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Rockdale Experiments #3

  • Stadium Rockdale 5 Tramway Arcade Rockdale, NSW, 2216 Australia (map)

Annika Moses - voice (Boorloo) and Uma Volkmer - trumpet

Annika Moses lives and makes on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo (Perth), so-called Australia. On this land she also like to write, play, listen, and sew. Nika Mo is a moniker under which she performs and releases alt/freak-folk music. Great Statue is the music and ‘performance art’ moniker through which she channels the still-living Laurie Anderson in karaoke drag. https://www.annikamoses.com

Uma Volkmer is a sound artist based on Gadigal land. Her practice is experiment driven with a focus on collaboration, connectivity and an explorative dialogue between visual and sonic forms. Most recently, Uma has been exploring texture, abstraction and materiality within her creative practice and as a trumpet player.

Astrid Lorange - poetry

Astrid Lorange is a writer, teacher, and editor. She is part of the publishing collective Rosa Press and the critical art duo Snack Syndicate. Her most recent book of poems is Raw Materials (Atelos Press, 2024).

Saskia Willinge - flute (Boorloo) and Peter Farrar - amplified submerged tiles

Saskia Willinge (she/her) is a flautist and singer who is active in the local Boorloo improvisation scene. She has played at events including Audible Edge, Kinds of Light, Tune Noise Tune, Outcome Unknown, NoizeMachin!!, Melville Midwinter, and Make It Up Club (Naarm).

Peter Farrar says of his musicking; “I have many musical interests that seemed to be unrelated, at times almost contradictory. There were no pre-existing musical worlds to accommodate these interests in the one place…” He's been performing with dry microporous ceramic Tiles and Stones immersed in Tubs of Water. In his release rt2: tiles + more (2023), Hydrophones amplify an extraordinary plenitude of polyphonic musicality where micro-dissipative structures—billowing Bubbles—birth clicks, whistles, wheezes, cries, tones, long glissandi, and polyrhythmic sequences. These sonic materials are remarkably compositional and combinatorial; they resemble human electronic music. Musickin here is pressure-system relations, musical structures venting from matter-energy.

$20 and $15 Concession

Later Event: June 19
Simon Svoboda