Conjuring a notion of childlike wonderment and trepidation in the face of an unmapped universe around us.

Melbourne electronic musician Fia Fiell, aka Carolyn Schofield, combines her profound practical and theoretical chops as a pianist and composer with a most modern and perceptive ear for stretching out the orbit of millennial electronic music constructs. As a live performer, Carolyn plays and processes multiple synths in real time to create hauntingly ethereal, unsettling and other-worldly soundscapes, a sound which formed the basis of her first release, "A Hair, A Heap" on Melbourne label Nice Music in 2016.

Since then, Carolyn’s unique live shows have seen her invited to perform at festivals including Freedom Time, Inner Varnika, Obsidian Festival and Melbourne Fashion Week, as well as her own headline performance in multichannel sound presented by Play On at Melbourne Music Week, which was commissioned as a site-specific work at the Docklands’ Mission to Seafarers Dome.

Heavily influenced by the rhythms and movements of the natural world as well as musical romanticism, Carolyn often explores meditative, emotive and subtly-shifting sonic landscapes in her music, with improvisation forming a large part of her compositional processes and live performances. She has an unnatural knack for wielding the hi-res vapour clouds which form and nebulize around uneasy chords and melodic cycles, perhaps conjuring a notion of childlike wonderment and trepidation in the face of an unmapped universe around us.

Carolyn also performs in a difficult-to-categorise dance music duo, ‘Rolling Mass’, together with beatmaker and grindcore drummer Max Kohane. Their debut EP, Prime Unity (released on L.A.’s Brain Dead Records last year) explored influences ranging from disco and funk to house, drone and distorted techno. Carolyn has also just joined art-pop indie band Jaala on synths, and will be touring Europe together with singer/guitarist Cosima Pay and drummer Maria Moles following the release of Jaala’s new album, *Joonya Spirit* on Bedroom Suck in April.

Melbourne electronic musician Fia Fiell, aka Carolyn Schofield, combines her profound practical and theoretical chops as a pianist and composer with a most modern and perceptive ear for stretching out the orbit of millennial electronic music constructs. As a live performer, Carolyn plays and processes multiple synths in real time to create hauntingly ethereal, unsettling and other-worldly soundscapes, a sound which formed the basis of her first release, "A Hair, A Heap" on Melbourne label Nice Music in 2016.

Fia Fiell

YL Hooi is the project of Valya Ying-Li Hooi, inhabiting a subtle and mysterious realm of furtive, dubbed-out song, sparse electronic percussion, and distant winds. Active in the Melbourne underground scene since 2017, Hooi is a member of Kallista Kult (with Sam Karmel and Tarquin Manek) and has recorded and performed with artists including Jonnine Standish (HTRK), Jarrod Zlatic (Fabulous Diamonds) and Rohan Rebeiro (My Disco). 

Her debut album Untitled (first released on cassette by Altered States Tapes in 2019 and reissued on LP by Efficient Space in 2021) was widely praised, finding a spot on many year end of year lists including the number 1 spot on Boomkat’s Discoveries list and being described by Boomkat as an immaculately frayed conception of dubwise dream-pop’.

Moving seamlessly from angelic song to gritty tape gunk, Hooi’s work opens onto a multitude of genres and directions while retaining a distinctly personal stamp through her obsessively zoned-out dub production tactics. ‘These are songs that seem to emerge in plumes of smoke, magician’s tricks conjured from the ether’ (World of Echo).

Both live and in the studio, Hooi’s work is produced in close collaboration with Tarquin Manek (known for his eponymous solo work on Blackest Ever Black, as well as a swathe of aliases including LST and Static Cleaner Lost Reward, and membership of groups including Kallista Kult and F ingers). In the live setting, the pair use voice, trumpet, bass clarinet, guitar, bass, drum machines and synths to reimagine the carefully produced studio material anew for each performance, keenly aware of improvisational possibilities and the vicissitudes of audience, venue, and acoustic space.

Touching on the fringes of many genres and traditions – post-punk, minimal synth, dub, krautrock – Hooi’s protean music is haunted and seductive, her voice trailing off into an echoed infinity anchored to body-shaking foundations.

YL Hooi is the project of Valya Ying-Li Hooi, inhabiting a subtle and mysterious realm of furtive, dubbed-out song, sparse electronic percussion, and distant winds. 

YL Hooi

aural memes from sound studies and ecosophy

J. G. Biberkopf / Gediminas Žygus is an artist from Lithuania, based in-between Amsterdam and Vilnius. He works within the fields of sound, documentary, conceptual art and performance. Biberkopf's practice assembles a collage stemming from sound studies and ecosophy; post-colonial, architectural and media theories. Anti-architectural, with the interplay of design and power as works central concerns, his work encourages to unthink, and devise alternative genealogies of significant metaphysical and physical architectures; to reflect their interaction, narrativization, and influence on and within sociality.
J. G. Biberkopf is interested in creating autonomous ecologies that become independent of himself. In the previous work, he worked intensively with aural memes, exploring the semiotics of sound. Biberkopf has developed a sound practice, which at times has been called sculptural, theatrical and cinematic.
Biberkopf has presented works and collaborations at Barbican Centre (UK), Berghain (DE), Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius (LT), Haus Der Kunst (DE), Head (CH), Mutek Montreal (CA), Pompidou (FR), Rupert (LT), Sonic Acts (NL), Studium Generale Rietveld (NL), The Kitchen (US), Unsound (PL), Venice Biennale (IT). He was also a member of the curatorial teams of the Newman Festival (2015), and of the Unthinkable Nomos research project and events series (2016), and is currently in the process of finishing a Masters degree in Fine and Arts and Design at Sandberg Institute.

J.G. Biberkopf

Favouring a predominantly digital palette – one that won’t be, at least on the surface, unfamiliar to aficionados of ambient minimalism – ju ca details a collection of scenes, fragments and delicate murmurs, one passage floating into the next.

Like a trick of the light, foreground shifts to the back; what was a whisper is revealed as an echo of an impassioned plea; and while it may be hard to tell where an element emerged from, or where it indeed it may go on the plane of the work, everything does in some way seem in its right place.

Favouring a predominantly digital palette – one that won’t be, at least on the surface, unfamiliar to aficionados of ambient minimalism – ju ca details a collection of scenes, fragments and delicate murmurs, one passage floating into the next.

ju ca

Makeda oscillates between aural, physical and curatorial practice, including music, installation / performance art, radio and design. Sketching a svelte aural palette, she has performed locally and internationally at festivals and clubs including Dark Mofo, RVNG International’s ‘Commend’ store, Cool Room, Soft Centre, the Cité Internationale des Arts, and Bossa Nova Civic - alongside a diverse range of artists including Klein, Oscar Key Sung, Elysia Crampton and Inga Mauer. Makeda’s J’OUVERT collaboration premiered at Next Wave 2018; and consists of a rotating cast of artists (working between sound, movement, dress, installation) in exploration of the colonial history Trinidad, and its infamous 4am street festival J’ouvert. J’OUVERT was shown at the PRECOG party, an event produced by Makeda alongside curator DJ Sezzo, investigating how marginalised communities come together in the celebratory alternate reality of the club. The party seeks to raise questions about embodiment, direct intuitive relations to the environment, identity and freedom from normative structures. As a DJ, Makeda started out on Brisbane’s iconic 4ZZZ community station, and has since become a staple (spinning and being spun) on stations including Hope St Radio, Triple J and The Lot NYC and Red Light Radio. The latter station presented a special live from their street window studio, located in Amsterdam’s red-light district. Highlighting the spirit of experimentation and storytelling that carries through to her DJ practice - Makeda’s ‘Red Light Intervention’ presented new material created about sex work from the workers perspective. The show was broadcast to passers-by and online to RLR’s global listener base. \* \[Soundcloud]\(https://soundcloud.com/bodypromise)

Makeda oscillates between aural, physical and curatorial practice, including music, installation / performance art, radio and design.
Sketching a svelte aural palette, she has performed locally and internationally at festivals and clubs including Dark Mofo, RVNG International’s ‘Commend’ store, Cool Room, Soft Centre, the Cité Internationale des Arts, and Bossa Nova Civic.

Makeda

Rings Around Saturn is a Melbourne-based electronic music producer, also known as Rory McPike

Rings Around Saturn is a Melbourne-based electronic music producer, also known as Rory McPike.

- [Bandcamp](https://rings-around-saturn.bandcamp.com)

Rings Around Saturn

J.G. Biberkopf (LIT - Danse Noir / Knives)
Rings Around Saturn (Analogue Attic, Paper Cuts, Rhythm Works)
WDK (NSW & VIC)
Ying-Li Hooi
Compound (Nice Music)
Makeda 
Simon J. Karis (Nice Music)
Ju Ca

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Moopie (A Colourful Storm, Blackest Ever Black, Jealous God)
Fia Fiell (Nice Music)

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Obsidian II: Melbourne w/ JG Biberkopf, Rings Around Saturn & guests (Day 1)

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Obsidian II: Melbourne w/ JG Biberkopf, Rings Around Saturn & guests (Day 1)

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