Wednesday, 05 June, 2024 - 10:01

Josten Myburgh

is a musician and organiser based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo. He works with alto saxophone, field recordings and electro-acoustic material in composed and improvised settings, drawn to careful and patient treatment of sounds and relations with people and place. He is co-director of Tone List and curates the annual Audible Edge Festival of Sound as well as concert series and standalone events in Western Australia. He maintains projects internationally with composers and improvisers Michael Pisaro-Liu, Jameson Feakes, Emilio Gordoa, Sabine Vögel, Adam Pultz-Melbye, and Sage Pbbbt, as well as dancers Daisy Sanders & Joshua Pether and visual artist Elizabeth Pedler, and plays in ensembles Land’s Air and Ghost Gum Reverb. He has released music on Another Timbre, Tone List, Edition Wandelweiser Records & Flaming Pines. Recent performances include Spiral Sundays (Berlin), Punctum (Prague), FILEC Festival (Cuernavaca), VOLTA (Cuided da Mexico), the Perth International Jazz Festival and Hidden Treasures Festival.