Convergence is the title of Hamed Sadeghi’s new composition. The concert series aims to convey a deconstructed yet detailed performance of the composition’s roots and components in three acts.

Convergence 2: Persian Traditional
Hamed Sadeghi (tar), Ramin Etemadzadeh (vocals), Sina Bastami (kamancheh), and Amir Salar Makhzani (percussion).

Elysian Fields - musical dialogue between past and contemporary musical realms, shifting between improvised and notated modalities.
Susie Bishop | voice/violin; Loretta Palmeiro | saxophones; Matt McMahon | piano; Jenny Eriksson | electric viola da gamba; Jacques Emery | double bass; Rease Cameron | drums

Austral Baroque - Music by Jenny Eriksson, Alice Chance, Louis Andriessen, arrangements by Lousie Johnson, and more!
Louise Johnson | Harp; Jenny Eriksson | electric viola da gamba

Spread all across PACT's black box space, a bevy of noise musicians:

WEYÓN
SOCIETY OF CUTTING UP MEN
ANGUS MCGRATH
WYTCHINGS
ANDREA ILLÉS & MARCUS WHALE

Liv Andrea Hauge Trio
Liv Andrea Hauge | Keys
Chloe Kim | Drums
Jacques Emery | Bass

Niki Johnson & Hilary Geddes
Niki Johnson | Percussion
Hilary Geddes | Guitar

Convergence is the title of Hamed Sadeghi’s new composition. The concert series aims to convey a deconstructed yet detailed performance of the composition’s roots and components in three acts.

Convergence 3: Improvisation Duo
Mike Nock (piano) and Hamed Sadeghi (tar).

BELIEVE connects the spectrum of contemporary creative sound making with the fluid, anything is possible momentum of free jazz. For the past three years this Sydney-based quartet has committed to a musical process of learning, exploring, experimenting and growing in public.

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

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Unbound is a concert that redefines what it means to be a musician, celebrating those who turn access challenges into a creative force.
- Sonnet Curé, Plastik, transforms the crunch of a lolly wrapper—an often awkward sound in a concert hall—into a moment of lovely, deliberate art.
- Melanie Eden, No One To Be, explores the complex, ambiguous grief of living with inter-generational trauma and autism.
- Alon Ilsar shares his Airsticks—wearable devices that transform movement into sound—with Oliver House, a wheelchair dancer.
- Ria Andriani performs Molly Joyce’s song-cycle Form with Ensemble Offspring.

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

The Cloud Maker
Te Kahureremoa | Taronga Puoro/Voice
Aviva Endean | Clarinet/Winds/Electronics
Sunny Kim | Voice/Electronics/Percussion
Freya Schack-Arnott | Cello/Nyckelharpa
Maria Moles | Drums/Kalimba/SPD

Bree Van Reyk | Percussion and Electronics

Ambient / post-folk ensemble Cold Hands Warm Heart celebrating their latest cassette release ‘Day and night have equal weight’.
CRWLR shreds pop plasticity, footwork rhythms, black metal reverence and new wave melodrama.
Hinano Fujisaki, saxophonist, improviser and composer will be joined by Jacob Turl to play reimagined versions of her old songs as well as new music.

Two Sydney-based pianists and composers, Diego Duarte and Byron Mark will present an evening of original music with their trios.  

Byron Mark - Piano, Bronwyn Harrowsmith - Violin/Viola, Josiah Chavez - Drums, Lauren Majarres - Flamenco Dance (special guest) 

DR J Trio: Diego Idarraga Duarte - piano, Richard Driscoll - double-bass, James Wright - drums.

Defektro (Hirofumi Uchino)
SquealsnDrills (Improvised electronic beats and noise with modular synths from Dharug country)
Chlorine Gargoyle (Darkwave from Sydney)
Restrukture (Australian industrial music)
at Monster Mouse.

Keyna Wilkins - piano/flute, compositions
Jodie Michael - drumset
Elsen Price - double bass
Will Gilbert - trumpet

Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical and set to real space sounds and projections.

From traditional Icelandic folksong to new improvised pieces, Ronan Apcar (piano) and Sola Hughes (violin).
Fagurt Er í Fjörðum trad. Icelandic song
Calices - I. II. III. by Kaija Saariaho
Heather by Kate Moore
sky and eye in a grain of sand by Akari Komura (world premiere)
Birds in Warped Time II by Somei Satoh

Leftfield, eclectic and downtempo electronic music. 100% of profits will be donated to The Black Dog Institute.

Ritmu (Live) [DU:RA]
Fucshia [Area 3000 Radio]
Bats [FBI Radio]
Andrew Wowk [Music For Change]

Carla Thackrah - flute; Virginia Comerford - viola; Alice Giles - harp

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1915)
NICHOLAS ROUTLEY Sonata for flute, viola and harp (2024)
ROMANO CRIVICI Arafura Haze (2025)

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Urethra Vortex (Urethra Stockade + Cletus Vortex) - https://notverygoodrecordsrecords.bandcamp.com/.../48...

Monoeater - https://monoeater.bandcamp.com/album/propping-up-bulldozers

PartyOvOne - https://partyovone.bandcamp.com/.../asymptotically...

Rapacity - https://www.instagram.com/rapacity__/

Born in Iran and now based on Gadigal land (Sydney), Hamed Sadeghi is a multi-award-winning Persian-Australian tar player and composer.

From Thursday to Saturday, the installation opens to the public. The week culminates in a special ticketed solo performance by the artist, presented alongside their installation.

Tom Ollendorff Trio (UK)
Tom Ollendorff - guitar
Conor Chaplin - bass
JK Kim - drums

Wolfert Brederode & Joost Lijbaart (NED)
Wolfert Brederode-piano
Joost Lijbaart-drums

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.

Local musicians and sound artists will reinterpret Reidy’s score for their performances. Mary Rapp is a multidisciplinary musician based in Sydney who has gained wide acclaim for her distinctive approach, which integrates jazz, experimental, classical and regional music traditions.

Music of Noël Lee, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, George Walker and Aaron Copland,
performed by:
Ole Bøhn, violin
Daniel Herscovitch, piano

Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) Fantasy on One Note (arr. Kurtag)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Chorale Prelude "Vater unser im Himmelreich" BWV 682 (arr. Monorosi)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Adagio (arr. Beyer) and Fugue K. 526
Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) Visions de l'Amen

Clemens Leske, piano
Daniel Herscovitch, piano

Under tow / Undertone, the latest improvised performance from Chronology Arts Collective.

An evening of raw, embodied exploration that honours the unseen work of becoming. With Nikki Heywood, Stephen Adams, Liz Jigalin, Gideon Patyen-Griffiths and Andrew Batt-Rawden.

Earshift Music label showcase. 

Disruption! The Voice of Drums - Jeremy Rose (saxophone, electronics), Simon Barker (drums), Chloe Kim (drums), Hilary Geddes (guitar), Jacques Emery (bass)

Melbourne’s Koi Kingdom, Marcos Villalta (guitar) Cheryl Durongpisitkul (saxophone) and Stephen Hornby (bass).

Sydney’s Perchance spins a mix of low-end bass weight, grooves and trance-tinged melodies.

Jessica O'Donoghue and Jack Symonds's undead is a celebration of Australian musical and literary talent, offering a cross-section of Australia’s contemporary operatic landscape.

MARY FINSTERER Your Dusk is Near from Biographica (2017)
JACK SYMONDS The Flood from Gilgamesh (2024)
ANDRÉE GREENWELL Speak Our Names from Three Marys (2023)
MARY FINSTERER Eternal City from Antarctica (2022)
JESSICA O'DONOGHUE The Witness from Running Man (2022)
HUW BELLING The Canon & Katharsis from Fumeblind Oracle (2021)
PEGGY POLIAS Dawn from Commute (2020)
PAUL STANHOPE Hanging Rock from Picnic at Hanging Rock (2023)
THOMAS ADÈS Life Story (1993)

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

The SCM Symphony Orchestra and SCM Choir come together for a 110th anniversary concert under the baton of Elizabeth Scott, and Roger Benedict.

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO* (b. 1964) Tarimi Nulay
Carl Vine* (b. 1954) Choral symphony (Symphony No. 6)
SCM Composer Microworks - TBA*
Edgar Bainton** (1880 - 1956) Three Pieces for Orchestra (Elegy, Intermezzo and Humoresque)

Fiona Hill - electronics: Ableton Live
Gary Daley - piano accordion, electronics 
An In: Flux performance consists of a slowly evolving long-form improvisation. A marrying of a traditional acoustic instrument, the accordion, with contemporary electronics.

A night of experimental electronica and Slavic darkwave. Layered vocals, live looping, deconstructed club sounds and witch-house.
ŽIVA (Melbourne) a bilingual music project fusing Slavic-pop, darkwave, and experimental electronica
Gift Exchange (Sydney) Jaime Krausman on guitar, Madison Scott on vocals and Eduardo Bianchino on production/synth
Grasps (Sydney) an electronic artist & producer whose sound is experimental electronic, intending to combine extremes of sound.

CHRIS CAINES & EMMA X ZHANG are artists working across installation, sound, and performance. Chris explores immersive media and spatial interventions, while Emma focuses on materiality, movement, and the sensory experience of environments.
MICHAIL MATHIOUDAKIS as MARCIA MANHUNTER artist and performer working through drag, screen, photography, and zine-making.
ŽIVA (Lucija Ivšić) artist, researcher, and lecturer working at the crossroads of music, sound technology, and cultural heritage. Her sound blends Slavic-pop, darkwave, and experimental electronica.

Peter Dasent - Piano
Phillip Johnston - Alto Saxophone
Playing With Monk’s repertoire traverses the music of jazz icon Thelonious Monk, the film composers Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, early jazz and blues classics, and their own compositions for film and jazz.

Traditional music from the borderlands of Iran and Afghanistan - music of Greater Khorasan.

Badieh is Spain’s Michel Gasco (rubab, oud) and Iran’s Mohammad Miraghazadeh (tar, setar).

Tokyo bassist and visual artist JUKE MUSHINO at Lazy Thinking performing with fretless bass. Mushino’s work is strongly influenced by surrealism and industrial music.

Completing the line up are Monoeater, Atavus Infectum, and Defektro.

Niki Johnson (percussionist, composer-performer) & Shervin Mirzenali's (composer, sound design) collaboration blurs the line between composer and performer, theatre and music, and experimental and conventional instrument design. This newest project involves using vibrating objects as methods of activating different percussive materials, and secret contact microphones as methods of listening small sounds.

From Thursday to Saturday, the installation opens to the public. The week culminates in a special ticketed solo performance by the artist, presented alongside their installation.

Julius Schwing (TAS) - solo guitar
Julius’s distinct improvising style and compositions are heavily influenced by the dramatic natural surroundings of his home on Bruny Island and a life lived in constant contact with this environment.

Alex Raupach & Jack Rosenzweig
Alex Raupach - trumpet
Jack Rosenzweig - drums

Keyboardist, synthesist and improviser Kurt Lam will be bringing together a new lineup of local Sydney musicians every week to explore the possibilities of collaboration and improvisation.  
Tully Ryan on drums
Daniel Pliner on keys & synths

Sulla Lingua is an Australian-Italian electroacoustic noise rock trio, featuring Anthony Pateras (tētēma/PIVIXKI) on electronics, Stefano Pilia (Zu, Rokia Traoré, Massimo Volume) on guitar and Riccardo La Foresta on drums and his own creation, the Drummophone.

Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist and electronic musician. He works across many contexts including modern classical, acousmatic diffusion, film soundtrack, free improvisation, experimental rock, and various mutations of electronica. 

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Hill/Hall/Raymond - Gabriella Hill (tenor saxophone), Henry Hall (double bass) and Daniel Raymond (drums). Playing Daniel’s compositions intertwined with their individual material.

Elsen Price is a solo double bassist who combines classical, jazz, folk and experimental music into short/long form performances. This performance will be a long form improvisation.

Mitch Elliott - To celebrate the release of his new EP 'A Spring-Flood Overflows the Still Horizon,' the Sydney-based musician and composer Mitch Elliott will be joined by Hinano Fujisaki and Jasper C-A. 

Mara plays the viola and collaborates with her laptop to create live performances and recorded pieces for film, dance, and gallery spaces.

Liam Keenan is currently exploring the sonic depths of improvised acoustic guitar feedback in real time.

MEOW MEOW Casio - an experimental collaborative project of Elke Rae and Rowan Yeomans. Based in improvisation and chaos, meeting at the crossroads of ambient, synth wave and doom.
Bract - Industrial doom band based on stolen Burramattagal and Wangal land. Andy||Josh||Mikhaila
Withdrawe (Jasper Craig-Adams - guitar, Mitch Elliott - electronics)

Atunement is a live sound collaboration between Panos Couros and Mx Robert Frost, Blending field recordings, ambient textures, musique concrète with analogue and digital synthesis.

Supported by Shooshy. Electronic musician: Using synths, made instruments, mashed loops and processed vocals, inspired by airports, train depots and the natural world.

Matthew Ottignon - tenor, alto, and baritone saxophones
Lauren Tsamouras - piano
Hannah James - acoustic bass
Hayley Chan - drums and percussion
While embodying the spirit of giants such as John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, Volant is a modern quartet, delivering compositions and improvised dialogue.

Launch of an experimental archive project by Ira Ferris, including a sound montage created with musician and sound artist Alexandra Spence. Part of a program of events celebrating two decades of choreographic innovation at Critical Path. The event will include a short conversation on new approaches to archiving, a music performance by Alexandra Spence and a dance performance by Ryuichi Fujimura. Free event, RSVP essential.

ELENA KATS-CHERNIN (ARR. J. AGOSTINO) Dance of the Paper Umbrellas
RICHARD CHARLTON Port Jackson Suite*                                  
VINCENT LINDSEY-CLARK Magnetar (From Celestial Suite)
P. BELLINATI Baiao de Gude
GUSTI NGURA ADI PUTRA (ARR. T. DRACOULIS) Melasti
JALAL AHMED Dream Walking* (Premiere)
MANUEL DIEWALD Celestial* (Premiere)
JULIA VLAHOGIANNIS Notion* 
LUIGI BOCCHERINI (ARR. J. SPARKS) Introduction and Fandango     

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Nigel Is No More is Aidan Wong (tenor saxophone), Alex Tucker (electric guitar) and Daniel Raymond (drums). A spontaneous barrage of riffage, drum grooves and tenor screams.

Through a long form performance, the band attempts to find sonic detail within the ensemble that encompasses something larger than “noise metal”.

The Red House welcomes for his only Sydney performance…

Bruce Russell is an inveterate improviser and practitioner in sound. Since 1987 he has been a member of the Dead C. He also performs with Alastair Galbraith as A Handful of Dust (since 1984). His solo guitar practice reconfigures the blues as a form of improvisational auto-destruction.

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ALEXIS WEAVER (she/her) is a composer, sound artist and educator based in Sydney, Australia. At Local Edition, Alexis will create a site-specific work that celebrates the character and wonder of the artefacts within the store. Alexis will highlight certain objects and their makers, drawing out unique sounds and creating a shifting sonic constellation for visitors to dwell in.

From Thursday to Saturday, the installation opens to the public. The week culminates in a special ticketed solo performance by the artist, presented alongside their installation.

FORMA ENSEMBLE is an Australian percussion collective creating, performing, and collaborating on new and experimental music. Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Joshua Hill, Niki Johnson, Gabriel Fischer, Caleb Colledge, Shu-hsuan Wang.

Michael Gordon’s Timber is a meditative, hour-long work scored for six wooden planks.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Keyboardist, synthesist and improviser Kurt Lam will be bringing together a new lineup of local Sydney musicians every week to explore the possibilities of collaboration and improvisation.  
Hinano Fujisaki on saxophone
River Langford on drums

DAN FORREST: Adonai, Adonenu (Psalm 8); Words of Paradise; Requiem for the Living 

Collegium Musicum Choir and chamber orchestra
Sonia Maddock Choral Director and Conductor  
UNSW Soloists: Adina Herz, soprano; Emma Davidson, mezzo; Oliver Brundson, tenor 

Operantics concert of music set to Emily Dickinson poetry.

The program will include works by Aaron Copland, Andre Previn, Lori Laitman, Libby Larsen, Anne Cawrse and Ian Ricky Gordon.

Featuring: Laura Scandizzo, Elena Marcello, Sarah Cherlin, Katie Miller-Crispe and Nathaniel Kong on piano.

For one night only, thedieyoungs and Julien Mier unveil Pluto’s Exchange Program—a secret music project they’ve been crafting since 2017. Improvised collision of percussion, piano runs, and otherworldly textures that fuse jazz, electronica, drum & bass, neo-classical, and spacecore.

 Joining them are live acts ilex and Kid Fiction, plus a DJ set by Postponez.

Ronan Apcar - Piano, Lamorna Nightingale - Flute, Jason Noble - Clarinet, Benjamin Ward - Double bass, Niki Johnson - Percussion

New works by: Klearhos Murphy, Georgina Bowden, Callum O'Reilly, Beth Roche, Louis Wishart, Thomas Meadowcroft

A pre-concert talk will take place from 2.15pm

This concert will feature performances by the four finalists for this years Freedman Jazz Fellowship: Holli Scott (vocalist, WA), Niran Dasika (trumpet, VIC), Sam Gill (saxophone, NSW) and Wilbur Whitta (piano, NSW).

Norwegian supergroup fusing traditional music and contemporary evocations of the north. Benedicte Maurseth is the hardanger fiddle’s great contemporary player. 

Benedicte Maurseth - hardanger fiddle
Morten Qvenild - piano
Mats Eilertsen - bass
Håkon Stene - percussion

Lee Dionne - piano

UNSUK CHIN Etude No. 1 ‘In C’ (1999/2003) 
GYÖRGY LIGETI Etude No. 6 Autumn in Warsaw (1985)
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Scherzo No. 4 in E Major (1842)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Partita No. 6 in E Minor (1730)

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Maissa is a multi-disciplinary artist, creative producer and experienced vocalist. Maissa has been part of the contemporary Arab Australian arts community for over twenty years.  She is the Creative Director and one of the lead vocalists in ATS’s musical project Ensemble Dandana.

From Thursday to Saturday, the installation opens to the public. The week culminates in a special ticketed solo performance by the artist, presented alongside their installation.

Keyboardist, synthesist and improviser Kurt Lam will be bringing together a new lineup of local Sydney musicians every week to explore the possibilities of collaboration and improvisation.  
Goose on live electronics
Gabriel Haslam on drums

Alister Spence has been playing the Fender Rhodes electric piano since the 1970s. Within Without is Spence’s debut album for solo Fender Rhodes.

Alexandra Spence is a sound artist/musician whose aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions.

Chloë Sobek is a composer-performer based in Naarm. This installation presents an experimental archive of the violone, composed of sound and artefacts that resist conventional models of documentation and preservation.

From Thursday to Saturday, the installation opens to the public. The week culminates in a special ticketed solo performance by the artist, presented alongside their installation.

Marlene Claudine Radice - Composer |{ noise ♡ drone }| Performer
Making Out - Indonesian musician working on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land
Black Metal 3 - Hinano Fujisaki (saxophone) + Mitch Elliott (electronics) + Jasper Craig-Adams (guitar)
Manticora - Harsh noise enthusiast | Living on stolen Dharawal land

Inspiritus - explores free improvisation under the guidance of images of the natural world.

Led by Shane Carpini (drums/percussion), Inspiritus features some of Sydney’s finest experimental improvisers, such as Kenya Wilkins (piano/flute), Josh Shipton (electric bass), Lachlan Kerr (keyboard/synthesiser), and Liz Cheung (zhonghu/flute).

Second celebration of microtonal and mesotonal music in 2025.

The Yak Herders perform ‘The Space In Between the Things Between The Spaces’. Andy Milne principal composer on lumatone, Farrah Sa’adullah on violin, Brad Gill on malletKAT, Christina Laki on Ubass and fretless electric bass.

Clocks and Clouds ‘Artesian Fountains’. Kraig Grady and Terumi Narushima on Meta-slendro vibraphone, meta-slendro reed organ.

Michael Hugh Dixon’s ‘Ours is Simply the Way Back’, ‘Rejoin’, ‘Stillness' of unceasing activity’ and ‘Door of Many Mysteries – Reopened’ performed by Wendy Dixon (soprano), Kathryn Bennets (recorder), Greg van der Struik (trombone) and Dixon (horn).
Matthias Sebastian Krūger's ‘Residual’ for recorder and horn.
Praveen Venkataramana's ‘Reflection III’ for horn and trombone.

Composer Samantha Wolf and pianist Alex Raineri present a performance for piano and live electronics, featuring new, existing, and revised works from their 15-year collaborative history.
Samantha Wolf blends the classical, contemporary, acoustic, and electroacoustic worlds, while being grounded in the notated tradition.
Alex Raineri is active throughout Australia and Internationally as a piano recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, harpsichordist, composer, writer, producer, and educator.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

FUKNO https://fukno.bandcamp.com/
HEDONIST https://hedonist.bandcamp.com/
DF0:BAD https://soundcloud.com/skint-1
GUNDERMAN https://gunderman.bandcamp.com/
PETER https://soundcloud.com/caine-stone
XYLOFUNT https://thestableofcrap.bandcamp.com/
NIMBY https://reubeningall.bandcamp.com/music
ABRE OJOS https://abreojos.net/
DJ CHARLES

Melodic Fictions is a contemporary choral, improvised layered work by vocalist Merinda Dias-Jayasinha. For this performance, Melodic Fictions is crafted live by Merinda in collaboration with vocalists Hannah Cameron, Imogen Cygler, Hannah McKittrick, and Ebony Tait.
Luke M de Zilva, as LMDZ, presents live mixes of mostly Australian musicians, collating, sampling and abstracting their work to create a series of new ‘collaborations’.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

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

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