Indrani Mukherjee, an internationally famed Hindustani Classical Vocalist, is a Khayal and Thumri exponent of India. Since the age of 14, when Indrani turned her passion for Classical music into her profession, Indrani’s mellifluous and charismatic voice has featured in major music festivals around the world. She holds the position of an ‘Outstanding Artist’ at the Festival of India Ministry of Culture (Government of India).

Suite7a presents our second music night @ Haymarket!

Iterative noise and otherwise left field performances by:
Final Fantasy
Chloe Kim, Jacques Emery & Marcus Whale

calyx
sydney show - arvo gig @lazythinking__
doors 2pm $15 / pay as you feel

mx-ai
del lumanta
hinano fujisaki & jasper craig-adams

We're back and have a full lineup! Here's what's you’re going to get:
Terrificus, Doctor Robot, Scruffamudda, Tom Adamson, S.Miles, Sandwich Magic, Whatever, Eva & Skitzenbitz, Urethra Vortex, The Blurst, A Suburban Bukowski, Cassy Judy, Myxi Bun, Casual Swimwear, The Clown Bride, Troy Harder, The Lost Futures

A Titan of Japanese contemporary music, guitarist, composer and sound artist Otomo Yoshihide will perform solo on electric guitar. Yoshihide is an artist and thought leader who’s creativity stretches across many genres and sonic terrains.

Traveling to Australia after a string of performances in Taipei and Japan, Uminari Trio represents the sonic communion between three artists: Morishige Yasumune: bass/cello; Cal Lyall: guitar/banjo; James Hulllick: prepared piano.

Noise Scavengers is a sound art ensemble including artists living with neurodiversities. Noise Scavengers are excited to be collaborating with acclaimed Japanese vocalist, composer, and artistic director, Tomomi Adachi. Together the artists will perform the structured improvised work “Teliovox”.

Worlds Within Worlds presents an evening of Indian classical music with highly acclaimed vocalist Indrani Mukherjee. A highly acclaimed vocalist of the Rampur-Kirana gharana, she is known for her mellifluous and charismatic voice.

Indrani ji will be accompanied by Vinay Mishra on harmonium, and Apurba Mukherjee on tabla.

We're excited to be bringing the Farfisa back for a night of electro-acoustic BELIEVE-ing, over three sets of sonic experiments and free improvisations. Featuring:

Peter Farrar, saxophones and drum machines
Novak Manojlovic, Farfisa organ and electronics
Clayton Thomas, double bass and objects
Laurence Pike, drums and percussion

This will be one of those 'you had to be there gigs', so 'be there'.

German guitarist & composer POUYA ABDI brings a night of dynamic jazz to Butchers Brew Bar featuring TWO trio formations:

The first set will showcase a unique duo of two guitars & drums, with Abdi, Australian guitarist Danica Hobden & drummer Alex Inman Hislop exploring sound without a bass.

The second set returns to a classic trio format, with Abdi, Inman Hislop & Sydney bassist Dave Quinn performing Abdi’s compositions and jazz standards.

Fine experimentalists in their own right, Sia Ahmad and Bree van Reyk bring their friendship into a first time collaboration, exploring their shared Belconnen teenhood and personal connections with faith to chants and meditations to share as an intimate experience with others.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Texas native Gi Gi deals in head-down propulsive music. He’s released on a cast of labels including Good Morning Tapes (AUS), Quiet Time (USA), and INDEX:Records (UK/DE). Utilizing a collage-based approach that takes in a wide swath of source material, the result is a peculiar strain of ambient dance music equally at home in headphones or the back rooms of a club.    

Joining Gi Gi is Sydney based ambient supergroup, Nathan Moas (Land Systems) & Doug Wright (Hed Ardennes)

Join Australian composer and performer Lisa Lerkenfeldt for a musical premiere at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. ‘In the window of time’ was commissioned by the prestigious INA GRM in Paris, France. A series of recordings using a piano and a set of custom-made tape loops played back on a Nagra tape machine were exposed to the Australian sun for a year. The subsequent degradation of sound results in a tonality that drifts and breaks down over the course of a single live performance.

Free, bookings required

Hamed Sadeghi will present a solo tar performance imbued with cultural depth as well as his own distinct virtuosic voice.

Sabine Tapia and Harley Coleman introduce us to their sophisticated song structures which deftly incorporate their rich understanding of both song form and improvisation.

Novak Manojlovic’s new project CEREMONY will explore the possibilities of acoustic music by bringing together a horn-fronted ensemble of his long-term collaborators to celebrate community and oppressed notion of music as ‘gift’.

Page of Madness (1926) by Teinosuke Kinugasa with original music by Phillip Johnston reflecting the film’s experimental techniques which invoke both surrealism and German Expressionism.

The feature film will be preceded by a short: Bhanu Pratap’s graphic short story "Big Head Pointy Nose" (2023).

Phillip Johnston: alto saxophone; Daryl Pratt: vibraphone; Chris Abrahams: piano; Lloyd Swanton: bass.

This concert coincides with the 340th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The four new Australian works premiered today all include a 'hint' of Bach.

jsbach@340 - Michael Hannan (première)
Arioso - Howard Dillon (première)
Flute Sonata in E major BWV1035 - J. S. Bach (1685 - 1750)
Somnial - Alan Holley (première)
Earth to Air, Tolling of the Bells - Johanna Selleck (première)

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7:00pm Hinano Fujisaki (tenor saxophone) & Jasper Craig-Adams (guitar)
8:00pm GIANT SHIMMER (Jacques Emery, solo percussion)

Hayes Street Studio co-director and pianist Lee Dionne presents a virtuosic, eclectic program that evades and captivates. Our composers appear at their most chameleon-esque, a masquerade of fanciful homage. From Bernstein to Bach and with several Sydney premieres, this all-rounder program both entertains and delights.

For new music buffs, the program will feature a world premiere by composer Susan Kander and two Sydney premieres by composers Miles Walter and Natalie Tenenbaum. You know what they say: a piece of new music a day keeps the doctor away.

The SCM New Music Ensemble, conducted by Benjamin Northey, presents:

Anna Clyne (b. 1980) Fractured Time
Melody Eötvös (b. 1984) The King in Yello
Sarah Kirkland Snider (b. 1973) O Sweet and Beloved Mother
Lachlan Skipworth (b. 1982)* The Crossing
Nina Shekhar Turn Your Feet Around

“spectral sub-bass tremolo heaven”

Jacques Emery is a double bassist and composer. He is an accomplished soloist and versatile collaborator in the Australian jazz, classical and experimental music scenes. A seasoned performer, Emery’s idiosyncratic approach to music reflects a voracious curiosity about different modes of music-making, from laptop production to contemporary classical composition to free improvisation to performance art. His acclaimed solo double bass EP ARCO was released on his own label People Sound in 2022.

Diego Idarraga performs a classical piano recital with his own compositions and works by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt and Scriabin.

DR J experimental music trio with Richard Driscoll on double bass and James Wright and drums.

Melbourne based flautist and composer Johanna Selleck teams up with one of Sydney’s keyboard legends Sumiko Yamamura in a JS Bach Flute Sonata to coincide with his 340th birthday and they will also premiere four new Australian works that all include a ‘hint’ of Bach. Thrilled that Richard Rourke and Sumiko will also perform two new Australian works and the Sonata by Leonard Bernstein, a work that is quite romantic at times and also channels jazz idioms.  TICKETS AT THE DOOR ONLY.

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

Chan/Bass

Hayley Chan - drums
Vin Bass - guitar

The Dunning Krueger Experience

Josh Shipton - guitar, bass
Mike Kennett - guitar, piano

With Judy Bailey no longer actively performing or teaching, this project aims to preserve and revitalise her legacy through contemporary rearrangements, reinterpretations, and electroacoustic adaptations of her work.
Lauren Tsamouras - piano
Tom Avgenicos - trumpet & electronics

Next showcase: 26th of March at @lazythinking__ 🌱

Lineup:
@galiba_mp
@mondowun
@yung_limes

Magic Music is a compelling meeting of Jazz, Japanese and Iranian music, featuring four innovative musicians, as they celebrate friendship and the magical power of spontaneous musical dialogue.

Satsuki Odamura, Koto and Shamisen
Sohrab Kolahdooz, Vocalist and percussion virtuoso
Steve Elphick, double bass
Sandy Evans, saxophones

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

German guitarist and composer Pouya Abdi makes his Sydney debut in a special concert.

Lauren Tsamouras - piano
Pouya Abdi - guitar
Oscar Peterson - bass
Alex Inman Hislop - drums

Air Mass is a new electroacoustic performance piece by award-winning saxophonist Nick Russoniello. This work invites performers and listeners to engage deeply with the present moment; the shared air mass that surrounds them. Exploring an intersection between performance art and the traditional concert experience, Air Mass draws on audience-generated soundscapes, live-looping, body percussion and physical gesture.

Nick Russoniello is a highly accomplished and dynamic saxophonist, composer, ensemble leader and educator.

GI is a musician from Gadi (Sydney.) She pairs generative sound design practices with asynchronous repetition to explore the outer limits of drone, idm and techno.

HINANO FUJISAKI & JASPER CRAIG-ADAMS A patient meditative stroll through sound. Hinano and Jasper take inspiration from genres across the experimental sphere such as ambient minimalism, noise and jazz, while remaining engaged with a sense of beauty in sound.

SCOTT MARR is a multi-disciplinary artist from Dharug and Gundungurra Country. Over the course of his 15-year long creative practice, he’s worked with a multitude of media. His accompanying ritualistic performances guide audiences through layers of confronting topics, reminiscing of a maximalist retro-futuristic space opera.

Scattered Order return to the Red House to launch their new album “Continue”.
Matthew Syres (treated guitar) will be joining Mitch Jones and Shane Fahey for this special one-off performance.

Helvetica Noise - a writer, a musician & a noise artist fusing improvisation, procedure, experimentation & composition to create unfolding soundscapes. Moments in time that you’ll never hear the same way twice. As fleeting as moths under streetlights.

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Jacqui O’Reilly’s sound-based performance, explores persistence of vision as multi-sensory perception, instantiating time as a trans-disciplinary gesture of collective presence in the making and sharing of art. This work will be performed in collaboration with Alexandra Spencer and Laura Altman.

The concept for Time as a Sonic Gesture, emerged in response to Katelyn Geard’s artwork I Have Something to Say, (exhibited in GRAPHITE, at DRAW Space, April 2024). This work was described as a drawing ‘soft as a whisper’ in its reach beyond two dimensions.

SHEKET

Ben Lerner - alto saxophone
Hilary Geddes - guitar
Laurence Pike - drums

Jack Rosenzweig - solo drums

Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan) is a highly unique and experimental guitarist heavily applying free improvisation and noise. He specializes in creating music with elements of both primitivism and realism by connecting his own aspirations, in a minimal and straightforward way, to the special instrumental qualities of the guitar.

Splinter is a radically inclusive large-scale orchestra that has been a forum for improvising for well over 100 exploratory musicians and sound artists living in or passing through Sydney for over 2 decades. This will be the Orchestra's first public outing for some time.

Eric Avery, Kabi Marrawuy Mumbulla, is a violinist, vocalist, dancer and composer from the Ngiyampaa, Yuin and Gumbangirr people of NSW. He works with his family’s custodial songs and his haunting compositions often feature him singing while playing violin, predominantly in the Ngiyampaa language.

Join us for an intimate series of performances in one of the city’s most unusual spaces, the hammock room at the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Hyde Park Barracks. Originally housing convicts, the hammock room is steeped in history and personal stories.

Hayes Street Studio presents Vol. 10 of its iconic YOLO Solos Series, featuring violinist Beatrice Colombis and cross-cultural flautist Chloe Chung. YOLO (you only live once!) shows offer listeners a rapid burst of virtuosity from exceptional and diverse artists around Australia.
The program is rounded out with a set from pianist Lee Dionne.

A rare chance to hear two exquisite instruments, beautifully played — Marshall McGuire (harp) and Simon Martyn-Ellis (theorbo) in solos and duos, old and new.

Duets and solos by seventeenth-century maestros Johann Jacob Froberger, Bellerofonte Castaldi, Isabella Leonarda and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger are interlaced between works by contemporary composers who share a love for these fine sonorities: Alice Chance, Liza Lim, Mike Marshall and Stephen Goss.

Two of Australia's most brilliant musicians come together at the Red House for a rare and unmissable duo performance of superb improvisation...
 
Chris Abrahams - piano, synthesizers
Jeremy Rose - saxophone, bass clarinet and electronics

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Mary Ocher has been pushing the boundaries between pop and avant-garde for almost two decades, with playful and colorful form, and clever content that winks at everyone who recognizes its cultural and historical references. Her new album joins a series of apocalyptic and politically charged concept albums.

The critically acclaimed new album Your Guide To Revolution is a joyful ode to hope, released just six months after its predecessor, the edgy and experimental Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time. 

Casey Moir

Casey Moir is an Australian born vocal-artist, improviser, and composer of experimental music, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her artistic practice is centered around the extended capabilities of the voice.

Peter Farrar Woodwind Trio

Peter Farrar is one of Australia’s foremost jazz saxophone stylists, famous for his unmatched sound and the creative beauty of his improvising. Jazz critic John Clare, who describes him as a formidable player, says that “everything he plays is his unmistakably” (Clare, the music trust, 2016). Peter Farrar is a humble giant of Australian jazz and improvised music.

Mary Ocher is a singer and songwriter who blurs the lines between pop and avant-garde. Her colorful, playful music is packed with cultural and historical references. Born in Moscow, she moved to Tel Aviv as a child, where themes of nationalism and xenophobia influenced her creative outlook. As a young adult, she relocated to Berlin and became a key figure in its underground scene.

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

Evoking places and experiences in nature through a rich blend of jazz and experimental music, with hints of folk and contemporary classical, Underwards is led by award-winning composer and trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood.

Ellen Kirkwood - trumpet
Hilary Geddes - guitar
Brendan Clark - electric bass
Alex Inman-Hislop - drums

Cutting-edge technology meets extreme virtuosity when London based ‘cyborg pianist’ Zubin Kanga joins Ensemble Offspring at ACO on the Pier.

TRISTAN COELHO Hot Take* (2024)
AMANDA COLE Dream Garden* (2024)
ZUBIN KANGA From the Machine* (2024)
BRIGITTA MUNTENDORF New work* (2024)
ANNA MEREDITH Bumps Per Minute – selections from 18 Studies for Dodgems (2021, arr. Jessica Wells 2023)

Metin Yilmaz Bilur/kaval (Kurdish/Turkish Flute) and Damian Wright (flamenco guitar) present a meeting of two distinct yet strongly rooted cultural and musical traditions.
A Highly dynamic performance from peaceful, contemplative melodies to exciting, virtuosic improvisations and rhythms.

Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker have emerged as one of the most interesting duos in contemporary improvised music. Their finely tuned sound makes even the most adventurous tones compelling.
Silvia Tarozzi – violin, voice
Deborah Walker – cello, voice

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Perila is a St Petersburg-born, Berlin-based sound artist and performer who works with field-recorded sounds from the natural and human-made landscape. In her first performance in Australia, she will perform recent music that draws on raw emotions, the voice and the body to create healing and transformative sonic interventions.

Free, bookings required

Emilio Gordoa (Percussion & composition & recording & electronics), Josten Myburgh (Alto saxophone & composition & recording & electronics) and Sabine Vogel (Flutes & percussion & composition & recording) are three musicians with a shared interest in improvising “as weather”: playing with and as the sounds of the environment.

Their project “Tracing presence on land” is a sonic-musical diary of their long collaboration, carrying the stories and echoes of the places they have worked in together.

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Eora-based pianist Lauren Tsamouras and Muloobinba-based trumpeter Tom Avgenicos reimagine the music of legendary Australian/New Zealand jazz pianist and composer Judy Bailey.
Lauren Tsamouras - piano
Tom Avgenicos - trumpet & electronics

Aidan Wong, Eric Tsai, Alex Tucker
Aidan Wong - tenor saxophone
Eric Tsai - guitar
Alex Tucker - drums

On the occasion of her show at 100clicksWest, Jasmine will present her installation work Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity and perform a live electronics set through a multi-channel sound system.

Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer born in Sydney / Gadigal Country and currently living in Berlin. Focused on electronic composition across music and art contexts her practice spans live performance, recording and installation.

Chamber music of Europe’s luscious Golden Age from Debussy, Saint-Saëns, with Australian and international works

DEBUSSY - Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
COEHLO 🦘 - Hokusai Mix Tape
SAINT-SAËNS - Fantasie for Flute and Harp
POENITZ - Capriccio for Clarinet and Harp
BALL 🦘** - New work for Bass Clarinet, Viola, and Electronics
MAZZOLI *** - Vespers for Amplified Viola and Soundtrack

Flutes - Ewa Kowalski; Clarinets - Andrew Kennedy; Harp - Emily Granger; Viola - Neil Thompson; Electronics - Tristan Coelho

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

Duet for Bagpipes and Bass 
Erwan Keravac (France) and Clayton Thomas

A first time only experience!

7pm The Victory Hall Annandale Creative Arts Centre

$20 on the door

An Australian Chamber Orchestra string quartet celebrates two of the world's most important living composers.

STEVE REICH Different Trains
OSVALDO GOLIJOV The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

Richard Tognetti director and violin; Ike See violin; Stefanie Farrands viola; Melissa Barnard cello; David Griffiths clarinet

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!

Luke M de Zilva is an experimental songwriter, composer and curator. His music is primarily based on responding to – and working within – unique acoustic and echo environments.

Mitch Reynolds’ sonic world-building is steeped in experimental music history with whispers of kosmische, tape music, avant-folk and microsound echoing into a formless ambient space of his own devising.

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To celebrate the release of their first duo album, Unnamed Road, improvisers violinist Jon Rose and pianist Erik Griswold will tour Australia in 2025.

Unnamed Road is a first musical meeting between two Australian innovators, featuring Jon Rose’s tenor and regular violins and Erik Griswold’s prepared piano. The music swings from high energy rhythmic exchanges to dark lyricism; from dense pointillism to moody expressionism, raw percussive, sonic, and textural exploration.

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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

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

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.

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

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