Art As Catharsis presents a night of experimental music featuring:

- Joseph Rabjohns & Lachlan R. Dale
- BoNo (Bonnie Stewart & Novak Manojlovic)
- Francisco Sonur

Joseph Rabjohns & Lachlan R. Dale are a guitar duo exploring the intersection of post-rock, ambient, and contemporary classical music. Known for their intricate interplay and cinematic compositions, the duo craft meditative soundscapes that move between delicate fingerpicking and immersive, textural swells.

Both artists bring distinct voices from their wider work - Joseph (Kodiak Empire) with his refined harmonic sensibility and lyrical phrasing, and Lachlan (Hashshashin, Black Aleph) with his deep interest in drone, minimalism, and Eastern modalities. Together, they create music that is both intimate and expansive, evoking themes of loss, renewal, and transcendence.

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BoNo is Bonnie Stewart (Voice/effects) and Novak Manojlovic (Piano/effects) rifling through their sonic libraries and running the findings through a slew of pedals and extended processes in pursuit of stillness. Augmenting their renowned individual creative voices with electronic treatments, the duo draw on their multitude of experience as improvisors in different contexts, their occasional bush walks and their collaborations in Stewart’s ‘Bonniesongs’ to extract spinning soundscapes, subtle song forms and unique textures from old and new technologies.

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Francisco Sonur creates improvised ambient music that drifts between fragile, intimate moments and vast, immersive walls of sound. His work explores the delicate intersection between nostalgia and euphoria — where memory and emotion dissolve into texture and tone. Each performance is a spontaneous act of vulnerability, blending stillness, resonance, and the quiet urgency of the present.