Lazy Thinking Late lineup for next Wednesday. Feat.

Hinano Fujisaki (tenor saxophone, flute) & Jasper Craig-Adams (guitar) @justme_jaspy, @hinafuji_

https://harrison-rae.bandcamp.com/music, @harrisonrae_

@adm_yoon

@anti.bvz

Outer/experimental and electronic sounds of all persuasions every Wednesday night til late.

Doors, burgers + bar + two outdoor areas from 5:30, music from 7

Formed as a sonic statement of protest, SOUND THE ALARM continues to use our live concerts and this new CD to raise money to help support Palestinians in any way possible.

Jack Stoneham, alto saxophone; Hinano Fujisaki, tenor saxophone; Sam Gill, soprano and sopranino saxophones; Freya Schack-Arnott, cello; Niki Johnson, percussion; Novak Manojlovic, piano; Matthew Ottignon, baritone saxophone and clarinet; Simon Ferenci, trumpet; Gabriella Hill, tenor saxophone; Megan Alice Clune, clarinet; Hayley Chan, drums; Hilary Geddes, guitar; Clayton Thomas, double bass.

- The People's Republic will also be celebrating 15 years of presenting music.
- Entry is by donation. To register and get the address, please email The People's Republic
- All proceeds going to Médecins Sans Frontières, operating in Gaza.
- Nick will be selling photos he took in Palestine in 2011 to contribute to the fundraising.

Hayley (drums) presents modern music by women composers and Australian musicians with:
Jenna Lewis on saxophone
Hilary Geddes on guitar
Lauren Tsamouras on piano
Sarah Homeh on bass

Bree van Reyk (b. 1978) Superclusters Pt. I from Superclusters
Hilary Geddes (b. 1991) Pine Vale
Vanessa Tomlinson (b. 1971) The Imaginary Aviary
Andrea Keller (b. 1973) SNAFU
Hayley Chan (b. 2003) Where Two Seas Collide
Flora Carbo/The Rest is Silence Alexander/2
MARO (b. 1994) Show Me

An evening of experimental audio for 256 speakers from students in media and music at UNSW. We are proud to present new spatial audio works responding to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

This is a truly unique sound experience... think of it as 8k video, but for your ears!

Find us 6pm-8:30pm at the National Facility for Human-Robot Interaction (NatFac), Block A at UNSW Paddington on Bidjigal and Gadigal land.

Everyone is welcome!

Hosted by Lili Alaska and James Grandison, ARTHOUSE is a night of live music, poetry, visual arts and dance.

So many amazing artists will be performing and have their work displayed, don’t miss out!
Artists:
@ma.jouissance @remilespaul @river_langford @jinberrie @wenjiejoseph @mmustarrd @woewill0w @sircitrus_ @myxi_bun @santinosalvadoremusic @andersonkellenn @al.burns_ @angustufar @yul.tomaszewski @kaylaberelowitz @daisyattack @kei__gar @locian_music @gemmy.2022 @kalana_grace

boyd presents an audio-visual concert experience combining the sonic potentials of traditional and electronic sound.

Resonance – An audio-visual concert experience at The Neilson concert hall at ACO On The Pier reveling in the combined sonic potential of traditional and electronic sound. This unique performance showcases a new collection of original compositions from Sydney neo-classical composer, boyd, with each piece featuring innovative live electronic instrumentation, piano, and a string ensemble consisting of members of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

Opening the evening is Sydney-based artist and sound designer Nicholas Stillone, whose experimentation in live analog production and multi-genre approach sets the tone for a night of musical exploration.

Kristian Winther - violin
Tamara Elias- violin
James Wannan- viola
Nicole Forsyth - viola
Christopher Pidcock - cello

Freya Schack-Arnott - cello
Matthias Schack-Arnott - percussion and electronics 

PROGRAM
Iannis Xenakis Nomos Alpha (1965) for solo cello
Johannes Brahms String Quintet in F major Opus 88 for two violas (1882)
I Allegro non troppo ma con brio
II Grave ed appassionato – Allegretto vivace – Tempo I – Presto – Tempo
III Allegro energico – Presto
Matthias and Freya Schack-Arnott new work for cello, percussion and electronics 

Sydney based psychedelic post rock quartet Svntax Error return to the Factory Theatre for the first time since touring with Swiss post rock legends Hubris in November last year. They will be playing two massive theremin fuelled sets, featuring a swathe of brand new tracks, amongst many epic favourites.

Special guests Recalibrate open the night in style with their infectious blend of dub and prog rock.

Sydney guitar and theremin four piece Svntax Error might strike some as post-rock, others as psychedelic and still others as the last outpost of a darker kind of Prog.

On Saturday 23rd November, bring your curious listening ears and join us for a Sound Picnic at The Coal Loader. We have been excited to explore the stories and sounds of this fabulous space over the last few weeks, and can't wait to share our musical musings with you.

Sydney-based The Music Box Project is an award-winning, artist-run collective of musicians presenting creative, community driven and collaborative music experiences. The collective’s core members are Jane Aubourg, Elizabeth Jigalin, Naomi Johnson, Peter Leung and Joseph Lisk.

Book in for one of two performances on the day at 11am or 2pm.  FREE but limited tickets. 

Keyna Wilkins’ space jazz ensemble Ephemera will tour Japan in January! We are having a house concert Sat Nov 23rd to celebrate and to raise funds for the trip! We have been around for 9 years and have performed around Australia and are keen to share our music overseas and collaborate with Japanese musicians! Come along to our house party and celebrate with us! 

Keyna Wilkins - piano, flute
Will Gilbert - trumpet
Elsen Price - double bass

SPECIAL GUEST JAPANESE TRUMPETER NANA KOIZUMI

Celebrate the next generation of musical thinkers with world premieres developed through Ensemble Offspring’s Hatched Composer Intensive and Hatched Associate Artist residencies.

Four of the nation's most innovative young composers premiere works created specifically for Ensemble Offspring, mentored by composer and Artistic Director of Sydney Chamber Opera, Jack Symonds. In-demand composer Holly Harrison also premieres a new saxophone solo for Alice Morgan, Ensemble Offspring's 2024 Hatched Associate Artist. The young composers chosen from a national pool of talented young sound makers are Klearhos Murphy (Melbourne), Alex Maltas (Sydney), Katia Geha (Sydney) and Courtney Cousins (Sydney/UK).

The ensemble's final Noisy Women Commission comes from rising star and Hatched alumni Kirsten Milenko, bringing Ensemble Offspring's 2024 season to a virtuosic end.

Various artists come together for one night of koto (Japanese floor harp) and contemporary Guzheng (Chinese harp) music. Performers include Satsuki Odamura (koto), students from the Koto Music Institute of Australia, Ousiyu (Julia) Luo (guzheng) and various guest performers.
Immerse yourself in the mesmerising sounds of the koto and guzheng, two traditional string instruments that weave together the rich cultural tapestries of Japan and China. This unique concert promises to transport you to a world of beauty and profound emotion, as musicians perform timeless pieces and contemporary compositions.

"Monday Night Confessions" is a weekly show presenting original jazz/improvised music. Run out of Church Street Studios in Camperdown, Sydney, we acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

We’re looking forward to welcoming these two projects the following Monday, with Kiwi drummer Hikurangi Shaverien-Kaa travelling over the ditch to collaborate with a band of locals in presenting a slew of his new original music, and Alex Jasprizza presenting a set of solo saxophone in celebration of a newly released single.

Double Trouble

Gabriella Hill, tenor saxophone
Alex Tucker, drums
Aidan Wong, tenor saxophone
Daniel Raymond, drums

Percusstard

Nic Cassey and Scott Leishman (drums / percussion)

FAUNA emerges from the imagination of trumpeter-composer Alex Raupach onto the landscape of Australian improvised music with its debut tour in November 2024. 

Alex Raupach - trumpet
Wilbur Whitta - piano
Jonathan Zwartz - double bass
Jack Rosenzweig - drums

Moo is a CMH (Creatively Maladjusted Human) gone AWOL (living in the gift). She is an experimental vocalist-songwriter and accordionist with a transdisciplinary practice.

Inspired by Leonard Cohen's lyric; "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in” comes a bold and fragile showing of an unreleased album. Telling stories of personal, familial and ecological trauma for insight and release. Melanie Eden is not shutting up. She will be singing suttas for liberation. Songs for mutual aid. And carrying landscapes of madness for as long as the audience permits.

An evening of performance improvisation.

3 solos by:

Andrew Morrish,
Peter Trotman &
Tony Osborne

Post-jazz improvising quartet We Will Intersect will premiere a site-specific composition by pianist Adrian Lim-Klumpes. The unique architecture of The Nest will be utilised to explore new sonic palettes and interactions. Semi-composed prompts will guide the improvisation through acoustic beauty, electronic lushness and cathartic crescendo. This performance is truly ‘in the round’, using 360 degree sound design and both state of the art pianos, with an invitation for the audience to move through the space during the performance.

Adrian Lim-Klumpes - piano, composition
Nick Calligeros - trumpet, electronics
Holly Connor - drums, percussion, electronics
Miles Thomas - drums, percussion

Tickets - Free, by ballot only

North meets south and freshwater meets saltwater when Darwin based Arafura Music Collective and Sydney mavericks Ensemble Offspring collaborate for the very first time. The collaboration also features special guests Yuwaalaraay woman Nardi Simpson and Djapa woman Melanie Mununggurr, in a weaving of cultures, instrumental chamber music, beat poetry and dreaming stories. Stories of Water and Earth combines an interactive performance composed by and featuring Nardi Simpson, evoking dreaming stories, traditional songs, sharing the practises of Yuwaalaraay women’s creative and cultural practice, with a new long form commission from Netanela Mizrahi and Melanie Mununggurr delving into her Yolngu identity, the triumphs and struggles of motherhood, neurodiversity and connections to land and culture. 

The Living Room Theatre in association with Kawai presents

On the Telephone is the debut duo of Uma Volkmer (trumpet) and Naoko Uemoto (saxophone). They are interested in crafting heartfelt sounds that parallel the ways in which they experience cloud gazing — by stretching out the evolution of ideas, moulding textural landscapes and finding abstraction. Their music serves as a gentle invitation for collective listening and feeling. Also featuring Gabriella Hill (tenor saxophone).

Delay 45 is an acclaimed jazz & improvisation quartet led by trumpet/composer Tom Avgenicos, alongside close collaborators Roshan Kumarage (piano), Dave Quinn (bass), and Ashley Stoneham (drums). With a musical relationship that stretches back as far as their high school years, Delay 45 have created a performance style that flows seamlessly between structure and spontaneity. Simple, recurring motifs interspersed with tight-knit interplay and textural dynamism characterise their performance style.

A meeting of Japanese, Iranian and jazz music....

Join us for a thrilling adventure, featuring four innovative musicians, as they celebrate friendship and the magical power of spontaneous musical dialogue.

Sandy Evans - Tenor and soprano saxophone
Satsuki Odamura - Koto and bass koto
Steve Elphick - Double bass
Sohrab Kolahdooz - Tonbak, percussion, voice

Cone of Confusion is an Eora-based psychedelic band blending sounds between ambient, prog rock and jazz fusion. They take audiences on a voyage with textural soundscapes and improvisation, travelling through dissonant musical galaxies to reach sonic utopia.

Shri Susanta Chowdhury is a Singapore-based graded artist of Doordashan and an international performer.
The sitar maestro is well established in Indian cultural institutions and has performed internationally in South East Asia, Europe and USA. This will be one of his first appearances on the Sydney music scene and will be joined by Arijit Chowdury on tabla for the night.

The event will be held on a rooftop in a secret location in Newtown with one of the best city views in Sydney. Event address to be sent to attendees on the day

KALON CAPTAIN (drums) & SARAH PURDON (trumpet), emerging voices in the new Jazz generation, are joined by Australian Jazz icons LLOYD SWANTON on bass (The Necks, The Catholics) & GARY DALEY on piano (Bungarribee, The Catholics) for an evening of entirely improvised music. Through the joy of pure spontaneity this ensemble will explore the spaces between ambient music & contemporary Jazz, transporting listeners into deep meditative soundscapes & undulating grooves.

⭐️ Sarah Purdon - Trumpet
⭐️ Gary Daley - Piano
⭐️ Lloyd Swanton - Bass
⭐️ Kalon Captain - Drums

A solo concert for double bass, objects and the time we share. 

Clayton Thomas is a double bassist, band leader, festival maker and grass roots organiser born in Nipaluna / Hobart. 

A figure on the global improvised music scene for 20 years, Clayton continues to push his own relationship to the bass through collaboration, exploration and experimentation with many of the planet's most renowned creative musicians. 

Inspired by the ingenuity, discipline and cultural energy of jazz, his solo concerts are fully improvised feats of endurance, dynamism and deft technicality that resemble sound sculptures built in real-time. 

Metin Yilmaz - Bilur/Kaval (Kurdish Flute)

Larysa Kovalchuk - Bandura (Ukranian string instrument) / Voice  

This unique musical collaboration, which combines Kurdish and Ukrainian national instruments, will present the joys and cries of two cultures, as well as modern compositions with highly virtuosic improvisations. 

Susanta Chowdhury: He is an A graded artiste of All-India Radio and has performed widely on TV. He is an empanelled artiste in ICCR and has performed in India, USA, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, China and Singapore, having accompanied Padmabhusan Pt. Birju Maharaj, Saswati Sen, Bhaswati, Krisnamohan Maharaj, Rammohan Maharaj, Ranjana Gawhar, Reela Hota and many others. A maestro of the sitar, whose mastery of ragas brings emotions to life with every note.

Abhijit Dan: A master tabla player and dedicated disciple of the legendary Padmashree Pandit Swapan Chowdhury. Abhijit Danis known for his mastery of traditional tabla rhythms, intricate compositions, and powerful improvisations. He has imbibed the essence of this ancient art form, delivering performances that are both deeply rooted in tradition and creatively inspiring. Experience the rhythm of the tabla creating a perfect symphony with the sitar.

Alon Ilsar (solo) percussion, electronics

BoNo is Bonnie Stewart (Voice/effects) and Novak Manojlovic (Piano/effects) rifling through their sonic libraries and running the findings through a slew of pedals and extended processes in pursuit of stillness. Augmenting their renowned individual creative voices with electronic treatments, the duo draw on their multitude of experience as improvisors in different contexts, their occasional bush walks and their collaborations in Stewart’s ‘Bonniesongs’ to extract spinning soundscapes, subtle song forms and unique textures from old and new technologies.

Delay 45 is an acclaimed jazz & improvisation quartet led by trumpet/composer Tom Avgenicos, alongside close collaborators Roshan Kumarage (piano), Dave Quinn (bass), and Ashley Stoneham (drums).

SHEKET is a new trio from saxophonist and composer Ben Lerner, featuring the creative forces of Hilary Geddes (guitar) and Laurence Pike (drums).

“Sad Piano” is an album of eleven solo piano works composed by renowned composer, renowned composer Professor Matthew Hindson AM, and recorded by acclaimed pianist, Andrea Lam on the exquisite Fazioli piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Copies of the album, and the accompanying sheet music, will be available for purchase on the night.

Professor Matthew Hindson AM, composer
Andrea Lam, piano

The Living Room Theatre in association with Kawai presents Alister Spence Trio
Formed in Sydney more than 25 years ago, this band brings together three of Australia’s most exciting, innovative, and experienced jazz musicians.

They are currently mixing their 8th tri album recorded at Rancom Studios in July this year.
This will be released in early 2025.

Alister Spence - piano, samples​
Lloyd Swanton - double bass​
Toby Hall - drums, glockenspiel​  

Warm Currency - MP 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.

Anthony Guerra sings and plays guitar and electronics.

Angie aka Angela Garrick will perform a set of solo piano numbers taken from her upcoming album “Outpost at the End of the World”.

On this auspicious evening in 2024, the Great Town Hall Christmas Concert is preparing to go down in history (once more). Featuring the Hilary Geddes Quartet and BELIEVE, we promise a night of astounding music, snacks and hard-earned-festivities in the heart of the Inner West -- Ashfield!

Hilary Geddes Quartet
Hilary Geddes, guitar and composition
Maximillian Alduca, double bass
Alex Inman-Hislop, drums
Matthew Harris, piano

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

Sydney Festival presents the Omega Ensemble performing Missy Mazzoli's Dark with Excessive Bright at ACO On The Pier, for its 2025 program. The title of Missy Mazzoli’s Grammy-nominated concerto comes from Milton’s Paradise Lost – an ‘impossible’ phrase, she says, that evokes the ‘dark but heartrending sound’ of the solo double bass. Drawing easily on influences from the Baroque to indie rock, this music slips from beautiful simplicity to pandemonium beyond recognition.

Samuel Adams (son of post-minimalist composer John Adams) represents a new generation in American music. His Lighthouse was commissioned by Omega Ensemble and received its world premiere in July 2024. It’s a striking work of light, shade and ever-increasing intensity – groundbreaking and mesmerising.

Following their triumphant collaboration at the 2023 Sydney Festival, multifaceted keyboardist and vocalist Lisa Moore and virtuoso clarinetist Lloyd Van't Hoff formed Crux Duo. Together, they explore, arrange, and present recent and new commissioned works, alongside traditional and modern classics.

At the Goethe Lounge, the cross-continental duo will launch their new album ‘My Place’. Released on ABC Classic, the album includes six world premieres that were composed and arranged specifically for Crux Duo. The release concert will include music composed by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse, Harriet Steinke, Martin Bresnick, Erik Griswold, Nick Russoniello, and Leonard Bernstein.

• Lloyd Van’t Hoff: clarinet

• Lisa Moore: piano and voice