Part Human, part machine confusion – this unique work playfully scrambles the signals. As Worlds Only performs, Junior Major generates real-time visuals through improvised AI-confounding code. Human inputs disrupt the machine’s attempts to interpret, classify, and predict what it sees and hears.
Worlds Only
Named after Megan Alice Clune’s short-lived yet seminal zine World’s Only that explored the intersection of classical music, experimental subgenres, and the indie ethos, Worlds Only is Alister Hill (guitar), Darren Lesaguis (vocals), Jenny Trinh AKA Wytchings (electronics/vocals), Justin Tam (saxophone), Mara Schwerdtfeger (viola), Reginald Harris (bass) and Thomas William Smith AKA T. Morimoto (electronics). Worlds Only’s first release is the compilation Worlds Only World, a survey of new works curated by them for experimental imprint New Weird Australia. Featuring 24 tracks of post-genre experimentation, WOW was released June 14, 2024 and reached #4 on the AIR Chart.
Their debut album ‘Courage to Detour and Patience to Wait’ was released exclusively on The Internet Archive in September 2024, selected as the premiere digital distribution network that’s home to classics such as the DJ Screw mixology and Collarbones ‘Waiting for the Ghosts’. The album was recorded live at Phoenix Central Park, where they debuted as a collective.
Since forming, Worlds Only have undertaken a performance and recording residency at Dark Mofo and MONA, been commissioned by Soft Centre Festival, and performed a live film score for the cult experimental film Limité curated by the Art Gallery NSW.
Junior Major
Junior Major is a collective of artists and technologists who make and merge digital and physical worlds.
For Stable Confusion, Junior Major has developed an immersive audio-visual system for Worlds Only. First presented at Soft Centre, the work explores decay, distortion, and distance. Using real-time stable diffusion and live sound-reactive inputs, the system generates shifting, responsive imagery that evolves with each performance.
Founded in 2022 by Shunji Davies, Claire Evans, and Tom Siddall, Junior Major’s practice sits at the intersection of art and technology, creating experiences that challenge perception and invite reflection.
Nick Klein
Currently located in Berlin, Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes (begrudgingly) sound art with a lean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact. Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world. Since 2013, Klein has ran the label “PL” (Primitive Languages, Psychic Liberation, Potentially Listenable etc) and currently collaborates on the free internet label FLMPP with Adam Campbell and Diego Behncke.
Klein has performed and shown works in contexts and festivals like Sonic Acts Biennial (NL), Art Site Soje (KR), The Amant Foundation (USA), Julia Stoschek Foundation (DE), SARA’S (USA), MOMA PS1 (USA), De La Cruz Collection (USA), Volksbühne (DE), Empty Gallery (HK), Berghain (DE), Tresor (DE), Seendosi (SK), Cafe Sismo (CDMX), Cafe Oto (UK), Folkteatern (SE), Burning Fleshtival (USA), Herrensauna (DE), and Summer Scum (USA).
Liam Keenan
Liam Keenan performs guitar music which is deeply grounded with melodic phrases that unravel into improvisations shaped by lineage, listening, and a quiet but insistent sense of place.
