Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Building your music community

Tuesday 30 April, 5pm AEST / 3pm AWST

Writing music can often feel like a solitary endeavour, but music thrives through connection and collaboration.

This session explores ways of building and cultivating communities. Josten Myburgh (co-director, Tone List and director, Audible Edge Festival of Sound) will share their insights on identifying gaps in the exploratory music scene, and creating your own opportunities for collaboration, audience development, and building spaces for musical exploration.

This session is suitable for music creators across all art music practices and career stages, especially those looking for entrepreneurial new ways of creating, collaborating, and presenting music.

Registrations are free for AMC members
General admission $10

About the speaker

Josten Myburgh is a musician based on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja in Boorloo. They are interested in musicking in-and-as-place (in Linda Russo's sense of 'inhabitory' making, or Jim Denley's concept of playing 'with weather'), and in the way that places are expressed and translocated through culture and community. They are drawn to materials that hover in ambiguous spaces on the spectra of melody-harmony-timbre and pitch-rhythm. They express these interests through a practice which combines location sound recording, writing, improvisation, notated composition, and an experimental approach to saxophone, drums and electro-acoustic instruments.

Josten is co-director of exploratory music label Tone List, and director of their acclaimed Audible Edge Festival of Sound. They also work as an independent curator and have collaborated with artist-run initiatives and major institutions alike .

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Becoming an AMC represented artist

Tuesday 28 May, 1pm AEST / 11am AWST

AMC represented artists include the hall of fame of Australian composers as well as emerging contemporary creators. So, what does it mean to be an AMC represented artist?

In this session, we’ll break down our artist representation service and what it entails. We’ll outline the application process, eligibility criteria, and the benefits you can gain from AMC representation as a music creator.

This session will be beneficial for music creators actively working in art music and creative industries (including contemporary classical music, jazz, exploratory music, improvisation, sound installation, film and game music), as well as emerging creators seeking some guidance setting career goals and milestones.

Registrations are free

About the speaker

Jane Aubourg is the Music Resources, Representation and Awards Coordinator at the Australian Music Centre, with 13 years at the organisation (and counting!). She documents works and events in the AMC catalogue, administrates the AMC representation applications, and co-ordinates the Art Music Awards nominations process. Jane is also an AMC Associate Artist. She composes and plays violin with Sydney-based exploratory music collective The Music Box Project. Her current solo project is creating works for a violin hybrid sculpture called Play Me Mend Me.

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