Fine experimentalists in their own right, Sia Ahmad and Bree van Reyk bring their friendship into a first time collaboration, exploring their shared Belconnen teenhood and personal connections with faith to chants and meditations to share as an intimate experience with others. Fittingly performed in The Church, the two use sound and improvisation as guidance for their look at belief systems through a queer lens, embracing rituals of ablution, prayer and confession as they create a new digital devotional music.

Sia Ahmad offers a rich and extensive background in Australian music, creating idiosyncratic sounds over the last 20 years. Using guitar, voice and electronics, she works both as singer/composer and improviser when performing solo work as Shoeb Ahmad, or in collaboration with artists such as Gwenno and Liars. Many of these projects also feature her talent as a producer and engineer, with a unique sensibility to sonic space coming to the fore.

Once of acclaimed electronic jazz outfit Tangents and an APRA AMCOS Art Music Award winner, Sia has performed and released a diverse range of original music throughout Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Europe and South Eastern Asia while also working on sound design for dance/theatre, installation pieces and contemporary chamber composition.

Bree van Reyk is a drummer, percussionist, composer and sound artist who makes unconventional and tradition-challenging performance works. Her music resides in the intersection between contemporary classical, indie-rock and performance art and is equally warm-hearted, celebratory, and focussed on issues of equality. 

Bree has been commissioned by Sydney Festival, Sydney Chamber Opera, Ensemble Offspring, Canberra International Music Festival, Marrugeku, Urban Theatre Projects, Performance Space, Sydney Dance Company, The Letter String Quartet, Shaun Parker Company, fashion designer Bianca Spender, AGNSW, GOMA and the MCA.

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