Credit: Ted Min

Polito is a collaboration between musicians Robert Downie and Finnian Langham, and dancers Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Hillary Goldsmith. The project is a meeting of improvised contemporary dance and live improvised techno music, working together to create entrancing performance experiences.

“Live electronic composition and bodily practice conspire to create a mesmerising audio-visual landscape. Moments of euphoria emerge out of and supersede the mundane. Forms align, hyperextending into a blurry dissonance before snapping back into sublime harmony.”

Credit: Ted Min

Listen:

• Collapse Phase LP [Butter Sessions, 2023]
• Anticipate EP [Butter Sessions, 2021]
• Divine Obsolescence [Butter Sessions, 2021]
• Ultraparallel EP [Butter Sessions, 2020]
• Butter Mix #98 - Polito
• For Home Use Only #50 - Polito
• Wallis Axiom [Butter Sessions, 2020]
• Recorded Improvisations I - Kingseeker [2017]
• Recorded Improvisations II - Ceramic [2017]
• Recorded Improvisations III - Telling Tales [2017]

Credit: Ted Min, James Vinciguerra

Select Performances:

2024

• Unknown Mortal Orchestra (support)
• Phoenix Central Park

2023

• MPavilion
• Voltage Live (hosted by MESS)
• NGV Friday Nights

2022

• Hopkins Creek
• Butter Sessions x Research Records Label Showcase (The Forum)
• NGV Friday Nights (Finale)

2021

• 10 Years of Butter Sessions Warehouse Party

2020

• MPavilion
• Melbourne Immigration Museum

2019

• MPavilion
• Centre for Contemporary Photography

2018

• Melbourne Fringe Festival (Winner - Best Music)
• Strawberry Fields

2017

• Strawberry Fields

Credit: Rex Kane-Hart

Credit: Rex Kane-Hart

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the Kulin Nations on whose unceded land we live and create.