Hold The Lion’s Paw with The Snack Time Orchestra
“a beguiling stew of afro-beat, jazz-rock-inflected
postbop, and electro-acoustic noise.”
— The Wire
as if the Muppets wandered into a Sun Ra
rehearsal and never left”
Paris Move (FR)
The Snack Time Orchestra- students from Brunswick
North West Primary School

5pm Austramax House
Silent Crawl
Improvising musicians take on heavy metal - doom,
sludge, drone, and stoner metal.
Siwei 5.30pm St John’s Church
Siwei Wong harp/keys/voice
An eclectic, genre-infused songwriter and poet. Freedom Fly
performs her original music solo, blending artistry across keys,
voice, and electric harp.

6pm Scout Hall
Sunny Morris+ Ellie Ware
Sunny Morris is a trans folk artist and poet.
Her lyrics meander through
themes of gender, family and love
Ellie Ware singer/songwrier

6.30pm Austramax House
SWEAT
Sweat combines groove, spoken word, horn melodies
and improvisation to create a fresh sound.

7pm St John’s Church
Aviva Endean and Josten Myburgh
Aviva Endean & Josten Myburgh have been experimenting
with a duo language that combines softly humming layers of
electronics generated by sustain pedals, under their acoustic
clarinet & saxophone.

7.30pm Austramax House
DJ UomoUovo
Una parte uovo e una parta uomo =  UomoUovo

7pm Scout Hall
DJ Billie Burrows

8pm Scout Hall
Charles Ives Singers
Are THE CHARLES IVES SINGERS…IMPROV MAYHEM
with QUIET, REFLECTIVE PHASES