A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Thursday 15 August. The Totally Huge New Music Festival continues with the Percussion and Live Electronics concert at Hackett Hall at the West Australian Museum from 8pm. Masonik and Té perform at the festival club, The Bakery, from 10pm.

The Australian Art Orchestra present the second concert of their ElectroACOUSTIC AcousticELECTRO residency at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Vic, from 8:30pm. As part of the first Bennetts Lane residency under artistic director Peter Knight, the concert will feature an eclectic quintet drawn from improvisers from around Australia.

Five composers (Michael Bakrncev, Tilman Robinson, Lisa Illean, Anni Hui-Hsin Hsieh and Travis John respond to five spaces at the Melbourne Arts Centre with five-minute compositions in 5x5x5. Bring your headphones and smartphone and see the front desk for a map. Runs during opening hours until 18 August.

Friday 16 August. The International Computer Music Conference finale features WA’s new music ensemble Decibel and David Toop from 8pm at Hackett Hall, the West Australian Museum.

Saturday 17 August. The THNMF continues in Fremantle with Alvin Curran’s Maritime Rites at B Shed, Victoria Quay, at 3pm, then A Sonic Celebration with David Toop, Haco, Clocked out and Catherine Schieve at PSAS from 8pm. Back in Perth, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra perform their second Latitudes concert at 8pm, featuring works by Skipworth, Anderson, Muhly, Grime and Adès.

Students from the Queensland Conservatorium perform new works by Robert Davidson, Andrew Ford and Nicole Murphy alongside Takemitsu, von Bingen and Gabrieli at St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, 8pm.

The Griffyn Ensemble perform earth-inspired music by Griffyn director Michael Sollis, Martin Wesley Smith, Cold Chisel, Juan Orrego-Salas, Ursula Mamlok, Henrik Strindberg, Jenny Hettne and Frederik Högberg. CSIRO Discovery Centre, Canberra, 7pm.

The Monash Art Ensemble perform works by George Lewis and Mary Finsterer at Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 7:30pm.

Sunday 18 August. Check out Alvin Curran’s BEAMS with massed ensemble at B Shed, Victoria Quay, Fremantle, from 3pm, as part of the THNMF.

Dale Hubbard‘s new CD/DVD A Sea of Faces will be launched in a concert setting at The Old Museum, Brisbane, at 7pm.

Tuesday 20 August. New works by Johanna Selleck will be performed by an all-star cast at the Melbourne Recital Centre from 6pm.

A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Thursday 8 August. Five composers (Michael Bakrncev, Tilman Robinson, Lisa Illean, Anni Hui-Hsin Hsieh and Travis John respond to five spaces at the Melbourne Arts Centre with five-minute compositions in 5x5x5. Bring your headphones and smartphone and see the front desk for a map. Runs during opening hours until 18 August.

The Tura Totally Huge New Music Festival (THNMF) launches at the Perth Museum, WA, at 6pm.

Friday 9 August. THNMF events include Haco and Barn Owl at The Bakery for the festival opening concert at 8pm.

Chronology Arts presents Vitality, a series of three collaborations between composers and choreographers at the Seymour Centre, NSW, at 7pm on 8, 9 and 10 August.

The Australian Art Orchestra present the second concert of their ElectroACOUSTIC AcousticELECTRO residency at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Vic, from 8:30pm. As part of the first Bennetts Lane residency under artistic director Peter Knight, the concert will feature an eclectic quintet drawn from improvisers from around Australia.

Italian pianist Antonietta Loffredo performs music for piano and toy piano about Antarctica composed by composers Paolo Longo, Gian Paolo Luppi, Stefano Procaccioli, Francesco Schweizer and Antonio Giacometti (Italy); Paul Smith, Diana Blom and Nathan Wilson (Australia); Chris Adams (New Zealand); Mercedes Zavala (Spain) and Sara Carvalho (Portugal) at Theme & Variations Showroom, Willoughby, NSW, from 6:30pm.

The Griffyn Ensemble perform earth-inspired music by Griffyn director Michael Sollis, Martin Wesley Smith, Cold Chisel, Juan Orrego-Salas, Ursula Mamlok, Henrik Strindberg, Jenny Hettne and Frederik Högberg. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, VIC, 7:30pm. Repeat performance at the Discovery Science and Technology Centre, Bendigo, VIC, on Saturday 10 August at 4:30pm.

Saturday 10 August. THNMF events include Speak Percussion and Robin Fox performing the new work Transducer and Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I at the WA Museum, 8pm.

Duo Deconet premiere new music from Latin American and Australian composers including Miguel Bernal Jimenez, Alejandro Corona, Carlos Salomon, Paul Dessene, Eddie Mora, Daniel Rojas, Margaret Brandman and Elena Kats-Chernin at Mosman Art Gallery and Community Centre, NSW, 6:30pm.

Sunday 11 August. THNMF events include Michael Kieran Harvey’s Psychosonata programme, the International Computer Music Conference keynote concert featuring Alvin Curran, Agostino Di Scipio, Warren Burt and Haco, and Club Huge featuring H+ and Chris Arnold.

Ali Fyffe and Matt Hinchliffe present The Modern Day Saxophone featuring works by Fuminori Tanada. JacobTV, Louis Andriessen, Giacinto Scelsi and Bruno Mantovani at The Gryphon Gallery at The University of Melbourne, 3pm. The concert will also be streamed live at http://www.themoderndaysaxophone.com.au

Topology perform Ten Hands, a continuous, one-hour work at Chapel off Chapel, Prahran, VIC, at 6:30pm.

Monday 12 August. THNMF events include Michael Kieran Harvey’s Piano and Live Electronics programme, the Perth Laptop Orchestra’s Guitar and Live Electronics performance and Club Huge featuring l.n0JaQ and Andrew Nonlinearcircuits.

Benjamin Martin performs Keith Humble’s Piano Sonata, amongst other works, at the Melbourne Recital Centre at 6pm.

Walter Billeter and I recently wrote on our experiences on either side of Warren Burt and Catherine Schieve’s recent Lights of Marfa. Read about it over at Warren Burt’s website.

A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Thursday 1 August. The Australian Art Orchestra present the first concert of their ElectroACOUSTIC AcousticELECTRO residency at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Vic, from 8:30pm. As part of the first Bennetts Lane residency under artistic director Peter Knight, the concert will feature an eclectic quintet drawn from improvisers from around Australia.

Cycle~440 continue their recent spate of semi-improvised post-jazz-rock concerts with a gig at the Sound Lounge at the Seymour Centre, NSW, from 7pm.

Friday 2 August. Siegmund Watty and Tara Venditti perform the world premières of Thomas Reiner’s Dust and Paul Moulatlet’s Momentary Pleasures amongst a programme of Beethoven, Scriabin, Schoenberg and Hakenberg at the Richmond Uniting Church, Vic, at 8pm.

Saturday 3 August. The Composer, Performer, Improvisation concert features new works by Katia Beaugeais and Ursula Caporali at Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium, from 7pm.

Sunday 4 August. Song Company present their “Old Songs, New Songs, Shared Songs” programme featuring works by Wesley-Smith, Ford and Britten at   the Italian Forum Cultural Centre, NSW at 2pm.

A meandering survey Australian chamber music by Oz Chamber featuring works by Glanville-Hicks, Kats-Chernin, Hyde, Sculthorpe, Hill and Grainger. Woollahra Council Chambers, NSW, 5–7pm.

Tuesday 6 August. David Chisholm’s The Bloody Chamber based on the novel by Angela Carter opens at The Malthouse, Vic!

A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Thursday 25 July. Clarinettist Aviva Endean brings her one-on-one Intimate Sound Immersion to Melbourne after touring to Amsterdam and Berlin. Runs Thursday 25–Sunday 28 July at Dane Certificate’s Magic Theatre. Book quickly as only nine spots were left this morning.

Friday 26 July. Simone Young conducts the Australian Première of Brett Dean’s new cantata The Last Days of Socrates. Also, Mahler’s Symphony no. 5. Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Vic, 8pm. Repeat performances at Hamer Hall, Vic, Saturday 27 and Monday 29 July.

At Conduit Arts in Fitzroy, Vic, Maka Khan perform on guitar, sax and drums with guest electronic artist Mitchell Mollison from 8:30pm. Sam Gillies and Kevin Penkin from Perth perform from 9:45 as Cycle~440, performing a semi-improvised set drawing on anime and game soundtracks, noise, acoustic piano and laptop sampling.

Saturday 27 July. The Queensland Symphony Orchestra present a new work by Australian composer Matthew Dewey at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Southbank.

Sunday 28 July. I don’t know what this is exactly, but it sounds great. The Virginia Chadwick Memorial Reef talk combines presentations of the latest research in tropical and marine sciences with music by Schubert, Rachmaninoff and Ledger. How could you not?

Ida Duelund-Hansen performs a farewell concert with James Rushford, Alexander Garsden, Judith Hamann, Elizabeth Welsh, Huw Murdoch and Rohan Drape, then Peter de Jager performs solo harpsichord works by Byrd and Dowland at the Horse and Weasel Tabernacle, Northcote, Vic, from 5pm.  Entry and soup by donation.

A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Thursday 18 July. Brisbane’s new music ensemble Topology perform with the Brodsky Quartet at the Brisbane Powerhouse at 7pm. The programme includes an arrangement of Elvis Costello’s ballet “Il Sogno,” Robert Davidson’s “Three Men & A Blonde” and Andrew Ford’s String Quartet no. 3, commissioned by the Brodsky Quartet.

Friday 19 July. Adelaide’s contemporary music ensemble Soundstream welcome renowned violist and conductor Brett Dean to perform works by Ledger, Dean, Pateras and Meale at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, 7:30pm.

Pianist Michael Kieran Harvey performs at Carriageworks, NSW, at 8pm.

Saturday 20 July. Directly or Indirectly is a night of improvised music curated by Callum G’Froerer, the mastermind behind a series of recent ANAM Fellowship concerts reviewed here. Saturday night’s concert at Conduit Arts, 8:30pm, features diverse solo sets from Dave Brown, James McClean, Joe Talia and G’Froerer.

Sunday 21 July. The Melbourne Composer’s League present Elbow Room 20-13 at the Wesley Anne, Northcote, Vic, from 3pm.

Tuesday 23 July. Adelaide’s contemporary music ensemble Soundstream welcome renowned violist and conductor Brett Dean to perform works by Ledger, Dean Pateras and Meale at the Melbourne Recital Centre, 7pm.

A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Thursday 11 July. Gian Slater and the Invenio Singers perform Clarion/Whisper and Luminesce at Guild Hall, The University of Melbourne, at 7:30pm. Luminesce is a collaboration with video artist Robert Jarvis using voices as triggers for lighting events and is in part composed through Jarvis’ Voxstripe software. Second show Friday 12 July, 7:30pm.

Friday 12 July. Saxophonist Emma Di Marco performs four world premieres for solo saxophone by the Australian composers Michael Bakrnčev, Samantha Wolf, Christopher Healey and Paul Ballam-Cross. Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 3pm.

Syzygy Ensemble perform works by Adès, Mantovani, Saariaho, Whiteoak and Murail as part of DeClassified Music‘s Long Weekender at 7pm, Fireworks Gallery, 52a Doggett st, Newstead, Queensland, Australia 4006.

The Queensland Symphony Orchestra presents an international programme of works featuring solo flute and trombone including Lovelock, Vine and Hindemith. 7pm, QSO Studio, Southbank, Brisbane.

Saturday 13 July. Michael Fulcher and the Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne perform works by Gabriel Jackson and Eric Whitacre at 6pm, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane.

In the Artology Remix 20 teenage artists work with Cathy Milliken, former head of education at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, to reinterpret Picasso’s masterpiece Les demoiselles d’Avignon in visual art, music, literature, film and choreography. 6:30pm at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The Forest Collective present Shared Lines at the Rosina Auditorium, Abbotsford Convent, Vic, from 7:30pm Saturday 13 July, then 9:30pm Saturday 13 July and 5pm Sunday 14 July. Part installation, part theatre and part New Music, the show promises to be another immersive Forest Collective experience.

Sunday 14 July. Composer Damian Barbeler continues his reinterpretation of sacred hymns sung by six singers from across the Torres Strait, or Ailan Kores. The Torres Strait’s linguistic and cultural distinctiveness is explored through songs from the Eastern, Central and Western language groups at 9:30am, St Andrew’s Uniting Church, Brisbane.

Ensemble Offspring present Sizzle, an afternoon of genre-defying music and beer curated by Bree van Reyk at the Petersham Bowling Club, NSW, at 3pm.

Tuesday 16 July. An all-star ensemble consisting of Peter Knight, Joe Talia, Brett Thompson and Matthias Schack-Arnott share a night with none other than Jon Rose at the Make it up Club at Bar Open, Fitzroy, Vic. 9pm.

A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Thursday 4 July. The interabilities sound art organisation The Click Clack Project presents The NIS at the Footscray Community Arts Centre, Vic, in collaboration with the Amplified Elephants and the BOLT Ensemble at 8:15pm. Performances also on Friday 5 July at 1pm and Saturday 6 July at 8:15pm.

Improviser and composer Sam McAuliffe curates a night at Conduit Arts, Vic, from  8:30pm.

Friday 5 July. Decibel performs works by West-Australian composers Stuart James, Christopher Tonkin, Rachael Dease, Sam Gillies, Johannes Leubbers, Henry Anderson, Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery in two concerts as part of their residency at PICA, WA, 6:30pm. Second concert on Saturday 6 July.

Saturday 6 July. Soprano Ellen Winhall performs Australian premieres for solo voice at the Richmond Uniting Church, Vic, at 8pm, including works by David Lumsdaine, Giacinto Scelsi, Christopher Fox, James Weeks, Jo Kondo and Brian Elias.

Sunday 7 July. The Song Company premiere the satirical cantata Howls of the House in collaboration with Oriana Chorale, con voci, University of Newcastle Chamber Choir and Leichhardt Espresso Chorus at Llewellyn Hall, The ANU School of Music, ACT, at 4pm.

A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Wednesday 26 June. Tonight RoBA perform their last show before the group disperses to different corners of the globe. If you have not heard RoBA’s eclectic and energetic art music/jazz comprovisations, then get along to LongPlay, 318 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North, Vic at 7:30pm.

Friday 28 June. The Song Company perform works by Britten, Ford and Wesley-Smith at Wollongong Town Hall, NSW, 7:30pm.

Saturday 19 June. Gentleness-Suddenness, even the titles sounds great. Hear Lotte Latukefu (mezzo-soprano), James Cuddeford (violin), Claire Edwardes (percussion) and Michael Kieran Harvey (piano) perform contemporary works based on draws on traditional Chinese opera and Australian contemporary music at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW, at 8pm.

A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Thursday 20 June. The Stanhope piccolo concerto gets its second outing with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, 6:30pm at the Adelaide Town Hall.

Friday 21 June. An Improvised Sound Project launches at PICA, Perth, WA, at 6pm. The exhibition features work by Australian sound artists Lyndon Blue, Lauren Brown, Matthew Gingold, Cat Hope and Kynan Tan.

Saturday 22 June. Claire Edwardes performs the world première of the Daniel Rojas chamber concerto for marimba and orchestra at the Independent Theatre with The Metropolitan Orchestra. Also, Sunday 23 June at the Balmain Town Hall.