An expanded cinema/music performance as part of the exhibition ‘a bell with no tongue’ by m.h.
Performances at 3 pm on Saturday the 17th, 24th, and 31st of May.
Sat 31st - m.h. with Melanie Herbert, Laurence Quinn and David Turner
Music For Libraries is a showcase of innovative Australian ambient and experimental music.
Edition 2 features a program curated entirely by legendary sound artist, composer and label owner Lawrence English and features
Amby Downs (Naarm) Tahlia Palmer is an artist of Murri and European background born on Whudjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, WA), working in a variety of mediums to explore history, identity and perception.
Ai Yamamoto (Naarm) 's practice comes with sonic exploration and melodies. She sources sounds from her surroundings including insects, machines, animals, kitchen equipment, etc.
Vanessa Tomlinson (Meanjin) is a percussionist-composer with a long history in experimental music.
The Living Room Theatre and Dulwich Hill Relit present an evening of masterful improvisation, breathtaking composition, and sonic storytelling featuring two of the most compelling pianists in contemporary jazz and improvised music.
Alister Spence A pre-eminent force in Australian jazz, Spence’s improvisations and compositions have captivated audiences for over 30 years. His innovative approach to sound and structure has seen him collaborate with some of the world’s most respected artists across music, film, and theatre.
Monica Brooks A minimalist pianist and composer whose deeply evocative work is shaped by landscapes, love, and loss. Her music unfolds with poetic elegance, crafting soundscapes that are both fragile and powerful.
MeowMeow Casio
Withdrawe (Jasper Craig-Adams and Mitch Elliot)
Maxine Wild
EYEDOLON909
Playground with Jodie Rottle and Liz Jigalin
Free entry/donation
For kids aged 5-95 😇
Our sonic version of recess: Enjoy a seriously silly afternoon of music made with objects.
Be Prepared! The Living Room Theatre and Dulwich Hill Relit present
Sam Gill and Phillippa Murphy-Haste duo
Phillippa Murphy-Haste, clarinets/viola
Sam Gill, saxophones
Jim Denley and Peter Farrar duo
Jim Denley, alto saxophone
Peter Farrar, alto saxophone
Fate Maps
Clayton Thomas, double bass
Phillippa Murphy-Haste, viola
Freya Schack-Arnott, cello
BELIEVE
Peter Farrar, alto saxophone
Novak Manojlovic, piano
Clayton Thomas, double bass
Laurence Pike, drums
CARL DEWHURST has been a stalwart of the Sydney jazz scene for over thirty years and is considered one of Australia’s finest jazz and improvising guitarists. His latest album, Avicennia, features his trio with special guest, Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist LISA PARROTT.
CARL DEWHURST (Guitar/ Composition)
CAMERON UNDY (Bass)
ALEX INMAN HISLOP (Drums)
PLUS Special Guest LISA PARROTT (Alto Sax)
Join us at Stadium Rockdale for the 2nd event of exploratory series Rockdale Experiments!.....
Zhuyang Liu (Guzheng) Hayley Chan (Drums) Hinano Fujisaki (Tenor Saxophone)
- With a background rooted in diverse cultural and artistic fields, Zhuyang explores and fuses ethnic and contemporary soundscapes. Joined for a one-time meeting by two of Sydney’s finest.
David Turner - Guitar (solo)
Join ZÖJ at Phoenix Central Park for a 50-minute deep listening experience that invites you into a heightened state of awareness. Known for their immersive and meditative performances, ZÖJ crafts an evolving sonic landscape where the edges between sound and silence dissolve.
ZÖJ is an experimental cross-cultural music duo from Australia, consisting of Gelareh Pour on Kamancheh, Voice, and Qeychak, and Brian O’Dwyer on drumkit and percussion.
Tickets: Free, by ballot onlyJack Rosenzweig solo set @lazythinking__ !!
Triple bill w Alex Inman-Hislop @alih666 also playing solo and @zacquak @cookieforever project Mall Day do not miss it!!!!
An anonymous duo hailing from Nevada (USA), Clown Core are an experimental and mysterious cult act known for their breakneck fusion of jazz, extreme metal and absurdist mayhem. Known for their cryptic online presence, their 2008 debut ‘Surreal Cereal’ quickly established them as a band that twists experimental arrangements into their own and “defies categorisation” (New Noise Magazine).
Supported by: DJ Driver
Fabled Japanese psychedelic folk duo Tenniscoats return to Australia for the first time since 2012. With the sparsest of instrumental accompaniments, vocalist Saya and guitarist Ueno are able to mesmerise an audience and send them into a trancelike reverie.
For their only Sydney show, Tenniscoats are supported by Daily Toll, with more to be announced.
Solo exhibition of studio drawings, new site-specific sound drawings and a panoramic drawing, spanning the SLOT Window space visible from the street 24 hours a day.
Opening is on Saturday, 7 June 2025, 4-6 pm.
Gary will be sitting the space on Fridays and Saturdays, and creating sonic events each Saturday, 4-6 pm to capture the analogue sounds of the sound drawings into various modular synth assemblies to create long-form ambient undercurrents in the space.
Novak Manojlovic welcomes you to NoMansLand - a joyful celebration, a hopeless elegy, a catacomb, a dunk tank, an empty house, a bright vista, a festival of spirit, a gleaming Luna Park of the mind! A gathered mess of found things which have been pulled apart, painted over and tied together again.
Support set by Jacques Emery.
Immerse yourself in an afternoon of stunning original acoustic music and Arabic songs from local composers/musicians Antonio Aguilar, Chloé Charody, Keyna Wilkins, Pavle Cajic, Maissa Alameddine, Chloe Chung, Maxeem Georges and recently arrived Gazan refugee musician Hala Samak. 100% of proceeds from this concert will do directly to the charity Hearts For Gaza (with no middle people or admin fees), who distribute food, water and clothes and supplies around Gaza for thousands of local people amidst constant bombing and starvation: More Info on Hearts For Gaza Here.
Hinano Fujisaki (tenor saxophone): 7pm
Mike Nock (piano)/Laurence Pike (drums): 8pm
Ben Lerner Quartet; Ben Lerner (alto saxophone), Steve Barry (piano), Max Alduca (bass), Alex Young (drums): 9:15pm
Experience a night of deeply cerebral, spacey, and left-field experimental selections from: anusha, akka, D-Grade, amuwa, Jungist, and DJ Paramat.
Following The Blue Hour series — a live, ambient/experimental performance night — and The Blue Day(s), experimental music festivals, at Lazy Thinking, Unfurl Presents steps onto the dance floor with Perfect Blue.
performance experiment by the music box project & friends: elizabeth jigalin, toyah webb, joseph lisk, naomi johnson, peter leung, stephen adams, nikki heywood, mitch riley.
Hayes Street Studio presents a dynamic recital featuring co-directors flautist Rosie Gallagher and pianist Lee Dionne.
Gabriel Faure: (1898) Fantasie for flute and piano
J.S Bach Partita (1726) arranged by R.Gallagher for flute and percussion
(Australian Premiere)
Elizabeth Younan: (2019) Fantasie
Belinda Reynolds: (2003) Share for alto flute and piano
Valerie Coleman: (2018) Wish Sonatine for flute and piano
Introducing Return of Fluxus!
Opening Night 5 June: Come see the exhibition 🎨
Fluxus Workshop 8 June, 6-9pm: Create Fluxus ‘Event Scores’ with a typewriter provided, then learn how to turn these absurd instructional scores into performance art with old or new friends! (see @fluxusgram for event score examples)
CZUCHWICKI announces their first show on Gadigal Land in Sydney taking place at @lazythinking__ on Sunday June 8th with a fantastic lineup of future forward electronic artists:
@corruptedmutex
@spaceykow - Cara
@maquinaanonima
Alec Ilyine is an electro acoustic musician blending fingerpicking with field recordings and live processing on the iPad. Sweet melodies and compositions are used as frameworks for an improvisational practice, using 6- and 12-string acoustic steel string guitars, cavaquinho, charango, ud and different kinds of flutes and found objects from over the whole world.
Elizabeth Jigalin & Ellen Kirkwood Concocting curiosity and stimulating the senses, Liz and Ellen come together to present their sonic playground.
Elizabeth Jigalin (keyboards/objects/electronics)
Ellen Kirkwood (trumpet/objects)
An evening of experimental noise music featuring:
Stevie Richards (Melb) - Serge modular synth & Laura Altman - clarinet,
Lucas 'Granpa' Abela - glass/modular synth,
Chris Petro - electronics.
A force like no other, Divide & Dissolve create instrumental soundscapes designed to tackle colonialism, white supremacy and the patriarchy. Helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed expect heavy, atmospheric music that is both political and powerful. Expect crashing cymbals, crunchy feedback and stomach-flipping riffs.
Vocalists Daniel Wilfred and Sunny Kim form the heart of Hand to Earth, which has quickly developed an international reputation as one of Australia’s most distinctive contemporary music ensembles. Daniel sings in language, and is the keeper of Yolngu Manikay (songs) from North East Arnhem Land that can be traced back for over 40,000 years. Sunny sings in English and Korean intoning gestures that invoke raw elemental forces. Together they sing of the stars, of fire, and of the cooling rain against the drone of David Wilfred’s didgeridoo and atmospheres created by trumpeter and sound artist, Peter Knight, and clarinetist Aviva Endean.
Tickets: Free, by ballot onlyBELIEVE are back. Excited to be playing another two set extravaganza at Paddington Uniting Church.
Laurence Pike, drums and percussion
Novak Manojlovic, piano and percussion
Clayton Thomas, double bass and percussion
Peter Farrar, saxophone and percussion
At First Light is curated and performed by Sydney violist James Wannan.
Featuring music by Pedro Alvarez, Angus Davison, Chris Williams, Elizabeth Younan, Natalie Nicolas, Rhys Little and a world premiere commission for James by Kammerklang’s artistic director, Cameron Lam.
Out of the Shadows is curated and performed by Melbourne violist Phoebe Green.
Featuring music by Pedro Alvarez, Aditya Ryan Bhat, Christine Pan, Dominik Karski, Emily Sheppard, Flora Wong and a world premiere commission for Phoebe by Kammerklang’s artistic director, Cameron Lam.
Maissa Alameddine is an interdisciplinary artist, vocalist, songweaver, performer, and creative producer. Maissa inherited her voice from a long line of women vocalists, she uses voice as a provocation and a response. Her interpretive song and music is an attempt to honour her ancestors accessing her maqam learnings through oral traditions.
Pavle Cajic is a pianist and composer of a western classical background. Paja has also recently been curiously exploring the practices of microtonal music and venturing into the world of improvisational jazz through new found collaborations into music-making.
Third in a series of concerts at the 2MBS Founders Studio presented by the Contemporary Music Collective.
FREE! but please RSVP for numbers.
Stevie Richards (Melb) - sax, + Andrew Fedorovitch - bass + Nick Dan - drums,
Gayab (ग़ायब) - Harmonium drones given weight by percussion featuring Toto and Lauren Eiko,
Peter Farrar - submerged tiles.
Fluxus Night 15 June, 6-9pm: Come along for poetry, live jazz, performance art, and jazz combined with performance art! All set against the backdrop of the ‘Return of Fluxus’ art exhibition…
This group show is curated to showcase the work of emerging Sydney artists whose work emulates elements of the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s. The work of historical Fluxus artists centered audience interaction, critiquing the art establishment’s traditional notions of the separation between art and audience. In line with their philosophy, Avant Garden seeks to establish exhibition-events that invite the attendees to be a part of the art making process!
Eternally three years old, Boroky potters around the shallows of the collective unconscious, collecting smooth stones and shells. Join Boroky in celebrating his new single 'Remarkable', in which he exalts and explores the limits of human potential, with bandmates Ashley Stoneham on Drums and Dave Quinn on bass.
Stieble Eltron is an interstellar business magnate, famous pop star and philanthropist.
Berlin-based Melburnian Ned Collette got his start in experimental and improvised music, before gravitating increasingly towards songwriting.
Thalia Zedek’s considerable body of work demonstrates a clarity of vision, a singular performance style, and an expansive range. Thalia has long been a melodic songwriter in iconic bands like Come and Live Skull.
At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north of Louisville, Kentucky – multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwriter Ryan Davis’s Americana-noir soundwaves have been emanating for years in myriad forms.
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Hinano Fujisaki is the recipient of SIMAs inaugural Judy Bailey Emerging Composer Scholarship. In this one-off performance, she assembles a bespoke ensemble to premiere new music commissioned by SIMA and the Judy Bailey Trust alongside repertoire from her recent there is a rabbit on the moon EP.
Hinano Fujisaki - saxophone, guitar, voice, composition
Jasper Craig-Adams - guitar
Novak Manojlovic - keyboards
Jacques Emery - bass
Bonnie Stewart - drums and voice
Runa Cara
Freya Schack-Arnott - cello, nyckelharp, voice
Bonnie Stewart - guitar, banjo, percussion, voice
Enjoy the transformative sounds of French visual artist and musician Félicia Atkinson at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Atkinson, an electro-acoustic composer, creates phantasmic musical landscapes by collaging field recordings, instrumentation, snippets of essayistic language in both French and English, and her own voice.
Annika Moses - voice (Boorloo) and Uma Volkmer - trumpet
Astrid Lorange - poetry
Saskia Willinge - flute (Boorloo) and Peter Farrar - amplified submerged tiles
Australian/Finnish, Finland-based musician Simon Svoboda is an active part of the Finnish classical scene and the 'Aspen String Quartet', performs frequently with his cello duo ‘Simon and Tommi’, and is also a keen composer and arranger. In the past two years Svoboda has found inspiration to compose minimalistic music for his cello and voice. His recently released EP titled ‘Kaamos’ (the Finnish word describing the darkest period of the year where the sun seldom rises) is a 5-piece work inspired by different elements of winter in Finland.
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Tickets: Free, by ballot only𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 & 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍 𝐘𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐙 will be presenting a special duo performance of Flamenco guitar and Kurdish Flute, two distinct yet strongly rooted cultural and musical traditions.
METIN YILMAZ is a virtuoso exponent of the kaval (Ancient/traditional flute)
"DAMIAN WRIGHT is a brilliant flamenco guitarist...his articulation of complex lines was fluid and dripping with conviction" - SMH
Sydney Chamber Opera presents the world premiere of Aphrodite by US composer Nico Muhly and Australian playwright Laura Lethlean. This biting, contemporary opera channels the Aphrodite myth to ask: is our focus on beauty so preoccupying that we remove ourselves from the human connection of attraction?
Music: Nico Muhly
Libretto: Laura Lethlean
Conductor: Jack Symonds
Singers: Jessica O'Donoghue, Meechot Marrero
Instrumentalists: Omega Ensemble
A live performance of Give Water to Birds by ZÖJ is an intimate, immersive journey into the spaces between sound and silence. This is music that lingers in the air, holding its breath just long enough to draw you in. Each piece unfolds with a quiet urgency, blending improvisation with the delicacy of Persian poetry, inviting listeners into its meditative yet emotionally charged world.
Gelareh Pour - voice, kamancheh
Brian O’Dwyer - drums
Brett Langsford - guitar
Sydney. It's been too long.
Let them make it up to you with a hard hitting night on home ground at Marrickville Bowling Club, with friends The Blamers and Exit Mould.
One night only. Party Dozen in Marrickville.
Following our first interstate visit to Hobart during Dark Mofo, we are hosting a special little music party in Sydney to mark our 3rd birthday!
Bike Thief (Live) a three-piece percussive unit: music for the dancefloor, created on drums, prepared double-bass and keyboard samplers.
Morphlink A true tastemaker, Morphlink is one of the most celebrated DJs in Hobart.
salllvage (Live) (Rowan Savage) is an experimental producer and DJ working at the intersection of queer club culture and connection with Country.
Szem (Live) is the left-field electronic project of visual and sound artist Laura Hunt.
Postponez is a DJ based in Eora / Sydney, with selections that range from ambient and dub techno to Italo and space disco, euphoric house, forgotten 90s trance anthems, psychedelic and everything in between.
Sonya Holowell (voice) and Jim Denley (wind instruments) first started musicking together within Sydney's radically inclusive large scale improvising group, the Splinter Orchestra. Now they're playing at Stadium Rockdale. Sonya and Jim aren't sure what is going to happen, but both feel they become through these experiences of musicking with Country, and their dyad, their collective is deeply committed to finding new and primordial ways to join the eternally orchestrating sonoverse, and respond with musicking to Place.
An exploration of musical interplay, Waveteller plays music that draws heavily on rhythmic concepts and the elasticity of time, from fast paced energetic grooves, to open, vast melodies.
Casey Golden – Piano
Michael Mear – Bass
Ed Rodrigues – Drums
The fourth Jazz:NOW event - CHORUS - welcomes a relationship with storied alternative arts performance space Red Rattler Theatre in Marrickville. Here, we will witness two ensembles who bring an improvisatory sympathy to song structures and music that leads with the lyric.
HEAPS GRASS - Ebony Tait; keyboard and vocals, Lachlan Mills; guitar, Jack Rosenzweig; drums
BEN HAUPTMANN; THE BAND WITH SOMEONE SINGING IN IT - Ben Hauptmann; guitar, Arne Hanna; guitar/vocals, Lauren White; bass/vocals, Harry Sutherland; keys, James Hauptmann; drums
Experience Australian-based ensemble Hand to Earth as they perform new contemporary music created during the Embedded residency program.
Performing as a three piece, Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred and Peter Knight will draw on the minimalist music of Brian Eno and Jon Hassell to create a bed for contrasting voice and instrumentation.
BELIEVE are back. Excited to be playing another two set extravaganza at Paddington Uniting Church.
Laurence Pike, drums and percussion
Novak Manojlovic, piano and percussion
Clayton Thomas, double bass and percussion
Peter Farrar, saxophone and percussion
Celebrating the release of Genevieve Von Black's debut album, Ghosts Are Speaking, this is a special one night only performance exploring the concept of the DNA and the history we bring with us to places already laden with ghosts. Von Black (synth/electric piano) is combining with the improvisational talents of Joseph Cummins (Vic) on trumpet, and Natalie Ivin Poole (aka Twirling Wolf) (Vic) celebrated dancer, to projected digitally manipulated landscapes by artist Joanne Faulkner (Tas).
Part 2 of the event is Delays Have Dangerous Ends improvising an interpretation of the Ghosts Are Speaking theme and taking into dark celestial heavy ambient heights, to live projection art by screen artist Shahane Bekarian.
Eric WHITACRE Lux Aurumque
Sarah HOPKINS Past Life Melodies
Eric WHITACRE Cloudburst
Edwin LONDON Bach (Again), after ‘Come, Sweet Death’ by JS Bach
Eric WHITACRE Eternity in an Hour
Snehesh Nag is a sitar player, composer, and educator who performs Hindustani classical music and Indian-inspired cross-genre music.
He will perform for Local Edition alongside Murtaza Damoon on tabla.
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
Modern Double Bassist Elsen Price performs with Indian Classical Sitar player Rishta Dyall at one the Inner West's best secret venues - Woodlands Studio. Elsen and Rishta will be performing an array of music that crosses tradition with invention.
Support performances by Flautist/Pianist Keyna Wilkins and Classical Guitarist Peter Doublinszki.
Maquina Anonima fuse experimental electronics and the human voice, using custom built wearable sensors to control live effects during the performance. Spanish folk song and choral textures meet glitchy, morphing beats and lush, evolving harmonies to create soundworlds of earthy grit and ethereal beauty.
Jessie Newling is currently immersed in early music, electroacoustic music and the intersection of voice and electronics.
Regan Van Veen is a music technology artist working on Gadigal land.
Prepare to be drawn into "Mirage," a hallucinatory experience where the natural world's desecration unfolds through spectral sound and symbolist verse.
Performers Jack Symonds, Jane Sheldon and Blair Harris present music by Saariaho, Faure, Dusapin, Sheldon and Symonds.
Their spectral sounds creating a mesmerizing, dreamlike experience, a shimmering, unsettling illusion.
ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR Entropic Arrows (2020)
JANE SHELDON Come, dark sigh* (2024)
DAVID T. LITTLE Ghostlight (2015)
DANIELA TERRANOVA Rainbow Dust in the Sky (2018)
LISA ILLEAN Cantor (after Willa Cather) (2017)
Jack Symonds conductor, Jane Sheldon soprano, Claire Edwardes percussion, Lamorna Nightingale flutes, Jason Noble clarinet, Véronique Serret violin, Victoria Bihun violin, Henry Justo viola, Blair Harris cello, Benjamin Ward double bass, Ronan Apcar piano, Ben Carey sound, Peachey & Mosig video
Omniversal Hum presents the highly anticipated debut Australian performance from the enigmatic London based band Moin, featuring Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews of the electronic outfit Raime, alongside visionary percussionist Valentina Magaletti.
Support comes from local sound adventurists Worlds Only, Alister Hill (guitar), Darren Lesaguis (spoken word), Jenny Trinh AKA Wytchings (electronics/vocals), Justin Tam AKA Tzekin (saxophone), Reginald Harris (bass) and Thomas William Smith AKA T. Morimoto (electronics).
Ephemera: a musical exploration of celestial landscapes such as pulsars, craters, planetary atmospheres, stars, sun and void. Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical, and set to real space sounds and projections, it is a unique sonic experience. Led by Keyna Wilkins (compositions, flute, piano) with Elsen Price (double bass), Will Gilbert (trumpet) and Jodie Michael (drumset).
Gadigal (Sydney) based pianist and composer Wilbur Whitta presents a new set of improvised music for piano and organ. Inspired by the likes of Craig Taborn, Cory Smythe and Kit Downes, the will see Wilbur free-soloing between both instruments, navigating in the moment to find new paths up the mountain.
Hayes Street Studio is thrilled to present pianist and composer Joseph Havlat in a rare recital that features a newly composed works by Australian composer Lisa Illean: her piano Sonata in ten parts. Alongside this work, Joseph will perform a section from Bent Sørensen's "12 Nocturnes".
Lisa Illean: Sonata in ten parts
Bent Sørensen: 12 Nocturnes
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
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
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
The Living Room Theatre in partnership with Kawai presents:
Join us for a special celebration of one of jazz’s most iconic works—Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert—on its 50th anniversary. In this one-of-a-kind performance, celebrated Sydney-based pianist and composer Matt McMahon brings his own voice and improvisational flair to the 1975 masterpiece, offering a fresh interpretation as part of The Living Room Theatre’s 25th anniversary celebrations.
Music For Libraries is a showcase of innovative Australian ambient and experimental music.
Edition 1 ‘Threads’ features a program co-curated by Aeddan Cox, presenter of ‘Unfurl’ on FBI Radio, and Lazy Thinking. Feat.
Lisa Lerkenfeldt (Naarm) is an Australian composer and performer. Her endless piano and tape loop variations dissolve time through collages of decayed ambience, analogue manipulation and cyclic structure.
Banana (Gadigal) is M. Hopkins & Alexandra Spence, two sound artists/musicians living and working on Wangal and Gadigal land.
Luca Forcucci (Suisse) is a composer, artist and researcher, who investigates sonic perception in relation to space, memory, subjectivity and consciousness.
Friday's concert of LUSH will be postponed until further notice.
LUSH
Niki Johnson, Vibraphone
Lauren Tsamouras, Piano
Clayton Thomas, Double Bass
Two sets of new compositions and improvisations for vibrating instruments
Hubcaps & Lewis Lockwood Mosley creates a music situated somewhere between song, drone, and noise.
Hamed Sadeghi is an Iranian-born tar player and composer based on Gadigal land.
Daily Toll honour each song as its own mutable story or opportunity for experimentation, carving out a world of their own.
Photogenic is a meeting of punk descriptors from proto-to-post, where scrappy, dissonant guitars meet thuggish basslines and pogo beats.
Solo Career is a bedroom pop side hustle that has matured into home studio pop in recent years.
Elmo Aoyama is an artist curiously exploring the relationship between space, memory and time. Born in Tokyo and based in Sydney, Elmo works within the realms of music, architecture and industrial design.
Doing a special, very much live set with loop pedal/voice/instruments at Golden Age next Thursday, be there. Free!
Hearing history through new eyes. This collection of works is a multimedia synthesis of Cockatoo Island's history. Various audio processing techniques incorporate site sounds to tell the story of the site and those who inhabited it. Alison grew up on Cockatoo Island, surrounded by a working shipyard and convict heritage structures.
Alison Cole - composer, synths, theremin, keyboards, sound design, & visuals
Liv Parker - visuals & vocals
Ben Barker - vocals
Believe are one of Sydney's hardest working bands. A band dedicated to the moment, their spontaneous sets encompass the history of improvised music, digging deep into the value of sound as a tool for ecstatic experiences. Peter Farrar, saxophones / Novak Manojlovic, piano / Clayton Thomas, double bass / Laurence Pike, drums.
This will be Believe’s first performance at Sydney’s most revered venue for improvised music. Will it contain them? 2 sets of Believe, can you believe it?
Ben Lerner is an outstanding young artist who has quickly established himself as one of the emerging voices in Jazz and on the Alto Saxophone in Australia.
The Ben Lerner Quartet features Steve Barry (Piano), Max Alduca (Double Bass) and Alex Young (Drums), and performs a selection of Ben’s compositions.
Novak Manojlovic - pianist/composer/improvisor. Novak’s work describes a fascination with contrasts; new and old, acoustic and electronic, diatonic and atonal, abrasive and meditative.
SENSAROUND - ghostly dub rhythms and lo-fi experiments press up against woodwind melodies, and rhodes tones set awash in free percussion
Raymond MacDonald (Glasgow)– soprano/alto saxophone
Sia Ahmad (Canberra)– samplers and pedals
Alister Spence (Sydney)– fender rhodes electric piano, preparations, pedals
ALEXANDRA SPENCE - amplified objects, field recordings, sine waves, spoken fragments of text, acoustic instruments, and audio processing.
Our Friend's Electric' presented by REBEL YELL at Lazy Thinking will showcase loved and treasured musicians across electronic DIY Australia. Hand picked artists by REBEL YELL, all electronic and all unique in their own way.
Ela Stiles
Fatshaudi
Collector
Scraps
Del Lumanta
Close Contact (REBEL YELL x Grasps)
Kidskin
DJ REBEL YELL
Maquina Anonima fuse experimental electronics and the human voice, using custom built wearable sensors to control live effects during the performance. Spanish folk song and choral textures meet glitchy, morphing beats and lush, evolving harmonies to create soundworlds of earthy grit and ethereal beauty.
We are launching our debut EP 'Ghost' at 𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑮-𝑨-𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑺 𝑩𝑨𝑹 on Oxford Street. Free admission, live set, rooftop bar, bring your friends!
Jessie Newling is currently immersed in early music, electroacoustic music and the intersection of voice and electronics.
Regan Van Veen is a music technology artist working on Gadigal land.
The Living Room Theatre and Dulwich Hill Relit present
Hill/Tucker/Undy
Gabriella Hill, tenor saxophone
Cameron Undy, bass guitar
Alex Tucker, drums
Aidan Wong Trio+
Alex Tucker, drumset+
Daniel Raymond, drumset+
Aidan Wong, tenor saxophone
David Turner, guitar
SIRC_UIT presents
FEI GAO
MX ROBERT FROST
SKYE GELLMANN
The best of Sydney's Performance Improvisers in a night of solos.
Johanna deRuyter
Nikki Heywood
Liz Jigalin
Glenda Goldberg
Tony Osborne
100clicksWest is both proud and honoured to bring two of Australia’s most innovative improvising performers together for the first time, in a combined live set featuring the sounds of voice and flutes.
Sonya Holowell is a Dharawal and Inuk vocalist, composer, writer and researcher. Her work spans many contexts and forms, with improvisation as a primary mode towards emancipatory aims.
Jim Denley has worked extensively as an improviser internationally and in Australia since the 1980s. His work reflects a deep engagement with landscape and nature.
Official relaunch show of Lazy Thinking Records, the new record label run out of and by the same wondrous folk behind award winning Dulwich Hill music venue Lazy Thinking. Featuring a slew of artists the label will be working with, as well as a good sprinkling of the venue’s faves.
Hubcaps, Wytchings, Olivia’s World, Ligature, Sadie, BARBARA, aplacewithoutsound, Weyon, Obelisk
An expanded cinema/music performance as part of the exhibition ‘a bell with no tongue’ by m.h.
Performances at 3 pm on Saturday the 17th, 24th, and 31st of May.
Sat 24th - m.h. with Anthony Guerra and Mary MacDougall
Other performances:
Sat 31st - m.h. with Melanie Herbert, Laurence Quinn and David Turner
Goldies at 7PM | The Scout Hall 7:30PM
This event features a vignette from OSTINATO, a new solo work with chamber ensemble that explores how we listen to violence — not just with our ears, but with our bodies. OSTINATO confronts the limits of language and the systems that keep women silent, using sound and performance to evoke what words cannot say.
Featuring: Michelle St Anne and Laura Altman, Jim Denley, Alex Tucker, Daniel Raymond.
Birthed from two university friends and a humble Cafe residency off of Oxford St in Oct 2021, Manfredo Lament is the fully improvised music group led by Kurt Lam on synth and keys, and Gabriel Haslam on drums. Watch them reimagine their upcoming release 'Brother Beautiful / Eyes!' live on stage at Waywards on the 23rd of May. Reflecting the sounds of this release, expect a wide range of musical experiences from spiritual jazz to industrial synth-driven punk chaos.
5oLo5 is a series of monthly contemporary music presentations that brings together five preeminent performers to present short solo works and to present a longer work as a quintet. Carefully curated by Trevor Brown 5oLo5 examines the very personal elements of practice and the nature of collaboration and cooperation.
Hayley Chan - drums
Gary Daley - piano / accordion
Ellen Kirkwood - trumpet
Freya Shack-Arnott - cello
Trevor Brown - reeds / flute
This concert is presented by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Percussion Department, and features works for solo marimba, performed by current percussion students.
Program to be announced at the performance alongside a World Premiere performance of a new marimba ensemble work by Ella Tomkins.
At the end of 1996 I was 27 yrs old. I recorded my first album while studying jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. I improvised a series of contrafacts - which are original melodies played on the chord changes of standard jazz tunes.
27 years later in 2023 I recorded the same tunes with the same bass player - my dear friend Mark Lau - and another dear friend on drums - Dave Goodman - to capture how my skills of melodic invention had developed.
saxophone - spike mason
double bass - steve elphick
drums - dave goodman
Sydney's premier underground live musical offering NAG NAG NAG returns in 2025 for it's 10th anniversary! Held on Gadigal Land in Marrickville since 2015, the beloved festival brings together the finest artists in unconventional Australian music, from punk to electronic and everything in between.
ELA STILES (VIC)
LORRY
WARM CURRENCY
WILD DESIRE
Last show of Bonniesongs residency at @lazythinking__ !!
Bonniesongs
Hubcaps
Dismal Co (Romy Caen & Peter Farrar)
Join Seaworthy and Matt Rösner for a performance of their recent album at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Seaworthy is the conduit for Sydney-based instrumentalist and sound artist Cameron Webb. Matt Rösner is a sound artist from regional Western Australia who works with various acoustic instruments, custom-built software patches and detailed field-recording studies.
Free, bookings required
Dr. Lu LIU and Dr. Evgeny SORKIN
Focusing on the contrasting yet complementary timbres and techniques of the pipa and violin, we investigate how their interaction transcends their distinct performance techniques, enabling new forms of musical expression.
We propose that pipa and violin collaborations not only expand the horizons of performance practice but also reshape the ways we conceptualise inter-cultural dialogue in contemporary music-making!
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
Ravi Tratchenberg-Ray (piano) & Aidan Wong (tenor saxophone) have spent the last two months sculpting a new language—not with words, but with sound. Their latest improvised work is built on evolving structures and sonic platforms that serve as launching pads for deeply personal expression.
Reunited in 2025 after a hiatus of eight years, Pratt McMahon Hirst & Gander will be playing music from their recently released recording ‘aswirl'. These highly regarded improvisors are also composers and this project features compositions from all of them. Daryl Pratt – Vibes, Matt McMahon – Piano, Brett Hirst – Bass, Andrew Gander – Drums
