Dream Weapon

Dream Weapon is the sonic alias of Victorian Surf Coast-based visual artist Ben Björk (Pageants/You Will Die Alone/California Bungalows).

Known for his visual art practice, Björk turns his focus to long-form soundscapes with New Blue Lagoon, — a debut album of humid ambience and time-slowed psychedelia.

Recorded over five years in far-flung locations — Honolulu, Los Angeles, Isla Mujeres, Uluwatu, and Geelong (AU) — the record plays like a vapor trail across exotic and not so exotic locations. Guitar, synthesiser, field recordings, and processed textures are layered into a single long exhale, tracing the arc of a day in a sun drenched dream-state.

The sound draws from the deep wells of Fripp & Eno and 1970s private-press ambient, but with a modern haze — what Björk calls “AmbienGaze”: a woozy crossfade of ambient, shoegaze, new age, and drone.”

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Thanos Chrysakis

Thanos Chrysakis is a Greek composer, musician, producer and sound-artist. He is best known for his work in electronic and contemporary music, improvisation, and electro-acoustic music. His music was among the selected works at the International Competition de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2005, in the category oeuvre d'art sonore électroacoustique, while received an honorary mention in 2006 at the 7th International Electroacoustic Competition Musica Viva in Lisbon (the jury was constituted by Morton Subotnick (USA), François Bayle (France), and Miguel Azguime (Portugal).

Ben Carey

Ben Carey is an Australian composer, improviser and educator, based in Sydney/Eora. He makes electronic music using the modular synthesiser, develops interactive music software and creates audio-visual works. Ben’s research and practice is concerned with musical interactivity, generativity and the delicate dance between human and machine agencies in composition and performance. 

Solar Cells

Solar Cells channel the timeless spirit of Kosmische Musik, existing at the intersection of experimental music & the dancefloor with soundscapes that oscillate between structured pulses and freeform animations. Live, it’s Solar Cells & the New Vision System, a symbiotic interplay of human intention and machine chaos.

Light Burst

Light Burst is the new duo of multi-instrumentalists and composers Biddy Connor and Lizzy Welsh. Based between Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country in Naarm (Melbourne) and Djaara country in Central Victoria, Light Burst grew out of the murky depths of pandemic lock downs. Combining electronics with rarely-heard acoustic instruments from different eras, Light Burst weaves a unique and exciting timbral cambric.

Biddy and Lizzy have over ten years of collaboration history, playing with The Letter String Quartet, John Cale, Gang of Youths, Mick Harvey, Spritualized and others.

Nat Grant

Nat Grant is a sound artist and producer working across live performance, recording, digital arts, and radio. Nat is a drummer, percussionist, and composer with a focus on creating multidisciplinary, long-form musical compositions, performance events and installations using traditional and graphic notation as well as improvisation.  

www.natgrantmusic.com

Photo credit: Keelan O'Hehir.

Philippe Petit

Was born in Marseille, South of France and studied Electroacoustic music at the CNRR Conservatory of Marseille, specialising in multi-channelled diffusion (Acousmatic spatialisation) and Modular Synthesis. 

I have been fortunate enough to work with what people call a dream-team of collaborators: joining Lydia Lunch, Murcof, The European Contemporary Orchestra (E.C.O.), Mark Cunningham (MARS), Cindytalk, Orkest De Ereprijs,  Audrey Chen, Mia Zabelka, Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble, Stephen O'Malley, Yannick Barman, PAS or Faust onstage and-or in studio. Recordings with: Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots), Simon Fisher Turner, Kumo, Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle), My Brightest Diamond, Sybarite, Foetus, Pantaleimon, Graham Lewis (Wire), Barry Adamson, Andy Diagram, Scanner, Machinefabriek, Mira Calix, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Justin K. Broadrick, James Johnston (Gallon Drunk/Bad Seeds/Faust), ASVA, Jarboe, Jad Fair, Martin Dupont and many more..

www.philippepetit.info

Sooji

Sooji is a Naarm-based musician creating works that explore adventurous sonic territories through performance, composition and spatialised sound installations. Working primarily with synthesisers and electronics, she embraces the unexpected outcomes that arise from collaboration and improvisation.

Influenced by diverse sources such as classical music and Italian electronic composers, Sooji’s intuitive approach to composition creates works that sit outside of traditional genre classification and often manifest as surreal sonic landscapes.

Pascal Babare

Pascal Babare is a composer and multi-instrumentalist living and working in Naarm, Australia. His early career focused on more traditional, guitar based songwriting, while the last decade has seen him move into composing for screen and multi-channel installations, expanding his palate and skillset into a wider, more electronic realm.

Mat Watson

Mat Watson is a Naarm-based artist working across modular synthesis, drums, and electronic composition. His solo projects explore the territory between Kosmische traditions and experimental sound practice, spanning both recorded work and live performance. Alongside his solo output, Watson has collaborated across improvised, electronic, and indie rock/noise/drone contexts, as well as large-scale ensemble works. He has performed extensively throughout Australia & internationally.