LIQUID ARCHITECTURE presents a night of speculative connectivity featuring Taipei born, LA based Alex Zhang Hungtai: disfiguring saxophone, synthesizer, percussion and piano into rich harmonics. Accompanying Zhang on the night are Sydney’s fried, drugged and lurching xNoBBQx, the cataleptic trance of Maria Moles solo percussion, and floating murmers of ju ca.

Post-Dirty Beaches, Zhang (NON worldwide, Zoo Music) has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, free jazz, and his new role as a composer of soundtracks for film. His latest musical output predominantly works with saxophone, synthesizers, percussion,and piano, furthering his research on ritualistic music of liminality. Solo output aside, he is also a member of an experimental trio with Portuguese musicians David Maranha and Gabriel Ferrandini, based in Lisbon.

xNoBBQx are Matt Earle (derelict gtr) and Nick Dan (scrapyard drums).

“Adults used to tell me to avoid rainbow flavoured Paddle Pops because they were, the myth stated, the factory floor drippings of the mainline flavours, like chocolate, strawberry etc. xNoBBQx is like a rainbow flavoured Paddle Pop in this sense, and the myth is true.”
— Shaun Prescott.

MARIA MOLES explores resonance, melodic phrases and repetition on the drum set, making for a dynamic and meditative performance.

Favouring a predominantly digital palette – one that won’t be, at least on the surface, unfamiliar to aficionados of ambient minimalism – ju ca details a collection of scenes, fragments and delicate murmurs, one passage floating into the next.