Saskia Willinge (she/her) is a flautist and singer who is active in the local improvisation scene. She has played at events and venues including Audible Edge, Kinds of Light, Tune Noise Tune, Outcome Unknown, NoizeMachin!!, Melville Midwinter, the Fremantle Arts Centre, and in Naarm at the Brunswick Green and Make It Up Club. She is a member of the Sound Exploration Fremantle team, and co-founder/ 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. She is a big fan of community and can’t help connecting people and uplifting fellow emerging artists wherever she goes.

Naoko (she/her) is a saxophonist whose improvisatory practice has been largely fostered by organisations in Boorloo — Outcome Unknown, Tone List, Sound Exploration Fremantle, and The Blueroom Theatre — as well as mentorship programs with KISS Club, the Australian Art Orchestra (VIC) and Ensemble Offspring (NSW).

Naoko 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. This thinking has extended into her involvement in programming work for KickstART Festival and the Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music (WWIM).

Uma Volkmer (she/her) is a musician and artist working on Gadigal land. Her practice is experiment driven with a focus on collaboration, connectivity and an explorative dialogue between visual and sonic forms. Most recently, Uma has been exploring texture, abstraction and materiality within her creative practice and as a trumpet player. Since being introduced to Sydney’s exploratory scene through Splinter Orchestra in 2023 Uma’s love of improvisation has grown and in February 2024 she released debut album Burst with band Bad Photography (Jim Denley, Alex Tucker). She is currently completing her final semester of studying Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

https://caterpillarrec.bandcamp.com/album/burst

Darcy Lewis (he/him) is a composer, pianist, and artist based in Boorloo. Primarily building his practice on the composition of new works in the classical tradition which incorporate new methods of engaging with audiences through the use of multidisciplinary approaches, Darcy’s performances are centred around treating instruments as a part of the performer and giving them life beyond their sound as traditionally recognised. He has written music for international ensembles Curious Chamber Players and Språng Kultur in Sweden alongside performing with local improvisers and performers in an array of iterations including NonLinear Ensemble with Alix Simatos and Jane Stark and now as Duck Looking Left with Fred Johnston-Horstman.

Fred (he/they) is a trombonist, vocalist, composer, and professional silly goose based in Boorloo. His music explores community and the unique voices created by diverse artists, and aims to celebrate the experiences of all musicians regardless of identity or experience. In 2024 he was a finalist for the ROSL orchestral composition competition, composer in residence for WAYJO, and established Ensemble Neoteric, an art collective for trans* and gender non-conforming musicians.

Patrick Gunasekera (he/him) is an independent artist and producer of Sri Lankan migrant heritage, living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar. As an actor, dancer, singer and pianist, his performance practices focus on restoring emotional integrity in socially policed bodies, by using these disciplines as tools for discovering and reclaiming one’s own voice and emotional integrity. His choreographic practice is inspired by the ways queer, brown and disabled young people “move” strategically through oppressive social systems by developing pride, safety, and resilience through personal and body-based agency.

Oliver Broun (he/him) is a Boorloo-based songwriter/composer. His work ranges in genre from orchestral compositions to indie electronic music but always has a distinct sound, identifiable by its rough edges and unexpected choices of sound sources. Throughout his study and early career, Oliver’s music has primarily been occupied with exploration of abstract aesthetics, but in recent years has shifted into a more personal realm. His debut EP, Mould, was released in August 2024 and marks a shift in his songwriting style, moving from complicated and ambitious progressions towards a more intimate and reflective sonic space.

http://oliverbroun.com

Kabira Hassim (b. 1997) Johanessburg, South Africa is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist currently living and working in Walyalup-Fremantle. Her key interests are to reconstitute and re-use materials, focussing on tactile materials, including clay, metal, and textiles. Hassim is interested in the exploration of the function of these materials throughout history.

https://www.instagram.com/kabirahassim/