Vanessa is a percussionist-composer with a long history in experimental music. She uses this body of knowledge to make bold interdisciplinary sonic events that propose new futures for 21st century Australian music. Central to all her work is listening - opening our ears to paying attention to the world around us as we consider space and place, the human and the more-than-human. 

With an insatiable curiosity, Vanessa sonically investigates all kinds of objects to build compositions, create contexts for improvisation, and collaborate across art-forms and disciplines. She has toured the world for 30 years, premiering hundreds of works, collaborating with leading improvisers, presenting work at major international festivals, and sharing her knowledge as a teacher, mentor, university lecturer and arts advocate. Recently she collaborated with Annea Lockwood (Volume AGNSW), The Journey Down (Tura) and appear at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (2022).

Vanessa is a percussionist-composer with a long history in experimental music. She uses this body of knowledge to make bold interdisciplinary sonic events that propose new futures for 21st century Australian music. Central to all her work is listening - opening our ears to paying attention to the world around us as we consider space and place, the human and the more-than-human. 


Vanessa Tomlinson

Dr. Nat Grant is a sound artist and producer working on unceded Wurundjeri country with more than 15 years experience in live performance, broadcast, digital arts, and community arts. Nat is a drummer, percussionist, and composer whose work focuses on multidisciplinary, long-form musical compositions, performance events and installations using traditional and graphic notation as well as improvisation. Nat is committed to strengthening connections between different communities, and particularly those that increase the presence of women and gender minority artists and musicians. The Hey Drums project has featured interviews with more than 160 Australian drummers since 2016, and the six season strong Prima Donna podcast, winner of a Victorian Community History award, features sonic portraits of pioneering Australian artists from all disciplines.

Dr. Nat Grant is a sound artist and producer working on unceded Wurundjeri country with more than 15 years experience in live performance, broadcast, digital arts, and community arts. Nat is a drummer, percussionist, and composer whose work focuses on multidisciplinary, long-form musical compositions, performance events and installations using traditional and graphic notation as well as improvisation. 

Nat Grant

Yvette Ofa Agapow is a Meanjin-based experimental musician working at the intersection of noise, ambient, drone music and acoustic vocal and percussion improvisation. Combining these musical tendencies with an intentional approach to presentation and performance, she interrogates her personal relationship to pain, catharsis and feminine subjectivity.

Yvette Ofa Agapow

Excursions in Object-Oriented Polytexture.

Liquid Architecture presents three distinct artists across three generations, all operating at the forefront of expanded music practice in Australia and abroad – Vanessa Tomlinson, Nat Grant and Yvette Agapow. Rooted in a mastery of percussion, all three artists exemplify an inherent curiosity for tactile and physical sound making by using and misusing instruments and found objects alike.

Delicious food served by Camille Thomas and Tessa Campbell.

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Liquid Architecture Presents: Vanessa Tomlinson, Nat Grant, Yvette Ofa Agapow, Reba (dj)

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Liquid Architecture Presents: Vanessa Tomlinson, Nat Grant, Yvette Ofa Agapow, Reba (dj)

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