Artist-led, international and delightfully unpredictable, this annual festival of exploratory music is housed in Fremantle’s Victoria Hall, creating a space for virtuosic and “anti-virtuosic” improvisation, forward-thinking club sets and participatory play. Seed-funded artists include composer Simon Charles and poet John Kinsella, experimental electronic music producers Lia T and R. Glacken, place-based sound artist amby downs and flautist Saskia Willinge, alongside trumpeter Uma Volkmer and saxophonist Naoko Uemoto.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

We breathe life into the space with a Whadjuk Noongar smoking ceremony, and the premiere of Pressure Bells, a new ensemble work by composer Simon Charles & poet John Kinsella that listens as deep as it can to Ballardong boodja. Avant-pop maverick Lyndon Blue launches Winding, a set of lo-fi dérives made on a dictaphone in Mexico, joined by saxophonist Flora Carbo. The resonant and expansive voice of Jonny Marks floods the space with a jaw-dropping solo. At the helm of the program is Cal Folger Day’s gráinne, a stage version of her Instagram “soap” pop-opera retelling of Augusta Gregory’s version of the titular 10th-century myth, joined by Jack Duffy (uillean pipes) & Phil Christie.