Humming Grotto is a series of sound and listening that takes place on Sundays, downstairs at the PBC.

The May edition of Humming Grotto features a rare Sydney set from Naarm based fav Joe Talia + a new solo set from local fav Bree van Reyk.
Note! Another new time - 6.30-8.30pm (we like to keep you guessing).
Downstairs at the PBC as per usual.
Come for great sounds and great hangs.

Bree van Reyk is a Wangal/Gadigal/Sydney-based drummer, percussionist, composer, and sound artist. Bree’s current performance practice is primarily based on playing a plank of wood. She is also an occasional maker of unkempt musical instruments, which merge the sound-making attributes, performance techniques, and design aesthetics of planks of wood with strings.
https://breevanreyk.bandcamp.com/

Joe Talia is an improviser and composer who works with percussion, tape and electronics. Focussing on the use of Revox tape machine and analogue synthesizers in combination with instruments and field recordings, Talia’s electronic works patiently build up sparkling, detail-rich sound worlds of gliding tones, skittering percussion and burbling location atmospherics. In live situations, Talia often uses tape and effects to process and warp his own and others’ playing into uncanny chains of echoes and spectral smears of sound. Like his electronic works, his drumming often demonstrates a keen attention to long-form structures, dynamic development and group interactions.

An important member of Tokyo’s vibrant improvised music scene and internationally active as a performer, Talia performs and records regularly with Oren Ambarchi, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O’Rourke, James Rushford and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. In addition to these regular collaborations, he has also been involved in projects with Keiji Haino, Chris Abrahams, Tetuzi Akiyama, Akira Sakata, John Duncan, Richard Pinhas and many others. His work has been published by international labels such as Black Truffle, Bocian, Kye and Touch.
https://www.joetalia.com/