JOSTEN MYBURGH (AU)

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Josten's solo performances on alto saxophone use sustain pedals to create shimmering, mirage-like drones. They use just intonation and multiphonics to explore phasing, beating and other psychoacoustic phenomena. Played incredibly quietly, their music is a diaphanous layer threaded through the sound of the world.

Josten Myburgh (b. 1994) is a composer, saxophonist and organiser based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo (Perth, Australia). They make music drawing from a gamut of techniques associated with location sound recording, extended just intonation, free improvisation, electro-acoustic music and experimental composition.

They have performed in concert series and festivals worldwide, including Alternativa (Prague), ausland (Berlin), Vestafor (Rosendal, Norway), Offene Ohren (Munich), MONO (Meanjin), Festival Internacional de Libre Expresión de Cuernavaca, Perth International Jazz Festival, Fremantle Biennale, Supersense Festival (Naarm), the NOW now (Sydney) and Inland (Naarm). Their work has been published on Another Timbre, Edition Wandelweiser, Tone List and Flaming Pines.

Josten is co-director of not-for-profit organisation Tone List, and since 2017 has curated their Audible Edge festival.

Josten has played and worked with artists such as Michael Pisaro-Liu, Sabine Vogel, Aviva Endean, Chris Abrahams, Burkhard Beins, Andrea Neumann, Ute Wassermann, Emilio Gordoa, Sage Pbbbt, Eduardo Cossio, Jameson Feakes, and Adam Pultz-Melbye.