This is the 12th year of the annual SoundOut festival, and in 2021 we will bring to you the continuation of the incredible explorative sonic arts event. This Experimental Music festival to will uplift tired ears, explore the unknown, see within the fabric of sound, unravel the threads of normative musical praxis, and question sonic hegemonies. Usually we host an International and interstate group of artists, however due to C19 restrictions and funding challenges we will host artists from the Southeast region in 2021. The festival will include Artists such as Brian McNamara, Charles Martin, Chayla Ueckert-Smith, Ethan McAlister, Jackson Weibe, Louise Curham, MIroslav Bukovsky, Monika Brooks, Old Media Orchestra [LC, RJ, TMB +], Paul Duchesne, Pip Gazard, Reuben Ingalls, Rhys Butler , Richard Johnson, Siena Mitchell, Tom Fell, Tracy M Benson. We have also included experimental film, video and sound from the Old Media Orchestra using mostly old and "out-of-date media". It including some of the artists mentioned above: Louise Curham, Tracy M Benson, and on reel to reel tapes/radio transmitters etc Richard Johnson ...+ other artists.

It will be held over the Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th February 2021 at the ANU, Drill Hall Gallery [who's staff we thank profusely for their support, generosity and belief in us] with approximately 8hrs of music spread over the 2 days; with 4 sessions of music comprising of numerous sets:

Tickets are sold by session or a season [see below for details]

$20 unwaged

$30 waged

Season Tickets [see as add-ons when you choose a ticket]

Unwaged $80

Waged $100

Saturday 6th Feb: Session 1. 6:00 - 8pm

Saturday 6th Feb: Session 2. 8:30 - 10:30

Sunday 7th Feb: Session 3. 6:00 - 8pm

Sunday 7th Feb: Session 4. 8:30 - 10:30

SoundOut Program LOCAL +

Saturday 6th Feb

Session 1

6:00

Chayla Ueckert-Smith: ceramic instruments/ Oboe

Ethan McAlister: electric guitar

6:40

Jackson Wiebe: electronics

Pip Gazzard: electronics

Siena Mitchell: electronics/keyboards

7:20

David McDade: Drums

Miroslav Bukovsky: trumpet

Tom Fell: saxophones

Session 2

8:30

Monika Brooks: piano solo

9:10

Old Media Orchestra +

Louise Curham: 8mm film

Richard Johnson: reel to reel tape decks/radios

Tracey M Benson: video

9:40

Reuben Ingalls: electric guitar

Rhys Butler: alto saxophone

Paul Duchesne: electronics

10:20

Brian McNamara: invented instruments

Charles Martin: computer/percussion

10:50

Collective improvisation

Sunday 7th Feb

Session 3

6:00

Wind Quartet

Miroslav Bukovsky: trumpet

Rhys Butler: alto sax

Richard Johnson: wind instruments

Tom Fell: saxophones

6:40

Charles Martin: computer/percussion

Pip Gazzard: electronics

Reuben Ingalls: electric guitar

7:20

Brian McNamara: invented electronic instruments

Chayla Ueckert-Smith: ceramic instruments/ Oboe

Jackson Wiebe: electronics

Paul Duchesne: electronics

Session 4

8:30

Old Media Orchestra +

Louise Curham: 8mm film

Richard Johnson: reel to reel tape decks/radios

Tracey M Benson: video

+ musicians TBA

9:10

David McDade: Drums

Ethan McAlister: electric guitar

Siena Mitchell: electronics/keyboards

9:40

Monika Brooks: accordion/piano

Rhys Butler: alto sax

Richard Johnson: wind instruments / objects

10:20

Collective improvisation of all musicians from the festival.

SoundOut 2021 Artist Bios:

Brian McNamarra: invented electronic instruments, Canberra

Brian is an experimental instrument builder and sound sculpture artist based in Canberra, Australia. He mixes his passions for music, electronics and sculpture into unique objects that should need no explanation to play or experience but convey a deeper meaning in the context of their surroundings. Brian builds and performs with a range of experimental instruments, with a focus on both autonomous soundart sculptures and interactive installation instruments that require the engagement of multiple people or unusual kinetic movements to be played. His instruments include computer programmed elements, percussion, found sounds from used electronics and purpose designed oscillators. A key feature of his work is audience movement and participation. Art functions best when the art space is inclusive of the public so through his exploration of experimental sounds he uses engagement with the audience as a medium to convey ideas. These explorations include the link between the environment and technology, our own movement around the planet with movement of those fleeing war torn areas and the link between our own minds and those we try to create in machines. https://www.facebook.com/cupandbow/

Charles Martin: Electronics/ computer, Canberra

Charles Martin is a specialist in percussion, music technology, and musical AI from Australia. He links percussion with electroacoustic music and other media through new technologies. He is the author of musical iPad app, PhaseRings, and founded touchscreen ensemble, Ensemble Metatone, percussion group, Ensemble Evolution, and cross-artform group, Last Man to Die. Charles’ doctoral research involved developing intelligent agents that mediate ensemble performance. Charles was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo in the Engineering Prediction and Embodied Cognition (EPEC) project and the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion from 2016–2019 where he developed new ways to predict musical intentions and performances in smartphone apps and embedded devices. Charles is now lecturer in computer science at the Australian National University.

Chayla Ueckert-Smith: oboist/ ceramic instruments, Canberra

Chayla draws together visual art and music to form a multi-sensory experience. Her work focuses on chance occurrences and the spontaneity of sound. Ueckert-Smith graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor in Music (Performance) in 2017 and a Bachelor in Visual Arts (Ceramics) in 2018. She has performed in numerous ensembles across the Canberra region as an oboist including, the Canberra Youth Orchestra where she won the Concerto Competition in 2017 and was awarded scholarships from 2014-2017, the Canberra Bach Ensemble, Canberra Sinfonia, National Capitol Orchestra, the ANU Choral Society, and Canberra Wind Symphony. As an artist, Ueckert-Smith’s series of ceramic instruments, vox de luto, have been exhibited in the School of Art and Design Graduating Exhibition 2018, CAPO Emerging Artist. Exhibition Formfull:Formless 2019, Tributary Projects Exhibition Connect 2019, and is currently on display in Immerse at the Canberra Potters Society. Together, McAlister and Ueckert-Smith embody the spirit of collaboration to form duo de luto. Their intent is to use ceramics, prepared guitar and oboe to create exploratory soundscapes that reflect their Canberran heritage. duo de luto premiered their first live album in November 2019, later released on Bandcamp. Since forming, duo de luto have performed at the Canberra Potters Open Day 2019 which included a live broadcast on ArtSound FM, and at An Ambient Afternoon at Sideway July 2020. Moving forward, duo de luto are experimenting and collaborating with other artists to explore the use of Ueckert-Smith’s vox de luto in broad contexts and meanings.

Ethan McAlister: sound artist, guitarist from Canberra.

Ethan’s work often focuses on collaboration with other artists and he regularly takes inspiration from various environments of his local surroundings. In 2017 McAlister completed his Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Australian National University under tutelage of Kim Cunio, during which he explored the use of experimental techniques for the purposes of musical expression. Prior to this McAlister completed a Bachelor of Music from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music where he received the Truby Williams Conservatorium Endowment 2015 and the Ellinor Gertrude Harris Bequest 2016. During his time in Melbourne, he received a MCMIgniteLab grant and performed his own work 'Waves' for electric guitar quartet in the 'Experimental Grainger' concert as part the 2016 Melbourne Festival. From March 2018 - June 2019 he was a team member of Making Waves, curators of a monthly Australian new music playlist, and currently works as a guitar tutor and conductor at Radford College and Canberra Girls Grammar School. He is currently the songwriter and guitarist for local punk band ‘NORA’. Together, McAlister and Ueckert-Smith embody the spirit of collaboration to form duo de luto. Their intent is to use ceramics, prepared guitar and oboe to create exploratory soundscapes that reflect their Canberran heritage. duo de luto premiered their first live album in November 2019, later released on Bandcamp. Since forming, duo de luto have performed at the Canberra Potters Open Day 2019 which included a live broadcast on ArtSound FM, and at An Ambient Afternoon at Sideway July 2020. Moving forward, duo de luto are experimenting and collaborating with other artists to explore the use of Ueckert-Smith’s vox de luto in broad contexts and meanings.

Jackson Wiebe: multi-instrumentalist, Canberra

Jackson is a composer/producer and multi-instrumentalist performer currently studying music at The Australian National University. Jackson’s compositional style is influenced heavily by minimalism and generative music, exploring the concepts of open notation and aiming to redefine the traditional roles of the composer, performers and audience through interactive sound installations and interpretive notation styles such as graphic notation. Performing experimental and improvisational works of his own as well as those of peers, Jackson has used a variety of instruments including guitar, bass guitar and auxiliary percussion as well as voice, while often also utilising electronic synthesis. He has released his own music under the moniker ‘Arclight’ and produced for a number of other artists, most notably ‘Wiska’ with whom he has charted on Triple J Unearthed three times.

Louise Curham: 8 & 16mm film projections, Canberra

Louise Curham is an Australian film maker/visual artist. Working predominantly with found and obsolete moving image materials, Louise’s work addresses the givens of cinema – specifically its usually fixed relationships between projection, audience and image. She works in film performance, installation, experimental film and the re-enactment of live art. She also has performed with leading Improvising musicians such as Chris Abraham (from the Necks); Alister Spence; Australian Art Orchestra to name a few.

https://louisecurham.net/cv/

Miroslav Bukovsky: trumpet, Canberra

Miroslav is a distinguished jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and Educator. He spent 6 years Conservatorium classical studies in Czechoslovakia and moved to Australia in 1968. Studied at the Sydney Conservatorium Jazz Studies becoming a member of faculty; 1981-82 Australia Council funded study in USA. New York and Indiana University; 1999 Commenced full time teaching position at the Canberra School of Music (later ANU School of Music), teaching trumpet, improvisation, composition, arranging and ensemble performance. 2003-2004 Head of Jazz Department at, ANU School of Music, and has continued limited teaching at ANU School of Music, as a Distinguished Artist in Residence since. He has perfomed in numerous setting: from the Ricky May Band; in the supporting band for Thelonious Monk in 1972; Daly Wilson Big Band; Macia Hines Band; with Renee Geyer; Bruce Cale’s Band; Ernie Watts; Bob Bertles; KMA Orchestra; Mark Simmonds Free Boppers; Mighty Reapers and Dynamic Hepnotics; with Roger Frampton/Phil Treloar group; Carl Orr’s group; Jackie Orszaczky’s Jump Back Jack; founding member of John Pochee’s Ten Part Invention; Emil Viklicky and his Trio, Australian Art Orchestra, Alex Stuart Quintet, Komeda Project with Andrea Keller, Bennie Maupan, Divergence Orchestra and the Kinetic Orchestra, Performed as trumpet soloist accompanying Anne Sofie von Otter CIMF. Performed and co-ordinated music concerts at The Drill Hall Gallery, ANU: Including performances with Miroslav Bukovsky Quartet, Michelle Nicole and Ronn Ferella, Emil Viklicky, John Mackey, Simone de Haan, Adam Simmonds and Richard Johnson. Has toured and performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival, Aarhus Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Nice Jazz Festival, Victoria/Gasteiz Festival, the Rome Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Capital Jazz Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, and the SoundOut Festival 2016-2018, toured Prague jazz clubs with Emil Viklicky’s Trio, and a Festival tour of Portugal. Recorded with many artists: Recorded and toured with the Pollen Trio, CD ‘Roll Slow’. He is fond of the Wanderlust recordings: 1993 Wanderlust records 1st CD, ‘Wanderlust’, which receives an ARIA award; ‘Border Crossing’, 1995; ‘Song and Dance’,1999; ‘Full Bronte’, 2001; and ‘When in Rome’, 2008. (see his bandcamp site below) https://mirorecords.bandcamp.com/

Monika Brooks: accordion/piano, Sydney

Monica Brooks has modelled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion. As a performer she has collaborated with various fabulous folks such as Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Herminone Johnson, Chris Abrahams, Robbie Avenaim, Kraig Grady, Richard Nuns, Eugene Chadbourne and Joe Talia. She is renowned for the subtlety of her approach on accordion with Magda Mayas and Laura Altman in the trio Great Waitress.https://great-waitress.com/ and https://monicabrooks.bandcamp.com/

Paul Duchesne: electronics - Canberra

Canberra-based composer improviser. He is a graduate of the Centre of New Media Art at the Australian National University and has performed regularly nationally and oversees, most notably at the This Is Not Art/Electrofringe Festival and the Australasian Computer Music Conference. His work explores an intersection between musique concrete and the extraordinary potential of recent developments in mirco computers. He has released music in a wide variety of formats (including videotape and floppy disk) and has collaborated with artists across three different continents

http://shattersong.com/

Pip Gazard: electronics, Canberra

A first year composition student at ANU who harbours a deep love for synthesisers, Pip weaves layers of electronic sounds and field recordings to create densely textured pieces. Her work often explores themes of emotion, growth through change and belonging.

Reuben Ingall: no-input mixing board, Canberra

Reuben Ingall grew up in Canberra, and studied computer music and interactive digital media at the Centre for New Media Arts at The Australian National University. He started self-releasing music in 2003, and now has albums on labels including Feral Media, Clan Analogue and hellosQuare. His other projects include the event/release series Soundscapes, the radio program Subsequence, mixing and mastering, and a mashup-DJ act. He has worked on music for installations, theatre, e-publications, film, and dance. Since 2019 Reuben has played the No-Input Mixing Board, an instrument created by plugging an audio mixer's outputs to its inputs. The internal feedback creates a variety of tones and noises, with the dynamic audio-electrical interactions leading to an unpredictable exploratory practice.

Rhys Butler: alto sax – Canberra

Rhys has come to know the cities he has lived in through improvised and noise music. The trio Dinner Sock (Stephen Roach (drums), David Keyton (feedback), and Rhys Butler (saxophones)) formed from the weekly Fugue State Sessions in Guanzhou. The group performed with local experimenters such as Yan Jun, Feng Hao and Li Zenghui and collaborated with musicians transiting China such as Uwe Bastiansen (Faust) and Lucas Abela. Despite living in different corners of the world, Dinner Sock has continued to participate in China's experimental music scene and played Beijing's Sally Can't Dance festival and NOIShanghai in 2012. In Santiago, Chile, Rhys participated in events run by Productura Mutante and played in the free-for-all Collective Improvisation NO. Now residing in Canberra, Rhys has been working in a duo with Reuben Ingall (live processing). More recently he has been part of the Psithurism trio with John Porter and Richard Johnson, which have a new release called Lure out with French clarinetist Xavier Charles. See the SoundOut bandcamp and Francois Houle site in the following links: https://soundoutrecordings.bandcamp.com/

Richard Johnson: wind instruments, Canberra

Richard performs with the texture of sound on soprano/baritone saxophone and bass clarinet and is experimenting with use of a bass drum with soprano saxophone to create a language of microtonal textural resonance. Also he has been making instruments from conical gourds from PNG, which allow the stripping back of the wind instruments to their most visceral and most sensuous form and allow for the exploration of extended techniques. He has performed at the SoundOut 2010 – 2019 festivals; What is Music Festival, Nownow Festival; the Make it Now performances; also performances with the Brice Glace Ensemble and the 102 Club Orkestra in Grenoble France; “Whip it“ series in Sydney; various Precipice annual Improv workshops hosted by Tony Osbourne as well as hosting local, interstate, and international improvisation nights in Canberra. He is the Director, Curator, Producer and Administrator at SoundOut festivals. As a sound artist he worked with renowned visual Artist Savanhdary Vongpoothorn for the Australia Exhibition at The Casula Power House as well collaborated with conceptual-visual artist Denise Higgins on soundscapes. He has performed with the likes of Jaap Blonk, Jon Rose, Hans Koch, Guylaine Cosseron, Jim Denley, Kim Myhr, Annette Giesreigl, Rodrigo Motoya, Antonio Panda Gianfratti, Thomas Rohrer, Luc Houtkamp, Clayton Thomas, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Yan Jun, Laura Altman, Michael Norris, Evan Dorian, etc. Currently performs in a wind trio with John Porter and Rhys Butler called Psithurism, which has a digital release with the renowned Canadian clarinetist Francois Houle and a new Cd release called Lure on the SoundOut label with Xavier Charles in 2017 SO-003. Also in June 2016 released Cd with Rhys Butler; Guylaine Cosseron and Stephen Roach called Swarm on SoundOut Cd’s SO-001. Lure CD Review. He also have a number of field recording releases available from the SoundOut label catalogue bandcamp site.

http://www.freejazzblog.org/2018/06/recent-releases-of-french-clarinetist.html

https://soundoutrecordings.bandcamp.com/

Siena Mitchell: electronics Canberra

Siena Mitchell is a 20 year old student composer studying music and biology at the ANU. She mainly writes programmatic/game music but has recently been experimenting with techniques such as polytempo and incorporating field recordings like heartbeats into her music.

Tom Fell: saxophonist, Canberra

Tom Fell's versatility has seen him work across genres and settings. Most recently he has played alongside Aria nominated hip-hop artist Citizen Kay, joined Eamon Dilworth's Crawfish Po'Boys, been a member of the ensemble for the original song-cycle Flight Memory by Alana Valentine and Sandy France, and has continued as a long-running member of the New Orleans inspired Brass Knuckle Brass Band. Tom is also a current member of Nyash Afrobeat Collective and regularly leads his own jazz ensembles. Other performance highlights include the Capital Jazz Project, Canberrang Swing Dance Festival, the Bloom Festival, Floriade, the National Multicultural Festival, Merimbula Jazz Festival, ANU Winter Jazz Festival, the Australian Blues Music Festival, the God's Concert Series and the Confluence Concert Series. Tom has been based in Canberra, Australia for the past decade and completed his Bachelor of Music at the ANU in 2010.

Tracey M Benson: video Artist

Tracey is an Australian based interdisciplinary artist, academic and researcher. She recently part of the founding performers in the Old Media Orchestra here in Canberra, performing with film and video. She is a systems thinker and connector across sectors, her work focuses on issues related to belonging, place, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour change. Walking has been central to her creative practice, exploring locative and augmented media tools to engage audiences to see their local places with fresh eyes. Her work has been extensively presented internationally in media arts festivals and exhibitions. With a passion for understanding different knowledge systems and engaging audiences, she often collaborates with Indigenous communities, historians, scientists and artists.

https://traceybenson.com/

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