Soft Centre is a new one-day festival happening at the remarkable Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre on September 23. Taking inspiration worldwide from festivals such as Unsound, Berlin Atonal and Norbergfestival, Soft Centre pairs experimental electronic artists with sensory altering light works and immersive performance pieces. Rare music collaborations and site specific works are brought together to create an unforgettable day of sound and visual abstraction inside a giant industrial power station.

A night of space specific performances designed for complete immersion. 
Featuring:
Hoff Gallery: 
Jim Denley, Peter Farrar, Laura Altman & Jack Stoneham; Woodwinds
Building 28: The Chappel
Jasmine Guffond; Surround Sound Electronics
Building 25: 
Jon Rose, Clayton Thomas, Jack Ward and guests; strings
Building 5: Student Common area
Miles Thomas, Holly Connor, Evan Dorrian and guests; drums & percussion

Tuesday 3 October · 6pm-9pm
National Art School · Hoff Gallery, enter through Forbes Street
Entry FREE with an Underbelly Arts Festival ticket, or $10 on the door pending availability.

You have a colossal, risky, experimental, strange and wonderful idea for a festival. You hold it to your heart and run the gauntlet of audience expectations, funding and partnership obligations, bureaucratic red tape, rapid gentrification, more paperwork, an overworked and apathetic populace, economic arguments… You emerge... What is the size and the shape of this thing after this shredding? What was lost? What remains? Is it worth fighting for?

Directed by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Bastardy), The Silent Eye captures a freeform collaboration between two ageing legends: 72-year-old dancer Min Tanaka and 88-year-old free- jazz pianist Cecil Taylor. Beautifully shot in Taylor’s home over three days, the film is a highly intimate, impressionistic portrait of the unspoken rapport between two masters of their form who have been collaborating for over thirty years. Part jam session, part avant-garde experiment, it’s a thrilling visual and audio experience. 
Director Amiel Courtin-Wilson will be in attendance to hold a Q&A after the screening.

Number 8 in the resurrected Sounds Unsound series of improvised, experimental or just plain weird music nights. Our plan is to mix up the acoustic with the electric, the subtle with the bombastic. We will be running these every month till the end of the year and beyond.

6.00pm doors
7.00pm Sawfish 623
8.00pm Triage
9.00pm Subespai
10.00pm Maria Moles & Adam Halliwell
Visuals by LIVING SCIENCE Dept.
Soundscapes by Matthew Syres

Join Underbelly Arts and Liquid Architecture for an evening of coastal listening and tidal thinking. This Lab will offer ideas and discussion led by curator Camila Marambio, with the goal of opening participants’ ears to a set of subjects: water, rocks, sand, weeds, shells and things that live in them. Let your ideas rise with the tide during this experimental process of shore-listening, where water and earth are two moments of a p a s s a g e.

6-7pm: Meet at the Hoff Gallery and take tour of Underbelly Arts works in progress
7-9pm: Meet at the Hoff Gallery for Late at the Lab, hosted by Liquid Architecture

CHUCK A SICKY ON MONDAY TO PARTY WITH:

~OILY BOYS~
~ROBBER~ 
~PLACEHOLDER~
~THE NO~