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For listeners interested in Australian music culture and the contemporary music scene, the New Waves podcast delivers downloads of diverse ABC-exclusive music recordings and related interviews to your computer.
Songs from the Heart is a new a capella cantata created by First Nations composers Elizabeth Sheppard and Sonya Holowell, in collaboration with The Song Company led by Antony Pitts.
No More Sugar, No More Tea occupies a unique space — not quite opera, not quite theatre, but deeply informed by its writer/composer and natural storyteller Richard Frankland's Indigenous heritage, as well as co-composer Biddy Connor's direct melodic style.
67 Composers. 67 Instrumentalists. In this New Waves special, hear recordings and interviews from one of the most ambitious commissioning projects in Australian music history.
Vietnamese-Australian composer-performer Dung Nguyen, musician Minh Ha Patmore and visual artist Phuong Ngo take the Australian Art Orchestra on a cross-cultural journey of discovery.
Nardi Simpson shares music and stories of Yuwaalaraay Country in concert with Ensemble Offspring, Kevin Hunt and the Barayagal Choir.
First Nations composers share stories and visions. And make new music for an C18 square piano, voice, violin, and didgeridoo.
Immerse yourself in the sounds of some of Australia’s great songbirds. And the human music they inspire.
A sonic evocation of a post-apocalyptic world in which humankind scrambles to decipher the remnants of civilisation with the aid of a mysterious machine.
A dramatic musico-poetic telling of the life experience of a disabled person from the inside, with inspiration from the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
An operatic re-imagining of Homer’s Odyssey through the eyes of a female 'Odyssea' on her night-time walk home.
An operatic parable of the disappearance and re-emergence of the elusive endangered Australian bird the Night Parrot.
Old faves and new releases from the personal playlists of 12 outstanding Australian musicians.
16 artists from the Australian music scene talk about staying creative and connected in these times of physical and social isolation.
10 creative musicians from around the country expand your music collection with some great new releases and old faves.
Listen to Cat Hope's wordless opera, inspired by The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.
Cat Hope and singer-collaborators talk about her wordless opera that aims to give voice to the voiceless.
Katie Noonan, Liza Lim and Alice Chance talk about careers, role models, gender equity, and their visions for a more diverse and inclusive musical world.
Syzygy Ensemble performs a selection of works by female composers, including a new work by the Commission recipient for 2019, Deborah Cheetham.
ELISION ensemble records sounds by Lim, O'Dwyer, Alvarez and Flenady in the ABC studios in Melbourne.
New Australian music performed by wind dynamos Arcadia Winds, recorded in Melbourne's Iwaki Auditorium.
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 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.
Ten third year composers from Melbourne's Monash University see their works premiered by percussion trio Line Upon Line.
Natasha Anderson's new immersive work for electronics and baroque violinist Lizzy Welsh premieres at the festival.
An extended conversation and studio recital with Phoebe Green featuring music by Liza Lim, Cat Hope, Lisa Illean, Alistair Noble, James Rushford and Helen Gifford.
The folky sounds of a 12-string guitar are transformed in this evening of hypnotic music and talk with composer-improviser Julia Reidy.
Colin Bright's open score 'Four Elements' and reflections on composing, improvisation and mentoring at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House with younger-generation collaborator Nicholas Polovineo.
Chamber music here and now - quintets, sextets and a trio from composers May Lyon, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Kate Neal, Mary Finsterer and Peter de Jager.
A new opera by Damien Ricketson and Adena Jacobs exploring involuntary vocal sounds of the female voice.
A genre-defying new work by Liza Lim for soprano Jessica Aszodi, Speak Percussion and a voice and percussion ‘crowd'.
The Adam Simmons Creative Music Ensemble and guest artists Afro-Lankan Drumming System take a journey to Sri Lanka in this latest instalment from 'The Usefulness of Art' project.
Resonating the spaces of Mona with percussionist David Jones, sound artist Thembi Soddell, improvising saxophonists Rosalind Hall and Jim Denley, and more.
Composer-soprano Eve Klein presents the world premiere of a performance installation for her voice and electronics, plus visual projections of the inside of her vocal folds in action.
Composer-improviser Austin Buckett explores the possibilities of Mona's nineteenth century pipe organ.
From Brecht to Ai Wei Wei, from JFK to Gillard to Trump, Sonya Lifschitz play's Robert Davidson's settings of the voices of politicians and artists of our era.
Timothy O’Dwyer and Georg Wissel hold a sonic mirror to each other in this intense yet intimate duet, on stage at the Make It Up Club 20th birthday festival.
Blistering saxophone from Denmark's Mette Rasmussen, on stage with Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Thierry Amar and Mauro Pezzente at the Make It Up Club 20th birthday festival.
An introspective journey from the unusual line-up of violas, guitars, clarinet and drumkit, on stage at the Make It Up Club 20th birthday festival.
Spacious and slow-shifting harmonies from Anthony Burr, Anthony Pateras and Rohan Drape, on stage at the Make It Up Club 20th birthday festival.
An intense, gestural set from Judith Hamann, Bonnie Lander, and Clare Cooper on stage at the Make It Up Club 20th birthday festival.
Celebrating Australia’s longest-running weekly concert series of improvised and experimental music.
Private thoughts turned into music for The Song Company and Syzygy Ensemble by composer Katy Abbott.
A forest of patch-cords and synth modules are the engine of this ominously trippy performance by electronic artist Ben Carey.
Members of Brisbane's Camerata play string quartets by Chris Perren and Argo artistic director Connor D'Netto in the subterranean spaces of the Spring Hill Reservoir, along with works by Philip Glass and John Luther Adams.
Speak Percussion premieres Eugene Ughetti's Assembly Operation, an exploration of mass production and the conceptual qualities of the one Yuan note.
Plexus premieres four new works by composers who are usually at home in the world of jazz.
Bernadette Harvey, Marshall McGuire and staff and students of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music present music of Australian composer Tim Dargaville.
Melbourne’s Syzygy Ensemble take you on a musical journey of warped realities and meditations on the passage of time in their premiere of new works by Emile Frankel and Tim Dargaville.
Ensemble Offspring explores a world of dreams and fairytales in their final concert of 2017.
Brett Dean shares thoughts on his new opera Hamlet following its season at the Adelaide Festival.
New electro-acoustic music by influential experimental composer Warren Burt and five of his recent students.
Two new music performer-composers come together for an intimate recital and conversation at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House.
The final concert work from Perth's famed poet of the ruined piano, as premiered at the Totally Huge New Music Festival.
More new chamber concertos for electronic soloists courtesy of Perth's Decibel ensemble and the Totally Huge New Music Festival.
New chamber concertos for some surprising electronic soloists courtesy of Perth's Decibel ensemble and the Totally Huge New Music Festival.
More new music from the rising generation of WA composers and sonic innovators at the 2017 Totally Huge New Music Festival.
New music from the rising generation of WA composers and sonic innovators at the 2017 Totally Huge New Music Festival.
Improvised music from Melbourne's home of 'making it up' by duos Sarah Byrne/Rod Cooper, Sean Baxter/Robin Fox, and Bridget Chappell/Patrick Hase.
The Making Waves-Making Conversations team of emerging music journalists interview composers Peter McNamara, Anne Cawrse, Connor D'Netto and May Lyon about the things that have shaped their musical voices.
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.
Music from a collaboration of indigenous singer-songwriters and musicians from the Kimberley with contemporary classical and improvising musicians from around the country.
A new Australian chamber opera produced by Sydney Chamber Opera for the 2017 Sydney Festival.
A new Australian chamber opera produced by Sydney Chamber Opera for the 2017 Sydney Festival.
Composer-performer David Shea takes Speak Percussion and guzheng-player Mindy Wang on a journey through the sound worlds of the Silk Road.
New music for voice in conversation with singer-curators Jane Sheldon, Jessica Aszodi, and New York's 'Resonant Bodies Festival' founder Lucy Dhegrae.
New music for the unique combination of trumpet, trombone and electric guitar by James Ledger, Fay Wang, Wally Gunn and ensemble guitarist Ken Murray.
New music that re-wires the piano, by Kate Moore, Damien Ricketson, Marcus Whale, Neil Luck, Adam de le Cour, Patrick Nunn, Johannes Kreidler and Nicole Lizee.
A unique collaboration of The Necks and conductor Ilan Volkov with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Speak Percussion.
Composer Elizabeth Younan and Arcadia Winds recorded in concert and interview at the 2017 Musica Viva Festival.
The Making Waves team of emerging music journalists and composers interview composers Michael Sollis, Daniel Thorpe, Lisa Young and Holly Harrison about the 'style' question.
Improviser, sound artist and all-round cultural catalyst Jim Denley in concert and conversation at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House.
New music for pipe organs composed and performed by radio presenter and composer/sound artist Julian Day.
Composers May Lyon, Andrew Aronowicz, Lisa Cheney and Harry Sdraulig hear their new works for Syzygy and talk about their music with Julian Day.
New chamber music and talk from Holly Harrison, Lachlan Skipworth, Alex Pozniak and Mexican guest composer Juan Felipe Walller.
Sounds of an emerging generation of creative musicians from established name of Tristan Coehlo, to Offspring Hatched Academy artists Julia Reidy, James Bradbury, Mary Rapp, and David Moran.
Celebrating International Women's Day with new work by composer-performer Carolyn Connors, performance poet berni janssen, and shamisen artist Noriko Tadano.
From a neural synthesizer to vintage electronic instruments, water tanks wired for sound, and music for a 6-string electric violin, the second podcast from Mofo 2017 looks at the interface between technology and new music.
Theremin player Carolina Eyk (GER), exploratory violinist Erkki Veltheim (Aus), 'Long String Instrument' inventor Ellen Fullman (US), improvising percussionist Will Guthrie (Aus/FR), composer-performer Anthony Pateras (Aus), The Overtone Ensemble (Aus), Ondes Martenot player Nadia Ratsimandresy (FR), post-classical chamber group Hinterlandt (Aus) and improvising trumpeter Scott Tinkler (Aus).
Emerging music journalists and composers Lisa Cheney, Peggy Polias and collaborators interview established composers Joseph Twist, Cat Hope, Timothy Tate and Julian Day about their journeys to composing.
Composer-performer Dan Thorpe and flutist Melanie Walters' new music project comes into studio, with appearances from composers Rachel Breuerville, Leah Blankendaal, and a host of Adelaide performer-collaborators.
Composer Kate Neal and director Tamara Saulwick's new a capella music-theatre work delving into the relationships between children of all ages and our parents.
Scenes from a new opera by Eve Duncan with libretto by celebrated Australian novelist and poet David Malouf.
The light-filled chamber music of Eve Duncan, performed by pianist Michael Kieran Harvey and an outstanding collection of Melbourne musicians at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
In a nostalgic mood, New Waves listens to the chamber music of Helen Gifford, works spanning 50 years of her career, curated by harpist Jacinta Dennet for Australian National Academy of Music's 'Australian Voices' concert series.
Cathy Milliken's award-winning orchestral work, performed by soprano Jessica Aszodi and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adelaide Festival Tectonics curator Ilan Volkov.
A new chamber opera based on Dostoyevsky's novella by composer Jack Symonds and librettist Pierce Wilcox.
A new chamber opera based on Dostoyevsky's novella by composer Jack Symonds and librettist Pierce Wilcox.
Master musicians from Australia and South Korea meet 20 early career musicians in the isolation of the Tasmanian highlands to explore the similarities and differences of their approach to improvised music.
Three striking new works for percussion by composers Kate Moore, Cat Hope, and James Hullick.
Decibel ensemble present treasures from the archive - electro-acoustic chamber music from one of Perth's founding new musical voices.
More immense and immersive spatial electro-acoustic music from Perth-based composers, featuring Cat Hope, Stuart James, and program curator Steve Paraskos.
Immense and immersive - new spatial electro-acoustic music by Perth-based composers Kynan Tan, Chris Cobilis, and Dobromila Jaskot.
New music for Plexus Collective by composers Harry Sdraulig, Andrew Aronowicz and Andrzej Karalow, presented by Plexus and Melbourne Recital Centre.
New music for the unusual combination of clarinet trio and chamber choir, by composers Ed Frazier Davis and Dermot Tutty, presented by Plexus and Melbourne Recital Centre.
New chamber music by Michael Mathieson-Sandars, Lisa Cheney, Eric Wubbels, and Corrina Bonshek, performed by Brisbane ensemble Kupka's Piano.
A program of new music for piano and electronics full of electronic doubling, shadowing and transformations, performed in concert by Zubin Kanga.
Soprano Jane Sheldon in conversation, featuring recordings of contemporary Australian vocal music from her Origin Cycle and Symbiosis projects.
The story of a musical building, and the architect, composer, and collaborating musicians who brought it to life. A feature program first broadcast on ABC Classic FM's Music Makers program.
Contemporary chamber music inspired by the aesthetic worlds, musicians and instruments of east Asia.
Composer Andrew Aronowicz in conversation, with music, including his orchestral work for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - an Australian entry to this year's International Rostrum of Composers.
Composer Katy Abbott in conversation, with music, including her duo for cello and vibraphone - an Australian entry to this year's International Rostrum of Composers.
Composer Lachlan Skipworth in conversation, with music, including his Clarinet Concerto - an Australian entry to this year's International Rostrum of Composers.
Virtuoso Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey presents a unique program of his own compositions for acoustic and electric keyboards, captured last week in concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre for Metropolis New Music Festival 2016.
New chamber music for Melbourne's dynamic chamber trio by Andrew Batt-Rawden, James Wade, Jesmond Grixti, Graeme Koehne and John Parker, captured last week in concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre for Metropolis New Music Festival 2016.
New music by AAO director Peter Knight, Austin Buckett, and Canadian composer/collaborator Nicole Lizée, recorded this week at the Melbourne Recital Centre for the opening night of the 2016 Metropolis New Music Festival.
Music by Erik Griswold for The Piano Mill, a unique building-cum-instrument created by architect Bruce Wolfe.
The second of a series of podcasts featuring music from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's SSO at Carriageworks series.
The first of a series of podcasts featuring music from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's SSO at Carriageworks series.
Michael Kieran Harvey plays prize-winning works by fellow Tasmanian Scott McIntyre, and by emerging composer Elizabeth Younan, along with a selection of other piano music from Tasmanian composers.
New works by radiophonic artist Christopher Williams and composer-performer Erik Griswold responding to the context of Adelaide's Old Glenside Hospital.
The Australian Art Orchestra and Ensemble Offspring present new music of epic minimalism for large ensemble and grand pipe organ.
The Australian Art Orchestra and Ensemble Offspring present an immersive new work for large ensemble and grand pipe organ.
Part two of a special broadcast event from the Australasian Computer Music Conference featuring new works by Cat Hope, Michael Terren and Ros Bandt.
A special broadcast event from the Australasian Computer Music Conference featuring new works by Eve Klein, Mitchell Mollison, Brigid Burke, Nigel Helyer, Michael Atherton and Jon Drummond.
New music for keyboards and percussion created in dialogue with 5,000-year-old Sanskrit sutras by pianist and composer Michael Kieran Harvey.
New and recent Australian percussion music from electronically processed gamelan instruments to a virtual duet between composer and performer.
New music on the radio from Synergy Percussion and composers Marcus Whale, James Humberstone, Kate Moore, Julian Day and Evan Mannell
Electrified new music from Speak Percussion and composers Thomas Meadowcroft, Matthew Shlomowitz, Simon Løffler, and Eugene Ughetti and Matthias Schack-Arnott.
New music hot off the presses from five composers of the emerging generation, performed by Ensemble Offspring.
The artistic partnership and a selection of recent works composed for Ensemble Offspring and collaborators.
From spectralism to open music to instrument building and new tuning systems - the development of Ensemble Offspring.
Ensemble Offspring's co-artistic directors Claire Edwardes and Damien Ricketson reflect on the origins of the group.
Composer Robert Davidson brings out the music of Australian political discourse, with the help of The Australian Voices and Topology ensemble.