New Waves Podcast

Michael Kieran Harvey performs new works in concert from Hobart’s MONA 

Shape-shifting voices in the 2018 Resonant Bodies Festival

Expansive listening from two intimate voice and instrument duos – life partners Deborah Kayser and Nick Tsiavos, and Sonya Holowell and her father Jonathan.

Five new Australian works for saxophone, presented by composer-saxophonist Katia Beaugeais.

From an audience choir, to the sound-world of a country waterhole, to the digital cutting and fusing of sound, three Australian women composers make their mark.

Five indigenous composers challenge assumptions about what indigenous music sounds like, shaping new western classical musics to tell their own stories.

Improvising violinist Jon Rose and three classically-trained string players make music and reflect on the interplay between their classical and improvising experience.

The Piano Mill won the Culture category at the recent World Architecture Festival awards in Amsterdam. This is the story of a musical building, and the architect, composer, and collaborating musicians who brought it to life.

A collision of improvisation, song, and classical training in this collaborative concert, headlined by the Letter String Quartet.

Composers Alice Humphries and Tom Henry talk about the inspiration behinds their works, commissioned through this special project presented by Macedon Music.

New works by emerging composers Olivia Davies, Carmen Chan Schoenborn and Rachel Bruerville.

New music for Ensemble Offspring by Fiona Hill, Andrea Keller and Thomas Meadowcroft.

New music from Kupka's associate artists, Samantha Wolf and Jakob Bragg, flutist Hannah Reardon-Smith, and contemporaries Lisa Illean and Samuel Smith.

The Australian Art Orchestra premieres new works by Peter Knight, Tilman Robinson and Andrea Keller responding to the centenary of the end of World War I.

Introducing a dynamic new ensemble from Melbourne with music by contemporaries Samantha Wolf, Samuel Smith, Holly Harrison and Rubiks keyboardist Jacob Abela.

The final instalment from BIFEM 2018 features richly-textured string quartets by Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Dobromila Jaskot and more.

Listening in on an experimental music workshop and cushion concert for young children.

Ten third year composers from Melbourne's Monash University see their works premiered by percussion trio Line Upon Line.

New music for ondes martenot, midi controller, piano and electronics.

Natasha Anderson's new immersive work for electronics and baroque violinist Lizzy Welsh premieres at the festival.