Make It Up Club x This Hideous Replica: nothing repeated, nothing repeated, nothing repeated 

This Hideous Replica curators Sean Dockray and Joel Stern guest program the legendary Make It Up Club, an experimental music and improvisation night that has been happening every week in Melbourne for 25 years. Tickets on the door. 

Jennifer Walshe (Ireland) and Tomomi Adachi (Japan); voices, electronics, and electronic voices. 

Irish composer and improvisor Jennifer Walshe is one of the most original and interesting musicians operating today, working with voice, electronics, and every other instrument across a range of contexts (opera, orchestras, noise, performance art), collaborations (Tony Conrad, Matmos, George Lewis, Wobbly etc.), and concepts (artificial intelligence, fake histories, Irish-ness).  

One of her enduring collaborations is with legendary Japanese avant-garde vocalist and artist Tomomi Adachi, who has been working for decades on how to extend the capacities of his voice using electronics, computation, and synthesis, alongside the experimental techniques of concrete and noise poetry. This is the first time Tomomi and Jenny have performed together in Australia. 

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Holly Childs and Panda Wong; iterating autotune poetry, circling the void.

“At a Sidney Phillips and Lil Ket show at the Retreat, Autumn Royal got up between sets and read a poem for Jemi Gale’s birthday. Unbeknownst to her the mic was on autotune and she was speaking wavy. Holly and Panda, next to each other in the crowd, got obsessed and are now iterating autotune poetry 🎤🎼〰️”

Holly Childs is a writer and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work, across fiction, poetry, visual art, and performance focuses on the shifting mechanisms of storytelling in a contemporary world in which physical matter is constantly being reshaped, recontextualised, and rewritten by emerging crises and technologies.

Panda Wong is a poet who lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land, so-called Melbourne. Collaboration is core to her practice, she works across sound, film, performance and digital. Her first chapbook, angel wings dumpster fire, and her first EP, salmon cannon me into the abyss, were released in mid-2022.

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Darcy Wedd; solo for self-made instruments 

Darcy Wedd is an artist in the morning, musician in afternoon, luthier in the evening and makes jewellery after dinner. As much as any other artist is, he is determined by the technical advances in art made before him, by the organisation of society and the division of labour in his locality, and, finally, by the division of labour in all the countries with which his locality has intercourse. 

Make it Up Club (Bar Open), 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy Victoria 3065