Jane Aubourg

A paper cut out black and white photo of Jane from the waist up. She is wearing a black jumpsuit and a choker. She has a dark fringer and is smiling at the camera.

Photo by Nina Kourea.

what's

a zine??

a DIY

publication,

short for

magazine

Jane Aubourg (pronounced OR-berg) is a composer, violinist and zine maker based on Dhawaral Country, Wollongong Australia. She writes a monthly zine called Paper Trails that explores and documents her creative process. Jane has been a member of award-winning exploratory new music ensemble The Music Box Project since 2014.

Notable commissions include sound installations for the Wollongong Fringe Festival and Wollongong City Council. Residencies include Bundanon Trust (with The Music Box Project) and the Wollongong Youth Centre.

In 2024, Jane co-directed and performed at Cut Paste Play, a weekend festival of exploratory music presented by The Music Box Project. This festival featured artists from around Australia and overseas.

In 2020 The Music Box Project won an APRA AMCOS / AMC Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Practice for their project Shallow Listening, debuted at the Bendigo International Festival of Experimental Music in 2019.

For her current project, Jane performs on Anita Johnson’s sculpture Play Me Mend Me – a curious assemblage of an unfinished violin, a salvaged crutch, a tobacco tin, and a blanket. Strings weave through its 1.6m length creating three unique sounding sections. Jane’s music on this instrument/sculpture explores her experience of chronic pain from playing violin. This cross-artform collaboration explores how to continue making music; how to play and how to mend.

Jane’s zine Paper Trails follows the creation and performance of music from this project, involving readers more closely and intimately with the creation of art music.

Jane is represented as an Associate Artist with the Australian Music Centre.

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