Ale Hop will perform at Phoenix Central Park on Tue 7 May 2024.

There are two sittings, 6.30pm and 8.15pm. Successful ballot winners will be given the choice between the two sittings, subject to capacity.

Alejandra Cárdenas is a Peruvian-born artist. Cárdenas began her career in Lima's underground music scene in the 2000s. Her live performances, under the moniker Ale Hop, merge the physical qualities of sound with raw affective states. She builds layers of sound by maneuvering an intricate repertoire of electric guitar techniques to create music of deep intensity.

Please join us on Wednesday May 8 to celebrate the exhibition SNO 176. The exhibition features works from SNO (Sydney Non Objective) affiliated artists in the Artbank collection.

The exhibition will be opened with a text-sound performance from MP Hopkins. MP Hopkins is an artist working on Wangal land in Sydney, Australia who makes audio, text, and film works. The performance will occur at 6pm.

Free to attend but please RSVP: rsvps@artbank.gov.au

SNO (Sydney Non Objective) has been at the forefront of critical practice in the visual arts since 2005. With a particular focus on the abstract, the minimal, concrete poetry and the many hybrid forms of “non-objectivity” including sound and new media, the artists have worked at the cutting edge of Australian and International art.

The Living Room Theatre in association with Kawai presents:

Kirkwood / Geddes / Henderson / Inman-Hislop

Led by award-winning trumpeter and composer Ellen Kirkwood, Underwards features some of Sydney’s most exciting, versatile and creative musicians. Their music, like nature, combines beauty, mystery, colour and rhythm, but also leans into the ways humans experience nature; sometimes we feel joy or calm, other times melancholy or bewilderment, even awe.

Ellen Kirkwood- trumpet & occasional vocals
Hilary Geddes - guitar
Nick Henderson - bass/synths
Alex Inman-Hisop - drums

Ms Kitteridge & Bok Choy is part of LRT’s music program, as well as our research into how we hear and why we listen, or don’t.

Global Gambits and Playful Revisions delves into the role of play and games in navigating life's challenges. Artists creatively use play, satire, and repurposed children's toys to shed light on issues such as global warming, colonisation, and political injustices. Experience racing cars, toy soldiers and circuit-bended electronic toys through the lens of an artist’s playful yet serious call to awareness.

DISTINCTIVE AND DYNAMIC
Alister Spence - piano, samples
Lloyd Swanton - double bass
Toby Hall - drums, glockenspiel

Formed in Sydney more than twenty-five years ago this trio brings together three of the most exciting, innovative and experienced musicians in Australia with a strong national and international reputation. The group has long been recognised for its engaging, distinctive, original compositions and for the high level of energy and interplay demonstrated in their performances.

Spellbinding!

$30/$15, and BYO food and drink. Doors from 7.30pm.

Thursday 9 May 2024 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (UTC+10)

The new Scattered Order album “All things must persist” is a collision of 1970’s trippy movie soundtracks; lush sounds; jokes; messed up grooves; pianos tinkling in the night; mistakes and bungles; a couple of old canons and drones. An introspective subtlety is still evident throughout the nine tracks. Sometimes delicate and wistful then suddenly jarred by abrasive noise making and always looking forward with hope.

For this special one-off performance at the The People’s Republic of Australasia, Scattered Order will play the “softer” tracks from the new album.

LIVING SCIENCE Dept. has done live visuals for all Scattered Order’s shows since 2010 and also created all the video clips. Their mind-warping psychedelia has transformed live performances of the band into a complete audio-visual experience that gives a bizarre and multi-dimensional character to the music.

Peter Hollo is cellist in FourPlay String Quartet, Tangents, Black Aleph and many other ensembles. His solo work has gravitated from laptop-based beatmaking in the late-'90s to live cello looping and processing, with a solid base in improvisation.

When not playing with the genre-defying Tangents or the almost impossibly eclectic FourPlay String Quartet, Peter has performed alongside a long list of Australian luminaries including Sophie Hutchings, Oren Ambarchi, Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance), Seekae and Paul Mac.

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ALL PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC EVENTS ARE FREE WITH GENEROUS DONATIONS INVITED AND ENCOURAGED - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A CASH-ONLY EVENT

The Living Room Theatre in association with Kawai presents:

Gill/Barker

Sam Gill & Simon Barker come together for their first gig since 2021! They'll be presenting an evening of solo and duo music, drawing on their shared interest in high-intensity rhythmic and textural explorations. Since first playing in the duo format in 2015, Sam and Simon have released their debut 'Afterimage' in 2020 and played nationally and internationally, including a set at New York's IBeam in 2020.

Sam Gill - alto saxophone
Simon Barker - drums

Ms Kitteridge & Bok Choy is part of LRT’s music program, as well as our research into how we hear and why we listen, or don’t.

Peter Farrar
Novak Manjolovic
Clayton Thomas
Laurence Pike

Entering their second year of deep explorations and experience, BELIEVE return to Johnson Street for their first time since their beautiful set at the Inner West Jazz Festival. Since coming together in early 2023, BELIEVE has already performed close to 20 concerts in Sydney, committing themselves to the live experience; learning and exploring in the public eye.

$30/$15, and BYO food and drink. Doors from 7.30pm, music from 8pm!

Thursday 23 May 2024 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (UTC+10)

In February '09, Klumpes Ahmad released an experimental duo album of guitar, piano, rhodes and electronic experimentation. Hours of improvisation were coalesced and edited and finally expertly mixed to ½” Tape by Richard Belkner.
To celebrate, Sia and Adrian will reunite to improvise again with the familiar exploratory sound palette.
They will dust off the effects pedals and contact microphones and plunge the listener into the world they created all that time ago. But don’t expect too much nostalgia - more a continuation of their many years of music where beauty and noise collide.

For the second set, Klumpes Ahmad will be joined by long-time collaborator Evan Dorrian (drums/percussion) who performs alongside Sia and Adrian in Spartak and Tangents respectively.

Sia Ahmad - guitar, electronics
Adrian Lim-Klumpes - piano, rhodes, electronics
Evan Dorrian - drums, percussion

$30/$15, and BYO food and drink. Doors from 7.30pm, music from 8pm!

Thursday 30 May 2024 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (UTC+10)

Mind On Fire return for their first public appearance since 2020!

Mind On Fire is a Sydney-based project formed by brothers Brad and Sam Gill. Since forming in 2017, they have developed a unique approach to blending improvisation and experimental composition, amassing a substantial body of work for duo and expanded formations with esteemed collaborating performers. For this gig, they’ll be joined by clarinettist and 2023 Freedman Jazz Fellow Phillippa Murphy-Haste for two sets of composed and improvised pieces.

Since forming in 2017, Mind On Fire have released three albums and an EP of original compositions and improvisations, including their most recent release “Still, Vol. 2” (Radial Sounds, 2022). They also recorded a performance for Phoenix Central Park’s video series that was released in 2020.

Brad Gill - vibraphone
Sam Gill - alto saxophone
Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets


$30/$15, and BYO food and drink. Doors from 7.30pm, music from 8pm!

Thursday 6 June 2024 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (UTC+10)

Take a wild and sonorous journey delving into the sympathetic generation of historical and cultural song lines. IMPOSTO explores the vaporous phenomena of the intangible, ever shifting, reverberant vibrations that surround us. Giant jellyfish globe, alien aurora veil and articulated albatross traverse tidal waves of lyricism in a wondrously provocative program of existing contemporary and especially curated works. Jane Sheldon and Anna Fraser (voice), Satsuki Odamura (koto), and Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba and baryton) will take you on turbulent and effervescent wanderings - exciting discoveries into new and evocative sonic atmospheres.

June 16 - Sydney MicroFest 6. 2 concerts planned: 2pm and 5pm. Between concerts join us at the 'social lamellaphone' of Gary Warner. He has made a unique acoustic instrument for experimental music making and exploration of cooperative creativity. Derived from the musical technology of the familiar African ‘thumb piano’ (ie kalimba, mbira, sanza, likembe, etc)! More to come.

In the spirit of radical community action, collective consciousness and self-determination as a group activity, this large ensemble instigation will present a night of improvisations, compositions and something in-between.
Brought together by shared values, this first performance of Sound the Alarm features a remarkable group of Sydney based improviser / composers.
Instigated by Clayton Thomas, founder of Splinter Orchestra, Splitter Orchester Berlin and an experienced leader of large improvising ensembles for over 20 years, this will be a night not to be missed.
SOUND THE ALARM
Sam Gill, sopranino saxophone
Ben Lerner, alto saxophone
Jack Stoneham, alto saxophone
Matthew Ottignon, baritone saxophone and clarinet
Peter Farrar, c-melody & alto saxophone
Megan Alice Clune, clarinet
Simon Ferenci, trumpet
Phillipa-Haste Murphy, bass clarinet & viola
Freya Schack-Arnott, cello
Julia Magri, double bass
Clayton Thomas, double bass
Novak Manojlovic, piano
Niki Johnson, vibraphone and percussion
Holly Conner, drums and percussion
Matthias Schack-Arnott, percussions
Lauren Tsamouras, electric organ
Hilary Geddes, electric guitar
with
Hani Abdile, voice
Doors from 7pm, music from 7.30pm.