SydneyMicroFest uses non-standard pitches (microtones) to express as nuanced and varied musical views as deeply as we can imagine.
Music by Donald Bousted, Peter Bowman, Larry Polansky, Peter Thoegersen
Performed by Kathryn Bennetts (1/4 tone recorder); Michael H Dixon and Gergely Mályusz (just intonation French horns)

Fluctuating Space is a new media art exhibition at 107 Projects from 18 to 29 September that discusses the relationship between human and machine in the current artificial intelligence and cyborg era.
The Exhibition will present an experimental audiovisual live performance night by the exhibited artists.
Featuring Artists:
pink;money (CHN) http://pinkmoney.studio/
Kynan Tan (SYD) www.kynantan.com
Time: 8.00pm 21 Sept 2019
Free Entry

Concert of music by Donald Bousted, Peter Bowman, Larry Polansky, Peter Thoegersen including the World Premiere of 'Melancholia' for 2 horns in just intonation. Special guest Kathryn Bennetts from England (microtonal recorder). Michael H Dixon and Gergely Mályusz (just intonation French horns)
SydneyMicroFest uses non-standard pitches (microtones) to express as nuanced and varied musical views as deeply as we can imagine.

Announcing SS2: Depths, the second instalment of Surfacing Series, a new series for abstract, experimental and outsider composition.

The program features new works and experimentations, and a special collaboration. SS2 is co-curated by Megan Alice Clune.

LUCY PHELAN, BEN CAREY, JONATHAN WILSON + MATTHEW MCGUIGAN, ALEXANDRA SPENCE, MEGAN ALICE CLUNE

Humming Grotto #2
An evening of eclectic experimentalism downstairs at the PBC with Couch, Club Sound Witches, Clare Cooper & Jai Pyne
Sunday September 29th | 3 - 6pm [NOTE THE CRUISY TIME 😎] | $10
Humming Grotto is new monthly series of sound and listening, taking place on the last Sunday of the month, downstairs at the PBC 💥

after a break in August we are now a monthly event on the last Sunday of the month from September
the stellar lineup includes:
Lucas Abela
xBROKENxBONGx
Bi-Guignol
Andrew Stapleton (fr. Face Command)

A little pre-season show at Alpha House!
The New Zealand Noise artist Noel Meek has been engaging with the Sydney scene for a few years. In the last 2 years he’s been playing regularly with Jim Denley, and when he’s been in Sydney he’s been deeply impressed with Laura Altman’s cloud tones that use clarinet and feedback. Of course Laura and Jim have played together for some years – but this will be the first time they play as a trio.
Peter Blamey is a Sydney-based artist. His practice is often sound-focussed and accomplished with a minimum of means, and includes performances, videos, recordings and installations. Broadly speaking, his work explores (amongst other things) the interconnected themes of energies and residues, often through reimagining our everyday encounters with mundane materials and technologies and the physical world, and our experiences of energy generation, use and wastage.

Sub_Sect.
Oct 4 Newcastle Art Gallery Sculpture Garden
An evening of Experimental sound performance
Melanie Eden - Party of One - Bike Nakano - Troth - THE END projekt.
https://thisisnotart.org/events/
http://cracktheatrefest.com/
Sub_Sect. Acknowlages the traditional caretakers of the land, the Awabakal and Worimi people.

Earshift Music Presents: Holopeak 'Summit Over’ album launch / Steve Barry Blueprints Trio / Sam Gill'S Coursed Waters / Ellen Kirkwood + Hilary Giddes UNDERWARDS

Doors/Bar/Restaurant 5pm. Music from 7.30pm. $15 at the door. $10 pizzas

Madness!! Throat Pleats, RCE and The Pen Club.

Starts at 7:30pm.

10 Shepherd St, Chippendale NSW 2008

Come and enjoy a relaxed and incredibly diverse evening of music in the gorgeous upstairs garden of the Red Rattler Theatre. As usual, we'll be following our pop+up format of four 20 minute sets framed by short intervals (or as we call them, Cheese fetching opportunities). This is out last Pop+Up event for the year and we are going out with a bang! Come and celebrate another wonderful year of music with us over some nibbles.
LOCATION: Upstairs at the Red Rattler theatre. Come up the stairs, and when you've reached the greenery you'll know you're in the right place!
LINE+UP: Elizabeth Cheung + Alexandra Spence
2 MORE ACTS TO BE REVEALED IN THE COMING WEEKS!

Backstage Music has your Thursdays covered this October with a triptych of musical offerings. It all kicks off on Oct 17 with RADIO SIGNALS:

Cathy Milliken + Jane Sheldon + Lamorna Nightingale + Fiona Hill

Lewis Mosley + Sam Weller + Charlie Sundborn

We don’t often take a retrospective look at music here at Backstage, but we’re pleased to be celebrating the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio alongside new works by Cathy Milliken and Fiona Hill in this program.

Leading experimental artists
Gail Priest, Lauren Brincat and Alex Murray-Leslie all create work that sits at the forefront of sound, technology, experimental music and contemporary art. Moderated by Clare Cooper (Co-Founder of the NOW now festival, Splinter Orchestra, Splitter Orchestra and Frontyard Space) these Liveworks artists discuss their research interests and artistic practices, as well as what it means to create collaborative work that spans sound, installation and performance.

In Double Double, celebrated dancers and choreographers Jo Lloyd and Deanne Butterworth are joined by interdisciplinary artists Evelyn Ida Morris and Tina Havelock Stevens—each on drums—in an epic meeting of four performers where spontaneous compositions and formations emerge out of a physical and sonic mania. Over the course of two hours, the performers lap through time and space as their personas merge, separate and collide. Motion and noise slap against each other as tension escalates, making for a riveting sensory experience.

In Double Double, celebrated dancers and choreographers Jo Lloyd and Deanne Butterworth are joined by interdisciplinary artists Evelyn Ida Morris and Tina Havelock Stevens—each on drums—in an epic meeting of four performers where spontaneous compositions and formations emerge out of a physical and sonic mania. Over the course of two hours, the performers lap through time and space as their personas merge, separate and collide. Motion and noise slap against each other as tension escalates, making for a riveting sensory experience.

Backstage Music has your Thursdays covered this October with a triptych of musical offerings. Join us on Oct 24 for our second event, FORBIDDEN THINGS.

Biliana Voutchkova + Clayton Thomas

Ensemble Offspring (Claire Edwardes + Jason Noble)

Henry Justo

Improvisation, at its best, is a living experience; a timbrel, textural, visceral approach to music making. With one foot in the past, and one foot in the future, the players give and take in equal measure, building a collective response to moment. This evening of ‘in-the-moment’ collaborations explores a global history of art music, folk music’s, and western classical music.

Led by sound artist Gail Priest and designer Thomas Burless, this workshop will reveal some of the processes and research they explored while creating the performance installation.
"A continous self-vibrating region of intensities". Offering ear-opening and hands-on experiences, the workshop will explore some of the physical properties of acoustic and amplified sound by conducting non-empirical experiments into manifesting sound visually and tangibly. Participants are invited to bring acoustic (voice or instrument) or some digital sample material of their own to play with in conjunction with a number of kinetic installation objects. Open to all levels of experience: curiosity is the only pre-requisite.

Backstage Music has your Thursdays covered this October with a triptych of musical offerings. Join us on Oct 31 for the finale to our month of music!

William Barton + Veronique Serret

Niki Johnson

A fusion of musical landscapes encapsulating the very essence of art culture and history. Two instruments the didgeridoo and the violin hand crafted from the trees of the earth that together transcend upon a common musical ground creating a tonal and melodically grounding journey of rhythmic energy. Like the river flow of life the bird calls of ancient whispers call out from the great escarpment of the Australian landscape to the oceans of our earth and to the universe beyond.

Ephemera Quartet is led by Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute/compositions) with Elsen Price (double bass/loop pedal), Will Gilbert (trumpet) and Carl St Jacques (viola) and includes freely improvised pieces. The quartet is accompanied by a soundtrack of outer-space electromagnetic waves recorded by NASA and complied by astronomer Professor Paul Francis. The music is complimented by projections of space probe footage. Each member brings their own unique voice to the ensemble drawing from a multitude of musical backgrounds, combining to create a distinctive soundscape that organically reacts to stellar concepts. Universe and Universality.