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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…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Not Drowning, Waving + George Telek – TABARAN

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Fascinated by the expressive rhythms of Papuan music and its post-colonial western influences, the David Bridie-fronted band Not Drowning, Waving visited Papua New Guinea throughout the late 80s. Eventually recording TABARAN in the port town Rabaul with local artists, the album innovatively melded Not Drowning, Waving’s avant-garde soundscape with the harmonies, melodies and…

Smith’s Alternative: Darcy Gilkerson

Smith's Alternative 76 Aliinga Street, Canberra, ACT
Exciting new talent, cellist and composer Darcy Gilkerson, is playing at Smith’s for one night only. Darcy is launching his recently released debut album ‘Acteon’ touring with his band up the East Coast from Melbourne. The album is the culmination of a long period of experimentation and exploration in coupling…

Rubiks Collective: The Big Idea

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
What if one idea changed everything? Journey through the sound of inspiration striking as Melbourne’s Rubiks Collective celebrates its 10th anniversary with a world premiere of The Big Idea – a genre-defying monodrama from Australian composer Matthew Shlomowitz and writer Vid Simoniti. At the heart of the piece is a single character on the brink – a…
Moonstruck

Ensemble Offspring: Moonstruck

The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Moonstruck looks to the origins of our ensemble and imagines the future. The starting point is Arnold Schoenberg’s revolutionary classic from 1912, Pierrot lunaire – still radical to the ear as it straddles the border between cabaret and concert, acting and singing. And we’re pitting it against a long form…
Moonstruck

Ensemble Offspring: Moonstruck

Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC
Moonstruck looks to the origins of our ensemble and imagines the future. The starting point is Arnold Schoenberg’s revolutionary classic from 1912, Pierrot lunaire – still radical to the ear as it straddles the border between cabaret and concert, acting and singing. And we’re pitting it against a long form…

Long Listen: Migrating Bird

Palmwoods Memorial Hall 1 Main Street, Palmwoods, QLD, Australia
Long Listen Festival 2025 opens with an evocative and immersive concert experience, Migrating Bird, led by acclaimed violinist and singer-songwriter Véronique Serret (Sydney). Known for her fearless blend of classical, contemporary, and experimental sounds, Serret takes audiences on a journey into the heart of the natural world through music that…

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