Josten Myburgh (they/them) is a composer, improviser, saxophonist and organiser based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo. Their work strives to express tender relationships with sound-in-place.

Josten 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 Vestafor (Rosendal, Norway), Offene Ohren (Munich), MONO (Meanjin), Festival Internacional de Libre Expresión de 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.

They have also contributed sound for interdisciplinary works nationally in programs including the Boorloo Heritage Festival, Kier Choreographic Award, Perth Festival and at the Art Gallery of WA.

Frequent collaborators include Eduardo Cossio, Aviva Endean, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Joshua Pether, Michael Pisaro-Liu and Daisy Sanders.

They are a recipient of the Schenberg Fellowship and numerous other competitive grants.

Daisy Sanders (she/her) is a Boorloo based multidisciplinary artist working locally, nationally and internationally as performer, creator, writer, researcher and teacher. She is a senior company artist for Sensorium Theatre (who make transformative sensory experiences for children with diverse abilities) and in 2023 joined pvi collective (creating experimental, participatory and intervention artwork). Daisy is a skilled dance improviser with a 10-year decision-making practice grounded in somatics, cycles of energy, nuanced materiality and live interpersonal exchange. Influenced by close mentor / collaborators Jo Pollitt and Ros Crisp, Daisy performs with a distinctly authentic performance presence, expressive emotionality and physical release. 

Daisy devises and produces immersive choreographic projects that expand performer / audience paradigms and have an enduring foundation in community building, experimentation and play. Her original works include A Resting Mess (2016-current), Night Dancing (2020-current), Womb for World Weeping (STRUT Dance Situ 8:CITY 2022) and Room to Rest (Arts Centre Melbourne’s inaugural Alter State Festival, 2021). Experience of chronic illness (2015-20) led Daisy to develop a unique rest-focused dance method and a deeply considered approach to building creative ecologies. She draws on this in her work as a passionate facilitator and emerging arts leader. 

Hannah Brookes (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist originating from the Yuin landscapes of South Coast NSW. Currently pursuing her contemporary dance studies at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Hannah is a 4th year honours student and member of LINK Dance Company. Hannah’s thesis project aims to combine her creative interests in dance and music making to develop a personal creative process where she can simultaneously choreograph, compose and perform for a single work. Before her time at WAAPA, Hannah was a junior company member with Austi. Dance & Physical Theatre from 2019 to 2020. 

Harrison (he/him) is a dance artist who was born in the North Island of Aotearoa and is currently living and working on the land of the Whadjuk Noongar people in Boorloo, Perth. Harrison is a 2023 graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, being awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. Within creative spaces Harrison has worked and collaborated with several Australian and International Choreographers including Jenni Large, Sam Coren, Didier Théron, Cass Mortimer Eipper and Zee Zunnur. His most recent achievement occurred in 2024 where he was selected to be a part of a choreographic development lab with Italian Choreographer Michele Rizzo. The lab concluded with a performance season ‘Coalescing Towards’ at the State Theatre Centre of WA as part of the 2024 Perth Festival alongside STRUT Dance 2024 Perth Moves Workshop Series. 

Presently, Harrison is working with Jo Pollitt as part of the 2024 LINK Dance Company, where he is exploring the return to his Māori heritage, manifesting through his developing research-based improvisational dance practice. Rooted in the concepts of connection, ancestral wisdom, and his integration of lineal understandings into the present space, Harrison is on a trajectory of rediscovering himself within his emerging artistic practice

Zendra (she/they) is an emerging movement-based performer and maker, currently situated in Boorloo/Perth. They graduated from WAAPA with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance (2021) and Honours in Performance Making (2022). Zendra works across improvised and choreographed movement, and contemporary theatre. Meanwhile developing their craft through visual, tactile, and multimedia artforms. They aspire to make felt, imagined worlds in their work through playful, collaborative, and decolonial practice. Zendra was in the PAWA award-winning ensemble for The Complete Show of Water Skiing (dir. Laura Liu, 2022). In 2023 they danced in Co3’s Architect of the Invisible and Laura Boyne’s Subliminal Drift. Zendra was also the co-creator and performer for WHITESNAKE3000 (dir. Joe Paradise Lui) which was presented with The Blue Room Theatre (2023) and Co3 (2024). They are currently completing an online research residency [CP]3, with Singaporean dance company Dance Nucleus, supported by STRUT dance.

Gabriel McMahon (he/him) is a contemporary flute and dízi player and practice-led ethnomusicologist based in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. A conduit of interculturalism and supporter of cross-cultural collaboration, Gabriel is engaged with Sino-Australian flute and dízi（笛子）musicking and performance practice. His collaborations has led him to numerous exploratory world premieres of collaborative works, performing in Adelaide, Perth, and Sydney. He is currently researching the intercultural potential of a modified flute headjoint called the ‘Matusiflute’ which imitates the dízi’s timbre through a synthetic membrane, as well as being critical to the potential for musical misrepresentations and appropriations of non-western music culture, raising awareness of cases of orientalism and exoticism.

August Pope (they/them), AKA EST-R is a Boorloo Based sound artist currently studying Composition and Sound Technology at WAAPA. A mix of interests has seen them exploring sound and space, noise and anarchy, field recordings and EDM, all put together with iconoclastic intent. Their practice has come to include anything on hand such as no input mixing boards, electronic hardware, crusty trumpets, broken speakers, feed backing mics, busted accordions and home made synthesisers. August has been witnessed performing and collaborating with organisers such as NoizeMaschin!!, Alt/Hearts of Darkness and Outcome Unknown. Recent projects include their [Re]Compost sound installation in partnership with Leisl Lucerne-Knight and Kickstart Festival, interdisciplinary collaborations with BPA students at WAAPA’s Unreal showcase, and various performances with their industrial noise project NoizKult, including Raindance Drum and Bass festival in 2023.

Antoinette (she/her) began her creative career as a composer, working with
magnetic tape and electronic synthesisers to produce layered work with fragmented sounds and live instruments.

She was the first woman composer of Asian origin in Australia, winning several prizes in composition at the beginning of her career.

She later trained as a painter & tapestry artist, setting up the practice of community tapestries in Western Australia. She has been responsible for at least 6 community tapestry projects (King Edward, Princess Margaret & Mercy Hospitals, Shire of Kalamunda & City of Melville), mentoring a new generation of WA tapestry weavers.

Antoinette’s tapestries reference the piano with wire warps and weft consisting of fragmented music scores, some of these scores are her own musical compositions.

Nikki Demandolx (she/her) is a saxophonist, music researcher and educator, recently based in Perth, Western Australia. She is a classically trained saxophonist, with a love for contemporary and extended techniques, and thrives on pushing boundaries in cross-genre performance (especially on baritone!). She is passionate about exploring the relationship between the mind and body in performance and preparation, with a deep curiosity in overcoming and pushing limits. She is constantly inspired and motivated by her friends, fellow musicians, and students with their exceptional musicianship, creativity and warmth. Her research projects explore performer wellbeing, blending musical artistry with pedagogy and science.