Audible Edge Festival 2025

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Audible Edge is a celebration of DIY and exploratory music culture on Whadjuk Noongar boodja, running yearly since 2017. It has no genre affiliation and is home to all kinds of sonic strangeness. It has a boundless affection for the unhinged, the goofy and the peerlessly rigorous alike. It hosts special music in settings that strive to be fun, friendly, safe, and accessible.

If 2024’s festival was something that shimmered and shined, AE’25 is the same but dropped in the mud. There is a flute under water, a women’s wartime song, a tiny rattling machine, the crackle of burning tree-stumps, a vulture’s wings cutting the air, a binaural recording of high-heels sinking into wet grass. Sometimes listened to from something soft and comfy, and other times in a much sillier context.

AE is about learning about where we are through those who have courageously dreamed of how this time and place could sound. It’s about learning how great our scene is by putting it on even-footing with international heavy hitters. And it’s about being on the side of artists, finding ways to support exploratory expression here.

If you've come before, we hope you'll be excited as us to block out the dates on your calendar. If you haven’t been before, we’d love to welcome you into this cool thing, and suggest you do the same. It's all really good, and flows in a way that takes care of you.


Event at PS this year: Citadels in Smoke

Friday, April 4 - 8:30pm–10pm

'Onward to PS, it’s time to wipe the tears away and sink into a world of high-definition rattles, crackles and wild sonic phenomena made by strings.'

Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker, in their first of two festival performances, present Pyrocumulus. Composed by the big dog of electroacoustic rigour on this continent, Anthony Pateras, Pyrocumulus deals conceptually with the aftermath of bushfire, using processed field recordings, instrumental sounds, and spoken word. In the foreground is the violin, cello and singing of Silvia & Deborah, sometimes engaged with radical timbral possibilities on their instruments, and other times sounding tuneful, even mournful. Originally written for a bonkers amount of speakers, we’ll hear it in quadrophonic (4-speaker) surround sound.

Eduardo Cossio launches Citadels, the newest release on Tone List. Eduardo has been entering increasingly unfathomable territory with his now-iconic setup of two zithers, harmonics and small electronics. Few know how he is making the sounds he is making, but the vast sonic depth and nocturnal beauty he’s been achieving is turning heads nonetheless. Off the back of tours of Europe and Taiwan, and releases with Josten Myburgh and Ross Bolleter, Eduardo’s solo record is a big moment in the trajectory of one of Boorloo’s most prolific, dedicated sound explorers.

If you’re rolling on from Laugh of Medusa and don’t need a dinner break, feel free to head straight to the PS bar, which will be open from 8.

TICKETS HERE


PS Art Space is a wheelchair accessible venue at street level from the pavement. It has one women’s bathroom and one gender-neutral, wheelchair accessible bathroom located on the ground floor. Alcohol will be served at the venue. The venue is large, and the front door will be kept open for the duration of the performance, but there are no windows for ventilation in the main gallery. There is no dedicated check-out space booked.