A decade since his last visit to Brisbane, US-born, Swiss-based musician Jason Kahn returns with a new embodied-performance work. Using a chaotic feedback system, he creates sound by placing his body in the circuit. Grabbing the open leads of a modular synthesiser, he makes and breaks circuits, causing his synthesiser to overload or momentarily collapse. A mixing board, contact microphones, electromagnetic inductors, and the synthesiser’s outputs are used to modulate the synthesiser’s parameters, resulting in a dynamic system, difficult to control, but allowing great expressivity—much like any acoustic instrument, only electronic.

Mono is the IMA’s longstanding program of experimental sound curated by Lawrence English of Room40. Experience the expansive world of sonic experimentation and boundary-pushing performance in Brisbane/Meanjin through an integration of diverse sound materials and practices.