Rebecca Riggs-Bennett is an emerging sound and spoken word artist, electronic music producer, composer, director, and two-time recipient of a Drug Aware YCulture Metro grant for her work in sound design and performance making. We chatted to Rebecca about her two YCulture projects, The Sound of Trees and With Me, We Walk.

Elsewhere/Rebecca is a sound artist, electronic music producer and performance maker based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. Elsewhere/Rebecca’s debut album With Me, We Walk sponsored by Drug Aware YCulture Metro, recently came out and featured a compilation of tracks and poems written in the past few years. We chatted to the multitalented artist about who she is and what she does, her debut album and the special way she launched it.

KickstART Virtual 2020 is well underway and in the lead up to Going Walkabout with STAV. on Friday 29 May, Propel asked the Melbourne based singer 5 questions about her new song ‘Walk A Little Further’.

Trent-Jean Michel is a singer-songwriter/producer and musician who’s also part of the music collective Trent-Jean & The Lovely Bones who performed at the Lucky Cat Cinematheque event in January. We chat to him about his debut single Manchester By The Sea coming out May 1, doing music as a solo artist and as part of a group, and what he’s been up to during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Part 2 of Marcus and David’s interview continues from Part 1 focusing on their joint project ECHO: Stories from East Africa. In Part 2, Marcus and David chats to Yoshika about what drives them to volunteer for small NGOs, the growing scrutiny of charities and the relationship between volunteering and art.

Marcus Wong and David Chidgzey collaborated on ECHO: Stories of East Africa, an exhibition that encompasses the trials and triumphs of East African communities through visual media, live music, speeches and stories. Part 1 covers the conception of the project, their volunteer experience and the question of whether who’s happier – someone who faces loneliness or a community who faces problems relating to basic needs.

Sivakumar Balakrishnan, a Layanjali tabla player and teacher, was introduced to the percussion instrument which originated from India when he was 4 and has been guided and taught by his Guru and mentors. Sivakumar talks to Yoshika about finding inner peace from playing the tabla, what it represents to him and Australia and why it’s so important to share culture and music.

We talked to Owen and Thomas about all things music, their band The Atlas State and providing affordable AV equipment to young artists.