Welcome to this year’s edition of the Guide to Australian Art Music! A celebration of the depth and breadth of our community and its creations, and an invitation to listen with curious ears and vote for your favourites.

When talking about the arts, we often refer to ecologies or ecosystems: networks of plants, animals and fungi that depend on each other to survive. I like to look at this project as an invitation to go walking through that nature. Much like our natural world, there are different habitats to explore and a wide variety of choices being made, leading to different but equally incredible music.

I’m proud to say we’ve expanded the Guide to feature more than 700 composers, improvisers and sound artists this year. Each was...