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

Exhibition Launch featuring performances from Jess Green (solo guitar) and the Duo of Matt Keegan (sax) and Cameron Undy (bass).

An exhibition celebrating 40 plus years in support of jazz and improvised music in Sydney. Featuring the images of Jane March, Joe Glaysher and Shane Rozario and recordings from four decades of innovative sound making. 

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 )

ABSURD COSMOS LATE NITE (MELB) - Mark Groves (Index Clean, Voice Imitator, Red Wine and Sugar)
Final Lives II | Absurd Cosmos Late Nite

PETER BLAMEY & ANTHONY GUERRA

NICK DAN

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.

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Ustad Mustafa Faizi (b. 1967, Kabul) is one of the leading Afghan classical vocalists of his generation. Steeped in the Patiala Gharana tradition of Indian classical music, he began singing at the age of fourteen under the guidance of his father, himself a devoted student of the legendary Afghan maestro Ustad Mohammad Hussain Sarahang. This lineage shaped Ustad Faizi’s musical path: his vocal style, emotional depth, and technical command all reflect the influence of Ustad Sarahang’s artistry while carrying his own distinct voice.

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

Developed over three years across residencies, tours, and periods of deep listening, “Your Whistle Tells of Landscape” finds Australian sound artist Alexandra Spence continuing her investigations into the perceptual entanglements of sound, place, memory, and imagination.

Opening DJ - JWPaton

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Susie Bishop - Violin, Maharshi Raval - Indian Tabla, Elsen Price - double bass

The Mesos Trio perform a mix of Western Folk, Indian classical music, plus a few little detours in a fun musical tapestry. They all met and played for the first time during their recording session for their self-titled EP. As a trio they've since been playing around Sydney with many heads turning to their fun, virtuosic and passionate mix of musical creations.

Puscha x Aarti Jadu is an exploratory interplay between synthesis and vocals. An on-and-off collaboration between two artists from Naarm/Melbourne. Puscha creates hypnotic, post-ambient auditory spaces and musical impressions. Aarti Jadu is known for creating a hybrid of cinematic compositions and bass music laced with disparate vocal arrangements.

Opening DJ - Index

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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.

Life Forms is the latest album from trumpeter Niran Dasika and his Melbourne-based trio featuring legendary pianist Andrea Keller and virtuoso bassist Helen Svoboda.

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AnSo, an interdisciplinary South Korean artist and performer residing and creating on Dharug land, blends their Korean culture with contemporary performance in their practice. For this performance at Phoenix Central Park, AnSo will be collaborating with harpist Isabella Rahme, as well as choreographers and movement artists Emmy Harkins, Risako Katsumata, Alana Searles, and Amara Shin. 

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In Hand to Earth, Yolŋu song keepers Daniel and David Wilfred recontextualise their 40,000 year old song tradition in a resolutely contemporary setting with Korean-born vocalist Sunny Kim, trumpet and electronics maestro Peter Knight, and woodwind virtuoso Aviva Endean.

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Melbourne/Naarm-based On Diamond take an anomalous look at alternative pop. Their sound relies on an interactive group dynamic and is inspired by folk, noise, rock, jazz, and improvised music, with lyrics that are personal and poetic. The current ensemble features Lisa Salvo (vocals), Scott McConnachie (guitar and synth), Myka Wallace (drums), Jules Pascoe (bass), and Duré Dara (percussion).

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Jon Rose and Erik Griswold are two of Australia’s foremost improvising experimentalists. Unnamed Road engages two violins: one an amplified tenor violin, and keyboards — a regular piano and a MIDI keyboard hooked up to samples of prepared piano - in free improvisation.  

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