dawdle (bris)
Dahong (beijing)
Afterpay (Premium) (beijing/syd)
Placeholder (eora)
Jon Smeathers (hobart)
Angel Dust (bris/syd)
BBGG + friends (syd/nrm)

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

Berlin-based but Sydney-raised composer and guitarist Jules Reidy joins forces with local buddy Marcus Whale for an intimate night of music drawn from their albums on common themes of self-annihilating devotion in Jules's "Ghost / Spirit" and Marcus' "Ecstasy".

Plus James Rushford.

Warm Currency (M Hopkins and Mary MacDougall)
Jordan Ireland
Jon Flood

Angel Grindr
Meow Meow Casio
Withdrawe
Manticora
Hush
eyedolon909
Saoirse Prince
Liz Cheung

Warm Currency is a project by Eora/Naarm-based friends, artists and musicians M Hopkins and Mary MacDougall. Quietly intense folk music, song-poems, and concrète collages built from seemingly simple and delicate arrangements for guitar, keyboards, voice and tape.

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL FOR NEW ADDRESS AND FURTHER DETAILS AND TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE

jetrio is a Sydney-based three-piece that produces music that lands somewhere between meditative jazz, minimalist composition, and ambient improv.
Sean Valenzuela - piano, Blain Cunneen - guitar, Alexander Inman-Hislop - drums.

Improvised duo performance:
Dominic Nguyen - double bass (Tas)
Hinano Fujisaki - tenor saxophone

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela’s (fka Justice Yeldham) performances on their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass are the stuff of legend. Spawned from the noise music underground, where over twenty years the instrument evolved from a means to create ecstatic free-noise cacophonies into improvised electronica.

Granpa will be joined by Sorrycop (Magandjin), Black Metal 3 (Mitch Elliott, Hinano Fujisaki, Jasper Craig-Adams), Manticora.

Phillip Johnston is a contemporary composer/performer who straddles the worlds of jazz and art music. Johnston tells the fascinating story of the birth of the Australian film industry, through the projection of a curated collection of film shorts, while performing original scores for the films live.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Clare Cooper: guzheng; Jean-Philippe Gross: electronic

Composer and improviser, Jean-Philippe Gross is a self-taught musician. He plays with a dedicated feedback system (no input mixing). He collaborates with Marc Baron, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Clare Cooper (Nevers), Stéphane Garin.
Clare Cooper's work spans futuring, pedagogy, interdisciplinary design research, workshop facilitation, design consultation, and performing arts. Cooper co-founded the NOW now (2001), Splinter Orchestra (Sydney 2000), Splitter Orchester (Berlin 2009) and Frontyard Projects (2016).

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL FOR NEW ADDRESS AND FURTHER DETAILS AND TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE

Switzerland-based Australian cellist James Morley is celebrated for his innovative solo and chamber performances, exploring experimental improvisation, electronics, and post-instrumental approaches. In 2024, James was appointed a Young Classical Artist Trust (YCAT) Artist following a recital at Wigmore Hall, and the same year won the John Cage Award as a duo with pianist Dmitry Batalov.

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL FOR NEW ADDRESS AND FURTHER DETAILS AND TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE

Cyrus Meurant performs his music alone at the piano. The program will include selections from the ballet Au revoir mon ami and the album Monday to Friday (composed for people living with dementia), alongside a recent composition Distant Cities, inspired by Rimbaud’s Illuminations.

Sortie, Pas de deux, Mneme, Distant Cities (Book I), Monday III

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Durrant/Gallio Duo
Phil Durrant (UK) - electric mandolin & electronics, Christoph Gallio (CH) - saxophones. Veterans of the international ‘free improvised music’ scene who have been involved in notable projects that have shaped the development of the music.

The trio of Sonya Holowell (voice), Mel Herbert (violin) and Jim Denley (wind instruments) is a new grouping of three of Sydney's most experienced improvising musikin.

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

Ustad Mustafa Faizi (b. 1967, Kabul) is one of the leading Afghan classical vocalists of his generation. Steeped in the Patiala Gharana tradition of Indian classical music, he began singing at the age of fourteen under the guidance of his father, himself a devoted student of the legendary Afghan maestro Ustad Mohammad Hussain Sarahang. This lineage shaped Ustad Faizi’s musical path: his vocal style, emotional depth, and technical command all reflect the influence of Ustad Sarahang’s artistry while carrying his own distinct voice.

Shakuhachi grandmaster Riley Lee joins koto grandmaster Satsuki Odamura in a landmark cross-cultural performance with the Chroma Quartet.

Diverse program spanning music by Japanese koto master Michio Miyagi to Australian composers Ross Edwards, Anne Boyd and Lachlan Skipworth, alongside Debussy’s classic String Quartet. 

A mini festival with the Main Room and Gallery Room full of exploratory electronic music.

Defektro, Arketek, Selkie and the Sinewaves, Synth Primitive, Niamh McCool, Jocelyn Ho, Riki Wells, Aidan Eccleshall, Tim Gruchy, Freya Schack-Arnott …and many more

US experimental metal trio SUMAC will make their Australian debut. Formed by Aaron Turner (ISIS, Old Man Gloom), Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), and Brian Cook (Russian Circles, Botch), SUMAC have carved a reputation as one of the most uncompromising and visionary acts in modern heavy music. Their sound merges colossal sludge, free-form improvisation, and avant-garde exploration—constantly shifting between structured heaviness and total sonic freedom.

Melbourne’s own Convulsing will join SUMAC on all Australian dates.

Developed over three years across residencies, tours, and periods of deep listening, “Your Whistle Tells of Landscape” finds Australian sound artist Alexandra Spence continuing her investigations into the perceptual entanglements of sound, place, memory, and imagination.

Opening DJ - JWPaton

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Internationally acclaimed trombonist and bandleader brings his trio to Australia for the first time.

Samuel Blaser, (Swiss) trombone
Marc Ducret (France), guitar
Peter Brunn (Denmark), drums

Susie Bishop - Violin, Maharshi Raval - Indian Tabla, Elsen Price - double bass

The Mesos Trio perform a mix of Western Folk, Indian classical music, plus a few little detours in a fun musical tapestry. They all met and played for the first time during their recording session for their self-titled EP. As a trio they've since been playing around Sydney with many heads turning to their fun, virtuosic and passionate mix of musical creations.

The Quartet uses microtonal scales and Anatolian modes in intricate rhythmic music, where contemporary sensibilities meet tradition.
• Metin Yilmaz – Bilûr/Kaval (Traditional Flute)
• Jodie Michael – Drums
• Matt McMahon – Piano
• Stephen Elphick – Double Bass

Puscha x Aarti Jadu is an exploratory interplay between synthesis and vocals. An on-and-off collaboration between two artists from Naarm/Melbourne. Puscha creates hypnotic, post-ambient auditory spaces and musical impressions. Aarti Jadu is known for creating a hybrid of cinematic compositions and bass music laced with disparate vocal arrangements.

Opening DJ - Index

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

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

Sydney art music trio Polymorphic Orkestra perform an intimate concert at the fabulous Church Street Studios in Camperdown. Having recently released their 6th album, this is a rare chance to catch Polymorphic Orkestra live.
Lee McIver - Trumpet | Flugelhorn | Laptop | Effects
Ed Goyer - Vibraphone | Mallet Kat | Percussion
Ed Rodrigues - Drums | Samples | Percussion.

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.

Fabulous Contraption combine metal, jazz and fusion in unpredictable musical forms.

Godswounds deliver alt-prog pop, angular grunge and cinematic noise.

Basil’s Kite perform microtonal math-rock with sharp, precise shifts.

Shanghai blend film-rock and prog exotica with brassy, protean compositions.

Life Forms is the latest album from trumpeter Niran Dasika and his Melbourne-based trio featuring legendary pianist Andrea Keller and virtuoso bassist Helen Svoboda.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

AnSo, an interdisciplinary South Korean artist and performer residing and creating on Dharug land, blends their Korean culture with contemporary performance in their practice. For this performance at Phoenix Central Park, AnSo will be collaborating with harpist Isabella Rahme, as well as choreographers and movement artists Emmy Harkins, Risako Katsumata, Alana Searles, and Amara Shin. 

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

In Hand to Earth, Yolŋu song keepers Daniel and David Wilfred recontextualise their 40,000 year old song tradition in a resolutely contemporary setting with Korean-born vocalist Sunny Kim, trumpet and electronics maestro Peter Knight, and woodwind virtuoso Aviva Endean.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Melbourne/Naarm-based On Diamond take an anomalous look at alternative pop. Their sound relies on an interactive group dynamic and is inspired by folk, noise, rock, jazz, and improvised music, with lyrics that are personal and poetic. The current ensemble features Lisa Salvo (vocals), Scott McConnachie (guitar and synth), Myka Wallace (drums), Jules Pascoe (bass), and Duré Dara (percussion).

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Jon Rose and Erik Griswold are two of Australia’s foremost improvising experimentalists. Unnamed Road engages two violins: one an amplified tenor violin, and keyboards — a regular piano and a MIDI keyboard hooked up to samples of prepared piano - in free improvisation.  

Tickets: Free, by ballot only