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Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 7:30โฏPM – 10:00โฏPM
- Stadium Rockdale
- 5 Tramway Arcade
- Rockdale, NSW, 2216
- Australia
Guitar Club feat Hinano
Pouya Abdi - guitar
Danica Hobden - guitar
Hinano Fujisaki - tenor saxophone
Dahkkloud
James Williams - synths
Henry Hall - bass
Max Leggott - saxophone
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Monday, March 10, 2025, 8:00โฏPM – 10:00โฏPM
- Church Street Studios
- 62-68 Church Street
- Camperdown, NSW, 2050
- Australia
๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ฌ๐จ๐ง (๐๐๐):
High-energy drummer Alf Jackson of Reptrillion Culture Club and Dogs of Pleasure plays solo drum kit. Heavily inspired by a lifestyle immersed in nature, Alf draws on patterns expressed in the natural world to inform his rhythmic language.
๐๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐๐ง'๐ฌ '๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ' (๐๐๐/๐๐๐):
Warmbluetig is a modern jazz project based between Sydney and Hamburg.
Danica Hobden - Guitar
Lauren Tsamouras - Piano
Harry Birch - Bass
Chloe Kim - Drums
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Monday, March 10, 2025, 7:30โฏPM – 10:30โฏPM
- Stadium Rockdale
- 5 Tramway Arcade
- Rockdale, NSW, 2216
- Australia
A curious evening of sonic encounters at Stadium Rockdale:
-Jim Denley & Phoebe Bognรกr - Interwoven flutes, parts of flutes, modifications, voice, bits and bobs.
-Tone Bird - Melanie Herbert & Romy Caen using free frequencies - at times softly embedded in the world and other times bright and chaotic.
-Mikoลaj Rytowski - (PL/CH) A solo expedition into electronic and percussive investigations in anticipation for the imminent release of his new album.
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Sunday, March 9, 2025, 4:00โฏPM – 5:00โฏPM
- The Church
- 9 Mitchell Road
- Alexandria, NSW, 2015
- Australia
Venus Observed is Clayton Thomas (bass) and Phoebe Bognรกr (flutes). A duo of dynamic energy, sonic playfulness and honed skills, Venus Observed present a context-responsive music, engaging audiences and space with flexibility and improvisational skill. Two globally recognised practitioners of their instruments, it is a rare orbit to find them in Australia at the same time.
Tickets: Free, by ballot only
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Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:15โฏPM – 4:00โฏPM
- Summer Hill Social
- Lackey Street and Smith Street
- Summer Hill NSW 2130
The Living Room Theatre - whose Summer Hill venue will open in late 2025 - performs an evocative vignette from their new work in development, Ostinato.
Created by Artistic Director Michelle St Anne, Ostinato features the improvising talents of Natalia Ladyko, Ryuichi Fujimura (performers), Jim Denley (saxophone), Daniel Raymond (drums) and Alex Tucker (saxophone) with special appearance by Energise Outdoor Fitness members.
Follow the performance as it winds through the heart of Summer Hill village... Come feel and be moved.
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Sat, Mar 8, 2025, 5:00โฏPM – Sun, Mar 9, 2025, 7:00โฏPM
Songbirds returns to Sydney by popular demand โ a 30th birthday treat for Ensemble Offspringโs first musical garden party of 2025.
Saturday 8 March 5pm, Glebe; Sunday 9 March 5pm, Kurraba Point
FIONA LOADER Lorikeet Corroboree (2015); BRENDA GIFFORD Mungala (Clouds) (2018); NARDI SIMPSON Of Stars and Birds (2020); ROBERT DAVIDSON Bird Riffs: Kookaburra Riff, Raven Riff (2024); CAITLIN YEO A Tawny Tale (2024)*; NICK RUSSONIELLO Dawn Searching (2014); HOLLIS TAYLOR & JON ROSE NโDhala Gorge 2014 @ Ross River (2022); GERARD BROPHY Beautiful Birds: Flamingos, Hummingbirds (2019); ROBERT DAVIDSON Bird Riffs: Magpie Riff (2024)
Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion)
Lamorna Nightingale (flutes)
Jason Noble (clarinets)
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Friday, March 7, 2025, 8:00โฏPM – 11:00โฏPM
- Elton Chong
- 388 High Street
- Penrith, NSW, 2750
- Australia
The Grey Men - Brad + Hayden + Dax and their adventures in music, whiskey and middle-aged failure. (Making incredible drone metal in the process.)
@xoma.noise - Australian Rhythmic Noise & Industrial music.
@Restrukture - Australian industrial music
Mx Robert Frost - a wizard who lives in the mountains
Elton Chong (Penrith)
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Friday, March 7, 2025, 7:00โฏPM – 10:00โฏPM
- PADDINGTON UNITING CHURCH
- 395 Oxford Street
- Paddington, NSW, 2021
- Australia
BELIEVE are back. Excited to be playing our next two set extravaganza launching the new venue @thechurchpaddolive with two sets of explosive, inclusive, intimate new music in a fantastic acoustic environment.
Peter Farrar - saxophones, percussion
Novak Manojlovic - piano, percussion
Clayton Thomas - double bass, percussion
Laurence Pike - drums, percussion
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Friday, March 7, 2025, 7:00โฏPM – 8:00โฏPM
- Hayes Street Studio
- 11 Hayes Street
- Neutral Bay, NSW, 2089
- Australia
International jazz duo Guitar Club, Pouya Abdi and Danica Hobden, in a 50 minute set of original music featuring Australian saxophonist Hinano Fujisaki. With mutual interest in original compositions and great curiosity for sound aesthetics, the ensemble explores their unique instrumentation, while honouring the drive of a rhythm section with multiple voices and melodies.
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Friday, March 7, 2025, 6:30โฏPM – 7:40โฏPM
- Harold Park Community Hall
- 1 Dalgal Way
- Forest Lodge, NSW, 2037
- Australia
We are artists of composition... Our artistic professional backgrounds are diverse. We've each specialised in either sound, movement or story-telling disciplines (including composition, choreography, theatre) and have interdisciplinary practices where we amalgamate approaches to creating performance in processes we've found to be highly exciting, thought-provoking, and sometimes transcendental.
PERFORMING ARTISTS: Andrew Batt-Rawden, Ryuichi Fujimura, Mitch Riley
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Friday, March 7, 2025, 6:30โฏPM – 7:30โฏPM
- Hyde Park Barracks
- Queens Square, Macquarie Street
- Sydney, NSW, 2000
- Australia
Alyx Dennison is a singer-songwriter, composer and sound artist living and working on Wangal and Gadigal land. She was one half of beloved experimental pop duo kyรผ alongside Freya Berkhout. Since then, Alyx has established herself as a highly versatile composer and sound artist, moving across contemporary art, dance, film and theatre.
Join us for an intimate series of performances in one of the cityโs most unusual spaces, the hammock room at the UNESCO World Heritageโlisted Hyde Park Barracks. Originally housing convicts, the hammock room is steeped in history and personal stories.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025, 8:00โฏPM – 11:00โฏPM
- Camelot Lounge
- 103 Railway Parade
- Marrickville, NSW, 2204
- Australia
Metin Yilmaz Quartetโs music flourishes with the mystical sound of Bilรปr/Kaval, a characteristic and prominent traditional flute of the region, where Metin hails from. The Quartet embraces microtonal scales and musical modes characteristic of Anatolia with compositions in sophisticated time signatures dancing between contemporary and traditional expressions.
Metin Yilmaz - Bilur/Kaval (traditional Flute)
Jodie Michael - Drums
Wilbur Whitta - Piano
Stephen Elphick - Double Bass
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Thursday, March 6, 2025, 7:00โฏPM – 11:00โฏPM
- Manning Bar, University of Sydney
- Level 2 Manning Road
- Camperdown, NSW, 2050
- Australia
PULP Magazine will be launching their black and white 19th issue. They've been working hard over the holidays to bring you their baddest issue yet.
Manfredo Lament: Manfredo Lament is a fully improvised, groove-based project led by Kurt Lam on synth and keys, and Gabriel Haslam on drums.
Hinano Fujisaki: Sydney-based saxophonist, improviser, and composer presents โhome isโ โ music written as a thank you to everyone who has made her feel at home. Featuring Jacques Emery on the double bass, Bonnie Stewart on drums and voice and Lauren Tsamouras on the piano.
Heartholder: Eora/Sydney-based producer and instrumentalist Heartholder steps into a new musical lane while paying homage to boundary-pushing nu jazz and electronic music in Australia and globally.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 7:00โฏPM – 11:00โฏPM
- Lazy Thinking
- 380 New Canterbury Road
- Dulwich Hill, NSW, 2203
- Australia
7th edition of The Blue Hour: an ambient music night exploring texture, atmosphere, and soundscapes through drone, experimental, and ambient performances.
Featuring performances by Nick Calligeros (@nickcagla ), J.WLSN (@j.wlsn_selects ) and Megan Alice Clune & Rachel Schenberg (@m.a.c.m.a.c.m.a.c + @rqes ).
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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Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 7:00โฏPM – 11:00โฏPM
- Factory Theatre
- 105 Victoria Road
- Marrickville, NSW, 2204
- Australia
As one of the most important living musical institutions in the world, the Sun Ra Arkestra has been spreading its Afro-futuristic jazz message for 66 years, continuing the cosmic jazz heritage of the mythical pianist, composer, and electronic music pioneer Sun Ra. Few bands have travelled this far โ both cosmically and musically.
โThe possible has been tried and failed. Now itโs time to try the impossible.โ - Sun Ra. Space is the place!
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 6:00โฏPM – 8:00โฏPM
- Goethe-Institut, Sydney
- 90 Ocean Street
- Woollahra, NSW, 2025
- Australia
This Goethe Lounge brings together a trio of musicians from the acclaimed Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne, Germany) presenting a concert program with new works by Gordon Williamson (Canada/Germany/New Zealand), Dylan Lardelli (Australia/New Zealand) along with works by Australiaโs acclaimed composer Liza Lim.
Performers:
Peter Veale - Oboe
Christine Chapman - Horn
Florentin Ginot - Double Bass
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Monday, March 3, 2025, 8:00โฏPM – 10:00โฏPM
- Church Street Studios
- 62-68 Church Street
- Camperdown, NSW, 2050
- Australia
๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ'๐ฌ '๐๐ซ๐ค๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ':
Thibaud Kessell is a pianist and composer with an eclectic interest in art-making. His album Badlands (2020) was a culmination of his experience being immersed in Sydneyโs exceptional creative community. Arkangel strips back his usual 9 piece array of strings + jazz sextet down to a quartet. The band features Thomas Avgenicos (trumpet), Jacques Emery (Bass) and Tully Ryan (Drums).
๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐๐ง๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ก
Nish Manjunath, having recently returned from a 2 year stint in NYC, brings his original works, some old, some new, to Monday Night Confessions.
Nish Manjunath - Saxophone
James Greening - Trombone
Felix Lalanne - Guitar
Cameron Undy - Double Bass
Alex Hirlian - Drums
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Monday, March 3, 2025, 7:00โฏPM – 9:00โฏPM
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music
- 1 Conservatorium Road
- Sydney, NSW, 2000
- Australia
The program includes 2024 premieres: Gordon Williamsonโs 'Odd Throuple', Dylan Lardelliโs 'The Giving Sea', Georgina Bowdenโs 'Figure-Ground', and Juliet Palmerโs 'a blur of lichens', all written for oboe, horn, and double bass.
Peter Veale - Oboe
Christine Chapman - Horn
Florentin Ginot - Double Bass
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Sunday, March 2, 2025, 11:00โฏAM – 1:00โฏPM
- West Ryde Community Hall
- 3-5 Anthony Road
- West Ryde, NSW, 2114
- Australia
Inspired by the workshops, immerse yourself in powerful rehearsed readings, guest artists and music written especially for this event in an intimate celebration of story and connection.
Rehearsed Readings: Actor and Writer Hasitha Adhikariarachchi
Sound Artist: Award-winning composer and sound artist Elizabeth Jigalin
Readings and Panel with Guest Artist: 2023 Miles Franklin Winner Shankari Chandran
Readings and Panel with Guest Artist: Author Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
Artistic Director and Panel MC: Lliane Clarke
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Saturday, March 1, 2025, 11:00โฏAM – 1:00โฏPM
- Ochredfern
- 32 Botany Road
- Alexandria, NSW, 2015
- Australia
With the Catching Light exhibition from abstract artist Colleen Frances as a backdrop, Apophenia will explore sound as it unfolds. For this improvisation Apophenia are:
Michael Trifunovic - Guitar, Valerios Calocerinos - Double Bass, Jay Dahzen - voice and melodica
11am - Colleen Francis - Artist talk
12 noon - Apophenia Improvisation
