Welcome to the NOW now, where we hope to keep you up to date on all the exploratory music goings on around Sydney. We put on regular gigs and try and list anything that we find interesting.

NOW now regulars Clare Cooper and Chris Abrahams as Germ Studies, have a new double CD available of Splitrec. and Jim Denley and Kim Myhr also have a new CD out on either/OAR.

We also run the 20 + Splinter Orchestra.

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here’s a recent little film of NOW now regulars Dale Gorfinkel, Monika Brooks and Jim Denley playing in Tasmania.

Thanks for your interest, and hope to see you at a gig soon!

The Now now is proud to announce

Perlonex will give a concert in Sydney

Ignaz Schick - turntables, live-electronics
Jörg Maria Zeger - electric guitars
Burkhard Beins - percussion, objects

The electro-acoustic trio PERLONEX was founded in late 1998 and has performed and toured in Europe and North America extensively since then. Ranging from prominent contemporary music festivals to underground noise/punk clubs, from art galleries to obscure improv backrooms the wide variety of venues they have played marks out the musical spectrum of the group.
Through the interplay and friction of gradually shifting layers of sound, sonic interferences, interwoven loops and hidden repetitive structures PERLONEX is plumbing the depth of a rather complex sound material.

Martin Ng solo

A rare solo performance by Martin Ng. Martin has been involved in Sydney's experimental music scene for the past 20 years. A one-of-a-kind turntablist / heart surgeon, he sees a genuine microscopic level relationship between his two specialities, and consistently pushes the boundaries of improvised performance. Martin has collaborated locally and internationally with the likes of Tetuzi Akiyama, Otomo Yoshihide, Oren Ambarchi, Robbie Avenaim and Jim Denley. Martin has also been hosting experimental music radio program 'Song X' for the past 15 years.

Serial Space
$10 and $8

Chris Mann (born 1949) is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics,, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do."[1] He is currently based in New York City.

Mann's unique style of reading incredibly dense, parenthetical texts at a high speed has brought him recognition as a unique performer and recording artist. He has had a variety of recording projects over the years, including the ensemble Machine For Making Sense with Amanda Stewart, Chris Mann and the Impediments (with two backup singers and Mann reading a text simultaneously while only being able to hear one another), and Chris Mann and The Use. His piece The Plato Songs, a collaboration with Holland Hopson and R. Luke DuBois, features realtime spectral analysis and parsing of the voice into multiple channels based on phonemes.

Amanda Stewart Amanda Stewart (born 1959) is a contemporary Australian poet and sound/performance artist.
She began writing and performing poetry in the 70s and has since produce a wide array of sound, video and multimedia work. In 1989 she co-founded the performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense with Chris Mann, Rik Rue, Jim Denley and Stevie Wishart . She has toured in Europe, the United States and Japan. She co-wrote and directed the 1990 film Eclipse of the Man-Made Sun about of nuclear weapons in popular culture.

and The Splinter Orchestra

Serial Space 33 wellington st chippendale
$10 / $8 at the door