Faulty Electronic presents... Lucas Abela Grey Nomad Tour

Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 am UTC+11:00

Dissent Cafe and Bar | Canberra

Faulty Electronic presents... Lucas Abela Grey Nomad Tour
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Faulty Electronic presents...
Saturday 17th January, 7pm start.
$15 pre sale ($20 on door)
https://events.humanitix.com/faulty-electronic-presents-lucas-abela
Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela’s (fka Justice Yeldham) performances on their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass are the stuff of legend. Their singular practice spawned from the noise music underground, where over twenty years the glass evolved from a means to create ecstatic free-noise cacophonies into an outsider instrument that produces some kind of organic electronica. Abela vibrates the pane vocally to control a modular patch that uses no traditional syntheses techniques, instead the glass acts as both sound and modulation source. The patch extracting control voltages from the glass’s dynamics and frequency in order to modulate itself in synchronicity with the performance, shaping six parallel stereo effects chains that merge into dense layers of anomalous music.
Performed intimately in the round, The Grey Nomad Tour follows the release of Bag of Max Bag of Cass* (Warp Records), a collaborative album with Zach Hill (Death Grips). The album explores interpolating the two musicians by converting Zach’s performance into CV that alters Abela’s glass signal as they play. At select shows Lucas will conduct a short Q and A session after the show to explain their patching techniques.
@granpa_abela will be joined by
Marlené Claudine Radice X Making Out
Marlene X Making Out is a project born out of years of collaborative noise making between close friends. This project is an extension of Marlene and Rosa's love for drone, deep listening and texture. The duo use feedback, electroacoustic instrumentation and layered sinewaves to overdrive and ovewhelm- creating mesmerising soundscapes that reimagine harsh noise into gestures of intimacy.
https://marleneclaudine-radice.bandcamp.com/
https://makingout.bandcamp.com/
FUKNOvsNIMBY
A loose interpretation of acid techno, improvised live using dodgy samplers, homemade drum machines, circuit bent toys and no input mixer. Like your last bush doof on bad acid, we cant wait to take you on a journey.
https://fukno.bandcamp.com/
https://reubeningall.com/
Dissent
Dissent is a live music venue, café and dive bar based at 181 City Walk in the heart of Canberra’s city centre between the iconic merry-go-round and Garema Place.
https://www.dissentcafeandbar.com.au
The grey nomad tour has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
flyer photo by @convectionpattern
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