kankan (Maira Shimada) + Noitcurtsed Nodnet
Jul
22
8:00 PM20:00

kankan (Maira Shimada) + Noitcurtsed Nodnet

Noitcurtsed Nodnet

Daniel Raymond - drums
Aidan Wong - tenor saxophone
Eric Tsai - electric guitar
Ravi T-Ray - piano

kankan (Maira Shimada)

kankan is a solo performance project of Maira Shimada using (for this show) radio, shinobue (Japanese bamboo flute), and other methods. Fishing around in an exponential pond of noise.

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The Music of Ananda Sukarlan
Jul
23
7:00 PM19:00

The Music of Ananda Sukarlan

  • The Australian Institute of Music (map)
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Join us for a special evening showcasing the works of renowned Indonesian pianist-composer Ananda Sukarlan. This unique event features live performances by AIM students and alumni, highlighting the beauty and complexity of Ananda’s music.

As AIM’s current Composer-in-Residence, Ananda will also share insights into his global career and offer valuable advice for emerging musicians during an exclusive Q&A session.

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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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Nana Koizumi, Inlay Ensemble, Armistice Flute Choir
Jul
26
6:00 PM18:00

Nana Koizumi, Inlay Ensemble, Armistice Flute Choir

Please join us for this special intimate concert of:

- new exciting jazz interpretations from trailblazing Japanese trumpeter Nana Koizumi with the dynamic Inlay String Ensemble led by Elsen Price, and

- new powerful music from Armistice Flute Choir led by Keyna Wilkins with Laura Chislett, Chloe Chung, Liz Cheung and Jessica Scott.

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Reflections of Home
Jul
26
7:30 PM19:30

Reflections of Home

Echoes of ancient landscapes, resonate with the spirit of the land that has witnessed millennia. "Reflections from Home" is a testament to the enduring connection between First Nations people and the landscapes that have shaped their stories. Experience a night woven with threads of land, memory, and resilience, in an artistic tapestry that invites you to delve into the depths of First Nations' connections with home and heritage through the transformative power of the arts.

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Parallels 3 - SAM GILL & CHRIS ABRAHAMS // MONICA BROOKS & CLARE COOPER
Jul
27
8:00 PM20:00

Parallels 3 - SAM GILL & CHRIS ABRAHAMS // MONICA BROOKS & CLARE COOPER

Parallels is a series of improvised duo gigs curated by saxophonist Sam Gill, each presenting two duos and culminating in an all-in quartet set. For the third edition, we'll hear rich textural explorations from two sonically diverse duos.

SAM GILL & CHRIS ABRAHAMS
Sam Gill - saxophones
Chris Abrahams - piano

MONICA BROOKS & CLARE COOPER
Monica Brooks - piano/accordion
Clare Cooper - guzheng/harp

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Jazz:NOW - CURRENT[s]
Jul
30
7:00 PM19:00

Jazz:NOW - CURRENT[s]

Theo Carbo; guitar, Hilary Geddes; guitar

THE WELLSPRING - Jacques Emery; bass, guitar, percussion, fx, Mara Schwerdtfeger; Viola, Electronics,  Imogen Cygler; Violin, Voice, Laura Altman; Clarinet, Objects, Roshan Kumarage; Accordion, Hilary Geddes; Acoustic and electric guitars, FX, Theo Carbo; Acoustic and electric guitars, FX, Chloe Kim; Percussion

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L.A.R.M. , BONNIESONGS and BIG SCARY INDIAN
Jul
31
7:00 PM19:00

L.A.R.M. , BONNIESONGS and BIG SCARY INDIAN

BIG SCARY INDIAN. Uncategorizable American DIY rippers making their overseas debut on the other side of the world. After taking their maximal blend of math-psych-prog-post-rock on the road for a 35 show blitz across the US in 2024, they’re keeping the heat on with a brand new EP “Road To Wrath” and an Australian tour. Sure to be an absolute barn burner.

With support from Sydney’s finest: L.A.R.M, BONNIESONGS, GOOD RAMEN

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Jane Sheldon: Flowermuscle
Jul
31
7:00 PM19:00

Jane Sheldon: Flowermuscle

Jane's 2022 album ‘I am tree, I am a mouth’ was listed on the New Yorker's Notable Recordings of that year, alongside the Berlin Radio Symphony and Björk. Her follow-up release, ‘Flowermuscle’, comes out June 27, and she's been working with brilliant audio artist and frequent collaborator Bob Scott to create a surround sound performance for Phoenix.

With an international reputation for highly specialised contemporary opera and art music for voice, Jane's own music shows the influence of the avant garde. Described as “riveting” (New York Times) and “gripping and expressive” (Financial Times), Jane’s work focuses on the experience of altered or transformative states of being.

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Big Scary Indian + Terrificus + Misty Lanes + Mike Nigro
Aug
1
6:00 PM18:00

Big Scary Indian + Terrificus + Misty Lanes + Mike Nigro

BIG SCARY INDIAN. Uncategorizable American DIY rippers making their overseas debut on the other side of the world. After taking their maximal blend of math-psych-prog-post-rock on the road for a 35 show blitz across the US in 2024, they’re keeping the heat on with a brand new EP “Road To Wrath” and an Australian tour. Sure to be an absolute barn burner.

With support from Sydney’s finest: TERRIFICUS, MISTY LANES, MIKE NIGRO

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Bach Reshaped
Aug
1
7:00 PM19:00

Bach Reshaped

This recital explores the adaptability of Bach’s music and the unique possibilities of the cello in a work originally written for solo violin.

CAROLINE SHAW - In Manus Tuas      
J.S. BACH - Partita No. 2 in D Minor for solo violin, BWV 1004 (arr. for Cello in G minor)

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Shakti Spirit
Aug
2
7:00 PM19:00

Shakti Spirit

Sandy Evans: Saxophones, composer
Renowned Indian Jazz ensemble Shakti Spirit celebrate female creativity through the shared joy of improvised music-making. This ensemble transcends music, offering a experience of cultural exchange.

Nadhamuni Gayatri Bharath: Voice, composer
Jess Green: Guitar
Pirashanna Thevarajah: Mridangam and other percussion
Prahlad Iyer: Ghatam and other percussion

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A NIGHT OF INDUSTRIAL NOISE
Aug
2
7:00 PM19:00

A NIGHT OF INDUSTRIAL NOISE

Schkeuditzer Kreuz is one human and some machines, making industrial synth crust, in the face of it all.
Lucas "Granpa" Abela is most famous for creating an instrument made from a diamond-shaped pane of glass, fitted with contact microphones and attached to effects pedals. Gutterpig dons a pig mask and takes elements of electronic and punk which combine hypnotic beats, distorted synths and with raw vocals.
The White Mare is the brainchild of Alex Woollams, typically described as death industrial but taking elements from harsh noise, dark ambient, noise rock, musique concrete and more to create haunting soundscapes that ooze atmosphere.

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Music For Change x Lazy Thinking - Dahnoun Mutual Aid Fundraiser
Aug
3
2:00 PM14:00

Music For Change x Lazy Thinking - Dahnoun Mutual Aid Fundraiser

Music For Change team up once again with Lazy Thinking to bring you an afternoon of leftfield, eclectic and downtempo electronic music. 100% of profits from pre-sale tickets and door sales are being donated to Dahnoun Mututal Aid, a group of grassroots Gazawi organizers working to provide life-sustaining aid in Gaza. 

E Davd (Live) [Pure Space/Music For Change] - https://soundcloud.com/edavd
Suzu [Ear Contact] - https://soundcloud.com/suzu_who
Ulia [Undisclosed] - https://soundcloud.com/uliatechno
Lovefromsoph [Syllabus Recordings] - https://soundcloud.com/lovefromsoph
Andrew Wowk [2SER/Music For Change] - https://soundcloud.com/andrew-wowk

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patina live
Aug
3
4:00 PM16:00

patina live

patina live presents deep listening ritual hosted by galiba & lenna from patina - an FBI radio show devoted to uncanny dream music and sounds that soothe and challenge in equal measure.

akka (hybrid)
AnSo (live)
galiba
lenna
Sina (live)
Troth (live)

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vacuus rituale
Aug
3
7:00 PM19:00

vacuus rituale

  • The Little Lost Bookshop, Katoomba (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Society of Cutting Up Men - A bad omen of primordial darkness that has lost her way and ended up in this so-called dimension. https://www.instagram.com/scum.noise/

Mx Robert Frost - A wizard who lives in the mountains, exploring the way sounds interact with perception to allow changed mental states. https://www.instagram.com/mxrobertfrost/

Atavus Infectum - Self-appointed Summoner-in-Chief of the Blue Mountains Void Observance League Inc. Aural histories of the void and observances to the old gods. https://www.instagram.com/atavusinfectum/

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SCM Percussion Concert (SCM110)
Aug
8
7:00 PM19:00

SCM Percussion Concert (SCM110)

Steve Reich - Music for Pieces of Wood
Gareth Farr - Percussion Octet
Ella Tomkin - Adrift
Daryl Pratt - Quartet
Stuart Greenbaum - Organised Lounge
Edgard Varèse - Ionisation

SCM Staff: Daryl Pratt (former), Claire Edwards OAM (current) SCM Alumni: Niki Johnston, Robert Oetomo, Tim Paillas Current Students: Jack Peggie, Rosie Bennett, Bryn Wood, Alice Zhang, Grace Lee, Bill Chen, Anneke Brahe, Ben Weatherall Special Guest: Alison Pratt

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BELIEVE!  Debut CD Launch
Aug
9
7:00 PM19:00

BELIEVE! Debut CD Launch

The Peoples' Republic is thrilled to welcome back our favourite brilliant improvising quartet for a very special fully acoustic show to preview their first studio release, making the album available for the first time before its official release in September...

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

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Bree van Reyk, Niki Johnson, Hayley Chan
Aug
9
8:00 PM20:00

Bree van Reyk, Niki Johnson, Hayley Chan

Planks & Percussion: a series of works composed by three drummer/percussionists.

Inspired by found objects, knick-knacks, and planks of wood, performer-composers Bree van Reyk, Niki Johnson, and Hayley Chan unite to present three original compositions. Building on their debut performance of van Reyk’s A Series of States at the Art Gallery of NSW, their appearance at Local Edition deepens their exploration of guided improvisation, sonic environments, and evocations of the natural world—revealing the vast textures and terrains that can emerge from a percussion ensemble.

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Souvenirs of Home - Hourglass Ensemble
Aug
10
2:30 PM14:30

Souvenirs of Home - Hourglass Ensemble

Johannes Brahms - Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
Sally Greenaway – Piano Trio “Le Parc Monceau”
Michael Torke – Telephone Book
Alice Chance - Inhalations
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Jet Whistle
Oliver Muller - Petrie Creek Road (world premiere*) for flute, clarinet, and piano
Amanda Harberg – Court Dances

Ewa Kowalski - Flutes, Andrew Kennedy - Clarinets/artistic director, Anna Rutkowska - Piano, Dan Russell - Violin, Robert Jackson - Cello, Oliver Muller - Composer

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AVÉ: Thought is Surrounded by a Halo
Aug
10
2:30 PM14:30

AVÉ: Thought is Surrounded by a Halo

AVÉ (Australian Vocal Ensemble) presents Gwen Harwood’s poetry brought to life in new works by Australian composers for AVÉ, blending text and voice in an intimate exploration of thought, memory, and song.

Andrew O’Connor/Gwen Harwood Thought is Surrounded by a Halo
Kevin Barker/Gwen Harwood A Little Night Music  
Joseph Twist/Gwen Harwood Refugee 
Anne Cawrse/Gwen Harwood Beyond all words 
Perry Joyce/Gwen Harwood My father’s gun 
Stephen Leek/Gwen Harwood Light to Stone
Paul Stanhope/Gwen Harwood Triste
Thomas Green/Gwen Harwood Last Meeting
Elena Kats-Chernin/Gwen Harwood The Wound
Sally Whitwell/Gwen Harwood Halo

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CHRONOLOGY ARTS COLLECTIVE
Aug
10
7:00 PM19:00

CHRONOLOGY ARTS COLLECTIVE

Interdisciplinary performance group Chronology Arts Collective bring their distinctive brand of embodied sonic and performative practice to The Red House this winter. Enfolding the audience in a layered and spatially distributed web of voices, expressive bodies, instruments, microphones, amps and cables, they play each other and the materials and resonances of the building, its contents and possible (hi)stories.
 
For the "Spirits in the House" performance, Chronology Arts Collective are Elizabeth Jigalin, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Mitch Riley, Nikki Heywood and Stephen Adams. Performance facilitated by Stephen Adams.

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Synthetic Compositions: Music Made From Artificial DNA Sequences
Aug
12
7:00 PM19:00

Synthetic Compositions: Music Made From Artificial DNA Sequences

When genetic code becomes melody, musicians and science data collide in a beautiful experiment where musicians shape the chaos of genes into music.

Mark Temple - Science and Music concept, Drums, Paul Smith - Piano, Mike Anderson - Guitar, Paul Scott - Bass, The DNA Sequence - Synthesisers, String or Wind Instruments

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YULUGI
Aug
13
8:30 PM20:30

YULUGI

  • Lazybones Lounge Restaurant & Bar (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Yulugi is a collaboration between leading song man Gumaroy Newman, a proud Gamilaroi and Wakka Wakka man and Robert Waetherall, a Gamilaroi, Bidgigal and Yuin man on yidaki (didgeridu) and dance, Raph Hatz, a Gamilaroi and Anaiwun also on yidaki, alongside Keyna Wilkins, a British-Australian composer/musician. Yulugi is a dialogue across cultures, inspired by the Australian landscape and animals. The word 'Yulugi' means play, dance or have fun in Gamilaroi.

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Lost Birds
Aug
16
2:30 PM14:30

Lost Birds

Christopher TIN The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy
Joseph TWIST Timeless Land: An Australian Song Cycle
Nardi SIMPSON New work†
Joanna FORBES L’ESTRANGE A Season to Sing: Autumn and Winter*

Brett Weymark conductor
Chamber Singers
Sydney Philharmonia Ensemble

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Germ Studies
Aug
22
6:30 PM18:30

Germ Studies

Germ Studies brings an evening of musical transformation, through sound and melodic experimentation.

Germ Studies is the inspired Australian pairing of renowned pianist Chris Abrahams and harpist Clare Cooper. Rather than presenting the expected harmonic interplay of piano and harp, the duo conjure immersive sonic environments that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. With the crystalline resonance of the 1380s Chinese guzheng meeting the shimmering textures of a 1980s Japanese DX7 synthesiser, their music is a study in contrasts: organic and electronic, meditative and ecstatic, familiar and alien.

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Jazz:NOW - STROPHE
Aug
23
7:00 PM19:00

Jazz:NOW - STROPHE

The sixth Jazz:NOW event STROPHE heads east, exploring notions of space, identity and community at the stunning Paddington Uniting Church.

Mara Schwerdtfeger; viola, electronics
Shannon May-Powell; spoken word

Max Alduca; bass
Hilary Geddes; guitar
Michael Avgenicos; saxophone
Luke Sweeting; piano
James Waples; drums

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The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony
Aug
23
7:30 PM19:30

The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony

  • Sydney Conservatorium of Music (map)
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Jackie Hartenberger, conductor

Paul Hindemith - Symphony in B-flat
Catherine Likhuta - Sure-Fire, Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (Carla Blackwood, horn soloist)
Melody Eötvös - Hun Tur
Dances of Old Sydney Suite I.The Australian Volunteer Galop - Miss E.C. Wilson, arr. Will Hartley-Keane, II.The Twofold Bat Waltzes - Georgina Isabella Keon, arr. Mieke Florisson, III.Currency Lasses - Tempest Margaret Paul, arr. Hayden Taylor
Kevin Day - Concerto for Wind Ensemble

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Music as Play: Toy Instruments on the Concert Stage
Aug
24
3:00 PM15:00

Music as Play: Toy Instruments on the Concert Stage

Italian toy piano and toy instrument specialist Antonietta Loffredo will perform a variety of contemporary and classical works by Australian and International composers in this one-of-a-kind recital dedicated to musical toys.

Antonietta will be joined by Diana Blom, Alana Blackburn, and Paul Smith. The evening will culminate in the rarely performed Toy Symphony by Josef Haydn.

Works by Diana Blom, Paul Smith, Gian Paolo Luppi, Michael Hannan, and Stephen Montague.

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Set Me Free
Aug
24
6:00 PM18:00

Set Me Free

Amirsalar Makhzani - Daf
Ramin Etemadzadeh - Vocals
Mahya Panahi - Tanbour
Sina Bastami - Kamancheh
Ali Tahamtani - Tar Bass

Four members of Dela Ensemble join forces with renowned Tanbour player Mahya Panahi for a soulful fusion of Tanbour Maqams and Persian classical music (Dastgah), weaving mystical poetry, sacred rhythms, and live improvisation into a timeless experience.

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Dennis van Rooyen: Revolver
Aug
27
7:00 PM19:00

Dennis van Rooyen: Revolver

Dennis van Rooyen is a classical and electric guitarist interested in the potentialities of composed and improvised music in a curated context.

JONATHAN DOVE (*1959)  Seek Him That Maketh The Seven Stars (arr. D van Rooyen) 
FAUSTO ROMITELLI (1963-2004) Trash TV Trance 
DENNIS VAN ROOYEN Revolver
STEVE REICH (1936*) Electric Counterpoint

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Soft Centre - Stelarc Workshop
Aug
28
1:00 PM13:00

Soft Centre - Stelarc Workshop

  • City of Sydney Creative Studios (map)
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Stelarc’s workshop presents alternative anatomical architectures from hybrid bodies to hyper bodies. Through a discussion of social, cultural and philosophical ideas of the body, issues of awareness, agency and identity are interrogated. What a body is, how a body performs and what it means to be human is exposed. Having discussed these poetic and philosophical notions of bodily action and machine operation a one minute performance will be realised by participants taking into account how it will be structured, possible uses of the body, what kind of lighting and sound is incorporated and also how the performance will be documented.

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Maryam Rahmani
Aug
28
7:00 PM19:00

Maryam Rahmani

Maryam Rahmani, David Moran, and Sebastian Collen come together in a unique collaboration that bridges Persian classical music, experimental composition, and contemporary Western performance. Rooted in Maryam’s Iranian heritage and mastery of the Santur, the trio explores rich sonic landscapes shaped by David’s virtuosic cello performance and Seb’s conceptual compositions.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only
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Soft Centre - Discourse
Aug
29
10:00 AM10:00

Soft Centre - Discourse

Day two extends into an unmissable day of critical discussion, deep listening and experimental short films. Key topics explored across the day include labour, automation, DIY, noise and the ever-present prefix “post-”.

Highlights include acclaimed music journalist Liz Pelly (US) who’s unsparing investigation into Spotify has challenged the way we understand music, listening, and streaming economies with her recent book 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist'. Beloved local lecturer and poet Andrew Brooks’ keynote considers noise — of protest, resistance, riots — to develop a politics of listening as solidarity in struggle. Yuin archivist Madika Penrith and ethnomusicologist Sam Miers launch their hundred track compilation of Yuin Country/Bateman’s bay in conversation with Prop Records Parateek ‘Toto’ Shorey. A panel discussion from Rắn Cạp Đuôi’s drummer Zach Sch, CONTENT.NET’s Kuya Neil, and Liquid Architecture’s director Kristi Monfries on building South-East-Asia exchanges and collectives, and what it means to make avant-garde and DIY music.  

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Soft Centre - Para.cine
Aug
29
7:00 PM19:00

Soft Centre - Para.cine

Hearsay, by Naarm-based artists Eek, Kirby Casilli, and Tina Stefanou, is an extended filmic performance that transforms the cinema into a zoological amphitheatre. Blending moving image, contemporary performance, hypnotism, and sound.

Team Rolfes & The Mustang Speedrun is the latest chapter from NYC’s masters of virtual performance. Team Rolfes returns with a chaotic audiovisual sprint: a misfit crew of avatar jockeys struggles to keep their failing exoskeleton operational as they speed toward a surreal championship.

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Inner West Jazz Fest
Aug
29
to Aug 30

Inner West Jazz Fest

  • Annandale Creative Arts Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Friday August 29, 2025

HEAPS GRASS - Ebony Tait - Voice/Keys; Lachie Mills - Guitar; Jack Rosenzweig - Drums

HINANO FUJISAKI / SIMON BARKER TYMBAL ECHOES - Hinano Fujisaki - Tenor Saxophone; Simon Barker - Drums 

LAURENCE PIKE HALLUCINATIONS - Laurence Pike - Drums/Electronics; Ken Allars - Trumpet; Jack Stoneham - Alto Saxophone; Novak Manojlovic - Piano

MIROSLAV BUKOVSKY & STRINGS - Miroslav Bukovsky - Trumpet; Phillipa Murphy-Haste - Viola; Lily Innis - Cello; Clayton Thomas - Double Bass

DOGS OF PLEASURE (TAS) - Julius Schwing - Guitar; Alf Jackson - Drums

Saturday August 30, 2025

JACK STONEHAM’S WALK - Jack Stoneham - Alto Saxophone; Toby Graham - Voice; Tbc - Electric Guitar; Linus Foley - Wurlitzer; Jacques Emery - Electric Bass; Ashley Stoneham - Drums

HELEN SVOBODA SOLO (VIC) - Helen Svoboda - Double Bass/Voice 

LEAH BARRY SINGS MIKE NOCK (w/ Mike Nock) - Leah Barry - Voice; Mike Nock - Piano

GABRIELLA HILL/JACQUES EMERY/ALEX TUCKER - Gabriella Hill - Tenor Saxophone; Jacques Emery - Bass; Alex Tucker - Drums 

NOVAK MANOJLOVIC; THE CEREMONY - Novak Manojlovic, bandleader; Yutaro Okuda, guitar; Billy Ward, alto saxophone; Peter Farrar, alto saxophone; Dave Reglar, tenor saxophone; Max Alduca, double bass; Alex Raupach, piano; Miles Thomas, percussion

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Soft Centre - FESTIVAL
Aug
30
2:00 PM14:00

Soft Centre - FESTIVAL

SOFT CENTRE’s flagship multi-stage event erupts into the monumental White Bay Power Station with a stacked single-day program spanning radical performance art, adventurous club sounds, blistering A/V shows, site-responsive installations and durational spectacle. 

Highlights include Stelarc’s legendary biomechanical bodywork, an ecstatic somatic ritual by the mercurial Young Boy Dancing Group, 404.zero’s spatial hallucinations, and Klein’s surreal sonic poetics with net scraped visuals. The event premieres major new commissions such as CONTENT.NET.AU: The Musical featuring rising MCs Sidney Phillips, BAYANG (tha Bushranger), David Ketamine and kk88, Bhenji Ra x Karina Utomo’s WETAN, a charged invocation of ancestral memory and voice, and Excited State !!! - a supergroup exploring the frayed edges of Drum N Bass with live instrumentation.

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APHASIA
Aug
30
to Aug 31

APHASIA

  • Hayes Street Studio (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Hayes Street Studio presents APHASIA a night of chamber music that uncovers whimsy and imagination in unexpected places. Featuring leading Australian performers Elizabeth Jigalin, oboist Phoebe Xu, bassoonist Todd Gibson-Cornish alongside co-directors Lee Dionne and Rosie Gallagher, the night will hold trippy wind writing in Harry Sdraulig's Hat-trick (2020), Mark Applebaum's unique performance work Aphasia (2009) which he describes as a depiction of “expressive paralysis". There will also be a splash from John Cage's Living Room Music (1940), Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible (1992), Antal Dorati's pièces pour le hautbois seul (1980) and some delight in Poulenc’s Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano (1924).

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Potpourri Piano
Aug
30
8:00 PM20:00

Potpourri Piano

Pianist Rob Hao performs a programme of Romantic and contemporary piano music.

Michael Finnissy - Tenth Political Agenda *(World premiere)
Dominic Flynn - The Delacourt Bucket
Kaija Saariaho - Ballade
Claude Debussy - 'Pagodes' and 'La soirée dans Grenade' from Estampes
Claude Vivier - Shiraz
Michael Finnissy - Midsummer morn, from English country-tunes
Frederic Chopin - Two Nocturnes op 62

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Gary Daley & Sandy Evans Duo
Aug
30
8:00 PM20:00

Gary Daley & Sandy Evans Duo

This performance will feature original compositions which draw on multiple musical styles including jazz, world and classical music. The program will also feature deep dives into the world of free improvisation. Virtuoso instrumentalists on reeds, piano accordion and piano.

Sandy Evans is an internationally renowned saxophonist, composer, music researcher and teacher with a passion for improvisation and new music.

Gary Daley is a highly regarded Australian composer, pianist, accordionist and teacher from Springwood in the Blue Mountains.

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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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Soft Centre - CLOSING CONCERT
Aug
31
7:00 PM19:00

Soft Centre - CLOSING CONCERT

The final transmission of SOFT CENTRE 2025 draws together three singular artists for an elegiac finale to our multi-sensory four-day marathon.

Aarti Jadu Ensemble premieres SICFWYLF, a meditative invocation that reimagines mantra through acoustic instrumentation, trance repetitions, and rich percussive weight.

Beloved NTS resident Malibu [FR] follows, dissolving the boundary between memory and melody with her diaristic ambient compositions, a fog of reverbed vocals, wistful trance motifs and cascading strings.

Finally, the legendary Ryoji Ikeda [JP] unleashes 'ultratronics', a radical audiovisual encounter that fuses archival recordings with high-resolution sonic architecture.

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Parallels 4 - SAM GILL & PHILLIPPA MURPHY-HASTE // PAUL CUTLAN & ANDREW ROBSON
Aug
31
8:00 PM20:00

Parallels 4 - SAM GILL & PHILLIPPA MURPHY-HASTE // PAUL CUTLAN & ANDREW ROBSON

Parallels is a series of improvised duo gigs curated by saxophonist Sam Gill, each presenting two duos and culminating in an all-in quartet set. For the fourth and final edition, the focus is on woodwinds and will feature four of Australia's most acclaimed improvising reeds players.

SAM GILL & PHILLIPPA MURPHY-HASTE
Sam Gill - saxophones
Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets & viola

PAUL CUTLAN & ANDREW ROBSON
Paul Cutlan - saxophones & clarinets
Andrew Robson - saxophones

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An Exploration of Sitar by Ravi
Sep
5
6:30 PM18:30

An Exploration of Sitar by Ravi

  • Woollahra Library at Double Bay (map)
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After a wildly successful debut at the 2024 Sydney Fringe Festival culminating in a sold out show at Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, Ravi's groundbreaking sitar experience returns, bigger and bolder than ever in "An Exploration of Sitar by Ravi".

Every night is a one-off sonic journey—no two shows are the same. With live collaborations, spontaneous improvisation, and surprise guest artists drawn from the audience, this interactive show blends classical Indian music with unexpected twists.

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ANAM Sketches
Sep
7
3:00 PM15:00

ANAM Sketches

Erkki VELTHEIM Heiligenschein* for cello and electronics (2021)
Pierre BOULEZ Messagesquisse (1976)
Jane SHELDON Talking with herself alone**^ (2025)
Germaine TAILLEFERRE Partita pour piano, Op. 195: ii. Notturno (1957)
Richard MEALE Incredible Floridas (1971)

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Elizabeth Jigalin x Lewis Mosley: Two Pianos
Sep
7
4:00 PM16:00

Elizabeth Jigalin x Lewis Mosley: Two Pianos

Over the past two years, composers/pianists/sound artists Lewis Mosley and Elizabeth Jigalin have explored the sonic intricacies and possibilities of The Church's pianos. Playing on the two grand pianos, they have investigated the potential of two similar yet separate instruments performing as one - all against the incredible acoustic backdrop of The Church. This collaborative project coalesces both Lewis and Elizabeth's musical backgrounds, encompassing performance in rock groups, experimental ensembles, and jazz bands, as well as more traditional forms of compositional thought.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

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Chronology Arts Collective
Sep
7
6:30 PM18:30

Chronology Arts Collective

Navigating times of uncertainty and fast-paced constant change, the Chronology Arts Collective is an Australian group of artists presenting co-devised contemporary performance improvisations.

This performance is about aboutness. It may be a bit of a heady meta-trip into vocal and movement patterns, some kind of ritualistic dark comedy, or something that is like coming home and switching on the lights for the first time.

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An Exploration of Sitar by Ravi
Sep
9
to Sep 13

An Exploration of Sitar by Ravi

  • Erskineville Town Hall (map)
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After a wildly successful debut at the 2024 Sydney Fringe Festival culminating in a sold out show at Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, Ravi's groundbreaking sitar experience returns, bigger and bolder than ever in "An Exploration of Sitar by Ravi".

Every night is a one-off sonic journey—no two shows are the same. With live collaborations, spontaneous improvisation, and surprise guest artists drawn from the audience, this interactive show blends classical Indian music with unexpected twists.

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The Flute Revamped
Sep
9
to Sep 13

The Flute Revamped

  • Erskineville Town Hall (map)
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Join flautist Melanie Walters for this concert of vibrant music inspired by television, pop music, children's literature, and other popular culture.

The program includes music by Jacob TV, Eve Beglarian, Anne La Berge and Ian Clarke.

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Solly Frank x Harriet Gillies
Sep
14
4:00 PM16:00

Solly Frank x Harriet Gillies

Solomon Frank is an Australian performer and composer living and working on Cammeraygal land, whose inter-disciplinary practice straddles cross-species musical collaboration, vacuum cleaners and time travel.
Award-winning and working across a range of performance modes, Harriet Gillies has presented works in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and North America. She’s been supported by arts organisations and government agencies at regional, national and international levels.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

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Birds in Arcadia
Sep
17
7:30 PM19:30

Birds in Arcadia

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An intimate evening of music by Cyrus Meurant with guests Matthew Kneale, Kiran Phatak and Lloyd Van’t Hoff (Arcadia Winds).

Melody for solo bassoon
Sortie for solo piano
Pas de deux for solo piano
Three Pieces for flute, clarinet and bassoon
Stray Birds for bassoon and piano

Cyrus Meurant, piano; Matthew Kneale, bassoon; Kiran Phatak, flute; Lloyd Van’t Hoff, clarinet

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new now 2025
Sep
25
7:00 PM19:00

new now 2025

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World premiere works by Cassie To (NSW), Callum O’Reilly (WA), Alexandra Mison (QLD), and Oliver John Cameron (NSW).

A celebration of groundbreaking new directions, local voices, and bold musical risk-taking, New Now is Omega Ensemble’s annual showcase of emerging compositional talent.

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Round The Sun
Sep
26
7:00 PM19:00

Round The Sun

Round the Sun represents a reflection on my experience during a post Covid decent into and recovery from significant mental and physical illness.

Gary Daley - piano/accordion
Hilary Geddes - guitar
Jacques Emery - bass
Chloe Kim - drums

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

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Moonstruck
Sep
28
3:00 PM15:00

Moonstruck

  • EUGENE GOOSSENS HALL, ABC ULTIMO CENTRE (map)
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Pierrot lunaire (1912)
LAURA BOWLER Deconstructing Pierrot (2024)

Jessica Aszodi (vocals), Jane Sheldon (vocals), Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion), Lamorna Nightingale (flutes), Jason Noble (clarinet), Véronique Serret (violin), Blair Harris (cello), Jack Symonds (piano), Ben Carey (sound)

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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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Entangled Labours
Oct
10
7:30 PM19:30

Entangled Labours

Who gets to make art in Australia, and on what terms? Entangled Labours looks at the rich lives and experiences of working-class people in so-called Sydney. Including the premiere of a new film by the Class Actions Collective about the selling off of social housing in Redfern; a drag performance set in Mount Druitt; hip-hop spoken word; a performance with a brass band; and a ‘laboured’ action using amplified shovels. By showing the unique ways working-class people create, Entangled Labours asks us to think about the systems that decide who gets to make art, and the poetry that takes place in-between.

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Unbound
Oct
31
7:30 PM19:30

Unbound

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"Unbound" defies artistic boundaries, presenting a night of profound personal expression. Witness Ria Andriani's soul-stirring vocals performing Molly Joyce's compositions, followed by Melanie Eden's experimental fusion of vocals and accordion, where spiritual depth meets powerful social advocacy. Sonnet Curé, drawing from their "Headliners" experience, unveils a new experimental work, channeling their lived experience of deafness. Together, these artists offer an evening of transformative art, pushing beyond expectations.

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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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Bukhu & Nosh: A Fusion of Worlds
Jul
19
8:00 PM20:00

Bukhu & Nosh: A Fusion of Worlds

Bukhu - Khuumii (Harmonic overtone throat singing) and Morin Khuur (Horsehead fiddle)
Nosh Mistry - Electronic composition
Together, Bukhu and Nosh forge a unique musical dialogue. The duo creates rich, expansive soundscapes that can be at once meditative and electrifying, grounding the listener in a deep sense of history while simultaneously propelling them into the future of sound. Their music defies categorization, drawing from world music, experimental electronic, and contemporary classical influences, resulting in a sound that is uniquely their own.

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Fundraiser Concert - The Emerald's Touch Documentary
Jul
19
6:00 PM18:00

Fundraiser Concert - The Emerald's Touch Documentary

Join us in Sydney for an intimate piano and flute concert and fundraising event for the development a ground-breaking, new international independent Documentary about the Queer & LBT Woman community in Indonesia, "The Emerald's Touch".

6 pm: Doors Open, including your Meal and Beverage time
6:30 pm: Introduction by director Alfred Pek, Hendrika Kelan, and our International Producer and Project Partners
6:45 pm: Original compositions and improvisations by pianist-composer Saoirse Prince
7:30 pm: Soairse Prince (piano) and Keyna Wilkins (flute) Duo
8:15 pm: Poetry & Performance by Hendrika Kelan & Film Q&A time

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CANCELLED-Hindustani Raga Music
Jul
18
8:00 PM20:00

CANCELLED-Hindustani Raga Music

Ustad Irfan Khansahib is the highly renowned scion of the Lucknow Shahjahanpur lineage of sarod players. Representing more than 10 generations of court musicians/ international performers, composers and teachers, he has inherited an enormous repertoire of traditional material from his forefathers. Based in Kolkata he has toured the world many times to critical acclaim.

Bobby Singh is a highly experienced accompanist on tabla to many of the leading artists of Hindustani Music. As a leading disciple of Pandit Aneesh Pradhan, Bobby is beautifully trained in the art of accompaniment and creates a beautiful space for his fellow musician to flourish and connect with audiences.

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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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Evans Robson Quartet
Jul
17
8:00 PM20:00

Evans Robson Quartet

Experience an electrifying night of contemporary jazz led by two of Australia’s most acclaimed saxophonists.

Sandy Evans - tenor and soprano saxophone
Andrew Robson - alto and baritone saxophone, recorder
Brett Hirst - bass
Hamish Stuart – drums, percussion, tin whistle

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Impetus: HINANO FUJISAKI
Jul
17
7:30 PM19:30

Impetus: HINANO FUJISAKI

Impetus: the force or energy with which a body moves.

Each Thursday, celebrate a unique voice in the Sydney music scene and the influences that have shaped their distinctive sonic world.

Impetus is a one of a kind showcase offering audiences an intimate journey into each artist’s creative process, revealing the inspirations, stories, and sounds that define them.

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LLEAFLITTER + HHOST / PETER BLAMEY / COUCH
Jul
17
7:00 PM19:00

LLEAFLITTER + HHOST / PETER BLAMEY / COUCH

LLEAFLITTER (Christopher L G Hill) Naarm/Melbourne, of many aliases; Sprite, Urchyn, Ignorant Matter, Sapling, etc...
HHOST (?) Sydney - releases on Nice Music, Altered States Tapes, Snail Editions - "On ‘Ladder To Wave’ Hhost joins two big points on my music mind map with bright red string: Dizzee Rascal and Wolf Eyes." (Nic Warnock)

PETER BLAMEY - Vaporised remnants salvaged from the wreckage of yesterday

COUCH - Laura Altman and Danny Wild are back

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Jazz Sessions in The Rocks - Truffle Boils
Jul
17
6:30 PM18:30

Jazz Sessions in The Rocks - Truffle Boils

The Truffle Boils is a group of exciting players exploring some lesser known gems from the works of the jazz genre's masters like Monk, Mingus, Sun Ra, Marion Brown & others. Expect intricate, unexpected melodies and boisterous improvisations.

Peter Farrar: alto saxophone
Simon Ferenci: trumpet
Sam Dobson: bass
Jodie Michael: drums

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Ben Denham and Peter Blamey performing at DRAW Space
Jul
14
6:00 PM18:00

Ben Denham and Peter Blamey performing at DRAW Space

Ben will be channeling air pressure fluctuations through his synthesizer. Peter will be playing combinations of light and sound in the beautiful elegant ways that he does. 

Peter Blamey is an artist whose practice is often sound-focussed and accomplished via an economy of means, and includes performances, videos, recordings and installations. His work explores the interconnected themes of energies and residues, often through reimagining our everyday encounters with mundane materials and technologies and the physical world, and also by considering how they relate to our experiences of energy generation, use and waste.

Ben Denham is a maker of artistic instruments. The early instruments were mechanical drawing machines. The first electronic instruments were made in 2007-08. Ben currently builds instruments that function within synthesizer systems to sonify information and energies that are transmitted through the air. The instruments are also part of larger synthesizer-based control systems for drawing machines and kinetic sculpture.

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Parallels 2 - SAM GILL & JOSEPH FRANKLIN // BEN WARD & FREYA SCHACK-ARNOTT
Jul
13
8:00 PM20:00

Parallels 2 - SAM GILL & JOSEPH FRANKLIN // BEN WARD & FREYA SCHACK-ARNOTT

Parallels is a series of improvised duo gigs curated by saxophonist Sam Gill, each presenting two duos and culminating in an all-in quartet set. For the second edition, we'll be immersed in the richness of strings and winds in two exciting duo projects.

SAM GILL & JOSEPH FRANKLIN
Sam Gill - saxophones
Joseph Franklin - semi-hollow bass guitar

BEN WARD & FREYA SCHACK-ARNOTT
Ben Ward - double bass
Freya Schack-Arnott - cello

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Phillip Johnston quartet live soundtrack to "The Adventures of Prince Achmed"
Jul
13
7:00 PM19:00

Phillip Johnston quartet live soundtrack to "The Adventures of Prince Achmed"

After the overwhelming response to our first venture into film screenings with a live score last year, the People's Republic is thrilled to welcome back one of the world's great silent film composers with another extraordinary quartet to play his score to a silent film masterpiece from the 1920s...

THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926)

Phillip Johnston: alto saxophone, composition
James Greening: trombone
Alister Spence: keyboards
Casey Golden: keyboards

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RADIANT IMPROMPTU
Jul
13
2:30 PM14:30

RADIANT IMPROMPTU

Maria Lindsay, violin; Ying Ho, piano

Kats-Chernin: Augusta’s Garden Waltz, Melancholic Piece, Slicked Back Tango
Boulanger: Nocturne and Cortège
Beach: Three Pieces
Debussy: Sonata   
Holland: Divertimento
Pavlova: Adagio, Impromptu
Sutherland: Nocturne, Sonatina  

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Grasps + Marcus Whale
Jul
12
8:00 PM20:00

Grasps + Marcus Whale

On the back of their starry-eyed, doom-laden 2024 albums When Will You Be Here Again? (Grasps) and Ecstasy (Marcus Whale), these two Gadigal/Wangal-based night owls will join forces to commemorate the release of a split CD-R of new music out on BLUE VOID with an evening of cinematic performances spilling out from the dark cabaret bosom of The Vanguard stage and into the audience. Come down early for a live set of divine electronics from special guests Heart Armour. Stay late for a rare b2b DJ set from Grasps & Marcus Whale.

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Chrysalides
Jul
12
6:30 PM18:30

Chrysalides

Carolyn Eccles, Mitch Riley, Stephen Adams, Nikki Heywood

In the apparent stillness of the chrysalis, a hidden metamorphosis unfolds — a slow, cellular reformation; a quiet, urgent becoming.

Chrysalides, the latest improvised performance from Chronology Arts Collective, is a meditation on transformation, temporality, and the delicate threshold between stasis and change.

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SYDNEY EXPERIMENTAL
Jul
11
7:00 PM19:00

SYDNEY EXPERIMENTAL

An evening of boundary defying film and musical performance, Sydney Experimental invites audiences to engage with works that challenge form, narrative, and perception. Showcasing emerging and established artists, this curated program explores the evolving language of experimental art in a contemporary context.

The night will be split in 2, starting off with 4 musicians, then an intermission, and then a pack of short films.

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Marcus Aurelius “Meditations” by Rupert Guenther
Jul
11
6:00 PM18:00

Marcus Aurelius “Meditations” by Rupert Guenther

Join us for a musical meditation on Marcus Aurelius’ Mediations in seven improvisations by one of Australia’s leading violinists.

International violinist Rupert Guenther presents Marcus Aurelius “Meditations” - Violin Sketches in Sound as the world-premiere performance this year of his fascinating new original work for violin based on the life and work of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (102-180 AD) drawing particularly from his book of writings “Meditations” in the highly atmospheric Chau Chak Wing Museum at University of Sydney.

Pre-concert talk - Listen to composer-violinist Rupert Guenther talk about his composition of his new work inspired by Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations.
Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM AEST

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4A and Prop Records presents: Gayab (ग़ायब) + Szem
Jul
11
6:00 PM18:00

4A and Prop Records presents: Gayab (ग़ायब) + Szem

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4A and Prop Records present Gayab (ग़ायब) and Szem in an atmospheric evening of experimental and ambient music performance. Augmenting the exhibition Man&Wah: Propagate / Germinate / Bloom, this edition of our ongoing 4A LIVE program series is a blossoming of sonic textures and aural explorations, responding to and growing from the photomedia and installation work of Man&Wah. 

We invite you to join us on Friday 11 July from 6pm to 8pm with:

Gayab (ग़ायब)
Gayab is a continual vibration in drone experimentation using a hand me down harmonium, electronic tanpura, varying percussion & paan stained walkways of Harris Park as inspiration.

Szem
Szem is the left-field electronic project of visual and sound artist Laura Hunt. Szem means the eye, Szem is all the ways in which we see; through our body, through our third eye, through our memory, through each over.

Combining hardware and electronic sampling, percussive sculptures, cut-up vocals and poetry, Hunt seeks to decode and conjure the unseen, beckoning us into her ethereal world.

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Miles Thomas: You Are Here
Jul
10
7:00 PM19:00

Miles Thomas: You Are Here

Sydney-based musician, engineer, composer and producer, Miles Thomas presents their new work You Are Here - guided improvisations for sextet.

Miles Thomas - drums
Matt Keegan - tenor saxophone
Brendan Clark - bass guitar
Novak Manojlovic - piano
Peter Farrar - alto saxophone
Simon Ferenci - Trumpet

Tickets: Free, by ballot only
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The Blue Hour #11
Jul
9
7:00 PM19:00

The Blue Hour #11

On July 9th at Lazy Thinking (@lazythinking__ ) catch the 11th edition of The Blue Hour: an ambient music night exploring texture, atmosphere, and soundscapes through experimental and ambient performances.

Featuring performances by Penelope Trappes (@penelopetrappes ), Handclap (@handclap ) and LMDZ (DJ) (@lukemdezilva ).

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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Goethe Lounge: Women's Labor
Jul
9
6:00 PM18:00

Goethe Lounge: Women's Labor

A family-friendly event, Women's Labor: Housework Commons is an interactive installation and performance that transforms domestic tools into musical instruments using machine learning and embedded sensor technologies. The artists - Jocelyn Ho, Sofy Yuditskaya and Margaret Anne Schedel - invite audiences to play custom-built musical instruments that are repurposed housework tools, to make interactive, collective music.

Housework Commons reimagines domestic labor—traditionally confined to the private sphere—as a public, communal creative act, challenging gender inequality in housework division. Housework Commons consists of three custom-built instruments: Embedded Iron, Rheostat Rotary Rack, and Embroidery Hoop. Ho, Schedel, and Yuditskaya are sound artists based in Australia, USA, and France.

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Wilbur Whitta (solo) + Keyna Wilkins EPHEMERA Quartet
Jul
8
8:00 PM20:00

Wilbur Whitta (solo) + Keyna Wilkins EPHEMERA Quartet

Ephemera: a musical exploration of celestial landscapes such as pulsars, craters, planetary atmospheres, stars, sun and void. Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical, and set to real space sounds and projections, it is a unique sonic experience. Led by Keyna Wilkins (compositions, flute, piano) with Elsen Price (double bass), Will Gilbert (trumpet) and Jodie Michael (drumset).

Gadigal (Sydney) based pianist and composer Wilbur Whitta presents a new set of improvised music for piano and organ. Inspired by the likes of Craig Taborn, Cory Smythe and Kit Downes, the set will see Wilbur free-soloing between both instruments, navigating in the moment to find new paths up the mountain.

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