Join us each night for a Sonic Nightcap in the Bombay Sapphire Canvas Bar. This specially curated program brings you a different performance every night by artists working at the cutting edge of electronic music, sound art, pop and contemporary performance. Sonic Nightcap is the space for discussion, G&Ts and debriefs following the evening’s Liveworks shows.

- 17 October -
Sovereign Trax
Hannah Donnelly aka Sovereign Trax is a writer and DJ. Tidda plays Aboriginal Hip Hop, $overeign trap, Indigenous electronic sounds and 00’s remixes. Her writing experiments with Indigenous futures, speculative fiction and responses to climate trauma.

DIN
DIN is a collaboration between Sydney artists Rainbow Chan / Chunyin and Alex Ward / Moon Holiday, born from a weariness of having to be the 'face' of a creative project. Immune to gear fetishism, DIN brings a contemporary version of DIY ethics into the making of dance music.

- 18 October -
Female Wizard
With a daring approach to DJing, Female Wizard mixes emotions as much as genres. The flow of their music brings to the dance floor more than an experience – it invites participation in a journey or a moment. Female Wizard plays classic New York house, expanding into early tribal and acid, through to Chicago minimalism, musical oddities, and interruptions that bend the expectations of the mind.

- 19 October -
StiffGins
The Stiff Gins combine stunning harmonies and wicked senses humour to transport listeners to a world of joy, spirit and song. Their moniker is a reclamation of an offensive reference to Aboriginal women, a banner to guide their music in the direction of strength and pride. As they edge closer to their twentieth anniversary year, they soar into their most intriguing music making yet with a new recording and sound design project in the works.

- 20 October -
Sumn Conduit
Sumn Conduit (Sonya Holowell and Ben Carey) will perform a 1 hour set for voice and modular synthesizer, with visual scores by local artist Rabble. Composing in real time, the artists invite the audience into their creative process of harnessing both foresight and indeterminacy to build a multi-layered work that traverses disciplines and modes. The work, Discipline, will be the synthy, seismic audio-visual force that results, and will likely stay with us long afterwards.

- 23 October -
Lonelyspeck
Lonelyspeck is the project of Adelaide-based singer/producer Sione Teumohenga. Drawing from disparate influences, Lonelyspeck navigates emotional honesty and catharsis through a synthesis of churning textural production and sincere pop directness.

- 24 October -
GAS
GAS's sound explores the vulnerabilities of shared desire and intimacy. Drawn out loops emanate, echo and swell across boundaries where unchecked consequences, shame, the unknowable and thought of ending meet. Del Lumanta is an artist and musician based in Sydney, Australia known for operating under numerous monikers including: Gas (Tenth Court), Steam Vent (Longform Editions, Chemical Imbalance), Basic Human (Meatspin), Cutlery, Del's Island, Video Ezy (Paradise Daily), Skyline (Nice Music), Cabbage, Leechridden Swamp and Honey 2 Honey (Chapter).

- 25 October -
Naretha Williams
Naretha Williams is a First Nations experimental & interdisciplinary artist with a focus on music and audio arts practice. A Wiradjuri woman of mixed lineage, born and based in Melbourne on the Sovereign Land of the Kulin Nation, Victoria AUS. Naretha's process¬ based work intersects installation and contemporary music, exploring themes around identity, place and the unseen. Ritual and esoteric practice underpins both process and presentation of the majority of her work.

- 26 October -
House of Slé
House of Slé is an artist based collective, performance group, ballroom house and most importantly family unit that has its origins in western Sydney. Their work blurs the lines between community and art world performance, collapsing notions of hierarchy and power by occupying traditional and non-traditional spaces. The house members are made up of artists, dancers and activists who identify culturally beyond the secular LGBTQI+ community as their respective roles as Fa’afafine, Fakaleti, Mahu,Balka and Femme Queens.

MIRASIA
MIRASIA (fka KWEEN KWONG) explores the depths of music, dance and community. You may also be familiar with her work amongst Sydney’s ballroom scene - aka Mother MIRA of Kiki House of Silky. When you hear Mama Mira cooking up a storm on the decks, expect a spicy pallette of genre-defying sexy song selects, and her very own cheeky edits / pussy-poppin remixes. This disco qween is here to remind you to leave your sh*t at the door, and let it all out on the floor! Cos life’s a ball and then you die… so stfu, listen to the music and feel the beat.

- 27 October -
Alyx Dennison
Alyx Dennison is a singer, composer and sound artist who cut her teeth on experimental pop duo kyü before releasing her sublime solo debut in 2015. Since, she has worked as a composer and performer across art, film, dance and theatre. Hear these influences feed back into her distinct songcraft as she premieres material from her forthcoming 2020 album, with a refined and stripped-back palette of sound - peppered as ever with that unusual voice.

Chela (DJ Set)
Chela is an Australian/Filipino artist, musician, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker originally from Fremantle, Western Australia. With just a handful of tracks released under the Chela moniker, she has demonstrated a keen taste for '80s electro-pop. Her DJ set for Sonic Nightcap delivers 80s pop and soul mixed with indie electronic dance, in true Chela style – digging into a rainbow hook, but hitting the earth hard.

ELSZ
Growing up between Sri Lanka and Australia, ELSZ is a producer, harpist, dancer & vocalist based in Brooklyn. ELSZ’ experience of racism, gender violence & war coupled with their own abstract expressions of their emotional / spiritual landscape, imbue ELSZ' most recent work. ELSZ’ music moves between soulful Avant pop & experimental R&B, and they are currently recording their forthcoming album dedicated to victims and survivors of gender violence.