Nick Russoniello: Air Mass
Mar
29
6:00 PM18:00

Nick Russoniello: Air Mass

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.

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GI / HINANO FUJISAKI & JASPER CRAIG-ADAMS / SCOTT MARR
Mar
29
7:00 PM19:00

GI / HINANO FUJISAKI & JASPER CRAIG-ADAMS / SCOTT MARR

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.

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Fabulous Contraption, Recalibrate, Aether + Vassallo
Mar
29
to Mar 30

Fabulous Contraption, Recalibrate, Aether + Vassallo

Recalibrate 12AM - a Sydney trio combining heavy prog riffs with sparse dub groves with and bursts of angular punk.
Simeon Bartholomew 11PM - Soundscape, Improvised
Fabulous contraption 10PM - A living, breathing machine constructed from modern jazz, experimental metal and prog rock 
Aether + Vassallo 9PM - psychedelic, Soundscapes, Poetry

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Music + Tech workshop with Passepartout Duo
Mar
30
3:00 PM15:00

Music + Tech workshop with Passepartout Duo

Join Passepartout Duo (Nicoletta Favari & Christopher Salvito), creators of the KOMA Elektronik#Chromaplane and other sonic sundries, for a casual afternoon workshop and illuminating discussion on music, technology, and creative practices. Towards the end of the workshop, you can share your own DIY projects so that we can learn from one another!!!

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Impromptu #6
Mar
30
6:00 PM18:00

Impromptu #6

the international edition!

A guest from Poland (Aleksandra Bozek-Muszyñska), iipm sound art project from Switzerland (Phoebe Bognár and Mikołaj Rytowski) and the return of Kevin Jeynes from Melbourne. Oh yes, and the inimitable Glenda Goldberg & Tony Osborne. Improvised performance and sound at its best!!

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Scattered Order (Launch of New Album CONTINUE) plus Helvetica Noise
Mar
30
7:00 PM19:00

Scattered Order (Launch of New Album CONTINUE) plus Helvetica Noise

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 / TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE
Mar
31
6:00 PM18:00

Jacqui O’Reilly / TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE

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 Spence 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.

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Tetuzi Akiyama / Splinter Orchestra
Apr
1
7:00 PM19:00

Tetuzi Akiyama / Splinter Orchestra

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.

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Laura Chislett (flute) & Satsuki Odamura (koto)
Apr
4
1:00 PM13:00

Laura Chislett (flute) & Satsuki Odamura (koto)

Song Circles, improvisation for bass flute, singing bowls and koto
Fantasia in A minor,  for solo flute - Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)
Flying Like a Bird, for solo koto - Tadao Sawai (1938 - 1997)
Crossways, improvisation for flute and koto
Hoshun (Spring Time) for flute and koto - Katsutoshi Nagasawa (1923 - 2008)

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Weirding Ways Part 3
Apr
4
6:30 PM18:30

Weirding Ways Part 3

Our third event for this year will be facilitated by Stephen Adams and features Nikki Heywood, Liz Jigalin and Andrew Batt-Rawden.

We are artists of composition... Our artistic professional backgrounds are diverse. We've each specialised in either sound, movement or story-telling disciplines (including composition, choreography, theatre) and have interdisciplinary practices where we amalgamate approaches to creating performance in processes we've found to be highly exciting, thought-provoking, and sometimes transcendental.

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Sonic Spaces - Eric Avery
Apr
4
6:30 PM18:30

Sonic Spaces - Eric Avery

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.

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YOLO Solos Vol. 10 feat. Beatrice Colombis, Chloe Chung, with Lee Dionne
Apr
4
7:00 PM19:00

YOLO Solos Vol. 10 feat. Beatrice Colombis, Chloe Chung, with Lee Dionne

Hayes Street Studio presents Vol. 10 of its iconic YOLO Solos Series, featuring violinist Beatrice Colombis and cross-cultural flautist Chloe Chung. The program is rounded out with a set from pianist Lee Dionne.

Paul Hindermith: Violin Sonata, Op.11 No.1
Susan Kander: Baucis and Philomon and Apollo
Heinrich Ernst: Grand Caprice Sur 'Le Roi des Aulnes, Op.26
Chloe Chung: Solo set for dizi
György Ligeti: Etudes for piano (selection)

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Alex Jasprizza - Album Launch
Apr
4
7:00 PM19:00

Alex Jasprizza - Album Launch

I’m going to be launching my debut album Waterways. The album brings together field recordings I’ve captured in and around different bodies of water, and my own musical responses to them.
Alex Jasprizza - saxophone, electronics.

Hinano Fujisaki is a saxophonist, improviser and composer based in Eora/Sydney. Her music blends together jazz, improvised, ambient and folk music, weaving folkloric melodies against different soundscapes and textures. For this show, she will be presenting new music from her upcoming EP “There is a Rabbit on the Moon” joined by guitarist Jasper Craig-Adams.

WISHFISH is a duo of frequent collaborators Amy and Joe, nestled down on Dharawal Country. Their eclectic performances have found a home in various places from ambient sound baths to folk music stages.

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Dr. Zubin Kanga: Cyborg Soloists (Alfred Hook Lecture Series)
Apr
5
3:00 PM15:00

Dr. Zubin Kanga: Cyborg Soloists (Alfred Hook Lecture Series)

London-based pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga presents a lecture-recital about Cyborg Soloists, his 7-year music-technology research project exploring cutting-edge music technologies.

The presentation will conclude with a performance of one of Zubin Kanga’s own compositions, Hypnagogia (after Bach).

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Marshall McGuire & Simon Martyn-Ellis
Apr
6
3:00 PM15:00

Marshall McGuire & Simon Martyn-Ellis

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.

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Jeremy Rose and Chris Abrahams
Apr
6
7:00 PM19:00

Jeremy Rose and Chris Abrahams

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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Jack Stoneham's Walk (Album Launch) // BoNo
Apr
7
8:00 PM20:00

Jack Stoneham's Walk (Album Launch) // BoNo

WALK is a suite of music about going for a stroll and thinking the same repetitive thoughts. Many different short, cyclical, repetitive and often meditative forms are trodden on.
Toby Graham – vocals
Jack Stoneham – alto saxophone
Hilary Geddes – guitar
Linus Foley – piano
Jacques Emery – double bass
Ashley Stoneham – drums

BoNo is Bonnie Stewart (Voice/drums/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.

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SONDER: Mary Ocher
Apr
8
7:00 PM19:00

SONDER: Mary Ocher

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. 

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Casey Moir + Peter Farrar Woodwind Trio
Apr
8
8:00 PM20:00

Casey Moir + Peter Farrar Woodwind Trio

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 (feat. Gabriella Hill and Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets)

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.

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Goethe Lounge: Mary Ocher
Apr
9
6:00 PM18:00

Goethe Lounge: Mary Ocher

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.

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ealing, Mike Nigro and m.h.
Apr
9
7:00 PM19:00

ealing, Mike Nigro and m.h.

8th edition of The Blue Hour: an ambient music night exploring texture, atmosphere, and soundscapes through drone, experimental and ambient performances.

Featuring performances by ealing (@eal.ng ), Mike Nigro (@mnigro ) and m.h.

If you love ambient, sound art and experimental music, come down and commune with the enchanting sound of these left-field performers.

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Ben Lerner Quartet
Apr
10
8:00 PM20:00

Ben Lerner Quartet

Ben Lerner is an outstanding young artist who has quickly established himself as one of the emerging voices in Jazz and on the Alto Saxophone in Australia.

The Ben Lerner Quartet features Steve Barry (Piano), Max Alduca (Double Bass) and Alex Young (Drums), and performs a selection of Ben’s compositions.

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Mountain To Sea Quartet - Cody, Evans, Farrar & Swanton
Apr
10
8:30 PM20:30

Mountain To Sea Quartet - Cody, Evans, Farrar & Swanton

This group brings together some of Australia’s finest jazz musicians—Chris Cody (piano), Sandy Evans (saxophones), Lloyd Swanton (double bass), and Peter Farrar (saxophones)—in an exciting new musical exploration of freedom within individual and collective roles through original compositions and improvisation.

Sandy Evans, Lloyd Swanton, and Chris Cody have shared the stage for many years. Joining them is Peter Farrar, one of Australia’s foremost jazz saxophonists, renowned for his rich tone, dazzling technique, and inventive improvisation.

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Red Sun: Rosie Gallagher and Lee Dionne in recital
Apr
11
7:00 PM19:00

Red Sun: Rosie Gallagher and Lee Dionne in recital

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

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Underwards
Apr
11
8:00 PM20:00

Underwards

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

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Ensemble Offspring: Lumen Machine
Apr
12
7:30 PM19:30

Ensemble Offspring: Lumen Machine

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)

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DAMIAN WRIGHT & METIN YILMAZ
Apr
12
8:00 PM20:00

DAMIAN WRIGHT & METIN YILMAZ

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.

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Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker
Apr
13
7:00 PM19:00

Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker

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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Maquina Anonima / Uma Volkmer / Cara
Apr
16
7:00 PM19:00

Maquina Anonima / Uma Volkmer / Cara

Maquina Anonima fuses experimental electronics and the human voice. Melancholy songs and lush, evolving harmonies meet glitchy, morphing beats. Custom built wearable sensors control live effects during the performance.

Uma Volkmer joins Maquina Anonima with flugelhorn and live electronics for an improvised set.

Cara explores symbiosis between aural and visual complexities, focusing on textural materiality, combining both soundscape immersion and experimental rhythms.

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Volume presents: Fixtures - Perila
Apr
16
8:00 PM20:00

Volume presents: Fixtures - Perila

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales North building, Meers Hall (map)
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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

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Sondar / PURE MASS / TBX / Withdrawe
Apr
17
8:00 PM20:00

Sondar / PURE MASS / TBX / Withdrawe

SONDAR - Broody, bendy noise rock from Mulubinba/Newcastle fresh off the release of their cracking debut album.

PURE MASS - Loud and weird and repetitive, hopefully not too repetitive.

TBX - Echo-Sludge/Rhythmic Metal feat members of every band in the world.

Withdrawe - Brand new droney guitar and synth duo. Huge.

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Tracing presence on land
Apr
19
7:00 PM19:00

Tracing presence on land

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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Lauren Tsamouras & Tom Avgenicos / Aidan Wong, Eric Tsai, Alex Tucker
Apr
22
8:00 PM20:00

Lauren Tsamouras & Tom Avgenicos / Aidan Wong, Eric Tsai, Alex Tucker

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

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Jasmine Guffond
Apr
26
6:00 PM18:00

Jasmine Guffond

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.

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La Belle Époque - Church St
Apr
26
7:30 PM19:30

La Belle Époque - Church St

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

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La Belle Époque - Utzon Room
Apr
27
2:30 PM14:30

La Belle Époque - Utzon Room

Presented by Hourglass Ensemble

Artistic Director Andrew Kennedy,  Flutes Ewa Kowalski, Clarinets Andrew Kennedy, Harp Emily Granger, Viola Neil Thompson, Electronics Tristan Coelho

Claude Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp 
Tristan Coehlo Hokusai Mix Tape 
Camille Saint-Saëns Fantasie for Flute and Harp 
Franz Poenitz Capriccio for Clarinet and Harp 
Andrew Ball New work for Bass Clarinet, Viola, and Electronics
Missy Mazzoli Vespers for Amplified Viola and Soundtrack

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Sonya Hollowell & Believe // Sasha Gavlek (TAS)
Apr
28
8:00 PM20:00

Sonya Hollowell & Believe // Sasha Gavlek (TAS)

Believe are Sydney’s hardest gigging free jazz band. Peter Farrar, saxophones / Novak Manojlovic, piano / Clayton Thomas, double bass / Laurence Pike, drums.
Sonya Hollowell is a peerless classically trained improvising vocalist.
Sonya and the band memorably performed together previously at the Strata Festival 2024 at Phoenix Central Park.

Sasha Gavlek (26, they/them) is a contemporary bassist, bandleader, composer, event producer, and educator based in nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania).

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Chloe Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  April
Apr
30
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - April

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

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GIFT: a live score by Eiko Ishibashi X film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
May
3
to May 4

GIFT: a live score by Eiko Ishibashi X film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain Theatre (map)
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Join us for the Sydney premiere of GIFT, a new audiovisual collaboration between acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and multi-instrumentalist composer Eiko Ishibashi, who will perform a live soundtrack.

GIFT reimagines Hamaguchi’s ecopolitical thriller Evil does not exist (2023) as an eerie silent film. Set in a village outside of Tokyo, the film’s stunning visuals will be animated by a lush, improvised score of electronics and percussion.

Eiko Ishibashi’s work ranges from acclaimed singer-songwriter albums to scores for film, television, theatre and exhibitions, and improvised music.

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ACO Up Close: Reich & Golijov
May
3
7:00 PM19:00

ACO Up Close: Reich & Golijov

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

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Alloy // Volant
May
5
8:00 PM20:00

Alloy // Volant

Alloy Ellen Kirkwood - trumpet, Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets, Paul Cutlan - saxophones, Lee Orszaczky - trombone.
Late in 2022 Ellen Kirkwood assembled this group of stellar improvisers, each with their own cool and impressive things going on, for a performance of experimental compositions and improvisations.

Volant comprises four exceptional musicians, Matthew Ottignon (saxophones), Lauren Tsamouras (piano), Hannah James (double bass) and Hayley Chan (drums), who produce a singular explorative sound. Matthew Ottignon's compositions are an ode to his admiration for nature and are deeply influenced by musical geniuses including John Coltrane and the Necks.

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SOUND THE ALARM - new music for old problems
May
6
7:30 PM19:30

SOUND THE ALARM - new music for old problems

SOUND THE ALARM A large ensemble instigation for Palestine and beyond. AKA new music for old problems. Two sets of new music for large ensemble.

NOVAK MANOJLOVIC, piano; JACK STONEHAM, saxophones; SAM GILL, saxophones; UMA VOLKMER, trumpet; HILARY GEDDES, guitar; PETER FARRAR, reeds and percussion; LILY INNIS, cello; HAYLEY CHAN, drums; SASKIA SHEARER, percussion; MATTHEW OTTIGNON, woodwinds; SIMON FERENCI, trumpet; CLAYTON THOMAS, double bass; PHILIPPA MURPHY HASTE, bass clarinet and viola; HINANO FUJISAKI, saxophone; GABRIELLA HILL, saxophone; MEGAN ALICE CLUNE, clarinet; and LAUREN TSAMOURAS, organ

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Indonesia Our Neighbour (Staff Recital and Chamber Series)
May
7
7:30 PM19:30

Indonesia Our Neighbour (Staff Recital and Chamber Series)

This recital presents works by four of Indonesia’s most prominent composers: Trisutji Kamal, Yazeed Djamin, Soe Tjen Marching and Ananda Sukarlan.
The program will also include Indonesia-influenced works by Claude Debussy, Bela Bartok, Anne Boyd, Gareth Farr and Roger Smalley.
Daniel Herscovitch, piano

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Contemporary South Asian Jazz Grooves
May
7
8:00 PM20:00

Contemporary South Asian Jazz Grooves

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!

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Luke M de Zilva & Mitch Reynolds
May
11
7:00 PM19:00

Luke M de Zilva & Mitch Reynolds

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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Remi Marchand (solo) + Arkangel
May
13
8:00 PM20:00

Remi Marchand (solo) + Arkangel

Remi Marchand (solo)
For his ambient guitar solo project, Rémi brings together his blues music, 70s prog and fusion musical influences into a kaleidoscope of atmospheric textures and meditative soundscapes.
Arkangel
The new project of pianist Thibaud Kessell. Arkangel strips back his usual 9 piece array of strings + jazz sextet down to a quartet - Tom Avgenicos (trumpet), Jacques Emery (bass) and Ashley Stoneham (drums).

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Omega Ensemble: Distant World
May
17
to May 18

Omega Ensemble: Distant World

The future of our planet in a world gone mad. Music by Pēteris Vasks, Jabra Latham, Arvo Pärt and a world premiere by Miriama Young, presented by Omega Ensemble.

ARVO PÄRT Speigel im Speigel
JABRA LATHAM Fire Music
PĒTERIS VASKS Piano Quartet
MIRIAMA YOUNG New Commission

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AVANT GARDENS: DOUBLE SYMMETRY
May
17
to May 18

AVANT GARDENS: DOUBLE SYMMETRY

ERKKI-SVEN TÜÜR Synergie, for violin and cello (2010)
JÖRG WIDMANN Selections from 24 Duos for violin and cello (2008)
OSVALDO GOLIJOV Omaramor, for solo cello (1991)
KAIJA SAARIAHO -  Aure,  for violin and cello (2011)
HOLLY HARRISON Ice Giant, for solo violin (2023)
IANNIS XENAKIS Dhipli Zyia (Double Symmetry), for violin and cello (1951)

  • Véronique Serret (violin)

  • Blair Harris (cello)

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Jon Rose & Erik Griswold
May
17
7:00 PM19:00

Jon Rose & Erik Griswold

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 Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  May
May
20
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - May

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

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Volume presents: Fixtures - Seaworthy and Matt Rösner
May
21
8:00 PM20:00

Volume presents: Fixtures - Seaworthy and Matt Rösner

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales North building, Meers Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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

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Sonya Holowell and Jim Denley
May
24
6:00 PM18:00

Sonya Holowell and Jim Denley

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.

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Ben Lerner Quartet // Novak Manojlovic Solo
May
26
8:00 PM20:00

Ben Lerner Quartet // Novak Manojlovic Solo

Ben Lerner is an outstanding young artist who has quickly established himself as one of the emerging voices in Jazz and on the Alto Saxophone in Australia.
The Ben Lerner Quartet features Steve Barry (Piano), Max Alduca (Double Bass) and Alex Young (Drums), and performs a selection of Ben’s compositions.

Novak Manojlovic - pianist/composer/improvisor. Novak’s work describes a fascination with contrasts; new and old, acoustic and electronic, diatonic and atonal, abrasive and meditative.

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Aphrodite - A new opera by Nico Muhly
Jun
20
to Jun 28

Aphrodite - A new opera by Nico Muhly

Sydney Chamber Opera presents the world premiere of Aphrodite by US composer Nico Muhly and Australian playwright Laura Lethlean. This biting, contemporary opera channels the Aphrodite myth to ask: is our focus on beauty so preoccupying that we remove ourselves from the human connection of attraction?

Music: Nico Muhly
Libretto: Laura Lethlean
Conductor: Jack Symonds
Singers: Jessica O'Donoghue, Meechot Marrero
Instrumentalists: Omega Ensemble

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ZÖJ: Give Water to Birds
Jun
20
to Jun 21

ZÖJ: Give Water to Birds

A live performance of Give Water to Birds by ZÖJ is an intimate, immersive journey into the spaces between sound and silence. This is music that lingers in the air, holding its breath just long enough to draw you in. Each piece unfolds with a quiet urgency, blending improvisation with the delicacy of Persian poetry, inviting listeners into its meditative yet emotionally charged world.

Gelareh Pour - voice, kamancheh
Brian O’Dwyer - drums
Brett Langsford - guitar

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Chloe Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  June
Jun
28
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - June

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

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Maquina Anonima
Jun
28
8:00 PM20:00

Maquina Anonima

Maquina Anonima fuse experimental electronics and the human voice, using custom built wearable sensors to control live effects during the performance. Spanish folk song and choral textures meet glitchy, morphing beats and lush, evolving harmonies to create soundworlds of earthy grit and ethereal beauty.

Jessie Newling is currently immersed in early music, electroacoustic music and the intersection of voice and electronics.
Regan Van Veen is a music technology artist working on Gadigal land.

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Pianist Joseph Havlat at Hayes
Jul
18
7:00 PM19:00

Pianist Joseph Havlat at Hayes

Hayes Street Studio is thrilled to present pianist and composer Joseph Havlat in a rare recital that features a newly composed works by Australian composer Lisa Illean: her piano Sonata in ten parts.  Alongside this work, Joseph will perform a section from Bent Sørensen's "12 Nocturnes". 

Lisa Illean: Sonata in ten parts
Bent Sørensen: 
12 Nocturnes

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Chloe Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  July
Jul
26
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - July

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

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Chloe Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  August
Aug
31
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - August

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

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Chloe Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  September
Sep
30
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - September

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

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Chloe Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  October
Nov
1
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - October

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

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Chloe Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  November
Nov
30
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - November

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

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Chloe Kim -  𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 -  December
Dec
22
6:00 PM18:00

Chloe Kim - 𝟏𝟐 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 - December

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

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BLAUhAUS
Mar
28
7:00 PM19:00

BLAUhAUS

Zigi Blau is a multi-instrumentalist improviser and producer who plays keys/synth in Foshe, Indira Elias, Marauder and has a solo project of fully improvised, live-looped dance music called BLAUhAUS.

It’s a BLAUhAUS band show including: Zigi Blau - space rig, Holly Conner - drums/perc, Dorka Foster - flutes/effects

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