Calendar

Upcoming Events

3 June 2026
Hyphae, Andromeda is Coming — Album Launch Concert
ANU Big Band Room, Canberra
Launch of two new albums on Collected Resonances Records, featuring the human–AI duo Andromeda is Coming with Dr Charles Martin.

Past Events

2022

7–9 July — ‘Embodied Music Theory/ies: Decolonising an Australian Undergraduate Music Theory and Aural Skills Curriculum’ (with Rachael Thoms and Roya Safaei). Music and the University Conference, City University of London
8–10 June — ‘MIDI Controllers and Magic Lanterns’ (with Charles Martin and Martyn Jolly). Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology — CIM22, University of Edinburgh
17 June — ‘ᐚᐜᓄᐠᐢᓄ (wanihtam): Hearing it the Wrong Way’. Legacies of Violence Roadshow, ANU, Canberra
24 April — Premiere of I Would Not, If I Could, Forget. Lumière Festival, Mount Victoria, NSW
28 April — ‘Composition as Synchronised Action’ — research seminar, ANU School of Music
4–6 February — Premiere of new work for voice, electric guitar, live electronics, narrator and 2 magic lanternists. Local Jinni Dynamo Hub, Gorman House, Canberra

2021

25 May — Invited talk on Disability and the Arts, ANU Bruce Hall, Canberra
March — Recording session with Canberra Experimental Music Studio — works of Chloë Hobbs
February — J.W. Newland’s ‘Beautiful Scientific Exhibition of Dissolving Views’ — magic lantern performance with Rachael Thoms and Charles Martin, PhotoAccess, Canberra

2020

December — Paper on Requiem for a Reef (with Ngaio Fitzpatrick), ANU Network on the History and Legacies of Violence Roadshow
November — Sci-Fi Theremin Jukebox (with Kit Devine and Charles Martin), Zoomposium: Performance, Science and Technology
August — New version of Requiem for a Reef, National Science Week, Canberra Glassworks (livestreamed)
June–October — Dissonance (with Ngaio Fitzpatrick), Civic Square, Canberra Museum and Gallery
April — Suburban Apparitions — magic lantern performance, Calthorpe’s House, ACT Historic Places

2019

7–9 December — ‘Sounding Canberra’ conference paper, Musicological Society of Australia Conference, Monash University
November — Requiem for a Reef premiere, Mt Stromlo Observatory, Canberra
4 October — Musical Director for ‘The Australian Object’, National Art School, Sydney
26–27 October — 2-day ANU New Music Festival, Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres, Canberra
21 September — Premiere of figheadaireachd, Canberra Youth Orchestra
May — Grus Jerrabomberra installation, BARK Exhibition, Hall, ACT
February — Grus Jerrabomberra installation, Gaia Hypothesis, Belconnen Arts Centre

2018

5 October — Sounding Canberra performance; premiere of Gungahlin to Mount Ainslie, Ainslie Arts Centre
8–11 March — Composer for Liz Lea’s one-woman show RED, Quantum Leap Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre, Canberra
4 April — Opening of Genius Loci, collaborative exhibition with Ngaio Fitzpatrick, Canberra Glassworks

2017

15 July — Andromeda is Coming… album launch, Ralph Wilson Theatre, Canberra
27 January — Premiere of The Sixth Mass Extinction, Fitters Workshop, Canberra
7–10 September — Premiere of FUSE, Gorman Arts Centre, Canberra
20 April — Premiere of New South Wales Gothic, ANU School of Art and Design Gallery
3 November — Premiere of Age Old Story, Fitters’ Workshop, Canberra

2016

15 October — Premiere of Alphabet/Haemorrhage Libretto, National Gallery of Australia
24 September — Premiere of Double Drowning Fatality with Martyn Jolly and ANU EMS, Siteworks, Bundanon, NSW
11 December — Premiere of OUR EARS FELT LIKE CANYONS, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
May — Premiere of Bawley Point #1 and #2, Macquarie University, Sydney
25 May — Keynote lecture and concert, ‘Music, Creative Practice-Led Research and the Academy’, Macquarie University, Sydney
29 July–14 August — Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik

2015

21 July — Premiere of live version of Avoidance Behaviour (film by Elyse Howe), Ainslie Arts Centre
21 May — ANU New Music Ensemble concert of chamber works
12 April — Premiere of Lise Meitner by Pesedjet (members of Ensemble Dal Niente), Constellation, Chicago, IL
February — Conference presentations at Orpheus Instituut (Ghent), Goldsmiths (London), and Guildhall School of Music (London)

2014

September — Series of performances and recordings with HMM (Helyard, Hunter & Martin), ANU School of Music and Drill Hall Gallery
June — Premiere of Percussion Ensemble (2010), Uncut Percussion and ANU New Music Ensemble

2013

22 August — World premiere of Emmy Noether by Mabel Kwan and Jesse Langen, Chicago
December — Launch of Parlour Tapes recording of Emmy Noether, Chicago

2012

May — Premiere of For a Number of String Players, Chimera Ensemble, University of York Spring Festival, John Cage Collaboration Day
November — Premiere of For a Number of Musicians, Quiet Music Ensemble, Sonic Vigil Festival, Cork