ABADIR (Rami Abadir) is a music producer, sound designer, DJ and music critic, born in Cairo, Egypt and based in Berlin, Germany. His work combines post-club experimentalism, glitch and cranial ambient music, with recent releases on SVBKVLT, Genot Centre, Hush Hush, Yerevan Tapes, Kaer’Uiks among many other labels. ABADIR is also the editor of the electronic music section of the Arabic music webzine Ma3azef, where he contributes as a writer on critical theory, music history, reviews and interviews.

e fishpool is a Budawang artist based in Long Beach, Budawang Country. Their work maps processes of unlearning and (re)learning identity through sampling sound, dialect and field recordings.

Mara is a composer and curator based in Eora / Sydney. She plays the viola and collaborates with her laptop to create live performances and recorded pieces for film, dance, and gallery spaces. Informed by interactions and perspectives within environments, her work questions the coexistence and understanding between those who inhabit them.

The pair will collaborate on a special site-responsive live performance for our closing concert at the Calyx.

Mx-Ai is a solo project of audio engineer & producer Wade Gilmour, based on Wangal land. Resisting neat categorisation, their productions morph between different stylistic reference points to create music that playfully invites, and eludes, comparisons to dub, musique concrete, & dancehall. In 2021 they released their debut ‘Shifgrethor / Konstant Kemmer,’ on Sydney’s Midheaven Records.

YL Hooi is the project of Valya Ying-Li Hooi, inhabiting a subtle and mysterious realm of furtive, dubbed-out song, sparse electronic percussion, and distant winds. Active in the Melbourne underground scene since 2017, her debut album Untitled (first released on cassette by Altered States Tapes in 2019 and reissued on LP byEfficient Space in 2021) was widely praised, finding a spot on many year end lists including the number 1 spot on Boomkat’s Discoveries list, described as ‘an immaculately frayed conception of dubwise dream-pop’.

Moving seamlessly from angelic song to gritty tape gunk, Hooi’s work opens onto a multitude of genres and directions while retaining a distinctly personal stamp through her obsessively zoned-out dub production tactics. Both live and in the studio, Hooi’s work is produced in close collaboration withTarquin Manek. In the live setting, the pair use voice, trumpet, bass clarinet, guitar, bass, drum machines and synths to reimagine the carefully produced studio material anew for each performance, keenly aware of improvisational possibilities and the vicissitudes of audience, venue, and acoustic space.

Elysia Crampton Chuquima is a multidisciplinary artist & musician belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of the Aymara people. We are thrilled to be inviting Elysia to perform under their new project Chuquimamani-Condori. Using a vast range of artistic expression – from poetry, traditional Aymara theatre and futurist narratives to DJ-sets and electronic composition – Elysia creates epic and deeply conceptual sonic collages that synthesise Latin genres with dense percussion, mutant samples and delicate synthlines. Their recent works include albums for PAN (ORCORARA 2010 - 2021), Rayo Mix (2022), Across the Policed World: A Transnocturnal Huayño (2022), and Amaru's Tongue: Daughter (2021), a collaborative work with Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. They also continue to do work with AIM SoCal, the Southern California chapter of the American Indian Movement (founded in 1968).

Ngunnawal Country based recording artist VOLTA HYMN boils matters of power, euphoria, and the internal voyage down into voice driven experimental pop, that strives to capture the vigor of dancing alone to 2010’s electronica, and the thrill of arriving at your next destination.

Henry Lai-Pyne (aka Eek) is a multimedia artist and designer working across film, fashion, moving image, and experimental music. His individual creative practice often involves ‘kitbashing’, the merging of various mediums, processes, found sounds, and subject matter, to create new narrative, symbology, and world-building.

Henry’s individual and collaborative work has been featured at Soft Centre (Sydney), AsiaTOPA, ACMI, Melbourne International Film Festival, AIDLAB Hong Kong, Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, Berlin Art Film Festival, and Montreal Independent Film Festival.

https://www.instagram.com/eek_now/

akka is an experimental artist, radio producer and queer community facilitator; currently working on unceded Gadigal country. Her sound practice explores temporality, drone, dissonance, memory, liquid, ritual and deeper listening; often conjured from her experience of growing up in a mixed and multi-faith home. Grounded in notions of healing and reciprocity, akka attempts to use sound as a temporal and spatial category.