Saskia Willinge (she/her) is a flautist and singer who is active in the local improvisation scene. She has played at events including Audible Edge, Kinds of Light, Tune Noise Tune, Outcome Unknown, NoizeMachin!!, Melville Midwinter, and Make It Up Club (Naarm). She is a member of the Sound Exploration Fremantle team, and co-curator of the Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music alongside Izzy French. In 2024 she has participated in the Perth Festival Lab, pvi collective’s KISS Club, and co-curated an exhibition for Cool Change Contemporary at PS Art Space.

Izabelle “Izzy” French (she/they) is a trans-femme sound artist, composer, improvisor, WAAPA graduate, and comic artist in Boorloo/Perth whose art often explores themes of playfulness, noise, the challenging of perception, and the limit of abstraction, found most prominently in her written scores and improvisational practice.

Izabelle is a regular fixture of the local experimental scene, performing at Outcome Unknown, ALT, and Noizemaschin!!; she has previously worked with Tura New Music, STRUT Dance, and the Fremantle Biennale, and is currently signed to local record label Burnt Seed Records under pseudonym “onetwotwofour”, where she has released two albums.

Naoko (she/her) is a saxophonist, educator, and artsworker whose improvisatory practice has been largely fostered by local organisations Outcome Unknown, Tone List, and Sound Exploration Fremantle, as well as Make It Up Club (VIC), and mentorship programs with KISS Club, the Australian Art Orchestra (VIC) and Ensemble Offspring (NSW).

She finds meaning in the communities of care and curiosity created by exploratory art practices. Her projects are guided by ongoing thoughts around playfulness, liveness in electronic music, and the role of place to inform listening.

Lara (she/her) is a German/Australian body-based artist, creative producer and published researcher based in Boorloo/Perth. She graduated from WAAPA with an Honours in Dance and is deeply interested in improvisational performance, using her emerging research practice that sits in the intersection of dancing and writing to explore how voice and text can become an extension of the body and its lived experiences. Lara has performed and participated in 600 Seconds presented by STRUT and The Blue Room Theatre, Melville Midwinter, Outcome Unknown, pvi’s KISS Club, and the Perth Festival LAB 2024.

Lara directs Make-Shift Evenings and uses her love for improvisation to engage her local artistic community. Make-Shift is bi-monthly, performance evening supported by STRUT Dance that encourages spontaneous and rigorous practice as performance to help artists develop their skills in creative process and performance. She is currently a research assistant at WAAPA, working with motion capture to create VR experiences with scientific data.

Jane Stark (she/her) is a percussionist and improvising musician, and more, based in Boorloo, Wadjuk Noongar land (Perth, WA). She has performed live and in the studio since 2013, including performing regularly with the WA Academy of Performing Arts percussion ensemble Defying Gravity and its guest artists, directed by Tim White OAM. Guest artists include Dr Louise Devenish and Dr Fiona Digney. She recently opened Tone List’s Audible Edge festival with a 90-minute sunrise set at WA Museum Boola Bardip, in collaboration with Josiah Padmanabham (Grievous Bodily Calm, GAZEY, Lyndon Blue), using feedback loops. She has also played ambient music to a sold-out crowd at The Rechabite; documentary glitch/live stochastic remixing at The Rhein-Donau Club, and will perform in Sage Pbbbt’s debut opera O,D,E in August-September, alongside fellow WWIMers Naoko and Saskia. She plays drums for post-rock band Parclo. She helps organise concerts with WWIM.She enjoyed her international debut in August 2022, composing for Studio Kiin’s Haus of Memories exhibition at Tautai, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. This followed her collaboration with Koen Smailes composing and performing the music for WAAPA’s production of Caress/Ache, which received praise in Seesaw and Stage Whispers.

Momo (he/him) is a composer, trombonist, and electronic artist. Recent projects of his include artist residencies with Bundanon and the Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, a collaboration with Didgeridoo player Amos Roach, and compositions for ‘FORM: Building a State of Creativity’ in collaboration with sculptor Susan Flavell.

Raras Sukardi (she/her) is an Indonesian-born, Australian-raised clarinettist, actively exploring improvised and experimental music. Her Indonesian heritage shapes her identity, creating a deep sense of belonging and natural connection towards Indonesian culture, people, and land. This connection inspires her artistic journey, driving her to explore the interrelationship between art, nature, and spiritual energy. Currently engaged in clarinet teaching, Raras continually seeks to learn new techniques and broaden her community to deepen her artistic practice.