Brendan Walls is infamous as a psychoacoustic provocateur, and the ‘high tension’ label applied to his Cableworks, a deceptively simple suspended cymbal instrument, doesn’t just refer to how taut his wires are. This anarchic assemblage has been installed in contexts as wildly different as children’s events and violent endurance-noise performances with Daniel Menche, Marco Fusinato and Oren Ambarchi. In a rare re-emergence from the Tasmanian wilderness, Walls will string up his rarefied resonators for one last time, inviting three more of JOLT’s fostered free-frequency makers – namely Alisa Chu, Stuart Flenley and Esther Tuddenham – to embark upon another neoteric sonic adventure, one that the audience will be fortunate enough to be allowed to tag along on for each and every feedback groan, sympathetic reverberance, metallic crash and chaotically creative confluence.
Brendan Walls [TAS] feat. Alisa Chu, Stuart Flenley, Esther Tuddenham
Live at the Safe in Sound festival 2024
James Rushford / Judith HamannTeagan Connor / Mirijana Janscak (Boorloo) / Grace Ferguson
Live at the Safe in Sound festival 08/12/24 Artist, musician, writer, performer and then some, Anthony is prolific AF. His literary output is dizzying, as is the content of said literature. But performatively, it’s another stratosphere: when musing about this creative past, his performances of 30+ years are the stuff of vibrant legend and sudden spit-fights. Some liken his performances to the scientific magic of hot wet gelatin slung into a freezer in an unkempt bag, slowly-quickly producing a semi-translucent form of unknown/un-named shapes, others liken it to lichen on epaulets. Which camp are you? Erick Mitsak is performer/creator of stage and screen with a side-hustle in non-musician composing. His latest creative foray is acoustically approximating the sound of smashing glass/dining ware in public places, using fruits of the post-iron-age and social conditioning.
Anthony Riddell & Erick Mitsak
Live at the Safe in Sound Festival 07/12/24 Proficient Synthesist, Mat Watson, and orthodox resonance reformist of Utrenja ensemble, Steven Hagiliassis, will fuse their respective performative matrices in formal acknowledgement and demonstration of their shared affinity for Pendereckian hypercontemplation-as-worship. Crackling-circuitboard-communions compress into cavernous claustrosonics ardently lamenting the lost potentials of technocratic prospects, somehow simultaneously defiantly coalescing neoteric and captivatingly nebulous jubilations and rejuvenations in equal measure, as false expressive dichotomies fall away and all in service range are treated to rapturous auditory cleansing and bombinating existential enrichment.
Steven Hagiliassis and Mat Watson
SAfe in Sound Festival 2024 Andrew Crosling is a multimedia artist who often begins projects from a sonic point of view before expanding them into other mediums. Andrew’s most recent work is titled CEO of the BIRDS and incorporates video (assisted by Stelarc and Max Cheevers), sound and spoken word. In this work Andrew tells stories about the the birds and their various corporate and non-corporate activities. CEO of the Birds has been exhibited at JOLTED Arts Space for FUSE Festival Spring 2023 (City of Darebin) as a series of video art works. In 2024 Crosling will present the work as a performance at JOLTED Arts Space. Andrew is mentored by James Hullick, Alister Karl and Stelarc at JOLTED Arts Space. Andrew also makes work through Wild at Heart.
Andrew Crosling
Marbles Vyvyan Hughes Stern (keyboard), Beatrix Hughes Stern (percussion and electronics), Joel Stern (various instruments) Debut concert for new power trio comprising 7 year old twins and parent performing improvisations for various instruments built around Vyv’s keyboard sketches. “Named in honour of the former family cat that went missing around xmas 2019 and never returned.”
Marbles - Vyvyan Hughes Stern, Beatrix Hughes Stern,,Joel Stern
Live 07/12/24 Alice Hui-Sheng Chang’s piercingly provocative vocal stylings are probably well-known to long-standing Melbournian improv aficionados, and now she’s back in town from Taiwan with a very special little collaborator. Esme has been studying with Alice for at least six and a half years – her entire life thus far – and was no doubt absorbing textural complexities even before then, as she toured Japan, Korea and Singapore in utero. Their duo is the maternal bond made manifest – an audial amalgamation of carings, questionings, caperings, contradictions and cacophonies.
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (TWN) and Esme Brown (TWN)
Live at the Safe in Sound festival 08/12/24 Keith is a photographer and bass player. His playing explores repeated patterns using bowed, scraped, and percussive gestures. Keith co-writes lyrics and has devised graphic scores based on his abstract photography. Keith is also a member of The Definitives from Perth.
Keith Hayton (Boorloo)
Love at the Safe in Sound festival 08/12/24 Alessio and Danilo Dilettoso are two long-time Safe In Sound alumni, embodying the true heart of the program. Well-known for revelling in the intuitively expressive wielding of Alon Ilsars Airsticks, on this occasion Alessio will be invoking percussive pandemonium via the quadruple-bass-drum brutality of Robbie Avenaim’s SARPS (Semi Automated Robotic Percussion System), with the fraternal furtherance of Danilo’s vocal provocations evoking energetic feedback structures that induce both artists to ever more eminent emanations that inevitably spill over into shrieks of musical mirth. Ciaran Frame will be the Technical supervisor: Ciaran Frame is a composer and researcher based in Melbourne. His work is characterised by an innovative approach to music-making, an interest in collaboration, and a commitment to creating music that is both accessible and meaningful to a broad range of people. His work has featured around Australia and internationally, ranging from turning people into instruments to asking 10,000 people to play the kazoo.
Alessio and Danilo Dilettoso
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