Since 2017, the Safe in Sound program has made experimental music accessible to people with disability via in-home concerts, and now many participant-performers are eager to share their unbridled creativity, freedom and joy with the wider world.
The inaugural instalment of the Safe In Sound festival absolutely teemed with tasty tones and tumultuous audial teamwork, busting wide the combinatory potentialities of these two convergently divergent musical communities and forging long-lasting fusions across them. Audience members ranted, raved, revelled and reaped the benefits of new creativities.
The festival hosts a truly liberated sonic generation, featuring relatively new improvisers paired with some of Australia’s greatest musical explorers as well as divergent dancers, iconoclastic kids and other uniquely skilled audial creators with disability from throughout the Melbourne community and all across Australia, from Western Australia to Tasmania.
The festival culminates with a symposium featuring the curators and performers at all experience levels, openly discussing and detailing the benefits and broken boundaries of this work. The Safe In Sound festival promises to help reinvigorate the Australian avant-garde at large, shaking loose many of the unspoken limitations on a music that takes pride in calling itself free.
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