Friday December 2nd at 7 p.m.
THE SCRAPES
return for another wonderful free performance at
The People’s Republic of Australasia
but in a setting unlike anything you’ve seen before
(we’ll surprise you on the night)
Many visitors to the Republic have asked when they’ll get another chance
to see Adam and Ryan’s mesmerising amplified violin and guitar.
This is the evening, and if [...]

[ Friday, 11 November, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Room 40 Sydney launch for Scott Morrison’s recent DVD edition ballad(s) for quiet horizons
with Scott Morrison, Gail Priest, Lawrence English, Adrian Lim-Klumpes

Friday, November 11 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Glebe Cafe Church
37 St Johns Rd

[ Sunday, 16 October, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] On Sunday October 16th at 7 p.m.

the People’s Republic of Australasia
are thrilled to present

ALISTER SPENCE
LLOYD SWANTON
TOBY HALL
Formed in Sydney more than ten years ago,
this brilliant trio comprises some of Australia’s most inventive and best-loved players

Lloyd is a member of The Necks and leader of The Catholics
Alister plays with Wanderlust, The Australian Art Orchestra [...]

[ Saturday, 8 October, 2011; 12:30 pm; ] Date: Saturday 8 October 2011, 12:30 – 5:00pm

Location: Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Program:

PROGRAM

12:30-1:20pm
Peter Blamey and Emily Morandini
*Outside Mould Loft (Between Buildings 5 & 6 in court yard)

1:30-1:50pm
Amanda Stuart
Mould Loft – Building 6

2:00-2:30pm
Matt Chaumont
Building 5 (Convict Precinct)

2:40-3:20pm
Melanie Herbert
Building 3

3:30-3:50pm
Brendan Walls
Building 15

4:00-4:40pm
Barre Phillips
Mould Loft – Building 6

4:50-5:20pm
Jon Rose’s ‘Octopus’
Mould Loft - Building 6

Concept: Jon Rose

Robbie Avenaim
Sam Pettigrew
Alex Masso
Finn [...]

[ Saturday, 17 September, 2011; 8:30 pm; ] Following on from the release of last year’s live LP ‘Dead Man Has No 2nd Chance’, Damo Suzuki & The Holy Soul are playing in Sydney with Machete Moon and Nhomea.

Damo and The Holy Soul will be augmented by Gareth Liddiard on guitar and Cec Condon on percussion.

Special guest DJs Repressed (Chris Sammut) and Unseasonable [...]

Brisbane Quintet Topology play their album ‘Difference Engine’ at the Melbourne Recital Center.
Saturday August 20th
Modeled and named after Charles Babbage’s original computer named the “Difference Engine”, the group uses notes and rhythms in place of gears and wheels, and have made music from the idea of these mechanical computers. As bassist Robert Davidson [...]

[ Saturday, 25 June, 2011; 3:00 pm; ] Following the successful Music in May series, Campbelltown Arts Centre crowns its homage to the piano with the complete performance of all four of George Crumb’s Makrokosmos, one of the masterpieces of twentieth century piano literature in which the notion of piano sound is redefined and explored through panoply of “extended techniques”. This reverential [...]

[ Friday, 10 June, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] S.I.M.A presents

Satoko Fujii ma-do Project (Japan/Aus)

Presented with the support of the Australia-Japan Foundation, this is an exciting opportunity to hear one of Japan’s leading avbant-garde jazz pianist, Satoko Fujii, with her full quartet as they perform three sets of new music, joined by local pianist/composer Alister Spence for one set.

Gifted and innovative pianist Satoko Fujii [...]

[ Saturday, 4 June, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] ydney’s premier Stadium Goth band Naked On The Vague return home from another triumphant USA tour to launch their Clock of 12’s EP on Sacred Bones and Abstract Figures 7” on R.I.P Society at the Red Rattler June 4. Joining them and launching their new Winter’s Blade LP is Lakes, the long running DIY-bleak-folk-post-punk project [...]

[ Thursday, 26 May, 2011; 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm. ] The NOW now presents three compositions by Dutch composer dude Martjin Tellinga (http://www.martijntellinga.nl/), all played by local improvisor dudes and dudettes.

Featuring
* A Situation Predominant in Bass, for 3 Modulators.
- Mike Majkowski, Sam Pettigrew + Rory Brown- Basses

*A Situation of Rumour, for 7 syllables.
- Tony Osborne, Jo Truman, Sonya Holowell, Ivan Cheng, Lachlan Hughes, Danita [...]