Name: HEAR THE MACHINE #12 - Veils [WA]/ Alex Mraz/ Darlene
Start: 2025-09-28T09:00:00+10:00
Location: Nighthawks

$HEAR THE MACHINE #12 - Veils [WA]\/ Alex Mraz\/ Darlene$

Join us for the twelfth edition of HEAR THE MACHINE, a monthly series showcasing experimental synthesiser music, including drone, ambient, noise, and other electronic music practices being explored by artists in Naarm and the wider community.
HEAR THE MACHINE happens on the last Sunday of the month, at Nighthawks Bar - 136 Johnston street Collingwood.
HEAR THE MACHINE #12
September 28th 2025
7pm doors
$15/10 (no presales)
The artists:
Veils are a five piece audio-visual collective with Boorloo experimental artists Plyanci, Samarobryn, Scientia, Tenebrae and Tu Hüs. Shaping sensory worlds through comprovisation. Fusing abstract rhythms, fractured textures, drones, field recordings, and layered film. A deep, organic system of wires and patch cords expands consciousness through human-machine interplay.
https://veilsboorloo.bandcamp.com/album/wire-2
Alex Mraz is an audio engineer from Narrm making her debut as a live electronic artist. Drawing from her technical background and deep sensitivity to sound, her set weaves together influences from ambient and electro-acoustic music pioneers, field recordings captured during a 2023 Top End road trip, and a lifelong fascination with birds and birdsong. The piece explores sound masking—both as psychoacoustic concept and practical response to urban noise—creating space for listening as deliberate reverie and rest.
Darlene is a prolific artist having released music through various projects in a wide range of genres both solo and in collaborations over a career spanning 20 years on cassette, 7”, 12” and digital through a variety of independent labels. She has released music as AA Matheson, Bison Grass, Boquillas, WE1 XAM, Jenny Hickingbotham band, and of course Darlene. Over the past few years she has released a number of solo analogue synth epics, culminating in a trilogy of meditative pieces titled Crises Trilogy. Most recently she has been performing as Your Mothers Disgusting Window a misanthropic industrial sludge project with a revolving back up band whose only responsibility is creating walls of guitar feedback while she plays sternum dissolving, heavily fuzzed out bass riffs. In any of her forms, Darlene is known for her often intense and emotional live shows taking place in unconventional venues like underground tunnels, haunted buildings, cinemas and Masonic lodges. In addition to performing, she curates an accessible all ages concert series called SPACE and manages the co-op diy label Marfa Lights.
https://marfalightsrecords.bandcamp.com/
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the true owners and custodians of the land where this event takes place. Always was. Always will be.