NOISE SCAVENGERS
Noise Scavengers is a sound art band that explores the intersection between rock instruments, sound art, electronic music and art music.
In 2022 the Noise Scavengers developed the show Augmented Hyenas. The show involved new technology in the form of wearable sound controllers and synthesizers. This technology was developed in collaboration with Stelarc, Richard Allen and JOLT Arts.
Augmented Hyenas was premiered in November 2022 at JOLTED Arts Space through funding from the City of Darebin Arts Program. The success of the performance has led the band to create an album from the show, and then to further performances of the show in Australia and Japan in 2023 and 2024.
Members
STUART FLENLEY – GUITAR
ASTRID MEURER – GUITAR
DANIEL MUNNERY – ELECTRONICS
ESTHER TUDDENHAM – SYNTHS /// BASS GUITAR
THE HACKETTS
Hailing from Westside Melbourne, The Hackkets are a band made up of members with and without disability and are part of the JOLT Arts community. Having been incubated by Footscray Arts Centre for 25 years, The Hackkets originally focused on covers, immersing themselves in universal classic hits that win over even the most hardened in-car sing-along scrooge. Since 2011, they have channelled their love of such classics into their own songs.
Singers Victoria Rockchick (keys/vox), Stuart Flenley (guitar/vox), and Peter Tolhurst (guitar/vox), bring three distinctly different approaches to the songs they co-write in the band. Stuart merges his twin heroes Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra with a sense of humour that invariably breaks through, while Victoria has crafted her own Rock Chick persona through which she projects a rebel without a cause for the smart-phone generation. Rounding out the band is drummer Andrew Paganella who has been keeping the band in time since 1999. Of the drums, Andrew says, ‘I chose drums because I want to get somewhere to make the crowd jump out. Once I switched to drums, I stayed.’
Gigging for over two decades, The Hackkets have performed extensively throughout Melbourne and beyond: Adelaide Fringe Festival; Seddon Festival; Maribyrnong Inclusive Recognition Awards (MIRA); Murrindindi Festival; White Night Geelong and more.
BOLT ENSEMBLE
The BOLT Ensemble is dedicated to performing the music and sonic art projects of the JOLT production house. The ensemble was formed in 2004 and forthrightly premiered and internationally toured new audacious works, often working with cutting-edge technology and demonstrating a commitment to community development projects. The BOLT line-up of musicians changes from project to project — able to expand to a full orchestra.
In recent years, BOLT has toured with JOLT to Switzerland (2011), Japan (2012/2014) and the UK (2014), and has premiered several new works at various festivals in Australia. The ensemble has collaborated with a dynamic array of leading artists and ensembles: berni.m.janssen; Arcko Symphonic Ensemble; Michael Kieran Harvey; Jonathan Duckworth; The Amplified Elephants; Pansy Nulgit (Kimberley Elder); Noise Scavengers and more.
SONIC ADVENTURERS COLLECTIVE
The Sonic Adventurers is a collective of artists that work in a variety of art forms with a focus on sound art. The Sonic Adventurers are Kathryn Sutherland, Steven Hagiliassis, Helen Kruljac,ay Euesden, Daniel Munnery, Robyn McGrath, Astrid Meurer and Stuart Flenley.
The group started in early 2019 so that the artists could work together to support their individual practices. The Sonic Adventurers is made up of experienced performers who have shown in significant venues both locally and internationally. Sonic Adventurers is mentored by Philip Brophy
The artists work individually in the collective and explore electronic music, sound sculpture, field recordings, acoustic instruments, drawing, sculpture, video and other ways of creating sonic worlds.
In 2022 Sonic Adventurers released their first album, The Red Line (Hullick Studios), which explores a range of electronic and found sound worlds.
In 2021 The Sonic Adventurers released their first art book: Drawn in Music (Hullick Studios). The book consists of drawings made by the artists in response to a wide range of well known compositions, songs, sound art and music.