Concert · Trustfall & Luke M de Zilva

TRUSTFALL
Brian William Rogers aka Trustfall is a musician, filmmaker, and artist based in Paris. His strongly collaborative practice incorporates composition, improvisation, cinema, and performance, alongside the likes of Lafawndah, Sebastien Forrester and ãssia ghendir amongst others. His work has been presented at the Lyon Biennale, the MACBA, Ashkal Alwan, and the Festival d’Avignon, to name just a few and in 2024 will perform a commissioned work for Fondation Cartier. In 2016, he completed his PhD thesis on the avant-garde Zen operas of American artist Robert Ashley.

LUKE M DE ZILVA
Luke M de Zilva is an Australian experimental songwriter, composer and curator. Up / Bright, Bright Blue (2024) is the final third of a performance featuring cellist Peter Hollo from the inaugural Volume Festival at the Art Gallery of NSW – a site-specific set embracing the resounding echo of the Gallery environment and responding to Hilda Rix’s landscape painting, Through the Gum Trees, Toongabbie (circa 1920). It follows on from Luke’s three performances at Dark Mofo 2023 and his recording project, Levelled (2022), created at the University of Technology’s industrial reverb chamber alongside Peter Hollo and Mara Schwerdtfeger. Levelled was named a ‘best of’ in 2022 by The Quietus, awarded #1 in the Wettest 100 – the second-ever fan-voted countdown of Australian left-field music. In 2024 Luke appeared at Sydney Festival and alongside Penelope Trappes (AU/UK) in Australia. Luke's work has been praised as “uniquely Australian” by Roy Montgomery (NZ).