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This week:
+ Will Guthrie / Robbie Avenaim
+ skinpicker
+ T. Xuân Nguyen / Cam Harris

TICKETS: $15 / $10 (conc.). No Presales.
______________________  The Make It Up Club
Avant-Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Doors at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.

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http://eepurl.com/g1Rr-9

MIUC merch is available here:
https://makeitupclub.bandcamp.com/

This event is being held on stolen land. We pay our respects to elders past and present, and we acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.

#makeitupclub

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Massive love to the incredible live lineup who pushed every sonic boundary - from the cosmic rhythm of @omnisight_jp and raw noise of @tupperware.noise, to @buddha_beat ‘s folk electronica, immersive ambient textures from @__c.m.oliver__ & @monosylabik , 80s post-punk from @mrizalmustbedestroyed , surprise unplugged from @_deklarasi_ , and heavy hardware techno from @danial.thibroni . Until the next shift in currents! 🔊⚡️
📍 @soundmakerstudiopng
📸 @shanxography

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Set times for today 🥳

Come early, stay late - and don’t miss the cake!!

We can’t wait to party with u 💖

Last minute tickets at the link in bio

#musicinexile #livemusic #ausmusic

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@monosylabik making our Pandan Dreams come true 💚

A {nhó} Pandan Dreams cake for our 6th bday ⭐️

Come and share it with us at our Music in Exile turns 6! party tomorrow night at the @thegracedarling

Tickets in bio 😋

#musicinexile #pandan #cake #livemusic

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This Saturday at the Mission to Seafarers 🩵💙🔷Blue Mud🔷🔵🔹 will be supporting my Oxen-born sister and enchanting artist 🪷🪷🪷 @babybloodlotus 🪷🪷🪷 for their album launch, alongside @nuuuuuuuuuuu__ Tickets linked in my 🔗🌳.
[images left to write - 1. gig poster, 2 & 3. blue mud at east mint, 4. before my sister cut my fringe, 5. after my sister cut my fringe... shared in honour of my son who discovered this week that cutting one's own hair at 4yo is not always a great idea.]

~🔹Blue Mud🔹~
Blue Mud is a trio of Naarm-based musicians Sui Zhen, @monosylabik (aka T. Xuân Nguyen / Tino) & @__c.m.oliver__ (badskin). The group formed with the arrival of the Lunar New Year of the Horse, around a common practice of improvised, textured sets with vocal and melodic moments.
Blue Mud is what a three-year-old described as sand under blue water. The trio tap into those inner instincts in their sets, shedding their conditioned adult selves, so musical instinct can flow without pressure for resolve. Later they would discover the geologic and oceanographic life of the term – intertidal zones, microbiomes deep in the seafloor – and find their creative prompts already living there, asking with childlike curiosity how we might create in a time of climate collapse. This is where they play.

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my beautiful friends

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just some soul-nourishing in-between moments during my time in naarm/melbourne. me, flowing like a river, full of gratitude because of all the care and cuteness 🥹🫀🙏🌀✨️🦭💫

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an echo from the teahouse void
@_cat_nguyen_ & @monosylabik honouring vietnamese culture through diasporic sorrow & healing last week.

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this week, reverie• returns with noom & braek-
an experimental idm duo born from the collision of classical music and voltage-controlled chaos — the physicality and resonance of wood and strings fragmented & reorganised by glitch sound design and the unpredictability of modular synthesis.

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Taking a moment to introduce you to the wonderful souls behind our food programme, @we.eatin.good.bitch, for Crossings #3 at @highnote_ this Sunday, Sep 13

Matisse Laida (@your.never.girlfriend) is a Queer, Mauritian/Venezuelan artist and community arts worker, working across film, food, performance, and public and community programs. Their work explores ideas of care, culture, and collaboration, all through a queer and diasporic lens. They’re the founder of We Eatin’ Good, a QPOC community project that uses food as a way to gather, share stories, and connect with identity.
Through pop-ups, workshops, film and exhibitions, they explore how cultural food practices can be acts of resistance, memory, and joy.

RSVP via donation at the link in bio.

This edition is supported by @darebin_arts Fuse Festival

#musicinexile #ausmusic #highnote #livemusic

Taking a moment to introduce you to the wonderful souls behind our food programme, @we.eatin.good.bitch, for Crossings #3 at @highnote_ this Sunday, Sep 13

Prem is a confused brown man. Take some Malaysian Tamil spices, sprinkle some French snootiness and stir in some Dutch height, and ya get a Prem. Having vowed to leave cheffing to his past life, he has clearly succeeded: regularly getting roped into cutting piles of onions for Matisse. Prem is also somehow involved in various academic frivolities - teaching undergrads, looking at our evolving relationship with the night sky, Indigenous pedagogy in tertiary curriculum writing, and generally pretending he knows what he’s doing.

RSVP via donation at the link in bio.

This edition is supported by @darebin_arts Fuse Festival

#musicinexile #ausmusic #highnote #livemusic

Crossings #3 at @highnote_____
3pm-9pm, Sunday Sep 13

DJs from 3pm -
@generalfeelings.sound
Stonax
@skjethani
@enter__other (interstitial)

Food from 4pm -
@we.eatin.good.bitch

Live from 7pm -
@yousefalreemawi x @luqman.music
@monosylabik x @_c.m.oliver_

RSVP via donation at the link in bio.

This edition is supported by @darebin_arts Fuse Festival

#musicinexile #ausmusic #highnote livemusic

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🍄 Returning for the 5th edition on Thursday the 17th of September. Music For Mushrooms is a dedication to spaces of transcendence in nature, in particular to the network of the forest - Mycelium. With this project, artist Ophelia Bakowski (DJ Luv You), alongside special guest T. Xuân Nguyen, will explore through a selection of compositions, field recordings, and live instrumentation, what it might be like to be a mushroom. Sounds collected and arranged for this work have been gathered in the process of foraging, consuming, exuding, and becoming. Tender has been a space to nourish and develop these ideas and now, as seasons pass and Spring begins, it’s time to return and imprint our spores again.

Find a taste of what to expect through this live recording from our first edition below !

Ophelia and Tender invite you to this deep listening experience, to sink into the earth and become a mushroom for a brief 180 minutes; To partake in fungal feelings and indulge in a space of gentle warmth and playful serenity for both mushroom and mushroomee <3

6-9pm Thursday 17 of September
Tickets $30 Full Price / $20 Concession

Tender Deep Listening Info:
You can enter or exit the listening room at any time throughout the duration. Please remove shoes on arrival and place them in the pigeon holes provided. We will have yoga mats, cushions and blocks available, as well as a few seats for early arrivals. We invite guests to make themselves comfortable, rearranging the furniture in the room as you like to suit your desired activities. Some suggested activities to do while listening: reading, drawing, stretching, playing chess, meditating, taking a nap, nothing. Deep Listening Sessions are not intended to be social events. Please respect our no talking policy and try to keep voice volumes soft if speaking. Tender is not serving alcohol and is not BYO, but there will be non-alcoholic beverages available to purchase as well as complimentary tea 🫖

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Introducing our live & DJ program for Crossings #3 at @highnote_____ next Sunday, Sep 13 💛

@yousefalreemawi is a Palestinian-Australian musician, scholar, linguist, internationally-renowned proofreader of Arabic content and storyteller. He is the founder and director of the Averroes Centre for Arab Culture, and the founder of ASPIRE, an NGO that contributed to the settlement of more than 250 stateless Palestinian refugees from Iraq and Syria in Australia since 2007. He is also the creator of the Palestine Remembered program on Radio 3CR, the founder/ leader of Tarab Ensemble — Australia’s leading group devoted to the classical Arabic instrumental tradition — and the presenter of the Understanding Palestine Series of public lectures on the history of Palestine.

@luqman.music works between dark techno, dub-leaning club music and bass-heavy percussion. His sets are built on paced transitions, extended builds and the kind of structural restraint that comes from trusting a room to settle in rather than steering it. The Naarm-based DJ, producer and broadcaster has spent the past several years building a presence across Melbourne’s underground and the regional Victorian circuit, with particular depth in Castlemaine.

RSVP via donation at the link in bio.

Supported by @darebin_arts

#musicinexile #highnote #ausmusic #livemusic

Introducing our live & DJ program for Crossings #3 at @highnote_____ next Sunday, Sep 13 💛

T. Xuân Nguyen (@monosylabik) is a Naarm-based Vietnamese diasporic experimental multi-instrumentalist and improviser. Their practice explores identity and healing through percussive textures and ambient guitar layering, moving between inner and outer worlds with fluidity, play, tension, and release. Through a playful and curious approach, they create space for vulnerability, memory, and presence.

@__c.m.oliver__ is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist born from Thul Garrie Waja and Gurambilbara country. Their cultural upbringing encompasses a decade of life living on Penang Island in Malaysia - where their music education began in the small but influential underground DIY scene of the early 2000s. They have released two densely tropical records, b

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Hey everyone! 🖤 A few details for tonight:

🚪 6:30pm — Doors open
🔥 7:00pm — Smoking Ceremony with Brother Rooney
🎶 ~7:30pm — Set 1
☕ 15 min intermission
🎶 ~8:30pm — Set 2
🌙 9:30pm — Close

Set times may shift slightly on the night, but there will be an intermission.

🍕 FOOD & DRINKS
Pizza from Natty Doughs will be available from 6:30pm, as well as Pandan Dreams cake. Complimentary tea will be available, so bring your own keep cup if you prefer! Barista-made tea and coffee will also be available from Aunty Alma’s Food Van. <3

🧣 WEATHER & WARMTH
It’ll be around 16°C when you arrive, dropping to around 13°C by the end of the night. The audience seating area is heated and we’ll have some blankets available, but we recommend coming rugged up and cosy. You’re also very welcome to bring your own blanket.

🔥 The fire for the Smoking Ceremony will be going beforehand and will continue afterwards. If you get cold at any point, you’re very welcome to get up and sit or stand by the fire, or next to one of the oil heaters.

♿ ACCESS
There will be an Auslan interpreter positioned to the left of the stage throughout the performance as well as for the Smoking.

If you have any accessibility requirements that you haven’t already mentioned when booking your ticket, please let us know when you check in at the door, and we’ll do our best to support you throughout the evening.

See you tonight! 🖤

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