Puzzle Gallery presents a 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 exploring bodies, materials and transformation within our garage-turned-gallery.
𝗟𝗼𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 @likeabridgeoverloiswaters
with sound by 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 @_ratitata_ , 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗻 @laurence_e_quinn , 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸, 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮 & 𝗟𝗼𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀
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
Joseph Rabjohns & Lachlan R. Dale are a guitar duo exploring the intersection of post-rock, ambient, and contemporary classical music.
BoNo is Bonnie Stewart (Voice/effects) and Novak Manojlovic (Piano/effects) rifling through their sonic libraries and running the findings through a slew of pedals and extended processes in pursuit of stillness.
Francisco Sonur creates improvised ambient music that drifts between fragile, intimate moments and vast, immersive walls of sound.
Megan Alice Clune performs two new works for trio, featuring Hinano Fujisaki and Nick Calligeros. Based on looping video scores, this performance will be the third in her series of Repetition Studies performed throughout 2024-5. These works present frameworks for improvisation that unfold slowly, and can be observed from multiple viewpoints of complexity.
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Aidan Eccleshall leads a cohort of young artists in explorations of sound and silence from John Cage, alongside radical new pieces commissioned for this event.
Student Work - My Pet Rock
Aidan Eccleshall - Don’t destroy your gifts
John Cage - Four6
George Crumb - Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik - Ronan Apcar (piano)
Georges Aperghis - Recitations - Mitch Riley (voice)
Delays Have Dangerous Ends a duo creating cinematic ambient science fiction music through improvised guitars, keyboards and effects celebrate the release of their 9th long form single ‘Seven Nights Nine Times Nine’.
Special guests will be electro underground legends Scattered Order, complete with live visuals from LIVING SCIENCE Dept.
Both Genevieve Von Black and Matthew Syres from Delays Have Dangerous Ends will play rare solo improvised sets to kick off the night.
Ariel Bart, Israeli harmonica player and composer, appearing for one night only at VJs in Chatswood. In her Australian debut, Ariel will be joined by two outstanding local musicians — Lauren Tsamouras (piano) and Freya Schack-Arnott (cello) — for an evening of intimate, boundary-crossing music.
Brian Ferneyhough - Time and Motion Study II (for cello and electronics) (1973-76)
Chris Pidcock (cello, voice)
Ben Carey (electronics)
Funguszeit
Jocelyn Ho (prepared piano)
Mark Oliviero (modular synth)
Chris Pidcock (cello)
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Milton Man Gogh
Andrew Saragossi - saxophones; Zac Sakrewski - basses; Benjamin Shannon - drums
Fusion of contemporary jazz with elements of metal, punk, and folk.
jetrio
Sean Valenzuela - piano; Blain Cunneen - guitar; Alexander Inman-Hislop - drums
Music somewhere between meditative jazz, minimalist composition, and ambient improv.
Sam Gill (saxophones) & Simon Barker (drums) have been playing in the duo format since 2015, improvising sets full of high-intensity rhythmic and textural explorations.
Gabriella Hill (tenor saxophone) & Eric Tsai (guitar) duo explore the sonic possibilities between saxophone and guitar, creating improvised dialogues that are either based on a certain melody or completely free without reference.
The premier of Act One of Songs of Fire, a chamber opera written and composed by Anna Hueneke, a spectral music piece inspired by Claude Vivier's Bouchara.
Conductor - Gabriel Kerridge; Soprano - Tovia Jakovsky-Coleman; Bass-baritone - Freddy Shaw; Double Bassists - Elsen Price, Tomas Ford, Jason Smith, Eric Hutchens, Ann Palumbo, Henry Hall, Hannah James, Tom Botting, Michael McNamara, Jarrah Murray; Cellists - John Napier, James Larsen
Bring a plate and join us for a potluck with Galen Joseph-Hunter. Galen Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director of Wave Farm in New York's Upper Hudson Valley since 2002. Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. Wave Farm cultivates creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofit organizations in their cultural endeavors.
Galen will tell us about her work with the Wave Farm around 6pm-ish, but we will chat, eat, and drink before and afterwards.
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 onlyMax Alduca - double bass; Nick Calligeros - trumpet; Holly Conner - drums & electronics; Sam Gill - saxophones & percussion; Novak Manojlovic - piano & keyboards; Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets & viola
One of the most creative and boundary-pushing improvising groups to emerge from the Sydney scene in the last 10 years, Microfiche combines improvisations with compositions from each member of the band.
Jessie Newling extends the possibilities of her voice, using digital processing and effects with custom made controllers, exploring old world gesture and expression with modern music technology.
CAxRA is an electronic composer and audiovisual artist. Her graduate project 'Inversion / Refract' is an immersive listening experience exploring the patterns of human development through biological natural systems.
Beethoven’s String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132.
Kristian Winther, Hannah Kim, Liz Woolnough and Chris Pidcock.
CEREMONY is the most recent work of award-winning Sydney-based composer, pianist, and improviser Novak Manojlovic.
CEREMONY Ensemble: Ken Allars, Alex Raupach — trumpets, David Reglar, Billy Ward — woodwinds, Yutaro Okuda — guitar, Max Alduca — double bass, Miles Thomas — drums
Vocalist Louisa Rankin and clarinettist Jason Noble come together as SPEL, a duo exploring improvisatory music making. Joined by composer/producer Connor D’Netto for a trio performance expanding SPEL’s sound world with modular synthesisers and live electronic manipulation.
STEVE REICH New York Counterpoint
SPEL Originals and improvisations
CONNOR D’NETTO Some Kinda Way
SPEL x CONNOR D’NETTO Improvisations
Tickets: Free, by ballot onlyThe third annual Christmas concert of Sydney's hardest working free jazz quartet. Featuring Lauren Tsamouras and Tom Avgenicos performing music from their newly released album on ABC Jazz 'For Judy' as well as their own inimitable compositions.
BELIEVE: Laurence Pike, drums; Novak Manojlovic, piano; Clayton Thomas, double bass; Peter Farrar, saxophones and percussion
Lauren Tsamouras, piano and Tom Avgenicos, trumpet
Ambient Delights features pianist Brieley Cutting with musicians Dan Lopez (violin), Eleanor Streatfeild (cello), Luke Spicer (viola), Bonita Han-Williams (double bass) and composer/live electronics performer Mark Oliveiro.
FRANZ SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A major D.667 “The Trout” (1819)
MARK OLIVEIRO Electronic Suite for piano quartet with live electronics (2025)
Tickets: Free, by ballot onlyMx Robert Frost
Bosun
Most Ominous Mystic
Atavus Infectum
Early evening listening of ****** electronics in celebration of new long-player, Yield by r hunter.
No DJs, all 30-minute live sets by:
▪️Wa?ste
▪️JWPATON
▪️scariestgirlintheworld
▪️r hunter
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
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 )
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
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 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.
Saturday 10 January 2026 2–2.30pm
Sunday 11 January 2026 2–2.30pm
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.
Tickets: Free, by ballot onlyCyrus 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
Tickets: Free, by ballot onlyDurrant/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.
These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com
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
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.
Laura Altman celebrates the launch of her debut solo CD ‘Holy Trinity’ on Relative Pitch Records. Laura is looking forward to playing in and with the new The Living Room Theatre space.
Laura Altman (clarinet, tins, feedback, tapes, objects, voice)
m.h. (lyres, tape, feedback, objects and obscured vocalisations)
Inside/Outside: Melanie Herbert (violin, singing bowls) and Jim Denley (flutes, gumnut, voice)
For an evening of raw, embodied exploration that honours the unseen work of becoming, experience the latest improvised performance from Chronology Arts Collective:
We invite you to witness Live Composition at play with elements of sound, movement and space.
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 onlyLena Douglas - keys & vocals
Sara Flindt - keys & vocals
New, collaborative duo project which intertwines abstracted versions of both their songs with two vocals, two keyboards, intricate textures, effects and open improvisatory forms.
Jess Green - guitar. For this performance Jess performs new solo works that allow her to traverse from song to the edges of sonic exploration.
Producer Eric J Dubowsky and ambient artist Matt Curtin premiere a deep listening experience created with cognitive neuroscientist Dr Steffen A. Herff at Machine Hall, Sydney.
REALM is a new experimental music project that treats the human mind as the main performance space, at the intersection of sound design, neuroscience and immersive art.
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.
Marlené Claudine Radice (ACT) composer who specialises in notated electroacoustic composition by exploring how art and sound complement one another.
Making Out (ACT) (Rosa Bassett) composer, performer, sound artist and organiser, works across noise, free improvisation, new music, and punk and hardcore.
Daemon Silk is a multidisciplinary artist and composer, everything from noise to modern classical, drone, free improvisation and electro acoustic improvisation.
Vivisection solo project of Rhiannon Evans Mostafa uses white noise, obsolete technology, situationally harvested samples through her DIY improvisations.
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).
Joining Inspiritus for the night will be Violence In Action, who create "Unhinged audience and game piece-driven improvised music".
CozyMinimal explores the intersection of rhythm and stillness—where repetition becomes meditation and sound unfolds through time. Drawing from the trance-like structures of Persian music and the gradual processes of Western minimalism.
Shervin Mirzeinali - Piano
Ehsan Kachooei - Setar
Ali Yarmohammadi - Tar
Arman Gouniaei - Tombak
Babak Naghibi - Double Bass
Imaginary Radio Station, a space of storytelling and music. Composed by Stephen Adams for and in collaboration with the music box project, with dramaturgical support from Nikki Heywood. Weaving together threads of sound, movement and personal reflection, a sonic meditation on radio and connection.
Inaugural in-house performance at Kentville Drums/Pug Cymbals as we present Laurence Pike. This is a free event supported by Inner West Drum Fest.
Laurence Pike is a prolific Australian musician/composer/producer whose virtuosic drumming and multi-disciplinary practice have made him one of Australia’s most respected and in-demand musicians at the cutting edge of the electronic, rock and jazz music worlds for the better part of two decades.
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
Gabriella’s final recital at the Con!
Gabriella Hill - Tenor saxophone
Eric Tsai - Guitar
Henry Hall - Bass
Jack Rosenzweig - Drums
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.
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.
Artist Natasha Dubler and curator Kristy Gordon host this deeply immersive, speculative sound experience in the gallery after hours, where Natasha's Between the Turns of Tide will be performed in its complete eight-channel composition.
Following the slow listening experience, join curator and artist in conversation about resonant aspects of sound recording and sound art, deep listening with water, and slow aesthetics.
Solo exhibtion by Juke Wyat - ‘Inoculated City’.
Performance at 7:30 pm by DPRK: Richard Fielding - synth, Nick Dan - drum machine and synth, Juke Wyat- guitar
