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

Wednesday 12 June. Video, music, art exhibition Surface Noise opens at Bus Projects, Vic, at 6pm, featuring albums and audio works by Eugene Carchesio, Alex Cuffe, ∑gg√e|n, Lawrence English, HAPPY COOL, Benjamin Kolaitis, The Histrionics, and Darren Sylvester. Runs until 29 June.

Thursday 13 June. ISEA 2013 palpates the bleeding edge of performance interface research with Machrophonics II, featuring work by Wade Marynowsky, Julian Knowles and Donna Hewitt. Bon Marche Studio, 755 Harris St, Ultimo, NSW.

Friday 14 June. Ensemble Offspring bring their Listening Museum programme to the Paddington Uniting Church, NSW, at 6:30pm.

Saturday 15–Sunday 16 June. ISEA 2013 presents the Music Metacreation Weekend, exploring a range of themes around software music creation, various locations, Sydney, NSW.

Tuesday 18 June. The Australia Quartet premiere Elena Kats-Chernin’s newly-arranged Winter at the Melbourne Recital Centre at 6pm.

The Phonetic Ensemble take their provocative exploration of improvised and notated music to The Make it up Club at Bar Open, Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Vic, from 8pm. After reports of founder Jon Heilbron’s solo show at Bar 303 it ought to be a treat.

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

Wednesday 5 June: “Wind Energy,” a concert featuring new compositions by Kristofer Spike for World Environment Day. The Independent, North Sydney, 7pm. Proceeds go to the Nature Conservation Council.

Thursday 6 June: The Hobart Wind Symphony perform works by Tasmanian composers including Karlin Greenstreet Love, Russell Gilmour, Don Kay and Simon Reade. The Tasmanian Conservatorium, 7pm.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra premieres Stanhope’s piccolo concerto alongside works by Stravinsky and Copland. Hamer Hall, 6pm. Also Friday, 6pm.

Friday 7 June: Cormac McCarthy’s novels are given a musical tribute by composer Kynan Robinson at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon at 6pm.

Anthony Pateras, Natasha Anderson and Erkki Veltheim perform composed and improvised electro-acoustic music in Abstraction and Pathology at 8:30pm at the Seymour Theatre Centre, NSW, as part of Vivid’s New Wave: Sound series.

I am as curious as anyone to know What’s Hot in contemporary music. Find out from a panel of people who know at the Seymour Theatre Centre, NSW, at 6pm.

Get along to Nonsemble‘s album launch for “Practical Mechanics” at 7:30pm at The Box Art Space, QLD. Nonsemble deploy post-rock aesthetics within a contemporary classical frame.

The International Symposium on Electronic Art begins and runs until the 16th June! Many events, see here.

Saturday 8 June: A whole day of events at the Seymour Theatre Centre, NSW as part of Vivid’s New Wave: Sound series. Performers include Anthony Pateras, Natasha Anderson and Erkki Veltheim; Alicia Crossley presenting new works for bass recorder and electronics; saxophone, guitar and electronics duo Covalent; the Ampere Quartet premiering new works by Julian Day and Malin Bang; Sydney and Adelaide electronic duo Collarbones collaborating with Paris-based artist Michael Salerno; amplified string ensemble The Noise; electro-acoustic works by Daniel Blinkhorn and Julian Day’s An Infinity Room.

The Phonetic Ensemble, Melbourne’s newest New Music ensemble, perform at BUS Projects, Collingwood, VIC, 6pm.

Ensemble Offspring perform their programme of works for unique handmade instruments in Between the Keys at the Street Theatre, ACT, 7:30pm.

Tuesday 11 June: Marshall McGuire curates works by Gordon Kerry as part of ANAM’s Australian Voices series at 6pm at the South Melbourne Town Hall.

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

Saturday 1 June. The Astra Chamber Music Society present paintings and electronic works by Catherine Schieve and Warren Burt, with choral works by Ravel, Robert Carl, Will Ogdon and the rollercoaster of Dan Dediu’s Harmonic Labyrinth and Fugue. At the Meatmarket, North Melbourne, Vic, 5pm. Second show Sunday 2 June.

A programme of Western and non-Western musical and choreographic fusions in The Meander Project at South Melbourne Town Hall, Vic, 6pm. Clarinet, viola and double bass meet shamisen, balafon and classical Indian singing under the direction of ANAM fellow Linda Andonovska. Guzheng meets contemporary dance in a new piece by Mindy Meng Wang and Victoria Chiu.

Monday 3 June. Callum G’Froerer presents new and not-so-new music by Feldman, Saunders, Holz, Lachenmann, Paul and Carter. Improvisations by Callum G’Froerer, trumpet; Jon Heilbron, contrabass; Jenny Barnes, voice and Jon Smeathers, electronics. Hosted at the new warehouse space He & She & The Big Apple on the banks of Merri Creek, Northcote, Vic, 7pm.

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

Wednesday 22 May. New New Music ensemble Petrichor are performing works by Gubaidulina, Kerry, Aronowicz and Lawson tonight at Conduit Arts, Fitzroy, Vic. 8:30 start.

Thursday 23 May. Drawing on experiences in Australia, Norway and Iceland, Luke Howard presents compositions for electronics, strings, piano and guitars from his album Sun, Cloud at the Melbourne Recital Centre from 7:30pm.

Double bassist John Heilbron curates a night at Conduit Arts, Fitzroy, Vic, from 8:30pm.

Friday 24 May. Cellist Johannes Moser performs, amongst other things, the Lutoslawski Cello Concerto at ANAM, Vic, from 7pm.

Saturday 25 May. Chamber Made Opera Records releases Ida Duelund’s album of Winterreise covers at a living room in Williamstown, Victoria, at 5pm. Concert includes works for piano by Chris Dench performed by Peter de Jager. Address revealed upon booking.

The Australia Ensemble perform works by Sculthorpe, Edwards, Schultz and Munro at 7pm in the Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales. Also, a performance of a new dance collaboration between composer John Peterson and choreographer Sue Healey.

Manteia curate Conduit Arts, Fitzroy, Vic, with John Heilbron from 8pm.

Laura Altman and Monika Brooks perform experimental textures for clarinet and accordion at The Old Darlington School at the University of Sydney, Darlington Campus, from 8pm as part of the New Music Network series.

Sunday 26 May. Sydney’s Volta Collective present works by Russell Phillips, Lachlan Hughes, Martin Sheuregger and Morgan Krauss at South Melbourne Town Hall from 2pm.

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

Wednesday 15 May. Composer Leah Barclay leads a musical investigation into water security in India tonight at 6pm with The Dam(n) Project at Ian Hanger Recital Hall, Griffith Conservatorium of Music, QLD. Part of the Encounters: India series.

There will be a cross-cultural exploration of the static and shifting textures of drones at the Conservatorium Theatre, Griffith Conservatorium of Music, QLD. I love this write up on the AMC calendar: “Beginning with the oldest known drone in the world, the didgeridoo, this program is a celebration of string playing, with that prince of cellists, Rohan de Saram, presiding over a veritable palace of cellists. An Indian first half showcases music especially written for Rohan. It is balanced by an Australian second half in which the raw energy of Richard Vella is calmed by the erotic meditations of Peter Schaefer.” Part of the Encounters: India series.

Thursday 16 May. Victorian Opera’s production of one of the twentieth century’s most well-known operas Nixon in China opens tomorrow. They have put together a wonderful and informative web page for the show, which runs until 23 May.

Friday 17 May. As part of a collaboration between UTAS and Stephen F. Austin State University, Nathan Nabb and Christopher Ayer present an evening featuring pieces by UTAS composer Maria Grenfell and SFA’s Stephen Lias. 7:30pm, Hobart Conservatorium Recital Hall, TAS.

Larry Sitsky’s Peal will be performed on the National Carillon around 12pm–3pm in Canberra, ACT. The Canberra International Music Festival is offering a boat cruise with lunch but I suppose you could also just ride one of those covered bicycle carts around Lake Burley Griffin and listen out.

Saturday 18 May. ReFlux: A concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of George Maciunas’ Fluxus Manifesto featuring performance scores by George Brecht, Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, as well as new scores by Scott Comanzo (US), Cameron Kennedy, Kim Tan and Matthew Horsley. 2pm at the Rotunda, Queen Victoria Gardens, Southbank, VIC, by donation. BYO chairs, food, pets and whatever. Come prepared to perform …

The Elder Conservatorium’s music ensemble in residence Soundstream Collective will perform Australian composer Cat Hope’s new composition Stella Degradation at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, SA.

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

Thursday 9 May. Manteia will perform Simon Charles’ new work “Marionette” based on poems by Jessica Wilkinson at 8pm at Conduit Arts, Fitzroy, Vic.

Friday 10 May. Brisbane-based New Music ensemble Kupka’s Piano will perform works by contemporary Austrian and German composers as part of their “Giants Behind Us” programme at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, QLD, 7:30pm.

Saturday 11 May. Ida Duelund Hansen offers the second showing of her new works for voice and double bass as support for the Jon Crompton Collective at Conduit Arts, Fitzroy, Vic, 8:3opm.

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

Wednesday 1 May. If you have the ability to go back in time, see Clocked Out perform Erik Griswold and Eugene Gilfedder’s concert based on the life and work of Australian painter Ian Fairweather at Griffith Conservatorium, QLD, yesterday. I hope it travels (in space, if not time)!

Friday 3 May. Queen of the pianistic avant-garde Lisa Moore performs Lang, Adams, Harris, Bresnick, Mazzoli and Reich as part of her recital at ABC Studio 520, Collinswood, SA.

Sunday 5 May. Cello and piano duo Yiannis Maxwell and Krista Low perform contemporary works by Mark Isaacs and Lukas Foss at St. George’s College, WA.

Sunday 5 May. The Astra Chamber Music Society present a tribute to the Australian composer Lawrence Whiffin at the Richmond Uniting Church, VIC.

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

Thursday 25 April. Tomorrow night James Rushford and Joe Talia launch their album MANHUNTER at the Northcote Uniting Church, VIC. 8:30pm,  $7/$10. Hailed as “A tragic cliché” by Tiny Mix Tapes, the album departs from Talia and Rushford’s clipped voltas on electronics and viola to explore a more devastatingly ambient soundscape.

Friday 26 April. Adelaide’s Zephyr Quartet are in Melbourne launching their album A Rain from the Shadows at the Salon of the Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC. The album is the result of collaboration with international and Australian poets including Iraqi-Australian Yahia Al-Samaway, Mexican-American Gary Soto and Australian Rob Walker. 7pm, $25/$35.

Sunday 28 April. Warm up and wind down with soup, mulled wine, woolly blankets and a variety of musical offering at Horse and Weasle Tabernacle Eleven, 25 Eastment St, Northcote, VIC. Featuring Ida Duelund-Hansen on double bass and voice, ColdHandsWarmHeart’s processed guitar, harp, voice and percussion, Pikelet’s piano works, John Gosper and Anna Lumb’s fashion-trapeze interlude and Prudence Rees Lee in acoustic mode. 5:45pm, by donation.

See you there!