drum set: resonance, melodic phrases and repetition

Maria Moles

Rắn Cạp Đuôi has been at the forefront of sound art and experimental music in Saigon, Vietnam, since their formation in 2015. Their anachronistic musical approach is evident in their diverse performances, ranging from a nonstop 48-hour performance in a local gallery to a three-drum improvisation at Nhạc Gãy’s Boiler Room. Rắn Cạp Đuôi is in a constant state of flux, deconstruction and rebirth, resulting in chaotic sheets of sound and compositions which border on violence and beauty.

Rắn Cạp Đuôi has been at the forefront of sound art and experimental music in Saigon, Vietnam, since their formation in 2015. 

Rắn Cạp Đuôi 

Rama Parwata is a Naarm/Melbourne-based musician, composer, and curator who has a distinguished reputation for his audacious and technical aural explorations in sound, texture and rhythm on the drum-kit, drawing influence from Jazz, Extreme Metal, and Gamelan music from his Balinese and Indonesian heritage.

In 2021, Rama released his debut album, Tekanan, on Cassauna / Important Records to critical acclaim. He currently plays drums in local metal ensembles including the Doom Metal band Whitehorse, exploratory Black Metal band Kilat, and the experimental gamelan/metal trio Rinuwat. Since 2019, Rama has been a co-curator and committee member of the Make It Up Club.

Rama Parwata

Jon Smeathers is an experimental musician, composer, and improviser based in nipaluna/Hobart.

Recognised for his versatility and cutting edge projects, Jon taps into the potential of algorithmic displacement, codecs and remix culture to enable a reimagination of one's spectral and rhythmic currents. His seminal music blends the radical aesthetics of bubblegum pop, noise, free jazz, techno, kpop, electro-acoustics and footwork into a mesh of lyrical dynamics, extreme tempos and emotional ecstasy that is strengthened by his collaborative efforts. Jon is a member of the hyperpop noisecore band Reptrillion culture club and is the founder of YouTube mix label ?ℭ? Mixtapes through which Jon has developed a unique practice that utilises YouTube as sonic performance tool. 

He is a member of the punk duo Lil Ratso X, curator of Huh!pink, and has collaborated with Australia's leading electro-acoustic ensembles including the Splinter Orchestra, the Australian Art Orchestra and the Phonetic Orchestra. He is internationally recognised for his chopped and screwed music, film scores and no input mixing board performances as James Oakfield alongside his deconstructed DJ mixes as ?ℭ?.

Jon Smeathers is an experimental musician, composer, and improviser based in nipaluna/Hobart.

Jon Smeathers

From Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Liquid Architecture presents the chaos driven, multi-genre fusing, cyborg-friendly futurist punks Rắn Cạp Đuôi. At the forefront of sound art and experimental music in Vietnam since their formation in 2015, their anachronistic musical approach spans a twisted reimagining of 90’s electronica to freeform apocalyptic-sound-possession.

Ornamenting the program will be the Nipaluna/Hobart based artist and organiser Jon Smeathers on expanded CDJ, and a duo of drums from Maria Moles and Rama Parwata. DJ Noom will be selecting recorded music before and between performances.



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Inter.Sonix 05: Rắn Cạp Đuôi (VN), Jon Smeathers, Maria Moles & Rama Parwata, DJ Noom

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Inter.Sonix 05: Rắn Cạp Đuôi (VN), Jon Smeathers, Maria Moles & Rama Parwata, DJ Noom

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