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

Bring a plate and join us for a potluck with Galen Joseph-Hunter. Galen Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director of Wave Farm in New York's Upper Hudson Valley since 2002. Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. Wave Farm cultivates creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofit organizations in their cultural endeavors.

Galen will tell us about her work with the Wave Farm around 6pm-ish, but we will chat, eat, and drink before and afterwards.

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.

Beethoven’s String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132.
Kristian Winther, Hannah Kim, Liz Woolnough and Chris Pidcock.

CEREMONY is the most recent work of award-winning Sydney-based composer, pianist, and improviser Novak Manojlovic.
CEREMONY Ensemble: Ken Allars, Alex Raupach — trumpets, David Reglar, Billy Ward — woodwinds, Yutaro Okuda — guitar, Max Alduca — double bass, Miles Thomas — drums

Vocalist Louisa Rankin and clarinettist Jason Noble come together as SPEL, a duo exploring improvisatory music making. Joined by composer/producer Connor D’Netto for a trio performance expanding SPEL’s sound world with modular synthesisers and live electronic manipulation.

STEVE REICH New York Counterpoint
SPEL Originals and improvisations
CONNOR D’NETTO Some Kinda Way
SPEL x CONNOR D’NETTO Improvisations

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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

Ambient Delights features pianist Brieley Cutting with musicians Dan Lopez (violin), Eleanor Streatfeild (cello), Luke Spicer (viola), Bonita Han-Williams (double bass) and composer/live electronics performer Mark Oliveiro. 

FRANZ SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A major D.667 “The Trout” (1819)

MARK OLIVEIRO Electronic Suite for piano quartet with live electronics (2025)

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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

New sounds. New songs. Our last 4 years of writing in a room.

Support from Chaos Collective.

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

The evening will include a special performance of Ellen Kirkwood’s graphic/text/map composition ‘Music Country’ played by a select ensemble.

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

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

D.C Cross describes himself as a “transformative instrumental guitarist from Arncliffe”, a Red House local with his third annual post-xmas show.
It will be an evening of Australian instrumental ecstatic folk guitar, in the tradition of Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Nick Drake, Elizabeth Cotton and Mississippi John Hurt, but forging a unique Australian perspective on the genre.

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".

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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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

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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

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

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.