Sounding Together is a 5-day workshop & artist retreat. It is a music workshop, but warmly welcomes dancers, choreographers, and anyone interested in experimental music, listening, ecological arts, and improvisation. It explores how improvisation can deepen our relationship with place and each other. It strives to be non-hierarchical and fun, driven by each participant’s curiosity and initiative, and supported by the peace and beauty of its location.
Sounding Together has no fixed schedule, and no expected outcomes. It’s a place to be infatuated with being in generative, creative flow for a short period of time. It’s also where the social and artistic are woven together, with ample opportunities to cook, eat, talk, think, dance, swim and walk. The workshop is best placed when we follow what organically grows out of being together.
This edition is gently facilitated by visiting artist Aviva Endean (Naarm) and supported by Saskia Willinge (WWIM) and Josten Myburgh & Annika Moses (Tone List). It is situated again on the Country of the Wadandi Noongar people in Talinup/Augusta, just under 4 hours drive from Boorloo. The project is held in a lovely, big family holiday home, right on the inlet (a few big steps out the front door and you’ll be in the water). Ground transportation can be coordinated to visit interesting adjacent sites.
Sounding Together will run between December 3 and 7, 2025.
Applications for Sounding Together 2025 close on September 21, 2025. Application is by EOI. Places are limited.
Participation is a sliding scale between $350 – $700. It is up to you what amount you pay (the workshop costs about $6000 to $7000 to put on depending on numbers). You will be asked to elect what to pay after the application stage, so that this does not influence the assessment of your application. Sounding Together, and Tone List’s broader ‘25/’26 program is sponsored by the Western Australian state government through the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism & Sport.
At least one subsidised spot is available. You may elect to be considered for this if you are a person experiencing financial hardship, or an interstate applicant investing their own money to travel and participate.
To reserve your spot, we will need 50% of the cost upfront after your application is approved. The remainder is due before December 2, 2025. This amount is non-refundable except on compassionate grounds in extraordinary circumstances.