A night of performances, concerts and open mics, shoulder-to-shoulder, broadcast live on radio. Radio Insomnia will start at Machine Hall and then move to a secret venue in Alexandria.
You are welcome to book either part of the program, and note that there are limited combined tickets (small capacity at the Secret Venue).
7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Machine Hall, 183-185 Clarence Street, Sydney.
CORIN
Moss Hopkins
Peter Lenaerts
Boy Michael
Gail Priest
12 pm - 4 am
Secret venue in Alexandria
The address will be emailed to ticket holders.
BYO; The venue is not accessible due to stairs.
Akil Ahamat
Sky Chariot
Sachin da Silva
Szem
& Guests
Bounce, nothing holds. Split. Kick. The night is wide. Bounce.
Bounce with strength. Enter the night. Sustain.
The pleasure of a night without rest. Resilience, but also energy. Bouncing back is recovery, not escape. Recharge for political fights, bounce back.
Release from the normativity of sleep, and productivity.
Share our night. To bounce back; to build trust.
Radio Insomnia returns to Gadigal lands for a new edition featuring new commissions and contributions by artists and open mics for an all-night program, live to air.
From the cavernous space of a downtown’s electrical substation to a secret tiny warehouse, we’ll explore the intricacies of night-time listening, we’ll be led by voices, dragged by time, and by King, with or without sleep. We may be diverted by inner voices, led by eerie textural sounds and open to deprogramming ourselves.
Program, presented by Radio Insomnia in partnership with Liquid Architecture, supported by the City of Sydney, the French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation and Machine Hall, as part of M.PWR series.
ARTIST LINE UP
CORIN
Corin Ileto is a Filipina-Australian electronic producer, composer, DJ and performer. New imaginary realms are produced by an assemblage of converging styles moving somewhere between trance, and baroque-laden ambience; with compositions that merge traditional forms with hyper-digital sounds.
Moss Hopkins
His radio works involve a spectral deconstruction of vocal apparatuses; audio recording equipment, transmission technologies, and text are put through cycles of receiving, decoding, distorting, erasure, and re-encoding. Morse code, short wave, EVP, and cut-up text experiments stirred with a nocturnal spoon.
Peter Lenaerts
His sound practice unfolds in the margins of perception, composing with what is often overlooked, using the faint acoustics of room tones, residual noises, or by performing for sleepers during all-night concerts. Sounds quietly inhabit the ear, attentive to absence as much as presence.
https://linktr.ee/peterlenaerts_radioinsomnia
Boy Michael
Drag alter-ego of Eora/Sydney-based Video Editor Rae Brown. They have performed in various Sydney Clubs and Events over the last few years including, The Bearded Tit, Birdcage and for the Opening Ceremony of Sydney World Pride. Their entertaining performances are a space in which the artist enjoys disrupting traditional narratives around gender and identity.
https://www.instagram.com/boymichaellovesyou/
Gail Priest
Her live exploratory music uses voice, micro sounds of objects, field recordings, and electronics as feeds into a system of transformation. Gail will sculpt shifting tides made from the sounds that haunt us, playing with acousmata, non-verbal auditory hallucinations such as hums, buzzes, ticks and zings, that leave us wondering if they are emanating from within, or from the night itself.
https://gailpriest.bandcamp.com/
Akil Ahamat
An artist who makes us move carefully, and collectively, within the dark. His work explores darkness not as absence, but as a method of orientation, as a rich cultural terrain that draws from diasporic histories in South East Asia, Islamic theology, and fictional interspecies dialogues. In his immersive, multi-screen environments, darkness becomes a shared condition through which vision falters under other modes of knowing—listening, memory, faith, and relation.
Sky Chariot
SC operates through the galactic traversing capacity of organ and synthesizer keys with occasional percussion. Often the instrumentation is rather complex, yet quite minimal, intended for life enhancing contemplation, or perhaps even a mystical embarkment; a performance can range from very calm winding narratives that seem to never end to an intricate layering of progressive timing & harmony with maximal cosmic cacophonies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTchxu7ccU
Sachin da Silva
An experimental electronic sound artist whose sounds fall anywhere between drone, noise, minimalism and defragmented club music. Delicate and essential, nothing here is stable. Every fragile texture and tone emerges from the mangled convergence of synthetic and organic sound.
https://soundcloud.com/sachin_desilva
Szem
Combining hardware synthesis and electronic sampling with percussive sculptures, cut-up vocals and poetry, Szem creates immersive sonic environments that seek to decode and conjure the unseen - divining transmutation and harnessing sound as spell.Szem means eye; it is the electronic project of visual and sound artist Laura Hunt. It speaks to the ways in which we see, through the body, through the third eye, through memory, and through one another.