Jane Aubourg writes a monthly zine called Paper Trails that follows her creative process and experiences of composing, performing and improvising. She has been a member of award-winning exploratory new music ensemble The Music Box Project since 2014. She performs and composes for their Upstairs pub series and co-directed Cut Paste Play 2024, a weekend festival of experimental music featuring international, interstate and local Sydney artists. 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.

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

In her major solo project, Jane composes and performs on Play Me Mend Me, Anita Johnson’s sculpture – a curious assemblage of a salvaged crutch, an unfinished violin, a tobacco tin, and a blanket.

Since 2020, Jane’s major solo project has been composing and performing 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 primarily 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.

The sculpture Play Me Mend Me was made by visual artist Anita Johnson. The music of Play Me Mend Me was written with the support of a Wollongong City Council Cultural Grant.