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Experience the immersive sounds of Cave Song, spelunking into the mysterious realms of caves, myth and music.

In this evocative new musical work, Karen Berger, Kate Neal and Anthony Lyons explore the paradox that darkness can be a medium of vision and descent can be a movement towards revelation. Cave Song compositions juxtapose live, recorded and manipulated voices, including interviews and original writing, with rarely heard instruments: the deep tones of the contraforte bassoon, the unique Buchla music easel synthesiser, and the extraordinary resonance of stalactites. Instrumental and recorded sounds are interwoven with live foley and live and recorded text in unusual ways, creating moments where it becomes unclear what is live and what is recorded—at times engendering a feeling that the earth herself is speaking.

Audiences experience a five-part journey: The Call, The Search, The Struggle, The Breakthrough and The Return – into the earth, and into deep time, inviting reflection on the question: Are we being good ancestors?

Linking the local to the global, prerecorded interviews include comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell; imminent Indigenous scholar Professor Lynette Russell; Gunditjmara man Tom Molyneux; Djaara Elders; historian Barry Golding; geologist Clive Willman; ecologist Gidja Walker, and other community members.

Cave Song began as a creative development in the David Li Sound Gallery in early 2025, when Berger, Neal and Lyons were awarded an MPAC Progress Links commission, forging connections between artists and Monash University researchers to develop new art.

Image: Brendan McCarthy

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Elektronmusikstudion EMS Residency Stockholm

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Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Münchenbryggeriet, Stockholm

In residence at the Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm. EMS is the centre for Swedish electroacoustic music and sound-art. EMS' aim is to support artistic development of electroacoustic music and its integration within other artistic areas at the national and international level. Very excited to be back at the wonderful EMS working on new material and working towards completion of a new album.

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RECENT EVENTS

22 May (2026) - Signals - solo album release. Available on all main platforms

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3 May (2026) - MIT: Music Image Time - AntPaul Projects audiovisual performance @ La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Vic.

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14 April (2026) - Overdrive5 Festival - concert and screening Elebash Recital Hall, New York, NY.

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27-28 March (2026) - Castlemaine State Festival - Underland - 4 performances @ Castlemaine State Festival - Karen Berger, Anthony Lyons & Kate Neal.

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9 Nov (2025) - Music Image Time - AntPaul Projects performance @ La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Vic.

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28 Oct - 2 Nov (2025) - eviMus Festival - Saarbrücken, Germany. Fixed-media work featured at KuBa - Kulturzentrum am EuroBahnhof - Anthony Lyons & Paul Fletcher.

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17-19 Oct (2025) - National Museum of Music Portugal - Sounds in Museums - 24 channel audiovisual installation - Anthony Lyons & Paul Fletcher.

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29 July (2025) - SonoTactile - Hanson Dyer Hall, Melbourne. Audiovisual performance by Anthony Lyons & Paul Fletcher. Buchla music easel and visuals.

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26-27 June (2025) - NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) - ‘Glass and Fans’ Installation @ ANU Canberra.

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22 May (2025) - Ripple Fest - AntPaul Projects performance @ Ripple Fest, Rochester, Vic.

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21 Feb (2025) - Ian Potter Centre of Performing - David Li Sound Gallery - Monash Melbourne. Development performance 'Cave Song.

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9 Feb (2025) - Music Image Time - AntPaul Projects performance @ La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Vic.

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21-28 Oct (2024) - Elektronmusikstudion_EMS Stockholm - Residency.

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3-10 Oct (2024) - On-Air Gallery @ Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore - exhibition Future Narratives and Soundscapes.

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4 May (2024) - An Evening of Experimental Music - performance at the Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.

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9-12 Nov (2023) - SOUND/IMAGE Festival - Performance of Between Earth and Sky (Bundanon) at the Sound/Image Festival, Bathway Theatre, London.

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11 Oct (2023) - Contemporary Music Research Centre @ Athens Conservatoire - Performance Buchla Easel & Synthi 100, talk and collaboration. Athens, Greece.

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28 - 30 Sept (2023) - Timeless Light - Group exhibition at the the Ionion Center for the Arts & Culture, Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece.

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8 - 10 Sept (2023) - Casting Light Projecting Ripples - Audiovisual Installation exhibition at the Ionion Centre for the Arts and Culture, Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece.

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8 Sept (2023) - Home - the Art of Listening - permanent sound installation, GEO Park, Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece.

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26 August (2023) - Au Revoir Hands - perform at La Signora Hotel, Kefalonia, Greece.

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12th July (2023) - Conflux Bite Size - Multidisciplinary collaboration with Aviva Endean & Anthony Lyons, Emporium Creative Hub Bendigo.

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7th May (2023) - Melbourne International Animation Festival. Screening of Remote Connections. Treasury Theatre, Melbourne.

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14th April (2023) - Au Revoir Hands Live at the Melbourne Recital Centre video concert released by the Melbourne Recital Centre. Available at the Melbourne Recital Centre's YouTube channel.

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15th March (2023) - Octophonic Concert - New Music Studio, at the Hanson Dyer Hall, Melbourne.

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9th - 10th September (2022) - AudioVisual Garden installation for Conflux Bendigo Festival - a large collaborative sound and light work with Paul Fletcher.

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5th August (2022) - Au Revoir Hands perform Hemispheres, at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon.

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17th March (2022) - Album launch - Au Revoir Hands, The Toff, Melbourne.

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28th January (2022) - Publication in The Grainger Journal, vol 17, no 2                         (Dr Anthony Lyons, Dr Heather Gaunt, A/Prof Rochus Hinkel)

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9th - 10th November (2021) - ASRA Australasian Sound Recordings Association Conference. Presentation on the Living Instruments Project.

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5th-6th November (2021) - Australian Voices - Performance of The Last Chocolate Factory, Concert at Chisholm St, Ballarat.

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12th - 22nd May (2021) - Mara Korper - Theatre Works, St. Kilda, Melbourne.

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29th April (2021) - Living Instruments: preserving old and rare instruments by creating their digital twins - A presentation for Melbourne Knowledge Week, Melbourne Connect Hub, Science Gallery.

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27th February (2021) - Coming Home - Audiovisual performance at the Phee Broadway Theatre, Castlemaine.

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2nd December (2020) - MPavilion performance - Isolation Improvisation Collective

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16th November (2020) - Telematic Music - Isolation Improvisation Collective (IIC) album & book release. Available through 'Nice Music' here.

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3-5 Sept. (2020) - International Conference on the Inclusive Museum - Presentation 'Composing the Museum', Lisbon, Portugal - delivered virtually.

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10th July (2020) - StayHomeSounds Remixing the global lockdown - Album release w/ Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK. Get album here

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2nd June (2020) - Make it up Club w/ Islolation Improvisation Collective, Online Concert #11

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9th November (2019) - Mara KORPER @ La Mamma Courthouse, Carlton, Melbourne.

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 26th September (2019) - Turning Circles, performance with Syzygy Ensemble, @ Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne.

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15th August (2019) - Home is Inside Us, West Projections Festival, Performance @ Kindred Studios, Melbourne.

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1st August (2019) - Fabric Culture exhibition performance @ Grainger Museum, Melbourne.

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1st July (2019) - Space is the Place project launch @ Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK.

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16th-23rd June (2019) - New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival & International Computer Music Conference - Audiovisual Installation work 'Complementary Halves' shown at NYU, New York City, United States.

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9th May (2019) - How it Plays: Innovations in Percussion - exhibition opening. Exhibition continues at the Grainger Museum until Dec. 2019, Melbourne, Australia.

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27th November (2018) - Porto/Post/Doc Film & Media Festival screenings of the audiovisual work Dreams of Plants (Lyons/Fletcher), Porto Planetarium, Porto, Portugal.

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26th November (2018) - Sounding Nature - launch of Cities and Memory project of recorded and re-imagined sounds of the natural world including Traces, Patterns, Calls (A.Lyons). Oxford, UK.

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14th November (2018) - IMPA TV - Anthony Lyons & Emily Williams - Live at Islington Mill Attic video recording released. Watch here.

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26th September (2018) iMPA TV - live video performance Anthony Lyons and Emily Williams, Manchester, UK.

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10th September (2018) iC Sing on the Cake - new work & performance, buchla easel and electronics, Melba Hall, University of Melbourne.

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9th September (2018) Monuments - synth performance with the New Music Studio, Melba Hall, University of Melbourne.

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5th July (2018) Narratives of Climate Change Short Film Exhibition, Newcastle, Australia.

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4th July (2018) Jibber Jabber Sound Club, CASPA Castlemaine - performance on Buchla Music Easel.

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24th May (2018) 12th FullDome Festival, Zeiss-Planetarium, Jenna, Germany.

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16th May (2018) Synthi 100 Live - globally streamed performance on the EMS Synthi 100, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

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10th May (2018) Pagan Dances - with Syzygy Ensemble - Melbourne Recital Centre.

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28th April (2018) Small and Loud - The Channel, The Arts Centre, Melbourne.

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1st-6th Dec. (2017) Matera Intermedia Festival - audiovisual, electroacoustic and digital arts festival, Matera, Italy.

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29th Nov. (2017) Abstract Heterotopias - Melbourne Planetarium, Spotswood.

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10th-12th Nov. (2017) Sound-Image Colloquium: Exploring Audiovisual Practice, University of Greenwich, London.

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28th Oct. (2017) Resonating Spaces: Rarotonga Reimagined - performance and installation at Punanga Nui, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

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7th Oct. (2017) Node 0: Lounge Beats - performance event at Grant Street Theatre, Melbourne.

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7th & 8th September (2017) Reconfiguring Orpheus - performance at the Meat Market, North Melbourne.

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18th August (2017) Sound and Image of Future Landscape - An installation exhibition, opening at the On-Air Gallery, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

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17th August (2017) Sound, Design and Animation - a talk given at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

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2nd August (2017) Synthi 100 - In Concert, performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank, Melbourne.

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27th July (2017) Percy Grainger: Freedom as_, with Liquid Architecture, sound sculpture installation @ Grainger Museum, Melbourne.

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9th June (2017) Sounding Out Love: Art of Emotion - published in the Australian Research Council's Blog for the Histories of Emotion.

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27th May (2017) Love Remixed - Grant Street Theatre, Southbank, Melbourne

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30th April (2017) Elbow Room Concert - Wesley Anne, Melbourne.

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26th April (2017) Melbourne Masterclass: Objects, Sounds and Stories of Love. Forum Theatre, University of Melbourne.

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8th March (2017) Sacred Spaces Album Launch. Album available here

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13th February (2017) Sacred Spaces Project Launch @ Cities and Memory. Oxford, UK.

http://citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces/

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14th September (2016) CO+LAB performance @ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

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9th June (2016) CHE blog: 'An Engagement with the Emotional Life of Objects exhibition', published here.

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26th May (2016) Node 0: The Beats Project, performance @ Lionel's Lounge / Grant Street Theatre, Southbank.

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11-14 May (2016) The Emotional Life of Objects, exhibition & new audio works. George Paton Gallery. Melbourne.

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30th April (2016) Resonance FM 104.4 (UK) broadcast of the Prison Songs project. London.

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25th April (2016) Prison Songs launch with Cities and Memory. Oxford, UK.

www.citiesandmemory.com/projects/prisonsongs/

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28th Feb. (2016) Move Records CD Launch, with Michael Kieran Harvey. Eaglemont, Melbourne.

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5th Feb. (2016) Cities and Memory: Dada Sounds launch. Oxford, UK.

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23-24th Jan. (2016) Tilde New Music Festival - performance and installation, Arts Centre, Testing Grounds, AIM, Melbourne.

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21st Nov. (2015) Elbow Room Concert, Wesley Anne, Melbourne.

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17th Oct. (2015) Zèppelin Festival. Electroacoustic Concert, Ravel Hall - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.

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17th Oct. (2015) Punanga Nui Market installation & performance. Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

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16th Oct. (2015) Zèppelin Festival. Exposició Sonora, Theatre Hall - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.

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25th July (2015) Melbourne Composers Concert Series, Victorian Flute Guild, MLC, Kew.

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22nd May (2015) Node Zero (0.1) Concert, The HUB, VCA, University of Melbourne.

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12th April (2015) Elbow Room Concert, MCL, Montslavat.

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20th March (2015) DDCA Symposium. The Outstanding Field: Artistic Research. Federation Hall, Melbourne.

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24th Jan. (2015) Tilde New Music Festival.

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16th Nov. Songs from my Suitcase. Kew Court House concert.

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2nd Nov. Bleedthrough Concert. Oratory, Abbotsford.

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17th Oct. NODE Zero concert, Southbank, Melbourne

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9th-11th July. ACMC 60x60 Concert. VCA Federation Hall, Melbourne.

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17th Nov.  4ZZZ Brisbane. Broadcast of Amy Tinderbox's radio piece exploring collaborative processes behind the Pure Poetry Project

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9th Nov. Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC. Pure Poetry Project concert

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13th Oct. osh10 CD launch at the Empress, Melbourne

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12th Aug. Performance of Trace Elements I-II for piano/electronics with Michael Kieran Harvey at the State Theatre Centre, Perth, WA (ICMC/Totally Huge New Music Festival)

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28th Feb. Tinderbox Radio - live to air Ballarat

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24th Jan. Strings recording with osh10 at Atlantis Sound

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1-8 Dec. Bach/Lyons recording, Copenhagen, Denmark

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29 Nov. Performance of solo cello works at the Malaysian Composers Concert Series, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Malaysia

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8-30 Nov. Residency at La Muse, Labastide, France

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30 Sept. Astra Spring Piano Series, Concert #1, Fitzroy, Melbourne

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6-17 Sept. Japan Tour

 

7th Sept. Headpower, Shinjuku, Tokyo

8th Sept. Waver, Nishi-Ogikubo, Tokyo

9th Sept. Fushimi, Nagoya

12th Sept. Urbanguild, Kyoto

13th Sept. Vi-code, Osaka

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19-23 July. W.A Tour with osh10

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29 March. Atlantis Studios. String Quartet recording

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23-27 Feb. Lifschitz/Lyons piano recording

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16th Jan. Featured composer on the the 'Australian Sounds' program on Radio 3MBS FM

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26th Sept. The Bach/Lyons Project perform @ Literaturhaus, Copenhagen

Compositions and collaborations between Anthony Lyons and Anders Bach were performed beautifully by the musicians of the Bach/Lyons Project at Literaturhaus, Copenhagen - a very special evening!

 

 

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19th Sept. @ Melbourne Recital Centre new work for orchestra premiered

The premiere of Quelques Cercles for orchestra went really well at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Conductor Michael Thomas did a great job preparing the orchestra for the night which also included works by Bartok and de Falla.

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Au Revoir Hands

 

                                                (image above: performing at the Melbourne Recital Centre, 2022)

 

Au Revoir Hands are Anthony Lyons and Emily Williams. Fusing cello, buchla music easel synth, beats and samples they explore the worlds of experimental ambient and post-minimal electronics. Their music is richly textured and sonically unique with fragments, clicks and cuts sitting alongside lush evolving cello and synth lines. They bring a raw expressiveness and live energy to their sound as they move between electronic atmospheres to driving rhythms made of loops, samples & glitched-out drum machines. At the intersections of neo-classical, soundscape and electronic music.

 

 

Au Revoir Hands - Hemispheres                   Released November 12, 2021

 

Hemispheres is a musical testament to exploring and moving across geographical divides and voyaging into the unknown. With Hemispheres the cello and buchla easel synth meet fragments of noise, broken and reframed beats which are underpinned by loops of viola da gamba, harp and strings. It is a journey into a sound world at the intersections of neo-classical, soundscape and electronics. From the opening piece 'Submerge' which recasts elements of Orpheus' journey into the underworld, to 'Between Tides’, a momentary pausing to look out beyond the forces that push and pull us, Hemispheres embraces themes of nautical voyages, ocean channel crossings, time, tide, and celestial navigation. Hemispheres is available on all platforms and on digital & vinyl from the the Au Revoir Hands Bandcamp site here.

Music written by: Anthony Lyons & Emily Williams
Buchla easel, electronics and other instruments by: Anthony Lyons
Cello by: Emily Williams

Mixed by: Anthony Lyons
Produced by: Anthony Lyons
Album image: Paul Fletcher
Mastered by: Lachlan Carrick

 

Live at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne, Australia (2022)

 

Live on Impa TV at Islington Mill Attic, Salford / Manchester, UK (2018)

 

 

Past shows:

The Melbourne Recital Centre (2022)

The Toff: Melbourne (2022)

Islington Mill Attic: Live performance for IMPA Tv, Salford, UK

The Forum Theatre, Melbourne: The Melbourne International Film Festival

Loop, Melbourne: Electundra AudioVisual Festival

The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne