Too many of you missed out on the extraordinary Sylvia Tarozzi / Deborah Walker performance last Sunday - don't miss out again on another Sydney exclusive from a remarkable visiting duo this weekend!! It's your only chance to catch this unique experience as field recordings and live performance are woven into a wonderful new exploration of place...

SATURDAY April 19th at 7 p.m. [doors at 6.30]

Emilio Gordoa (percussion, composition, recording, electronics)
Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone, composition, recording, electronics)

Emilio Gordoa and Josten Myburgh are musicians with a shared interest in improvising with the sounds of the environment. Based in Mexico and Boorloo/Perth, they work experimentally with percussion, saxophone, electronics and location recordings. Their new project carries the stories and echoes of the places they have worked in together, immersed in the sonic cultures of their birthplaces and homes. Sharing time together in the culturally and ecologically rich settings of these places, they create music that respects land and origin, and reflects the depth of trust and friendship that allows their distinct approaches to gesture and tonality to be held together. Their collaborations extend over a decade across projects including Splitter Orchester, Mahagonny, Land Stages, and countless others. After an extensive tour of Germany this year, they now bring their remarkable performance to tour through Aotearoa and Australia.

Emilio Gordoa Rodríguez (b. 1987) is a Mexican sound artist, percussionist, and composer whose work focuses on sound and performance as primary means of expresion. Based in Berlin since 2012, he has been an active contributor to the city’s “Echtzeitmusik” (real-time music) scene and is involved in the international avant-garde music community. His projects include solo and ensemble performances, sound installations, and compositions for film, theater and dance. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Jérôme Noetinger, Ingrid Schomliner, Yuko Kaseki, Burkhard Beins, Don Malfon, John Butcher and Sabiene Vogel. Gordoa’s approach combines experimental percussive techniques with electronic elements, leading to invitations to perform at events such as the Moers Festival, Meakusma Festival in Belgium, A’larme!, and Maerzmusik in Berlin. He founded WildSonico, a platform for experimental music, and has been part of artist residencies at institutions like the Akademie der Künste and Kunststiftung NRW.

Josten Myburgh (b. 1994) is a composer, improviser, saxophonist and organiser based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo. He is co-director of not-for-profit organisation Tone List, and since 2017 has curated their award-winning Audible Edge festival. They also work as an independent curator and producer and have collaborated with numerous festivals and institutions to present exploratory music programs, including the WA Museum, Liquid Architecture, Tura New Music and the State Library of WA. They have performed in concert series and festivals worldwide, including Alternativa Festival (Prague), Vestafor (Rosendal, Norway), Offene Ohren (Munich), MONO (Meanjin), FILEC Festival (Cuernavaca), Perth International Jazz Festival, Fremantle Biennale, Supersense Festival (Naarm), the NOW now (Sydney) and Inland (Naarm). Their work has been published on Another Timbre, Edition Wandelweiser, Tone List and Flaming Pines. Frequent collaborators include Eduardo Cossio, Sabine Vogel, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Joshua Pether, Sage Pbbbt, Michael Pisaro-Liu and Daisy Sanders. They are a recipient of the Schenberg Fellowship, an APRA AMCOS professional development award, and numerous other competitive grants.

Read more about the artists here...
 EMILIO                     JOSTEN  

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