James Rushford and Joe Talia are a Melbourne-based duo of national and international renown. Performing chiefly on viola, piano, drums and percussion, the duo creates ecstatic and terrifying environments that play with the very limits of the instruments' capabilities. At times static, at times fragmented, the brooding nature of their work loosely references classical Spectralism, avant-garde improvisation and musique concrète, with a bold approach to performance and recording.