New Waves Podcast

Composer Liza Lim and artistic director Daryl Buckley in conversation with Stephen Adams about 3 decades of Elision. Part two features the complete premiere performance of Lim's 'How forests think' (2016) plus musical excerpts from the ensemble's Brisbane and Huddersfield years by Lim and John Rodgers, Richard Barrett, Timothy McCormack and Matthew Sergeant.

Composer Liza Lim and ensemble artistic director Daryl Buckley in conversation with Stephen Adams about three decades of ELISION. Featuring music by Lim, Richard David Hames, Richard Barrett, Chris Dench and more, including rare recordings from the ABC archives.

A journey into the parallel universe of the Rosenberg Museum, in the company of one of Australia's great musical mavericks - violinist, composer and inventor, Jon Rose. Including two new studio works by Rose - 'Music in a time of dysfunction 1 and 2'.

Composer Erik Griswold and the Australian Art Orchestra join prestigious musicians of the Sichuan region to create a powerful combination of winds, piano, voice, and percussion.

AMPLIFY: Indigenous Composer Initiative extra edition of New Waves, featuring an extended interview with project founder Christopher Sainsbury, along with examples of his music.

New Waves introduces you to five emerging indigenous composers of diverse musical backgrounds, with new works performed by Ensemble Offspring.

Composers Alice Humphries, Caerwen Martin and Michael Backrncev talk about their backgrounds and their featured compositions, performed by Syzygy Ensemble in a special award concert at Lowland Farm, Mt Macedon.

Music for clarinet, percussion, piano, psalterphone and electronics from innovative new Perth-based ensemble Intercurrent.

Meet Leah Blankendaal, Dan Thorpe and Mark Wolf, three of the five young composers at the 2016 Soundstream Emerging Composers Forum. They discuss their music, inspiration and creative journeys, sharing their works written for the forum.

Meet Alex Turley and Mitchell Mollison, two of the five young composers at the 2016 Soundstream Emerging Composers Forum. Along with forum composer-mentor Cat Hope, they discuss their music, inspiration and creative journeys.

Pianist, curator-producer, and artistic director of Adelaide's Soundstream New Music, Gabriella Smart, previews a fascinating project delving into sounds and stories of Australia's colonial pianos, with music by Jon Rose, Elena Kats-Chernin, James Rushford, and Cathy Milliken.

Percussionist and all-round creative musician, composer, improviser, producer, researcher and teacher, Vanessa Tomlinson talks about music, life, and percussion as an attitude, and presents solo works of hers from across her career and musical palette.

Violinist, composer and pied butcherbird specialist Hollis Taylor talks about her music and research, and presents new music combining the music-making of these birds with human musicians.

Percussionist, composer and Speak Percussion artistic director Eugene Ughetti joins Jon Rose at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House to explore a new interactive electronics project.

Four performances in rural sheds by some of Australia's leading contemporary musicians reflect the voices and history of their place.

Making Waves team of emerging music journalists and composers interview composers Mark Oliveiro, Alex Turley, Thea Zimpel and Maria Grenfell about their music and diverse career paths.

New Waves presents pianist Peter de Jager with the premiere of the definitive version of Chris Dench's epic 98-minute 'Piano Sonata' (2015-16).

A musical portrait of composer Chris Dench by young Brisbane chamber group Kupka's Piano, in conversation with the composer and ensemble members Hannah Reardon-Smith and Liam Flenady.

Lisa Moore talks about the realities of the independent classical musician's life, and plays music by Frederic Rzewski and Australian composers Brett Dean and Kate Moore.

Improvising double-bassist, and co-founder of the NOW now festival and of the Splinter Orchestra, Clayton Thomas, in concert and conversation at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House.