Chloe Sobek is a composer-performer and electroacoustic experimental sound artist. Her practice is currently centred on the development of a post-anthropocentric sonic practice that encompasses a diversity of enquiry from acoustemology through to noise music. She is invested in what creative practice can do to deconstruct and reshape the way we conceptualise our collective futures. Chloë’s practice is built around the Renaissance precursor to the double bass, the violone. Her creative process couples field-recordings and musique concrète sensibilities such as audio-montage and electronic processing, with a handling of sound as a senate object, unlinked and undefined by its source. 

Chloë has won the Monash Jazz and Improvisation postgraduate award (2021), the 2022 Allan Zavod Performers’ Award, the Marten Bequest Scholarship (2020) and the RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Award (2019). Chloë has also been awarded funding from the City of Melbourne, the Australia Council of the Arts, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and was a scholarship student at the Australian National Academy of Music. She has presented research and work at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, at TENOR2022 and is co-editor of Recent Networked Music: Performing in and Composing for the Ether issue of Contemporary Music Review (Taylor and Francis). Recent composition and performance highlights include, with the support of the Australia Council of the Arts, the commission to write, record and perform a work for Outlier (Lizzy Welsh and Chloë Sobek) and Tilman Robinson at Melbourne Recital Centre and The Theatre Royal (2021). With the support of the Marten Bequest, the commission to compose and perform a contemporary work for violone (2020) and with the support of the Castlemaine State Festival, the commission to compose and perform an animated score for Outlier (2019). Chloe is a current PhD candidate at Monash University. 

* [Website](https://www.chloesobek.com) 
* [Bandcamp](https://chloesobek.bandcamp.com)

Chloe Sobek is a composer-performer and electroacoustic experimental sound artist. Her practice is currently centred on the development of a post-anthropocentric sonic practice that encompasses a diversity of enquiry from acoustemology through to noise music.

Chloe Sobek

Helen Svoboda is a double bassist, vocalist, composer and nature-enthusiast. Her work explores the melodic potential of the contemporary double bass, intricately weaving extended techniques and overtones with vocal tessiture amidst abstract song-writing and vegetable-themed compositions.

Helen Svoboda

Blood of a Pomegranate is a Soviet-born Armenian diasporan folk-industrial-noise musician on unceded Wurrundjeri land. Art against the nation-state. Anarchy will win.

Hov arek sarer djan Hov arek Im dardin darman arek Sareruh hov tchen anoum Sareruh hov tchen anoum Im dardin darman anoum Im dardin darman anoum Amper amper mi kich Zov arek Varar andzrev tapek Tsov arek Gesh martu or arevuh Sev hokin dakov arek Gesh martu or arevuh Sev hokin dakov arek.

* [Bandcamp](https://bloodofapomegranate.bandcamp.com)

Blood of a Pomegranate is a Soviet-born Armenian diasporan folk-industrial-noise musician on unceded Wurrundjeri land. Art against the nation-state. Anarchy will win.

Blood of a Pomegranate

Bonnie Mercer is an improvising guitarist who for the past twenty-five years has been making earth-shattering, transcendental, and experimental noise music. A founding member of Grey Daturas (2001–2010), a band celebrated for exhilarating feedback-drenched live performances, Mercer’s mix of drone, minimalism, psychedelia, free-jazz and noise has engendered a global following of devoted enthusiasts. 

In addition to multiple tours of the USA, Europe, New Zealand and Japan, Mercer has performed extensively throughout Australia and released three full-length albums.

* [Website](https://bonniemercer.com)
* [Bandcamp](https://bonniemercer.bandcamp.com)
* [on Disclaimer](https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/thickening-the-air-bonnie-mercer)

Bonnie Mercer is an improvising guitarist who for the past twenty-five years has been making earth-shattering, transcendental, and experimental noise music. 

Bonnie Mercer

Next up in the LA Presents concert series is internationally-renowned guitarist Bonnie Mercer. Bonnie lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, her instantly recognisable style is earth-shatteringly loud, transcendentally hypnotic, and experimental while grounded in rock sonic forms. 

Mercer has been performing for over twenty-five years and is in demand at home and abroad both as solo performer and highly-respected collaborator. Past and current projects include Grey Daturas, Dumb Numbers, Dead River, Little Desert, The Dacios, Hospital Pass and Michael Beach.

Bonnie will be joined by dynamic double bass free improv duo Helen Svoboda and Chloe Sobek alongside the deep sounds of electronic noise from Armenian musician Blood of a Pomegranate.

> ‘If you’ve ever seen Sunn O))) play live, Mercer makes use of the same sort of precision tooled grot that turns our insides out - all subharmonic drone and subby gnarrr that's a properly transformative listening experience at the right volume.’
—Boomkat Online 

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