Decay Audio Presents, EPROM (USA). Emerging from the intersection of experimental electronic music, EPROM defies genre boundaries with his audacious fusion of complex rhythms, raw computer outputs, and distorted basslines. Based in Portland, Oregon, EPROM has captivated audiences worldwide with his influential and technically virtuosic sound.

EPROM is supported by a stacked lineup of local bass freaks including Hybrid set from R.T.Fax, and DJ sets from Daise, Swisherman and Jungist B2B DJ Mentalhealthcareplan. Visuals by Passive Kneeling. Artwork by Maxim Kirkin.

Described as the "interstellar matriarch of outsider music”, The Space Lady is beaming down on Australian soil to perform her ethereal, Casio-driven pop songs in this exclusive Sydney show!

with Andy Burns
and your host and DJ for the evening, Jay Katz!

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Featuring Decide Today (Anarchist noize + propaganda, from Cincinnati, USA) and Schkeuditzer Kreuz (Lawson, Australia. one human and some machines, making noise, in the face of it all) and more

WELL WE'VE GOT A HUGE CHARITY SHOW GOING AS PART OF DECIDE TODAY (U.S.A) AND SCHKEUDIZTER KREUZ'S AUSTRALIAN TOUR WE'VE GOT A STACKED LINE IN ORDER TO SUPPORT PARA https://para.org.au/ (Palestine Australia Relief and Action)

Presenting...
Gabi (NTS) - https://www.nts.live/shows/gabi
Heaven Spot - https://soundcloud.com/killian_wak/m5-heaven-spot
Perfect Actress [live] - https://perfectactress.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-actress
and Takeo.K [live] (Naarm) - https://back7rack.bandcamp.com/album/room-to-breathe

Closed Circuits debuts on Tuesday 14th January at @lazythinking__ , bringing you a night with sydney selectors on our watchlist:
@lewa.v_
@huda_thunk
@jane_decks
@xanthe.mp3

Exploring deeper genres from dub to ambient techno, bringing you hypnotic soundscapes and brain scratching gooey noises.

Sydney Festival presents the Omega Ensemble performing Missy Mazzoli's Dark with Excessive Bright at ACO On The Pier, for its 2025 program. The title of Missy Mazzoli’s Grammy-nominated concerto comes from Milton’s Paradise Lost – an ‘impossible’ phrase, she says, that evokes the ‘dark but heartrending sound’ of the solo double bass. Drawing easily on influences from the Baroque to indie rock, this music slips from beautiful simplicity to pandemonium beyond recognition.

Samuel Adams (son of post-minimalist composer John Adams) represents a new generation in American music. His Lighthouse was commissioned by Omega Ensemble and received its world premiere in July 2024. It’s a striking work of light, shade and ever-increasing intensity – groundbreaking and mesmerising.

Another night of ambient psych, guitary textures, throat singing, and projections and loops.

Fabels - https://www.facebook.com/fabelsmusic

Bukhu - https://www.horsefiddle.com

Scattered Order - https://www.facebook.com/ScatteredOrder/

Fountain Chorus is a through-composed concert featuring improvised performances from Jasper c-a, Rachel Schenberg & Megan Alice Clune, Chloe Kim 김예지, Mara, and DOMUS. Each set will meld into the next with a momentary collaboration, passing an idea from artist to artist.

1st Set: Magda Mayas + Jim Denley
2nd Set: Great Waitress (Magda Mayas, Monica Brooks, Laura Altman)
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Mike Nock solo piano/electronics

Holly Moore Quartet (Vic) doing her Album Launch. Holly is a Melbourne based saxophonist and composer, cementing her place as a diverse and dynamic new voice in the Australian jazz scene.

Jules Reidy makes music for processed and acoustic instruments (mostly guitars). Their recent work can be described as a series of non-traditional song forms which combine unstable harmonic territories, rhythmic elasticity and abstract narrative over stretched and episodic forms. Their recent records include In Real Life (Black Truffle, 2019), Vanish (Editions Mego, 2020) and World in World (Black Truffle, 2022), Their newest solo record Trances is set to be released via Shelter Press in October 2023. 

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Following their triumphant collaboration at the 2023 Sydney Festival, multifaceted keyboardist and vocalist Lisa Moore and virtuoso clarinetist Lloyd Van't Hoff formed Crux Duo. Together, they explore, arrange, and present recent and new commissioned works, alongside traditional and modern classics.

At the Goethe Lounge, the cross-continental duo will launch their new album ‘My Place’. Released on ABC Classic, the album includes six world premieres that were composed and arranged specifically for Crux Duo. The release concert will include music composed by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse, Harriet Steinke, Martin Bresnick, Erik Griswold, Nick Russoniello, and Leonard Bernstein.

• Lloyd Van’t Hoff: clarinet

• Lisa Moore: piano and voice

dprk - Richard Fielding (Severed Heads, The Loop Orchestra) on synths, Nick Dan (xNoBBQx) on electronic drums and synth and Juke Wyat on guitar recently returned from a whirlwind tour of 9 Japanese cities. Australia’s post-Cluster nemesis unveil the new vinyl missive トンボ山 , an Eastern infused slice of neo-funk ELM adding master drummer & saxophonist Yusuke Akai.

Ably supported by Ian Andrews and Glenn from Signal Crunch on the decks.

Launching the first single Soleil by Dutch-French multi instrumentalist composer and illustrator Julien Mier, Julien is coming back to his roots of intricate and warm electronica in a world with (hyper) textural sounds, synths and collage-like recordings.

Accompanied on the night will be Mike Nigro, founder of Oxtail Recordings and Melbourne based multi disciplinary visual artist, instrument builder and sound installation artist Daniel o’Toole (also known as the mural artist Ears.)

Celebrating 25 years of his longstanding trio for an unforgettable evening of cutting-edge jazz. Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to experience one of Australia’s most visionary artists live.

Barney McAll - Piano
Jonathan Zwartz - Bass
Hamish Stuart - Drums

Join Yuin multidisciplinary sound creator Rachel Lyn for this performance inspired by the art on display in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

During her residency between 20 and 24 January 2025, Lyn will create original sound compositions inspired by the art that has drawn her in, resonated with her, and offered moments for deep sonic exploration.

Usta blends noise rock, blackened post-hardcore and Croatian folk with strange, otherworldly vocals, delivering a powerful live set at a ludicrously fast pace.

Nunchukka Superfly – Psychedelic prog-punk legends.

Basil’s Kite – Microtonal math metal innovators.

Violence in Action – Unhinged audience and game piece-driven improvised music.

Frédéric Blondy - piano
Bertrand Denzler - tenor saxophone
Jean-Luc Guionnet - alto saxophone
Jean-Sébastien Mariage - electric guitar
Edward Perraud - percussion

For more than twenty years, they have been creating orchestral, spectral music, whose extraordinary fluidity and constant intensity have earned the ensemble international renown. HUBBUB occupies a unique position at the intersection of various contemporary practices, and "each of its concerts is an event" .

Worlds Within Worlds presents an evening of Persian classical music with award-winning tar player and composer Hamed Sadeghi.

Join us for a rare solo performance from award-winning Persian tar player Hamed Sadeghi. This immersive concert will showcase the depth of Sadeghi’s mastery of the tar, a distinctive Persian stringed instrument, in the beautiful setting of Temple On The Park.

In:flux is an extended electro-acoustic set with Fiona Hill on electronics with gestural controllers and Gary Daley on piano accordion. The concept is an immersive, semi-improvised, long-form ambient experience.

Gary Daley is a Blue Mountains pianist, accordionist, composer, teacher and improviser, specialising in contemporary jazz, classical and world music.

Fiona Hill is a Blue Mountains-based composer who has been recognised with multiple awards and nominations.

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Magda Mayas (piano) and Tony Buck (drums, percussion) under their shared musical alias that is Spill.

Having developed their joined artistic approach over the course of two decades the duo’s latest full length album release "Mycelium" the caters a roughly 43 minutes spanning journey, presenting a total of four new compositions which further explore their musical angle on piano and drums whilst branching out towards other instruments as well.

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Magda Mayas (piano) and Tony Buck (drums, percussion) under their shared musical alias that is Spill.

Having developed their joined artistic approach over the course of two decades the duo’s latest full length album release "Mycelium" the caters a roughly 43 minutes spanning journey, presenting a total of four new compositions which further explore their musical angle on piano and drums whilst branching out towards other instruments as well.

Dave Brown is an Australian musician, who has played bass guitar or guitar in a series of improvisatory ensembles since 1978. His solo material is issued under the name, Candlesnuffer.

Bukhchuluun Ganburged (Bukhu) is a master student of the Music and Dance Conservatory of Ulaanbaatar. Performing the folk musics of Mongolia, and exploring the aural dimensions of sounds generated by traditional instruments and harmonic overtone vocal techniques.

The Inlay Ensemble is a modern string ensemble led by Australian double bassist Elsen Price. They perform forward thinking new music, classical music, free improvised ensemble music, modern and trad jazz, plus collaborate with various artists outside of Western music.

Bukhu - voice and Morin Khuur (Horse-head Fiddle)
Isabel Tzorbatzaki - violin
Susie Bishop - violin
Adrian Keating - violin
Jenny Eriksson - viol de gamba
John Napier - cello
Elsen Price - double bass

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The Cloud Maker’s music celebrates goddesses from each of the five female master musician’s cultures. Channelling ancient tales of fierce battles, shaman dances, journeys to the after-life, and a moth goddess singing the most beautiful song of all time, The Cloud Maker harnesses the power of these archetypal stories to transport listeners across time and space.

The all star lineup features the sounds of Te Kahureremoa Taumata (Voice/Taonga Pūoro- Maori Singing Treasures), Aviva Endean (Bass clarinet, Harmonic flutes and electronics) Freya Schack-Arnott (Cello/Nyckelharpa- Nordic fiddle), Maria Moles (Drums) and Sunny Kim (Voice).

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"Monday Night Confessions" is a weekly show presenting original jazz/improvised music. Run out of Church Street Studios in Camperdown, Sydney, we acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

Magda Mayas (piano) and Tony Buck (drums/percussion) under their shared musical alias that is Spill, having developed their joined artistic approach over the course of two decades.

Revered sonic trailblazers and one of Australia’s great cult bands, The Necks, embark on their Australian tour in early 2025 to celebrate the release of their 20th studio album, Bleed.

Chris Abrahams (piano)
Lloyd Swanton (bass)
Tony Buck (drums/percussion)

This Goethe Lounge brings together a trio of musicians from the acclaimed Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne, Germany) presenting a concert program with new works by Gordon Williamson (Canada/Germany/New Zealand), Dylan Lardelli (Australia/New Zealand) along with works by Australia‘s acclaimed composer Liza Lim.

Performers:
Peter Veale - Oboe
Christine Chapman - Horn
Florentin Ginot - Double Bass

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

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