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

Sofia Carbonara (they) is a percussionist and performance maker based in Melbourne, Australia. Original solo works include "Etude for a Kitchen" (2025), “On Names” (2023, Alien Passengers) and “Flight” (2022, Matt Lima Films), original ensemble works include “This is Not a Table” (2024, Brunswick Music Festival, Australian Art Orchestra) and “Etude for an Apple” (2024, Melbourne Recital Centre, AAO). They co-create interdisciplinary works which have been presented by the Detroit Institute of Art, New Music Studio, Great Lakes Chambers Music Festival, and University Music Society. As a vibraphonist Sofia has performed with ensembles at the Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival (2025), WOMAD (2025), Asia Topa (2025), Melbourne International Jazz Festival (2023, 2024), MONA FOMA (2024), and Now or Never (2024). Sofia was the 23/24 Pathfinder Associate Artist for the AAO, and is a postgraduate researcher in music at Monash University.


Sofia Carbonara

Lachlan Anderson is an Australian/ Aotearoa composer and musician (Die! Die! Die!) whose work spans film, television series and installations.
Lachlan has collaborated with many artists over the years, creating sound for Jess Johnson and Simon Ward’s planetarium feature film XYZZY; Rosabel Tan, Andy and Beckie’s installation An Inheritance at Manchester Art Gallery; and most recently Sriwhana Spong’s latest film AD.
He recently scored the dark comedy series Crackhead, created by Holly Shervey and directed by Emmett Skilton, available on Three (NZ) and HBO Max (Aus), as well as Malin-Sarah Gozin's (Bad Sisters, Tabula Rasa, Clan) new dark comedy thriller series Dood Spoor/ Dead End, which premiered at Cannes International Series Festival. Malin serves as the show runner and co-director alongside Hans Vercauter. This is Lachlan's second collaboration with Malin since the Netflix psychological thriller Tabula Rasa.
Anderson has recently produced scores for Sasha Rainbow's body-horror film debut Grafted (Shudder) and David Farrier's (Tickled, Dark Tourist, Flightless Bird) investigative documentary Mister Organ (Netflix).




Lachlan Anderson

Tarquin Manek is an artist based in Melbourne whose current solo projects
include Tarquin Manek, Silzedrek, Static Cleaner Lost Reward, LST and M Quake.
‘Disturbed and enchanted environments’, ‘deep spatial dynamics’, and ‘higher dub logic’ are all phrases used to describe Manek’s work. It’s revealed in a way that spurs on the attentive listener through live settings and in his production - the details so detailed and calling to be heard multiple times for an exercise in a choose your own story-song. Manek’s ability to weave between the characters of his aliases through 21st century avant folk jazz
improvisation, dream(pop) (post) punk, dubbed in and out clarinet, syncopated syco rhythm and beyond, displays a certain lunacy and obsession that only someone of his calibre could possess.

Lauded by Resident Advisor as Blackest Ever Black’s MPV, Manek has several releases on the now defunct label, as well as a slew of other releases and tracks on A Colourful Storm, Chapter Music, Purely Physical and Kashual Plastik; with upcoming releases on Low Company, 5 Gate Temple, and A Colourful Storm.


Tarquin Manek

Musicians Sofia Carbonara, Rama Parwata, Tarquin Manek and Lachlan Anderson respond to Spong’s instrument sculptures which form an evolving personal gamelan. The musicians, who are recognised for their mastery of percussive instrumentation, will create an improvised performance of the sculptures within the gallery.

The performance celebrates the opening of Monash University Museum of Art’s new exhibition Sriwhana Spong: HA HA HA. 

In a rare occasion the event will also feature a performance of the Gamelan Digul. This instrument, seldom exhibited or played, was made by activist inmates in 1927 at the Dutch prison camp at Tanah Merah in the jungle on the Digul River, West Irian (now Papua New Guinea) and brought to Australia by the musicians where it is now cared for by the Music Archive of Monash University.

Li(quid)stening
Architecture

Sriwhana Spong, HA HA HA: Liquid Architecture and MUMA present a performance of Sriwhana Spong’s instrument sculptures.

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Sriwhana Spong, HA HA HA: Liquid Architecture and MUMA present a performance of Sriwhana Spong’s instrument sculptures.

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