Come find seven carefully curated killers compiled cooperatively by @lazythinking__ and Terrificus. This plan is an actionable priority. It is your PLAN A

Lineup?
@terrificusss
@rubberneckeroz
@s.miles_positivity
@myxi_bun
@joshshiptonland
@ustaband
@facemeatfresh
Swine

A brand new ensemble playing highly original and compelling contemporary music mixing the powerful musical flavours of raga music with modal jazz.

Adrian McNeil (Hindustani Sarod), Bobby Singh (Tabla), Michael Galeazzi (Acoustic Double Bass) and Steve Morley (French Horn) have deep experience in this cross over space, developed over years of creative collaboration, cutting edge research and international experience. A unique instrumental ensemble - something spontaneously different each and every time!

Duo Rosella is the musical collaboration of two of Australia’s premiere saxophonists: Emma Di Marco (Brisbane) and Nathan Henshaw (Sydney).
The program showcases a collection of modern repertoire for saxophone duo including selections from their upcoming performance at the World Saxophone Congress in Harbin (China).
Composers included are Jenni Watson (UK), Emma Di Marco, Nick Russoniello, Wesley Stormer, Andy Ball, Matthew Orlovich and Michael Jamieson.

Tim Derricourt of the amazing Dappled Cities plays his first ever show under his own name. Singing Skies play their first solo set in many years.

Tim Derricourt is the singer and songwriter from Dappled Cities and also moonlights under the moniker Swimwear.

Singing Skies is the Songwriting project of Kell Derrig-Hall of Melodie Nelson and Moonmilk.

Presenting an evening of wondrous sounds at Rockdale Experiments....

- Olivia Bryant + Gianni R.Posadas-Sen

- Elizabeth Jigalin + Erik Griswold

Ethereal electronica and ambient dreamscapes by @jensendahl_ @1chonzu @gooseballlll at Lazy Thinking in Dulwich Hill
• 7PM
• Tickets $15 at door
• Happy hour from 6pm

Ravi Tratchenberg-Ray (piano) & Aidan Wong (tenor saxophone) have spent the last two months sculpting a new language—not with words, but with sound. Their latest improvised work is built on evolving structures and sonic platforms that serve as launching pads for deeply personal expression.

Reunited in 2025 after a hiatus of eight years, Pratt McMahon Hirst & Gander will be playing music from their recently released recording ‘aswirl'. These highly regarded improvisors are also composers and this project features compositions from all of them. Daryl Pratt – Vibes, Matt McMahon – Piano, Brett Hirst – Bass, Andrew Gander – Drums

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Dr. Lu LIU and Dr. Evgeny SORKIN

Focusing on the contrasting yet complementary timbres and techniques of the pipa and violin, we investigate how their interaction transcends their distinct performance techniques, enabling new forms of musical expression.

We propose that pipa and violin collaborations not only expand the horizons of performance practice but also reshape the ways we conceptualise inter-cultural dialogue in contemporary music-making!

Join Seaworthy and Matt Rösner for a performance of their recent album at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Seaworthy is the conduit for Sydney-based instrumentalist and sound artist Cameron Webb. Matt Rösner is a sound artist from regional Western Australia who works with various acoustic instruments, custom-built software patches and detailed field-recording studies.

Free, bookings required

Last show of Bonniesongs residency at @lazythinking__ !!

Bonniesongs

Hubcaps

Dismal Co (Romy Caen & Peter Farrar)

This concert is presented by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Percussion Department, and features works for solo marimba, performed by current percussion students.

Program to be announced at the performance alongside a World Premiere performance of a new marimba ensemble work by Ella Tomkins.

5oLo5 is a series of monthly contemporary music presentations that brings together five preeminent performers to present short solo works and to present a longer work as a quintet. Carefully curated by Trevor Brown 5oLo5 examines the very personal elements of practice and the nature of collaboration and cooperation.

Hayley Chan - drums
Gary Daley - piano / accordion
Ellen Kirkwood - trumpet
Freya Shack-Arnott - cello
Trevor Brown - reeds / flute

The Living Room Theatre ignites the streets of Dulwich Hill in a powerful procession, marking 25 years of bold storytelling with a tribute to Pina Bausch’s Season March.

Blending movement, music, and the raw energy of the streets, this activation channels Bausch’s evocative style—where dance is resistance, memory, and transformation.

Featuring: Michelle St Anne and members of the Splinter Orchestra (Laura Altman, Jim Denley, Alex Tucker, Daniel Raymond)

An expanded cinema/music performance as part of the exhibition ‘a bell with no tongue’ by m.h.

Performances at 3 pm on Saturday the 17th, 24th, and 31st of May.

Sat 24th - m.h. with Anthony Guerra and Mary MacDougall

Other performances:
Sat 31st - m.h. with Melanie Herbert, Laurence Quinn and David Turner

Official relaunch show of Lazy Thinking Records, the new record label run out of and by the same wondrous folk behind award winning Dulwich Hill music venue Lazy Thinking. Featuring a slew of artists the label will be working with, as well as a good sprinkling of the venue’s faves.

Hubcaps, Wytchings, Olivia’s World, Ligature, Sadie, BARBARA, aplacewithoutsound, Weyon, Obelisk

100clicksWest is both proud and honoured to bring two of Australia’s most innovative improvising performers together for the first time, in a combined live set featuring the sounds of voice and flutes.

Sonya Holowell is a Dharawal and Inuk vocalist, composer, writer and researcher. Her work spans many contexts and forms, with improvisation as a primary mode towards emancipatory aims.

Jim Denley has worked extensively as an improviser internationally and in Australia since the 1980s. His work reflects a deep engagement with landscape and nature.

The best of Sydney's Performance Improvisers in a night of solos.

Johanna deRuyter
Nikki Heywood
Liz Jigalin
Glenda Goldberg
Tony Osborne

SIRC_UIT presents

INSEQUENCE

FEI GAO
MX ROBERT FROST
SKYE GELLMANN

The Living Room Theatre and Dulwich Hill Relit present

Hill/Tucker/Undy
Gabriella Hill, tenor saxophone
Cameron Undy, bass guitar
Alex Tucker, drums

Aidan Wong Trio
Alex Tucker, drumset
Daniel Raymond, drumset
Aidan Wong, tenor saxophone 

SENSAROUND - ghostly dub rhythms and lo-fi experiments press up against woodwind melodies, and rhodes tones set awash in free percussion
Raymond MacDonald (Glasgow)– soprano/alto saxophone
Sia Ahmad (Canberra)– samplers and pedals
Alister Spence (Sydney)– fender rhodes electric piano, preparations, pedals

ALEXANDRA SPENCE - amplified objects, field recordings, sine waves, spoken fragments of text, acoustic instruments, and audio processing.

Ben Lerner is an outstanding young artist who has quickly established himself as one of the emerging voices in Jazz and on the Alto Saxophone in Australia.
The Ben Lerner Quartet features Steve Barry (Piano), Max Alduca (Double Bass) and Alex Young (Drums), and performs a selection of Ben’s compositions.

Novak Manojlovic - pianist/composer/improvisor. Novak’s work describes a fascination with contrasts; new and old, acoustic and electronic, diatonic and atonal, abrasive and meditative.

Believe are Sydney’s hardest gigging free jazz band. Peter Farrar, saxophones / Novak Manojlovic, piano / Clayton Thomas, double bass / Laurence Pike, drums.

This will be Believe’s first performance at Sydney’s most revered venue for improvised music. Will it contain them? 2 sets of Believe, can you believe it?

Hearing history through new eyes. This collection of works is a multimedia synthesis of Cockatoo Island's history. Various audio processing techniques incorporate site sounds to tell the story of the site and those who inhabited it. Alison grew up on Cockatoo Island, surrounded by a working shipyard and convict heritage structures.

Alison Cole - composer, synths, theremin, keyboards, sound design, & visuals
Liv Parker - visuals & vocals
Ben Barker - vocals

Hubcaps & Lewis Lockwood Mosley creates a music situated somewhere between song, drone, and noise.

Hamed Sadeghi is an Iranian-born tar player and composer based on Gadigal land.

Daily Toll honour each song as its own mutable story or opportunity for experimentation, carving out a world of their own.

Photogenic is a meeting of punk descriptors from proto-to-post, where scrappy, dissonant guitars meet thuggish basslines and pogo beats.

Solo Career is a bedroom pop side hustle that has matured into home studio pop in recent years.

Elmo Aoyama is an artist curiously exploring the relationship between space, memory and time. Born in Tokyo and based in Sydney, Elmo works within the realms of music, architecture and industrial design.

LUSH

Niki Johnson, Vibraphone 
Lauren Tsamouras, Piano
Clayton Thomas, Double Bass

Two sets of new compositions and improvisations for vibrating instruments 

Music For Libraries is a showcase of innovative Australian ambient and experimental music.

Edition 1 ‘Threads’ features a program co-curated by Aeddan Cox, presenter of ‘Unfurl’ on FBI Radio, and Lazy Thinking. Feat.

Lisa Lerkenfeldt (Naarm) is an Australian composer and performer. Her endless piano and tape loop variations dissolve time through collages of decayed ambience, analogue manipulation and cyclic structure.

Banana (Gadigal) is M. Hopkins & Alexandra Spence, two sound artists/musicians living and working on Wangal and Gadigal land.

Luca Forcucci (Suisse) is a composer, artist and researcher, who investigates sonic perception in relation to space, memory, subjectivity and consciousness.

The Living Room Theatre in partnership with Kawai presents:

Join us for a special celebration of one of jazz’s most iconic works—Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert—on its 50th anniversary. In this one-of-a-kind performance, celebrated Sydney-based pianist and composer Matt McMahon brings his own voice and improvisational flair to the 1975 masterpiece, offering a fresh interpretation as part of The Living Room Theatre’s 25th anniversary celebrations.

An expanded cinema/music performance as part of the exhibition ‘a bell with no tongue’ by m.h.

Performances at 3 pm on Saturday the 17th, 24th, and 31st of May.

Sat 31st - m.h. with Melanie Herbert, Laurence Quinn and David Turner

Music For Libraries is a showcase of innovative Australian ambient and experimental music.

Edition 2 features a program curated entirely by legendary sound artist, composer and label owner Lawrence English and features

Amby Downs (Naarm) Tahlia Palmer is an artist of Murri and European background born on Whudjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, WA), working in a variety of mediums to explore history, identity and perception.

Ai Yamamoto (Naarm) 's practice comes with sonic exploration and melodies. She sources sounds from her surroundings including insects, machines, animals, kitchen equipment, etc. 　

Vanessa Tomlinson (Meanjin) is a percussionist-composer with a long history in experimental music.

The Living Room Theatre and Dulwich Hill Relit present an evening of masterful improvisation, breathtaking composition, and sonic storytelling featuring two of the most compelling pianists in contemporary jazz and improvised music.

Alister Spence A pre-eminent force in Australian jazz, Spence’s improvisations and compositions have captivated audiences for over 30 years. His innovative approach to sound and structure has seen him collaborate with some of the world’s most respected artists across music, film, and theatre.

Monica Brooks A minimalist pianist and composer whose deeply evocative work is shaped by landscapes, love, and loss. Her music unfolds with poetic elegance, crafting soundscapes that are both fragile and powerful.

Playground with Jodie Rottle and Liz Jigalin
Free entry/donation
For kids aged 5-95 😇

Our sonic version of recess: Enjoy a seriously silly afternoon of music made with objects.

Be Prepared! The Living Room Theatre and Dulwich Hill Relit present

Sam Gill and Phillippa Murphy-Haste duo
Phillippa Murphy-Haste, clarinets/viola
Sam Gill, saxophones

Jim Denley and Peter Farrar duo
Jim Denley, alto saxophone
Peter Farrar, alto saxophone

Fate Maps
Clayton Thomas, double bass
Phillippa Murphy-Haste, viola
Freya Schack-Arnott, cello

BELIEVE
Peter Farrar, alto saxophone
Novak Manojlovic, piano
Clayton Thomas, double bass
Laurence Pike, drums

CARL DEWHURST has been a stalwart of the Sydney jazz scene for over thirty years and is considered one of Australia’s finest jazz and improvising guitarists. His latest album, Avicennia, features his trio with special guest, Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist LISA PARROTT.

CARL DEWHURST (Guitar/ Composition)
CAMERON UNDY (Bass)
ALEX INMAN HISLOP (Drums)
PLUS Special Guest LISA PARROTT (Alto Sax)

Join ZÖJ at Phoenix Central Park for a 50-minute deep listening experience that invites you into a heightened state of awareness. Known for their immersive and meditative performances, ZÖJ crafts an evolving sonic landscape where the edges between sound and silence dissolve.

ZÖJ is an experimental cross-cultural music duo from Australia, consisting of Gelareh Pour on Kamancheh, Voice, and Qeychak, and Brian O’Dwyer on drumkit and percussion.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

An anonymous duo hailing from Nevada (USA), Clown Core are an experimental and mysterious cult act known for their breakneck fusion of jazz, extreme metal and absurdist mayhem. Known for their cryptic online presence, their 2008 debut ‘Surreal Cereal’ quickly established them as a band that twists experimental arrangements into their own and “defies categorisation” (New Noise Magazine).

Supported by: DJ Driver

Experience a night of deeply cerebral, spacey, and left-field experimental selections from:  anusha, akka, D-Grade, amuwa, Jungist, and DJ Paramat.

Following The Blue Hour series — a live, ambient/experimental performance night — and The Blue Day(s), experimental music festivals, at Lazy Thinking, Unfurl Presents steps onto the dance floor with Perfect Blue.

Hayes Street Studio presents a dynamic recital featuring co-directors flautist Rosie Gallagher and pianist Lee Dionne.

Yozora (2024) for solo flute by Salina Fisher
J.S Bach Partita (1726) arranged by R. Gallagher for flute and electronics (Aust Premiere)
Traditional: Irish Tunes
Belinda Reynolds: (2003) Share for alto flute and piano
Valerie Coleman: (2018) Wish Sonatine for flute and piano

Introducing Return of Fluxus!  

Opening Night 5 June: Come see the exhibition 🎨

Fluxus Workshop 8 June, 6-9pm: Create Fluxus ‘Event Scores’ with a typewriter provided, then learn how to turn these absurd instructional scores into performance art with old or new friends! (see @fluxusgram for event score examples)

Alec Ilyine (BEL) Expressing himself mostly through moving strings, sometimes electric with blazing effects, sometimes acoustic on 6 and 12 string guitar, charango and ud. Instrumental compositions, improvisation or songs sung in a deep voice...

Elizabeth Jigalin Composer, artist and performer based in Sydney, Australia. In her work, she is often drawn to explore site specific music-making, interactive play spaces, and found materials. Guided by curiosity, Elizabeth collaborates and creates across art-forms.
Ellen Kirkwood An award-winning composer, trumpeter, bandleader and educator. She an Australian-born person of British heritage, living on unceded Wangal Country in Sydney’s Inner West.

A force like no other, Divide & Dissolve create instrumental soundscapes designed to tackle colonialism, white supremacy and the patriarchy. Helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed expect heavy, atmospheric music that is both political and powerful. Expect crashing cymbals, crunchy feedback and stomach-flipping riffs. 

Vocalists Daniel Wilfred and Sunny Kim form the heart of Hand to Earth, which has quickly developed an international reputation as one of Australia’s most distinctive contemporary music ensembles. Daniel sings in language, and is the keeper of Yolngu Manikay (songs) from North East Arnhem Land that can be traced back for over 40,000 years. Sunny sings in English and Korean intoning gestures that invoke raw elemental forces. Together they sing of the stars, of fire, and of the cooling rain against the drone of David Wilfred’s didgeridoo and atmospheres created by trumpeter and sound artist, Peter Knight, and clarinetist Aviva Endean.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

BELIEVE are back. Excited to be playing another two set extravaganza at Paddington Uniting Church.

Laurence Pike, drums and percussion
Novak Manojlovic, piano and percussion
Clayton Thomas, double bass and percussion
Peter Farrar, saxophone and percussion

At First Light is curated and performed by Sydney violist James Wannan.

Featuring music by Pedro Alvarez, Angus Davison, Chris Williams, Elizabeth Younan, Natalie Nicolas, Rhys Little and a world premiere commission for James by Kammerklang’s artistic director, Cameron Lam.

Out of the Shadows is curated and performed by Melbourne violist Phoebe Green.

Featuring music by Pedro Alvarez, Aditya Ryan Bhat, Christine Pan, Dominik Karski, Emily Sheppard, Flora Wong and a world premiere commission for Phoebe by Kammerklang’s artistic director, Cameron Lam.

Fluxus Night 15 June, 6-9pm: Come along for poetry, live jazz, performance art, and jazz combined with performance art! All set against the backdrop of the ‘Return of Fluxus’ art exhibition…

This group show is curated to showcase the work of emerging Sydney artists whose work emulates elements of the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s. The work of historical Fluxus artists centered audience interaction, critiquing the art establishment’s traditional notions of the separation between art and audience. In line with their philosophy, Avant Garden seeks to establish exhibition-events that invite the attendees to be a part of the art making process!

Ned Collette is an Australian singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer now based in Berlin. He was a member of Melbourne instrumental band City City City and has since then recorded six albums, either as solo productions or with his band, Wirewalker.

Thalia Zedek (born 1961) is an American singer and guitarist. Active since the early 1980s, she has been a member of several notable alternative rock groups, including Live Skull, Uzi and Come.

At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north of LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwriter RYAN DAVIS’ Americana-noir soundwaves have been emanating for years in a myriad of forms.

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL FOR ADDRESS AND FURTHER DETAILS AND TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE

Enjoy the transformative sounds of French visual artist and musician Félicia Atkinson at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Atkinson, an electro-acoustic composer, creates phantasmic musical landscapes by collaging field recordings, instrumentation, snippets of essayistic language in both French and English, and her own voice.

Australian/Finnish, Finland-based musician Simon Svoboda is an active part of the Finnish classical scene and the 'Aspen String Quartet', performs frequently with his cello duo ‘Simon and Tommi’, and is also a keen composer and arranger. In the past two years Svoboda has found inspiration to compose minimalistic music for his cello and voice. His recently released EP titled ‘Kaamos’ (the Finnish word describing the darkest period of the year where the sun seldom rises) is a 5-piece work inspired by different elements of winter in Finland. 

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 & 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍 𝐘𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐙 will be presenting a special duo performance of Flamenco guitar and Kurdish Flute, two distinct yet strongly rooted cultural and musical traditions.

METIN YILMAZ is a virtuoso exponent of the kaval (Ancient/traditional flute)
"DAMIAN WRIGHT is a brilliant flamenco guitarist...his articulation of complex lines was fluid and dripping with conviction" - SMH

Experience Australian-based ensemble Hand to Earth as they perform new contemporary music created during the Embedded residency program.

Performing as a three piece, Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred and Peter Knight will draw on the minimalist music of Brian Eno and Jon Hassell to create a bed for contrasting voice and instrumentation.

BELIEVE are back. Excited to be playing another two set extravaganza at Paddington Uniting Church.

Laurence Pike, drums and percussion
Novak Manojlovic, piano and percussion
Clayton Thomas, double bass and percussion
Peter Farrar, saxophone and percussion

Eric WHITACRE Lux Aurumque
Sarah HOPKINS Past Life Melodies
Eric WHITACRE Cloudburst
Edwin LONDON Bach (Again), after ‘Come, Sweet Death’ by JS Bach
Eric WHITACRE Eternity in an Hour

Snehesh Nag is a sitar player, composer, and educator who performs Hindustani classical music and Indian-inspired cross-genre music.

He will perform for Local Edition alongside Murtaza Damoon on tabla.

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Maquina Anonima fuse experimental electronics and the human voice, using custom built wearable sensors to control live effects during the performance. Spanish folk song and choral textures meet glitchy, morphing beats and lush, evolving harmonies to create soundworlds of earthy grit and ethereal beauty.

Jessie Newling is currently immersed in early music, electroacoustic music and the intersection of voice and electronics.
Regan Van Veen is a music technology artist working on Gadigal land.

Prepare to be drawn into "Mirage," a hallucinatory experience where the natural world's desecration unfolds through spectral sound and symbolist verse.
Performers Jack Symonds, Jane Sheldon and Blair Harris present music by Saariaho, Faure, Dusapin, Sheldon and Symonds.
Their spectral sounds creating a mesmerizing, dreamlike experience, a shimmering, unsettling illusion.

ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR Entropic Arrows (2020)
JANE SHELDON Come, dark sigh* (2024)
DAVID T. LITTLE Ghostlight (2015)
DANIELA TERRANOVA Rainbow Dust in the Sky (2018)
LISA ILLEAN Cantor (after Willa Cather) (2017)

Jack Symonds conductor, Jane Sheldon soprano, Claire Edwardes percussion, Lamorna Nightingale flutes, Jason Noble clarinet, Véronique Serret violin, Victoria Bihun violin, Henry Justo viola, Blair Harris cello, Benjamin Ward double bass, Ronan Apcar piano, Ben Carey sound, Peachey & Mosig video

Hayes Street Studio is thrilled to present pianist and composer Joseph Havlat in a rare recital that features a newly composed works by Australian composer Lisa Illean: her piano Sonata in ten parts.  Alongside this work, Joseph will perform a section from Bent Sørensen's "12 Nocturnes". 

Lisa Illean: Sonata in ten parts
Bent Sørensen: 12 Nocturnes

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com