Cords and Wires, Whistling in Wind, curated by Josten Myburgh of Tone List records for the Fremantle Biennale.

radio cegeste performed at the Fremantle Biennale, in Fremantle / Walyalup on the 10th November 2023 in the performance series Cords and Wires, Whistling in Wind, curated by Josten Myburgh of the Perth/Boorloo exploratory music label Tone List records. 

The performance responded to the Fremantle Biennale's 2023 theme of ‘signals,’ and used a sparsely poetic layering of historical recordings and site responsive elements; for example, recordings of wind-whipped poles and flags in the parking lot adjacent to the open and very wind-swept seaside performance venue were re-transmitted to the environment. The performance was informed by Berkeley Renaissance poet Jack Spicer’s writing on poetic dictation and 'the poet as radio set,' and invited the audience to collaborate in listening in to the wires that, as Spicer writes, “dance in the wind of the noise our poems make. The noise without an audience. Because the poems were written for ghosts.”

--

Cords and Wires, Whistling in Wind
The 2023 Fremantle Biennale
Exploratory music curated by Josten Myburgh (Tone List)

Sunset listening experiences to delicate, careful music by highly-regarded experimental musicians from around Australia.

Sun 5 Nov, 6pm – Dale Gorfinkel
Fri 10 Nov, 6pm – radio cegeste
Fri 17 Nov, 6pm – Jameson Feakes
the Er Pavilion at J Shed