Welcome to the Australian Art Music playlist! A monthly playlist of classical, jazz, experimental and electronic music focused on contemporary Australian composers, musicians and sound artists.

The mesmerising beauty of a kaleidoscope comes from multiple reflections and ever-changing arrangements of translucent coloured glass, creating endless permutations of pattern, colour and texture. 

This month’s playlist takes this as a metaphor as we explore music that takes voices, instruments and other source sounds as a centrepiece to be reflected on, permuted, and expanded into an endless array of musical colour. It is a celebration of the wealth and diversity of style our artists have under the broad umbrella of art music, and its associated genres of Classical, Jazz, Sound Art, and Improvised and Experimental Music. I hope you find pieces that challenge you, inspire you, and comfort you in the list.

If you’re wanting more music to explore I would, as always, recommend the Australian Art Music Archive, with all previously featured tracks (now just over 1,300!) and our new community listening project: 1,000 Curious Ears – the February edition of...