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    Anusha Yellapragada: snapshots ep launch (part 2/2)

    Monash University Music Auditorium 55 Scenic Blvd, Clayton, VIC, Australia
    Snapshots EP will feature 4 works composed by Anusha Yellapragada and performed by Ellipsis Trio, WHACKollective ft Grace James, Noctis Trio, and Thong Truong. These pieces invite listeners to reflect on various mundane moments such as enjoying innocent privileges during the summer school break as a child. This music aims…
    Editor's Choice O,D,E

    Tone List: O,D,E

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    If you’re after something different, Sage J Harlow’s experimental chamber opera might be just the ticket. A queer, occult retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story, it explores gender and identity with characters exchanging bodies and entering into contracts with eternity. The marketing copy advertises an “ensemble of noisemakers” who “fuse…

    University of Queensland: Earth Works

    University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD, Australia
    A collective evocation of the air, the very foundation of the pipe organ – Robert Curgenven's Earth Works offers a liberation and extension of the pipe organ’s possibilities. This is whole body listening – an absorbing experience of sound’s tactility and intimacy – from breath-like gestures through to a tectonic, architectural summoning. Curgenven will…
    A Book of Hours

    Rubiks Collective: A Book of Hours

    The Engine Room 58 View St,, Bendigo, VIC, Australia
    A Book of Hours is a meditation on the mystery of time: a live performance combining stop-motion animation, screen dance projections and a quirky live musical score from an ensemble of choreographed musicians. With a quartet for toothbrushes, vegetables swirling in stop-motion and wind-up toys whirring across the stage, this…
    Editor's Choice O,D,E

    Tone List: O,D,E

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    If you’re after something different, Sage J Harlow’s experimental chamber opera might be just the ticket. A queer, occult retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story, it explores gender and identity with characters exchanging bodies and entering into contracts with eternity. The marketing copy advertises an “ensemble of noisemakers” who “fuse…
    Editor's Choice O,D,E

    Tone List: O,D,E

    The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
    If you’re after something different, Sage J Harlow’s experimental chamber opera might be just the ticket. A queer, occult retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story, it explores gender and identity with characters exchanging bodies and entering into contracts with eternity. The marketing copy advertises an “ensemble of noisemakers” who “fuse…

    Topology: 100 Guitars: Instruments of Happiness

    Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
    This isn’t just a concert — it’s a powerful, site-specific performance featuring 100 electric guitarists from communities across the city, uniting to create an unforgettable surround-sound spectacle. Founded by renowned Canadian composer and guitarist Tim Brady in 2015, 100 Guitars has wowed audiences at major festivals across Canada in unexpected…

    Vicki Hallett: Live at Tantanoola Cave with Vicki Hallett

    Tantanoola Cave Princes Highway, Tantanoola, South Australia, Australia
    A Sonic Journey within the Earth in an extraordinary underground concert. Step inside the Earth and open your ears to a world of sonic wonder. Renowned sound artist, acoustic ecologist and field recordist Vicki Hallett invites you to a once-in-a-lifetime live performance inside the breathtaking Tantanoola Cave. In this unique…
    Steven Schick Residency

    Australian National Academy of Music: Steven Schick Residency 1: Thought

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Evolving musicians of all ages are asking themselves how the music they make might engage with, inform, and respond to the lives they live. Or perhaps it’s the other way around: how does life respond to music? In his essay, The Externally Facing Artist, percussionist, conductor and author Steven Schick…
    Steven Schick Residency

    Australian National Academy of Music: Steven Schick Residency 2: Touch

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Evolving musicians of all ages are asking themselves how the music they make might engage with, inform and respond to the lives they live. Or perhaps it’s the other way around: how does life respond to music? In his essay, The Externally Facing Artist, percussionist, conductor and author Steven Schick proposes three important…

    Junction Arts Festival: MZAZA: The Birth and Death of Stars

    City Baptist Chuch, Launceston 11 Frederick St, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    ‘The Birth and Death of Stars’ is a dazzling fusion of world music and theatre featuring stunning multilingual vocals, rare instruments played by world-class musicians, and unique visuals. Drawing inspiration from history’s philosophers and astronomers, the show leads us on a surreal voyage through the ether to explore what links…
    Steven Schick Residency

    Australian National Academy of Music: Steven Schick Residency 3: Life

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Evolving musicians of all ages are asking themselves how the music they make might engage with, inform and respond to the lives they live. Or perhaps it’s the other way around: how does life respond to music? In his essay, The Externally Facing Artist, percussionist, conductor and author Steven Schick proposes three important…

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