Audible Edge Festival of Exploratory Music '26

Name: Audible Edge Festival of Exploratory Music '26
Start: 2026-05-01T18:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-05-03T21:00:00+08:00
Location: Victoria Hall (Fremantle)

Schedule

Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Sun, 03 May, 2026 at 09:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

Victoria Hall (Fremantle) | Fremantle, WA

“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟.”
“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝐼’𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒.”
“𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑓𝑢𝑙. 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑛.”
Audible Edge is an artist-led, international festival of exploratory music. It’s held annually on Whadjuk boodja since 2017. It includes delightfully strange songs, forward-thinking club sets, brazenly weird experiments, bracing noise, virtuosic improvisation, anti-virtuosic improvisation, listening through dancing, new directions for ancient music, dinners, treats and strolls.
Our mission is to make a low pressure, fun atmosphere, and a powerful, attentive listening culture. We carefully curate a program of stuff that is really good, putting little-known experimentalists on a prominent stage. We invite you to experience a festival with no headliners, that is more about realness, kindness and building culture together.
In a radical and unprecedented turn (🤪), AE’26 is all in one venue: Victoria Hall in Walyalup. We’re taking over the whole space, with room for impromptu participatory play, resting or dining between sets, courtyard boogies or massive sets in the main hall. If AE has a theme this year it is about finding ease. The festival is still quite the journey and at times delves into moody and challenging spaces - but everything you need is close to hand.
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐮𝐩
Ainslie Allan, Paul Boyé & nobu ' launch and read from Tone List's new book 'TL10Y'
alicec presents hear her breathe
amby downs (Naarm) *
Nina BC & Montana b2b
Lyndon Blue presents Winding with Flora Carbo (Naarm)
Business Partner late night set
Ryan Borrett & Eduardo Cossio present a soundwalk
Mark Cain launches Threads
Simon Charles & John Kinsella present Pressure Bells * with Djuna Lee, Jameson Feakes & Saskia Willinge
Jack Duffy (Dublin) hosts a trad session
Emelyne (Naarm) DJ
Cal Folger Day (Baltimore/Dublin) presents gráinne with Phil Christie & Jack Duffy (Dublin)
R. Glacken & Lia T *
Patrick Gunasekera hosts a pre-gathering gathering about gathering
Ira Hadžić (Berlin)
Jsuk Han (Seoul) presents Load-Bearing Tone
Jonnine (Naarm)
Jonny Marks (Pōneke)
Make-Shift presents Movement, Sound, Play, Performance
Maria Moles (Naarm) & Jameson Feakes
Pure Rave
Raissa Febriani (Bali)
Sage Pbbbt & Lily Tait (Naarm)
Rational Playtime
Nathan Thompson and the village kids present Embai
DVJRGL presents AI: Artificial Intuition
Umbel (Naarm)
Saskia Willinge with Uma Volkmer (Warrang) & Naoko Uemoto *
Plus:
Larry's Arms - bar
Local Weirdos - wine
North54 - dinner service
Pound - coffee
RTR2 - playlists by King Crezzo, Josten Myburgh & Lia T, Peter Sage and Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung
Suku - lunch special
Jess Tan - puzzles, autumnal whimsy, spiralling upwards
Teeter Bakery - pastries
Y1 - wearables
*Support these new commissioned works and collaborations for the festival via the Audible Edge Seed Fund.
𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲
Victoria Hall is wheelchair accessible. No strobe lights will be used during the festival. There is a quiet/check-out space in the festival and a few other sensory access zones on-site. See the ticketing page for much more details.
𝐀𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
Audible Edge is a project of Tone List, a Boorloo-based label for exploratory music founded in 2016.
Tone List operates on Whadjuk Noongar boodja: sovereign Country for eternity. We pay respects to Elders and custodians across time. We dream of a culture of sounding & listening which supports restorative justice and the Lore of the land.
Aboriginal and Palestinian folks are welcome to flexible-price or free tickets to our program as a token of our acknowledgment of their continuing struggles for justice. You can book these via the ticketing portal, no need to contact us.
Tone List and Audible Edge are principally sponsored by the WA government through the Department of Cultural Industries, Tourism & Sport (CITS), with additional support from the City of Fremantle, Liquid Architecture, the Audio Foundation, Frontrunner AV, Culture Ireland, and Fremantle Small Projects. Our food & beverage sponsors are Pound Coffee, Local Weirdos & Ripple Brewing.
Graphic design by Michael Gunson (Mike Midnight).