YuNiOn - Taiko
Wadaiko Rindo Sydney - Taiko
Ryuji Hamada - Taiko and Shinobue
Ren Yano - Japanese Calligraphy
Sandy Evans - Saxophone
The Satsuki Odamura Koto Ensemble - Koto

Songbirds celebrates Australian birdsong with original Australian chamber works commissioned by Ensemble Offspring.

Hollis Taylor Bitter Springs Creek 2014, Fiona Loader Lorikeet Corroboree, Gerard Brophy Beautiful Birds, Brenda Gifford Mungala (Clouds), Nardi Simpson Of Stars and Birds.

Performed by Lamorna Nightingale (flutes), Jason Noble (clarinets) and Claire Edwardes (percussion).

Matthew Ottignon - tenor, alto, and baritone saxophones
Lauren Tsamouras - piano
Hannah James - acoustic bass
Hayley Chan - drums and percussion
While embodying the spirit of giants such as John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, Volant is a modern quartet, delivering compositions and improvised dialogue.

Launch of an experimental archive project by Ira Ferris, including a sound montage created with musician and sound artist Alexandra Spence. Part of a program of events celebrating two decades of choreographic innovation at Critical Path. The event will include a short conversation on new approaches to archiving, a music performance by Alexandra Spence and a dance performance by Ryuichi Fujimura. Free event, RSVP essential.

ELENA KATS-CHERNIN (ARR. J. AGOSTINO) Dance of the Paper Umbrellas
RICHARD CHARLTON Port Jackson Suite*                                  
VINCENT LINDSEY-CLARK Magnetar (From Celestial Suite)
P. BELLINATI Baiao de Gude
GUSTI NGURA ADI PUTRA (ARR. T. DRACOULIS) Melasti
JALAL AHMED Dream Walking* (Premiere)
MANUEL DIEWALD Celestial* (Premiere)
JULIA VLAHOGIANNIS Notion* 
LUIGI BOCCHERINI (ARR. J. SPARKS) Introduction and Fandango     

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Nigel Is No More is Aidan Wong (tenor saxophone), Alex Tucker (electric guitar) and Daniel Raymond (drums). A spontaneous barrage of riffage, drum grooves and tenor screams.

Through a long form performance, the band attempts to find sonic detail within the ensemble that encompasses something larger than “noise metal”.

The Red House welcomes for his only Sydney performance…

Bruce Russell is an inveterate improviser and practitioner in sound. Since 1987 he has been a member of the Dead C. He also performs with Alastair Galbraith as A Handful of Dust (since 1984). His solo guitar mixes rock, electro-acoustics, noise and improvisation in equal measures; reconfiguring the blues as a form of improvisational auto-destructive protest.

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ALEXIS WEAVER (she/her) is a composer, sound artist and educator based in Sydney, Australia. At Local Edition, Alexis will create a site-specific work that celebrates the character and wonder of the artefacts within the store. Alexis will highlight certain objects and their makers, drawing out unique sounds and creating a shifting sonic constellation for visitors to dwell in.

From Thursday to Saturday, the installation opens to the public. The week culminates in a special ticketed solo performance by the artist, presented alongside their installation.

These two concerts showcase music created in Composer Performer Workshop, a class where students collaborate in the making of new music.

Concert 1: 12:00–1:00pm
Concert 2: 3:00–4:00pm

FORMA ENSEMBLE is an Australian percussion collective creating, performing, and collaborating on new and experimental music. Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Joshua Hill, Niki Johnson, Gabriel Fischer, Caleb Colledge, Shu-hsuan Wang.

Michael Gordon’s Timber is a meditative, hour-long work scored for six wooden planks.

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Keyboardist, synthesist and improviser Kurt Lam will be bringing together a new lineup of local Sydney musicians every week to explore the possibilities of collaboration and improvisation.  
Hinano Fujisaki on saxophone
River Langford on drums

DAN FORREST: Adonai, Adonenu (Psalm 8); Words of Paradise; Requiem for the Living 

Collegium Musicum Choir and chamber orchestra
Sonia Maddock Choral Director and Conductor  
UNSW Soloists: Adina Herz, soprano; Emma Davidson, mezzo; Oliver Brundson, tenor 

Operantics concert of music set to Emily Dickinson poetry.

The program will include works by Aaron Copland, Andre Previn, Lori Laitman, Libby Larsen, Anne Cawrse and Ian Ricky Gordon.

Featuring: Laura Scandizzo, Elena Marcello, Sarah Cherlin, Katie Miller-Crispe and Nathaniel Kong on piano.

For one night only, thedieyoungs and Julien Mier unveil Pluto’s Exchange Program—a secret music project they’ve been crafting since 2017. Improvised collision of percussion, piano runs, and otherworldly textures that fuse jazz, electronica, drum & bass, neo-classical, and spacecore.

 Joining them are live acts ilex and Kid Fiction, plus a DJ set by Postponez.

MEOW MEOW Casio - an experimental collaborative project of Elke Rae and Rowan Yeomans. Based in improvisation and chaos, meeting at the crossroads of ambient, synth wave and doom.
Manticora - Harsh noise enthusiast | Living on stolen Dharawal land
Withdrawe (Jasper Craig-Adams - guitar, Mitch Elliott - electronics)

A rare acoustic drum solo by Laurence Pike, the first ever collaboration between Phil Slater and Clayton Thomas, and a trio of all three.

7:00 Laurence Pike, solo acoustic drum solo.
7:45: Phil Slater, trumpet
Clayton Thomas, double bass
8:30: Pike / Slater / Thomas Trio.

Illiteration:
Gabriella Hill - tenor saxophone,
Eric Tsai - guitar,
Henry Hall - double bass.

The Cloud of Unknowing:
Alex Tucker - drums,
Sam Dobson, double bass,
Jim Denley - alto saxophone and flute.

Ronan Apcar - Piano, Lamorna Nightingale - Flute, Jason Noble - Clarinet, Benjamin Ward - Double bass, Niki Johnson - Percussion

New works by: Klearhos Murphy, Georgina Bowden, Callum O'Reilly, Beth Roche, Louis Wishart, Thomas Meadowcroft

A pre-concert talk will take place from 2.15pm

This concert will feature performances by the four finalists for this years Freedman Jazz Fellowship: Holli Scott (vocalist, WA), Niran Dasika (trumpet, VIC), Sam Gill (saxophone, NSW) and Wilbur Whitta (piano, NSW).

Norwegian supergroup fusing traditional music and contemporary evocations of the north. Benedicte Maurseth is the hardanger fiddle’s great contemporary player. 

Benedicte Maurseth - hardanger fiddle
Morten Qvenild - piano
Mats Eilertsen - bass
Håkon Stene - percussion

Lee Dionne - piano

UNSUK CHIN Etude No. 1 ‘In C’ (1999/2003) 
GYÖRGY LIGETI Etude No. 6 Autumn in Warsaw (1985)
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Scherzo No. 4 in E Major (1842)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Partita No. 6 in E Minor (1730)

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ARCHIVE: A new collaboration between Andrew Fedorovitch and Chantel Cabrera.

MAD BAG (Gabriella Hill + Aidan Wong). The maddest saxophone duo around.

Talismanic are like Link Wray meeting Krautrock on the Parramatta Road- they're all-instrumental, part-improvised. Guitarists Jonny Gretsch [The Wasted Ones] and Tom Morton, bassist Lachlan Colquhoun and drummer Leigh Giles.

Peter Fonda - a gonzo selection of lo-fi ambient micro-soundtracks with extended visits to kraut, sampledelia, minimal techno and doom tropicana, vintage synths, tape machines, samplers and analog effects.

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Maissa is a multi-disciplinary artist, creative producer and experienced vocalist. Maissa has been part of the contemporary Arab Australian arts community for over twenty years.  She is the Creative Director and one of the lead vocalists in ATS’s musical project Ensemble Dandana.

From Thursday to Saturday, the installation opens to the public. The week culminates in a special ticketed solo performance by the artist, presented alongside their installation.

SPAT - music that combines structured improvisation, compositional events and disguised repertoire. Spat plays very loud and very soft.
Alex Tucker - drums; Aidan Wong - tenor saxophone; Eric Tsai - guitar

Hannah James (double bass)

Keyboardist, synthesist and improviser Kurt Lam will be bringing together a new lineup of local Sydney musicians every week to explore the possibilities of collaboration and improvisation.  
Goose on live electronics
Gabriel Haslam on drums

Louis Wishart Quartet Louis Wishart is a composer, trumpet player, and pianist whose music draws upon the ecologies of natural and synthetic situations to form linear structures for improvisation and fixed music. Alongside Sam Killick (Guitar), Henry Hall (Bass), and Hayley Chan (Drums), Louis will present a brand new set of original compositions.

The DeeBeeTees (Doers of Brave Things) is the collaborative soundworld of two flutey friends, Chloe Chung and Liz Cheung. Their performances share their mutual enjoyment of multi-flute improvisation and looping. Chloe is a multi-style flautist (Western flutes/dizi). Liz messes around with low flutes and Chinese traditional bowed strings, compiling the noises your teacher tells you not to make.

Solo exhibtion by Juke Wyat - ‘Inoculated City’.

Performance at 7:30 pm by DPRK: Richard Fielding - synth, Nick Dan - drum machine and synth, Juke Wyat- guitar

Alister Spence has been playing the Fender Rhodes electric piano since the 1970s. Within Without is Spence’s debut album for solo Fender Rhodes.

Alexandra Spence is a sound artist/musician whose aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions.

Chloë Sobek is a composer-performer based in Naarm. This installation presents an experimental archive of the violone, composed of sound and artefacts that resist conventional models of documentation and preservation.

From Thursday to Saturday, the installation opens to the public. The week culminates in a special ticketed solo performance by the artist, presented alongside their installation.

Gabriella’s final recital at the Con!

Gabriella Hill - Tenor saxophone
Eric Tsai - Guitar
Henry Hall - Bass
Jack Rosenzweig - Drums

Marlene Claudine Radice - Composer |{ noise ♡ drone }| Performer
Making Out - Indonesian musician working on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land
Black Metal 3 - Hinano Fujisaki (saxophone) + Mitch Elliott (electronics) + Jasper Craig-Adams (guitar)
Manticora - Harsh noise enthusiast | Living on stolen Dharawal land

Imaginary Radio Station, a space of storytelling and music. Composed by Stephen Adams for and in collaboration with the music box project, with dramaturgical support from Nikki Heywood. Weaving together threads of sound, movement and personal reflection, a sonic meditation on radio and connection.

CozyMinimal explores the intersection of rhythm and stillness—where repetition becomes meditation and sound unfolds through time. Drawing from the trance-like structures of Persian music and the gradual processes of Western minimalism.

Shervin Mirzeinali - Piano
Ehsan Kachooei - Setar
Ali Yarmohammadi - Tar
Arman Gouniaei - Tombak
Babak Naghibi - Double Bass 

Inspiritus - explores free improvisation under the guidance of images of the natural world.

Led by Shane Carpini (drums/percussion), Inspiritus features some of Sydney’s finest experimental improvisers, such as Kenya Wilkins (piano/flute), Josh Shipton (electric bass), Lachlan Kerr (keyboard/synthesiser), and Liz Cheung (zhonghu/flute).

Marlené Claudine Radice (ACT) composer who specialises in notated electroacoustic composition by exploring how art and sound complement one another.

Making Out (ACT) (Rosa Bassett) composer, performer, sound artist and organiser, works across noise, free improvisation, new music, and punk and hardcore.

Daemon Silk is a multidisciplinary artist and composer, everything from noise to modern classical, drone, free improvisation and electro acoustic improvisation.

Vivisection solo project of Rhiannon Evans Mostafa uses white noise, obsolete technology, situationally harvested samples through her DIY improvisations.

Second celebration of microtonal and mesotonal music in 2025.

The Yak Herders perform ‘The Space In Between the Things Between The Spaces’. Andy Milne principal composer on lumatone, Farrah Sa’adullah on violin, Brad Gill on malletKAT, Christina Laki on Ubass and fretless electric bass.

Clocks and Clouds ‘Artesian Fountains’. Kraig Grady and Terumi Narushima on Meta-slendro vibraphone, meta-slendro reed organ.

Michael Hugh Dixon’s ‘Ours is Simply the Way Back’, ‘Rejoin’, ‘Stillness' of unceasing activity’ and ‘Door of Many Mysteries – Reopened’ performed by Wendy Dixon (soprano), Kathryn Bennets (recorder), Greg van der Struik (trombone) and Dixon (horn).
Matthias Sebastian Krūger's ‘Residual’ for recorder and horn.
Praveen Venkataramana's ‘Reflection III’ for horn and trombone.

Lena Douglas - keys & vocals
Sara Flindt - keys & vocals
New, collaborative duo project which intertwines abstracted versions of both their songs with two vocals, two keyboards, intricate textures, effects and open improvisatory forms.

Jess Green - guitar. For this performance Jess performs new solo works that allow her to traverse from song to the edges of sonic exploration.

Composer Samantha Wolf and pianist Alex Raineri present a performance for piano and live electronics, featuring new, existing, and revised works from their 15-year collaborative history.
Samantha Wolf blends the classical, contemporary, acoustic, and electroacoustic worlds, while being grounded in the notated tradition.
Alex Raineri is active throughout Australia and Internationally as a piano recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, harpsichordist, composer, writer, producer, and educator.

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Laura Altman celebrates the launch of her debut solo CD ‘Holy Trinity’ on Relative Pitch Records. Laura is looking forward to playing in and with the new The Living Room Theatre space. 

Laura Altman (clarinet, tins, feedback, tapes, objects, voice)
m.h. (lyres, tape, feedback, objects and obscured vocalisations)
Inside/Outside: Melanie Herbert (violin, singing bowls) and Jim Denley (flutes, gumnut, voice)

FUKNO https://fukno.bandcamp.com/
HEDONIST https://hedonist.bandcamp.com/
DF0:BAD https://soundcloud.com/skint-1
GUNDERMAN https://gunderman.bandcamp.com/
PETER https://soundcloud.com/caine-stone
XYLOFUNT https://thestableofcrap.bandcamp.com/
NIMBY https://reubeningall.bandcamp.com/music
ABRE OJOS https://abreojos.net/
DJ CHARLES

Joseph Rabjohns & Lachlan R. Dale are a guitar duo exploring the intersection of post-rock, ambient, and contemporary classical music.

BoNo is Bonnie Stewart (Voice/effects) and Novak Manojlovic (Piano/effects) rifling through their sonic libraries and running the findings through a slew of pedals and extended processes in pursuit of stillness.

Francisco Sonur creates improvised ambient music that drifts between fragile, intimate moments and vast, immersive walls of sound.

Aidan Eccleshall leads a cohort of young artists in explorations of sound and silence from John Cage, alongside radical new pieces commissioned for this event.
Student Work - My Pet Rock
Aidan Eccleshall - Don’t destroy your gifts
John Cage - Four6

George Crumb - Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik - Ronan Apcar (piano)
Georges Aperghis - Recitations - Mitch Riley (voice)

Delays Have Dangerous Ends a duo creating cinematic ambient science fiction music through improvised guitars, keyboards and effects celebrate the release of their 9th long form single ‘Seven Nights Nine Times Nine’.  

Special guests will be electro underground legends Scattered Order, complete with live visuals from LIVING SCIENCE Dept.

Both Genevieve Von Black and Matthew Syres from Delays Have Dangerous Ends will play rare solo improvised sets to kick off the night.

Ariel Bart, Israeli harmonica player and composer, appearing for one night only at VJs in Chatswood. In her Australian debut, Ariel will be joined by two outstanding local musicians — Lauren Tsamouras (piano) and Freya Schack-Arnott (cello) — for an evening of intimate, boundary-crossing music.

Milton Man Gogh
Andrew Saragossi - saxophones; Zac Sakrewski - basses; Benjamin Shannon - drums
Fusion of contemporary jazz with elements of metal, punk, and folk.

jetrio
Sean Valenzuela - piano; Blain Cunneen - guitar; Alexander Inman-Hislop - drums
Music somewhere between meditative jazz, minimalist composition, and ambient improv.

Melodic Fictions is a contemporary choral, improvised layered work by vocalist Merinda Dias-Jayasinha. For this performance, Melodic Fictions is crafted live by Merinda in collaboration with vocalists Hannah Cameron, Imogen Cygler, Hannah McKittrick, and Ebony Tait.
Luke M de Zilva, as LMDZ, presents live mixes of mostly Australian musicians, collating, sampling and abstracting their work to create a series of new ‘collaborations’.

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Max Alduca - double bass; Nick Calligeros - trumpet; Holly Conner - drums & electronics; Sam Gill - saxophones & percussion; Novak Manojlovic - piano & keyboards; Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets & viola

One of the most creative and boundary-pushing improvising groups to emerge from the Sydney scene in the last 10 years, Microfiche combines improvisations with compositions from each member of the band.

Jessie Newling extends the possibilities of her voice, using digital processing and effects with custom made controllers, exploring old world gesture and expression with modern music technology.

CAxRA is an electronic composer and audiovisual artist. Her graduate project 'Inversion / Refract' is an immersive listening experience exploring the patterns of human development through biological natural systems.

The third annual Christmas concert of Sydney's hardest working free jazz quartet. Featuring Lauren Tsamouras and Tom Avgenicos performing music from their newly released album on ABC Jazz 'For Judy' as well as their own inimitable compositions.

BELIEVE: Laurence Pike, drums; Novak Manojlovic, piano; Clayton Thomas, double bass; Peter Farrar, saxophones and percussion

Lauren Tsamouras, piano and Tom Avgenicos, trumpet

Mx Robert Frost
Bosun
Most Ominous Mystic
Atavus Infectum

Jetsets Christmas Extravaganza gig at the new home of The Living Room Theatre, 21 Shepherd St, Marrickville.

Special guest Austrian bass clarinetist Anna Koch. Specialising in contemporary and improvised music with performances as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals like Wien modern, Bang on a Can (USA), Auckland Arts Festival (New Zealand), Impuls Graz, SiMN Festival Curitiba (Brasil), Klangspuren Schwaz, Cut Paste Play Festival (Australia), Styriarte, Imago Dei and Expo Shanghai (2010). https://annakoch.org/videos/

Plus, IBID Duo - Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute) and Shane Carpini (drumset). Stream of consciousness improvisations and their own compositions inspired by philosophy, astronomy and human behaviour. http://www.keynawilkins.com/ibid.html

Anti Guitar Trio - Simon Dawes, Dave Sattout and Joe Manton.

The Valentitanic Trio - Mike Kennett, Alia Josephine, Josh Shipton and Tim Bradley.

Berlin-based musician and composer Jules Reidy has created a musical accompaniment to the 38th Kaldor Public Art Project 38, Thomas Demand: The Object Lesson. Jules Reidy uses materials such as guitars, voice, percussion and found sounds, deconstructing and augmenting them through non-standard tuning systems, polyrhythmic structures, electronic processing and spatialisation.

Wednesday 7 January 2026 3–3.30pm

Wednesday 7 January 2026 7–7.30pm

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

For almost five decades now, Tokyo based artist Merzbow has held the undisputed position as the iconic forefather of noise music. His work catapults the listener into an utterly unfamiliar but wholly compelling cosmos of sound, a full spectrum eruption, a pyroclastic cloud of sound.

Lawrence English is known for work that tests at the edges of harmonic ambience and low energy sound pressure.