Events
See what’s on from our base in Brunswick and beyond ↓
Next Wave x (nexus)
Next Wave x (nexus) is a multi-sensory Radical hospitality event of experimental dance battles, cuisines and a party.
Across the Ocean: Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Nam Le
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network is thrilled to host an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Nam Le.
Archive
International Women's Day Performance
Our Young Artistic Directorate are co-curating a party in partnership with Brunswick Music Festival
Radical Hospitality: 剉冰 + equatorial fruit-opening party
Dead Ends and Detours - Bruno Booth
Leisuretime I — Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca Mccauley
No caption
New North - Resonant Threads
New North presents Resonant Threads
Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung, Michael McNab and Maria Moles
Thu 10 Mar
📍Brunswick Mechanics
Get tickets
Three soloists representing diverse sonic and audio-visual practices are brought together in an intimate space. Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung, Michael McNab, and Maria Moles weave their deep and personal explorations into resonance and bodies (human and acoustic) into multi-sensory fabric, enchanting for listeners of all kinds.
Presented by New North as part of Brunswick Music Festival.
Maria Moles - Photo credit: Nick McKinlay
Maria Moles is a Naarm/Melbourne based drummer/composer. Her solo percussion performances draw on ideas from the Kulintang music of the Philippines and contemporary electronic production to weave hypnotic webs from layers of unmetered pulse that slowly undergo subtle textural transformations.
She has performed and collaborated with some of Australia’s most renowned artists, including Anthony Pateras, Jim Denley, Lucas Abela, Jenny Barnes, Scott Tinkler, Carolyn Connors, The Australian Art Orchestra, James Rushford and Dave Brown, and is the drummer for Jaala, Ajak Kwai, Jonnine (HTRK), and Doroth. Maria’s debut EP ‘Mondo Flockard’ was released in 2016 through Perth label Tonelist, and she released her solo LP ‘Opening’ through Nice Music in January 2020.
Michael McNab - Photo credit: Josh Wells Photography
Michael McNab is a drummer, percussionist and artist working in rock, experimental music and performance. He plays drums in the band Adore, improvises with EPS foam boxes as contact amplifiers of percussion and found materials, performs “suburban rituals” with small visual objects and speakers, and repurposes the web browser as an instrument, using multiple youtube tabs to arrange collages of pop, club, rap and other musics under the alias “Listening Labour”. This performance will be a live execution of one of those collages.
Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung - Caleb Colledge
Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung is a composer/musician who works within concert and installation settings, investigating the possibilities inside intimate sonic and social spaces. She is interested in ideas of listening, resonance, tuning, environment, sharing and communication. She also plays the Erhu and has developed an extended practice for this instrument. An active member of the experimental/improvised music scene in Australia, Jasmin has also shared her work in Europe, China and North America. She is the 2021/2022 Pathfinders Associate Artist for the Australian Art Orchestra and is currently living in Naarm/Melbourne.
New North is Narrm’s (Melbourne) newest platform for local musicians who push boundaries in their areas of practice, situated on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We empower artists and audiences to try the untried, experience the new, and expand conceptions of the possibilities of sound.
Ambitious ideas need space and opportunity to reach their fullest expression. Through concert presentations, commissions and community initiatives, New North aims to support and celebrate innovation from Melbourne’s extraordinary musicians and sound artists, both established and emerging.
New North’s inaugural 2021 series is presented in partnership with Brunswick Mechanics Institute, a centre for experimental performance managed and curated by Next Wave. New North is supported by Australia Council for the Arts.
Learn more about New North
Instagram
Facebook
& Linktree
Three soloists representing diverse sonic and audio-visual practices are brought together in an intimate space. Jasmin Leung, Michael McNab, and Maria Moles weave their deep and personal explorations into resonance and bodies (human and acoustic) into multi-sensory fabric, enchanting for listeners of all kinds.
Thu 10 Mar
Brunswick Mechanics
Tickets: LINK HERE
Presented by New North as part of Brunswick Music Festival.
Maria Moles
Maria Moles is a Naarm/Melbourne based drummer/composer. Her solo percussion performances draw on ideas from the Kulintang music of the Philippines and contemporary electronic production to weave hypnotic webs from layers of unmetered pulse that slowly undergo subtle textural transformations.
She has performed and collaborated with some of Australia’s most renowned artists, including Anthony Pateras, Jim Denley, Lucas Abela, Jenny Barnes, Scott Tinkler, Carolyn Connors, The Australian Art Orchestra, James Rushford and Dave Brown, and is the drummer for Jaala, Ajak Kwai, Jonnine (HTRK), and Doroth. Maria’s debut EP ‘Mondo Flockard’ was released in 2016 through Perth label Tonelist, and she released her solo LP ‘Opening’ through Nice Music in January 2020.
Michael McNab
Michael McNab is a drummer, percussionist and artist working in rock, experimental music and performance. He plays drums in the band Adore, improvises with EPS foam boxes as contact amplifiers of percussion and found materials, performs “suburban rituals” with small visual objects and speakers, and repurposes the web browser as an instrument, using multiple youtube tabs to arrange collages of pop, club, rap and other musics under the alias “Listening Labour”. This performance will be a live execution of one of those collages.
Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung
Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung is a composer/musician who works within concert and installation settings, investigating the possibilities inside intimate sonic and social spaces. She is interested in ideas of listening, resonance, tuning, environment, sharing and communication. She also plays the Erhu and has developed an extended practice for this instrument. An active member of the experimental/improvised music scene in Australia, Jasmin has also shared her work in Europe, China and North America. She is the 2021/2022 Pathfinders Associate Artist for the Australian Art Orchestra and is currently living in Naarm/Melbourne.
New North is Narrm’s (Melbourne) newest platform for local musicians who push boundaries in their areas of practice, situated on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We empower artists and audiences to try the untried, experience the new, and expand conceptions of the possibilities of sound.
Ambitious ideas need space and opportunity to reach their fullest expression. Through concert presentations, commissions and community initiatives, New North aims to support and celebrate innovation from Melbourne’s extraordinary musicians and sound artists, both established and emerging.
New North’s inaugural 2021 series is presented in partnership with Brunswick Mechanics Institute, a centre for experimental performance managed and curated by Next Wave. New North is supported by Australia Council for the Arts.
Learn more about New North
Instagram
Facebook
& Linktree
Michael McNab - Photo credit: Josh Wells Photography