BIOGRAPHY

Simon Charles’ compositional practise is compelled by an ethic of relational listening, representing an aesthetics of contingency, fragility and reciprocity. Often incorporating electro-acoustic media and audio scores, his work explores radical approaches to musical composition that incorporate field recording, collagist approaches, themes of place, and Just Intonation, to explore the tactility of sonic materials.

He has performed at the Make It Club (Melbourne), Audible Edge Festival (Perth), Outcome Unknown (Perth), and The Wulf (Los Angeles). He is a core member of Phonetic Orchestra, who have presented ‘sleep concerts’ in Milan, Porto and Melbourne, and a 24-hour live stream event ‘Silent Towns’, which received an APRA Art Music Award in 2022. Simon has composed music for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, Speak Percussion, WAAPA Listener Ensemble, and has received several awards including the Zavod Jazz/Classical Fusion Award, and the Marion Isabel Thomas prize . He has collaborated with notable artists Jim Denley, Manfred Werder, Ros Bandt and Aviva Endean, and in an interdisciplinary capacity with Katie West, John Kinsella, Jessica Wilkinson, Josh Pether, and Alisdair MacIndoe.

ACKNOLWEDGMENTS

Nyoongar Ballardong people on whose land I live and work. My mentors; Antoine Beuger, Peter Ablinger, Anthony Pateras, Ros Bandt, Warren Burt, Brenton Broadstock, and Jim Denley.