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The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio)

OzAsia Festival: The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio)

Nexus Arts Lion Arts Centre, 68 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Live cello, electronics and sounds of the Bornean Forest meet storytelling and hip hop in The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio). A nameless water spirit on an endless plastic ocean searches for lost memories and ultimately, humanity. Exploring family, ecological collapse, and Southeast Asian colonial history, The Offering is a…

Decibel New Music Ensemble: Inland Lake

The Rechabite Cnr Lake Street & William Street, Perth, WA, Australia
Decibel New Music ensemble returns to Perth to perform Inland Lake (le lac intérieur) – a 45-minute electroacoustic work composed in 2022 by French Composer Lionel Marchetti. The piece is written for ensemble and partition concrète – a fixed media component that acts simultaneously as score, ensemble member and sound…
Opera for the Dead

OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…
The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio)

OzAsia Festival: The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio)

Nexus Arts Lion Arts Centre, 68 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Live cello, electronics and sounds of the Bornean Forest meet storytelling and hip hop in The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio). A nameless water spirit on an endless plastic ocean searches for lost memories and ultimately, humanity. Exploring family, ecological collapse, and Southeast Asian colonial history, The Offering is a…

Ensemble Offspring: Songbirds

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
Songbirds celebrates the breathtaking virtuosity of Australian birdsong with an array of original Australian chamber works commissioned by Ensemble Offspring. Be transported into the Australian bush by the familiar sounds of nature’s own musicians, with a little help from Australia’s leading composers. After devoting her life to documenting pied butcherbird…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Sonorous XII – Rohan Rebeiro & Prudence Rees-Lee

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
A liberation of sonics from the shackles of stereo, Sonorous welcomes audiences to go beyond a traditional listening experience into an expanded sonic universe. Marking the twelfth edition of its Sonorous series, Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) invites sound artists Prudence Rees-Lee and Rohan Rebeiro (My Disco) to engage with…

Brisbane Music Festival: For Philip Guston

FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
Brisbane's contemporary music collective Ways by Ways present a rare performance of Feldman's hypnotic, long-form masterwork For Philip Guston. Tim Munro | Flute Rebecca Lloyd-Jones | Percussion Alex Raineri | Piano & Celesta

Ensemble Offspring: Future Classics

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
This Sydney Opera House showcase celebrates the best of a new generation of musical creators, nurtured within Ensemble Offspring’s acclaimed Hatched Academy program of composer intensives and artist mentorship. Discover the Future Classics of new Australian art music in a program featuring exciting young pianist Ronan Apcar, our 2025 Hatched…

Brisbane Music Festival: Corporel

FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
Expanding on the diversity of his creative practice, Alex Raineri moves beyond being a 'piano player'. Featured works expand the notion of 'instrument' to the voice, body and non-musical objects by incorporating; spoken word, song, body-percussion, water, whistles, a sandwich, and more. Yoko Ono | Lighting Piece Chappell Roan (arr.…

Inspiritus: Odyssey Eternal Album Launch

Church Street Studios, Camperdown 62-68 Church St,, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Inspiritus - meaning “to breathe in" explores the world of free improvisation under the guidance of directed imagination, by taking live inspiration from various images that both they and the audience are exposed to of the natural world, making each performance unique and exciting, as both musicians and audience are…

Phoenix Central Park: Samantha Wolf x Alex Raineri

Phoenix Central Park NSW
Composer Samantha Wolf and pianist Alex Raineri present an immersive, evening-length show for piano and live electronics. Featuring new, existing, and revised works from their 15-year collaborative history, this concert experience sees the roles of composer and performer intertwine and blur. The show culminates in the premiere of “Professor Good…

Tempo Rubato: Professor Good Trip

Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
Featuring existing works and a major new World Premiere, 'Professor Good Trip’ is a new collaborative project featuring pianist Alex Raineri with compositions and live electronics by Samantha Wolf. Wolf’s music has been extensively performed throughout Australia, Europe, UK, New Zealand, and the USA (where she is currently on the…

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