Name: LFO with Monastic Whale / Johnny T and the Adrenalinn Rush / ArtPleasley
Start: 2026-02-28T09:00:00+11:00
Location: 3 Rural Street

$LFO with Monastic Whale \/ Johnny T and the Adrenalinn Rush \/ ArtPleasley$

Please join us at Elevator ARI for another LFO, our ongoing series dedicated to improvisation and exploratory sound systems, on Saturday, the 28th February at 7 pm. Entry $10
Featuring Monastic Whale (Mike Watson), Johnny T and the Adrenalinn Rush, and ArtPleasley
Monastic Whale (Mike Watson) presents STACKS
The work is built from a sustained synthesiser drone that is split into eight pitch-shifted intervals, each routed to its own speaker arranged in a circle, forming a choir-like spatial field. Depending on the distance between intervals, the resulting soundscape shifts between chaos and otherworldly, beautiful harmonic states.
Over this soundbed, Mike improvises on guitar and piano, using modified scales and modes that adapt to the evolving droning structure. A numerical representation of the interval stack is projected as a geometric form, which is dynamically altered in real time by the live instrumental performance.
Mike is a Northern Rivers local based in Lennox Head. With parents who owned a music shop, music has been a central part of his life from an early age. His other work includes playing with indie-rock band Wharves, producing electronic-pop artist Franki Kaneur, and his solo experimental indie project TV Misery.
Johnny T & The Adrenalinn Rush is a live performance where machines, loops, and human energy collide.
For months, Johnny T searched for the perfect tool to perform solo. Watching videos of the Adrenalinn pedal, he became obsessed with its possibilities, its beats and effects quickly became the brain of the show.
The pedal proposes; Johnny T responds, triggering every loop, every tension, every experience.
Built around loops, fuzz, and layered textures, the performance moves between tension and release, control and chaos, reflecting the artist’s adrenalinic attitude, energy, and shifting mood, creating an experience that is hypnotic, visceral, and unpredictable.
The sound of Art Pleasley is one with echoes of New Orleans, Berlin, Minneapolis, Melbourne, Nashville, and beyond, but is uniquely endemic to the Northern Rivers of NSW. Funk from a first-gen emo kid growing up in headphones and reading liner notes who morphed into a multi-instrumental producer, singer/songwriter, and kaleidoscopic stage performer.
Elevator ARI, 7 pm, 28th February
Entry $10
We acknowledge the Widjabul Wy-abul people of Bundjalung nation as the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters where we create and commune, and recognise their continuing commitment to land, waters and culture. We pay respect to ancestors and Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge sovereignty has never been ceded.