The Artists

Leah Barclay (Qld) is an Australian sound artist, composer and researcher known for acoustic ecology, environmental field recording, sound walks. She is the president of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and is currently a research fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre.

Ryan Burge (WA) is a composer, sound artist, studio producer and performer. He has composed for multichannel soundscape installations, chamber ensemble, contemporary dance, and film and also works in post for screen sound and is a guest lecturer for sound design at Curtin University.

Jameson Feakes (WA) is a composer/improviser/guitarist specialising in experimental music and founding member of the Tone List music record label. He is a member of several Perth-based music groups including the improvisational quintet Eszetts, Grey Wing, Breaking Waves, and the Perth Guitar Quartet.

Cat Hope’s (WA) compositions engage elements of low frequency sound, drone, noise and sound art. Her works have been performed and published internationally. She creates sound for art installation and film - working with Kate McMillian, Erin Coates, Tracey Moffat and Perun Bonser. Hope is president of the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) and a professor at Monash University.

Terri Hron (CA) is a musician, a performer and a multimedia artist. Her work explores field recording, ceramics, movement, collaborative practice and scoring in multimedia performance art. She is Executive Director of the Canadian New Music Network, where she has developed programs focusing on equity, access and inclusion.

Alice Humphries (WA) seeks to create evocative, immersive, and engaging sound worlds that take inspiration from natural phenomena, and intersections between humanity and nature. Her music has been performed by diverse artist including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Vocal Quartet (AVE), Syzygy Ensemble, and the Letter String Quartet, Eddie Perfect, Josh Pyke, Kate Miller-Heidke, Missy Higgins.

Kirsten Hudson (WA) is a trans-disciplinary artist who creates film, performance, and object-based works that visually register, perform, or speculate upon, human, non-human, and other-than-human experience and embodiment. She creates handmade cameraless films on 16mm celluloid with affected filmstock. Kirsten is also a Screen, Photography, Art, and Cultural Studies lecturer at Curtin University.

Samuel Gillies (WA) is a composer and sound artist with an interest in the function of noise as both a musical and communicative code in music and art. His work treads the line between the musically beautiful and ugly, embracing live performance, multimedia and installation art forms to create alternating sound worlds of extreme fragility and overwhelming density.

Josten Myburgh (WA) works with techniques from the worlds of electro-acoustic music, radio art, free improvisation, field recording and experimental composition. He is a co-founder of Tone List, a Perth-based record label for exploratory music, and initiated their acclaimed annual Audible Edge festival in 2017. He has performed solo and collaboratively in concert series and festivals across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

Elisabeth Schimana (AT) been active as one of the Austrian female pioneers of electronic music with projects marked by a radical approach and equally unconventional aesthetics since the 1980s. In her artistic work, she examines questions of space, communication, or the body in its presence or absence, especially the imparting of compositional concepts (scores). In 2005 she founded the Institute of Media Archeology, dedicated  to acoustic media at the analogue/digital interface and to the subject of women, art, and technology.

Rebecca Erin Smith (WA) is an award-winning Australian composer and recent Fulbright Scholar who specialises in collaborative media and concert works. She works primarily with orchestra and large ensembles of acoustic instruments and her recent work has explored synaesthetic and cross-modal experience in regard to sculptural and textile musical scores.

Vanessa Tomlinson (QLD) is a percussionist, composer and improviser whose practice explores how sound shapes our lives. Her works consider how we listen through site-specific explorations of space and place, and our potential to explore new ideas through sound. She has toured the world for 25 years and collaborated with numerous artists and is the Director of the Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith University.

Sze Tsang (WA) is a guitarist, composer and trans-disciplinary artist was born in Hong Kong in 1982. Tsang’s work explores the emotional nature of landscape, and the main focus of their practice has been on their response to the natural landscape as a composer and performer, incorporating audio and visual elements of place into compositions, and using the landscape as a narrative device.

Lindsay Vickery (WA) has been active as a composer of acoustic and electronic works and as performer across Europe, the USA and Asia since 1986. His recent music is focussed on found structures in the Western Australian environment including flora, fauna and physical formations. He is a former Churchill Fellow and current head of composition and music technology at Edith Cowan University.

Jocelyn Wolfe (QLD) focusses on the metaphorical dimensions of musical sound, her research explores relationships between music and society, and music and architecture. is an Adjunct Research Fellow with Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, co-founder of the Piano Mill; and co-director of the inter-arts venture Harrigans Lane Collective.

Aaron Wyatt (WA) is a composer/arranger, conductor, string player, programmer and academic at The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University in Melbourne. Aaron was recently nominated for a Helpmann Award for his musical direction of Cat Hope’s opera Speechless, presented as part of the 2019 Perth International Arts Festival.