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 specialises in low flutes and huqin (Chinese bowed strings).

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

Artist Natasha Dubler and curator Kristy Gordon host this deeply immersive, speculative sound experience in the gallery after hours, where Natasha's Between the Turns of Tide will be performed in its complete eight-channel composition.
Following the slow listening experience, join curator and artist in conversation about resonant aspects of sound recording and sound art, deep listening with water, and slow aesthetics.

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

Inaugural in-house performance at Kentville Drums/Pug Cymbals as we present Laurence Pike. This is a free event supported by Inner West Drum Fest.
Laurence Pike is a prolific Australian musician/composer/producer whose virtuosic drumming and multi-disciplinary practice have made him one of Australia’s most respected and in-demand musicians at the cutting edge of the electronic, rock and jazz music worlds for the better part of two decades.

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.

Producer Eric J Dubowsky and ambient artist Matt Curtin premiere a deep listening experience created with cognitive neuroscientist Dr Steffen A. Herff at Machine Hall, Sydney.
REALM is a new experimental music project that treats the human mind as the main performance space, at the intersection of sound design, neuroscience and immersive art.

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.

Megan Alice Clune performs two new works for trio, featuring Hinano Fujisaki and Nick Calligeros. Based on looping video scores, this performance will be the third in her series of Repetition Studies performed throughout 2024-5. These works present frameworks for improvisation that unfold slowly, and can be observed from multiple viewpoints of complexity.

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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.

Brian Ferneyhough - Time and Motion Study II (for cello and electronics) (1973-76)
Chris Pidcock (cello, voice)
Ben Carey (electronics)

Funguszeit
Jocelyn Ho (prepared piano)
Mark Oliviero (modular synth)
Chris Pidcock (cello)

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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.

Sam Gill (saxophones) & Simon Barker (drums) have been playing in the duo format since 2015, improvising sets full of high-intensity rhythmic and textural explorations.

Gabriella Hill (tenor saxophone) & Eric Tsai (guitar) duo explore the sonic possibilities between saxophone and guitar, creating improvised dialogues that are either based on a certain melody or completely free without reference.

The premier of Act One of Songs of Fire, a chamber opera written and composed by Anna Hueneke, a spectral music piece inspired by Claude Vivier's Bouchara.

Conductor - Gabriel Kerridge; Soprano - Tovia Jakovsky-Coleman; Bass-baritone - Freddy Shaw; Double Bassists - Elsen Price, Tomas Ford, Jason Smith, Eric Hutchens, Ann Palumbo, Henry Hall, Hannah James, Tom Botting, Michael McNamara, Jarrah Murray; Cellists - John Napier, James Larsen

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

Early evening listening of ****** electronics in celebration of new long-player, Yield by r hunter. 

No DJs, all 30-minute live sets by:
▪️Wa?ste
▪️JWPATON
▪️scariestgirlintheworld
▪️r hunter

Mind On Fire with Phillippa Murphy-Haste
Sam Gill - saxophones, Brad Gill - vibraphone, Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets
Since forming in 2017, they have developed a unique approach to blending improvisation and experimental composition for duo and expanded formations.

Chris Abrahams & Monica Brooks
Chris Abrahams - piano, Monica Brooks - piano

Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He plays solo using different combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics, and leads the contemporary hybrid percussion / gamelan group ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH. His music has been released on labels such as Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, Gaffer Records, Hasana Editions, 23five, iDEAL and his own label Antboy Music.

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The Blue Day Volume 4 — an eight act program of left-field music. From alternative to pop, folk, all the way to ambient music, experience an eclectic afternoon of genre mashups.

akka (@_aakkaa )
Arketek (@arketek_ )
Cherry Rype (@cherry__rype )
Headaches (@headaches.cure )
Indira Elias (@indira__elias )
Jancsi & jasper c-a (@tiny_handsz & @justme_jaspy )
LOUISA (@louisachristie__ )
Yo Oo Ya (@yo.oo.ya )

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.