The debut album 'Hemispheres' from 'Au Revoir Hands' (Anthony Lyons & Emily Williams) is now available on Bandcamp!! Hemispheres is due for full release November 12. Available as digital download and on vinyl limited edition. Very excited to let this out into the world. “Fusing sounds from the cello, buchla easel synth, beats and samples ‘Au Revoir Hands’ explore the worlds of experimental ambient pop and post-minimal electronics. Fragments, clicks and cuts sit alongside lush cello and analog synth lines. At the intersections of neo-classical, soundscape and electronic music.”

Interesting discussions on a range of topics around the 2021 ASRA Conference theme of Survival & Revival. Dr Anthony Lyons and Dr Heather Gaunt discuss the Living Instruments project and how the Grainger Museum instrument collection is being digitised through a process of creative engagement.

Friday 27th August 6pm-7pm AEST Saturday 28th August 1pm-2pm AEST

TO BE RESCHEDULED (covid) - New dates soon!

Chisholm St: Australian Voices features contemporary chamber music by Anthony Lyons (Newstead composer)/Nathan Curnow (poetry) and Amadis Lacheta (Metcalf composer), and an all-Ballarat collective of musicians including Bronwyn Blaiklock (piano), Sharon Turvey (voice), Elena Polevaya (cello) and Sarah Goodbourn (flute).

Also featured is poet, Megan J Riedl, who will enthrall you with her intimate and powerful voice.

You are welcome to bring a beverage of your choice to enjoy afterward; other refreshments are included in the ticket price. Please bring warm clothes as the performance space is partially open to an undercover deck. There is heating, but you never can be too sure in Ballarat...

To suit the current lockdown restrictions, inside seating is capped at just 10, and you will need to sanitise prior to entry and wear a mask, unless an exemption applies. Chisholm St. is a registered venue, and as such, all attendees will need to check in to the QR App. Naturally, we are all at the whims of covid and may need to postpone this series. If this eventuates, be assured that Bronwyn is committed to rescheduling, transferring your ticket to another Chisholm St series, or offering a full refund.

'Submerge' is the first track release from 'Au Revoir Hands' forthcoming album 'Hemispheres'. A lush world of glitched beats, cello, moog synth and buchla easel sit alongside gritty fragments of noise, broken and reframed samples of voice, viola da gamba and harp.

Available from all download and streaming platforms from 27th August!!

Including Bandcamp: https://aurevoirhands.bandcamp.com/

To be rescheduled (Covid!)

Au Revoir Hands play the Bridge Hotel Castlemaine with Louise Terra on Thursday 22nd July. It's Free! So come on down for dinner, drinks, cosy vibes and music!

AU REVOIR HANDS @ 8PM

LOUISE TERRA @ 9PM

Au Revoir Hands are Anthony Lyons and Emily Williams. Amplified effected cello, buchla music easel synth, beats and samples they explore the worlds of experimental ambient pop and post-minimal electronics.

Multidisciplinary artist and music producer Louise Terra carves a ubiquitous sound and style of electronic music. Taking cues from left-field electronica, dream pop and images from her psyche, each song Louise produces is a world gravitating towards the surreal and the sacred.

A live networked improvisation by the Isolation Improvisation Collective. Please join us this Sunday on the IIC You Tube channel as we lift above the confines of lockdown and find ways to connect, share and make. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQX7dy99JhIDcjyMLCejV-w

To Be RESCHEDULED due to covid

Please Join us downstairs at the Avalon in Katoomba as part of the very special 'Afternoon Delights' Series. "With most of the shows SOLD OUT it's a top tip to BOOK EARLY if you hope to attend some of these intimate events. Our bottom line guarantee of return is in the rich experiences. Every week we are treated to some of the finest music this country has to offer."

1st Set - Night Diver A solo music project of Cellist Emily Williams. The music is immersive, melodic, soundscapes and meditative drones with her main instrument at the centre, augmented by sampled sounds of percussive glass, steel and kinetic toys.

2nd Set - Au Revoir Hands: Electronic new classical duo with Anthony Lyons and Emily Williams. Incorporating cello, buchla music easel synth, beats and samples they explore the worlds of experimental ambient pop and post-minimal electronics. Their music is richly textured and sonically unique with fragments, clicks and cuts sitting alongside effected cello and analog 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.

An exciting, feminist sci-fi theatrical experience, MARA KORPER is set in a futuristic world where gender is obsolete and the flesh must remain whole.

This brilliant and terrifying new theatrical work explores themes of extremism, gender and body image in a dystopian future, picking up where Orwell and Huxley left off.

Fusing experimental sound and technology with absurdist expressionism, MARA KORPER is on the cutting edge of experimental feminist theatre.

Written & Directed by: Jayde Kirchert Composer: Anthony Lyons

Tickets and further details: https://www.theatreworks.org.au/program/mara-korper/

How might digital instrument collections influence the future of music and sound-making?

The Grainger Museum is transforming historically rare and unique instruments into interactive and playable virtual instruments. The Living Instruments project – a collaboration with the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and Melbourne eResearch Group, School of Computing & Information Systems – involves mapping real instruments (by sampling their sound) to new tactile digital interfaces that anyone can use.

During this official launch of the Living Instruments digital platform, learn about the preservation practices and cultural value of the Grainger Museum’s remarkable musical instrument collection. Experts who have contributed to the project will share insights about playing, composing and curating the instruments, through to research and software development.

After the discussion, discover and interact with the playable virtual instruments first-hand. Speakers: Dr Anthony Lyons, Dr Heather Gaunt, Abdul Rehman Mohammad

The music of the V/line train and Calder Fwy trip, once so familiar yet made almost a memory in the events of 2020, will be brought back to life in a live performance of new music for piano, cello and electronics. Featuring pianist Josh Cohen who has garnered millions of YouTube views for his meditative and highly improvised approach to playing will be joined by Sydney based cellist Emily Williams and electronic composers and Newstead sound producers Aimee Chapman and Anthony Lyons in a mesmerising musical observation of Coming Home

The Isolation Improvisation Collective (IIC) invites you to a live-streamed, multi-disciplinary event comprising musicians, artists, dancers, poets, animators and other creatives with a shared passion for innovation and experimentation. Formed in a direct response to the COVID-19-imposed lockdown, the group has met regularly over the past months to explore the possibility of community and cooperation online, developing new tools, methods and a shared improvisational vocabulary.

During this interactive event, you’ll be invited to re-think the limitations and possibilities of online collaboration, playing with the idiosyncrasies of the virtual—such as lag-times and glitch—as creative parameters, rather than barriers to communication. With the performance hinging on a spontaneous dialogue between participants, each performer’s contribution to the piece will allow them to re-connect with other members of the collective. The result will be a totally unique work—something increasingly rare in this age of documentation and digital reproduction—and a re-defining of what ‘live’ performance can mean in a virtual space.

Anthony Lyons giving a presentation (now virtual) for the 13th International Conference on The Inclusive Museum. The presentation is titled 'Composing the Museum' and looks at the process of engaging with Melbourne's Grainger Museum to sample Percy Grainger's unique tuned-percussion collection to make new digital Grainger instruments for creative use and expanded access. This talk specifically discusses the Living Instruments project and the process of digitally preserving the sound of the fragile Grainger instrument collection and presenting a way of transforming the relationship between musical artefacts/objects and their cultural value with a diverse group of people including contemporary makers. In 'Composing the Museum', creativity and the making of new work are situated as centrally important to linking the past, present, and future of museum collections.

Included with the release of this fascinating album is the piece 'Piombino' by Anthony Lyons which is part of a collection of compositions built from field recordings of the global Covid-19 lockdown. Assembled for the #StayHomeSounds project by Cities and Memory, in which artists reflected on the lockdown and reimagine its sounds. You can listen/purchase the album at: https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/remixing-the-global-lockdown

The Isolation Improvisation Collective joins the Make it Up Club this coming week!

The Make it up Club has been presenting weekly curated experimental, improvised, and avant-garde music and sound happenings in Melbourne since 1998.

Tune in Tuesday evening at 8pm AEST for a curated YouTube concert of improvised and experimental music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnnWQcs_U9LqNurutqRyxjQ

THIS WEEK: Miranda Hill + Alice Bennett Shane Van Den Akker Clinton Green Isolation Improvisation Collective

You can support the performers by making a donation to makeitupclub@gmail.com via paypal or by visiting paypal.me/makeitupclub Recommended $5/$10 donation, similar to previous MIUC live concerts.

An exciting, feminist sci- theatrical experience, Mara KORPER is set in a futuristic world where gender is obsolete and the flesh must remain whole. Written and Directed by Jayde Kirchert Music and Sounds by Anthony Lyons

This brilliant and terrifying new theatrical work explores themes of extremism, gender and body image in a dystopian future, picking up where Orwell and Huxley left off.

Fusing experimental sound and technology with absurdist expressionism, Mara KORPER is on the cutting edge of experimental feminist theatre.

Mara KORPER is a sci-fi theatrical experience set in a futuristic world where gender is obsolete and the flesh must remain whole. This brilliant and terrifying new theatrical work explores themes of extremism, gender and body image in a dystopian future, picking up where Orwell and Huxley left off. Fusing experimental sound and technology with absurdist expressionism, Mara KORPER is on the cutting edge of experimental feminist theatre. Presented by Citizen Theatre  Writer/Director: Jayde Kirchert  Composer: Anthony Lyons  Music Director: Imogen Cygler  Cast includes: Citizen Theatre Company Members Willow Sizer, Freya Pragt, Jack Wunsch, Jordan Barr, Kayla Hamill  Photography/Image credit: Stu Brown BOOKINGS: https://www.trybooking.com/book/sessions?eid=515860

Turning Circles: In 2019 Syzygy Ensemble celebrates turning 10 and reflects on what it means to turn, grow and change. I'm very honoured to join Syzygy again to play electronics on Tansy Davies work Grind Show. Program details below.Bookings through the Melbourne Recital Centre:

Tansy Davies Grind Show (Electric) Liza Lim The Turning Dance of the Bee Sean Shepherd Lumens Andrew Byrne Ghost in the Machine (world premiere)

A special live performance of improvised music and visuals with spoken word by Klare Lanson, Synth and Field Recordings performed by Anthony Lyons, Visuals and custom musical sink-guitar instrument Paul Fletcher. Also Features special guest " indoor plant" triggering visuals and sounds.

Paul Fletcher, Live generative visuals, video, photos and animation and live sound and noise from custom Sink-tar sound design and noise instrument.

Anthony Lyons, using field recordings gathered from Footscray and surround areas, Buchla synthesiser and other electronics

Klare Lanson, spoken word poetry recorded and processed voice

Two Indoor Plants- will have the last word and trigger their ‘choice’ of notes and generative visuals for the last part of the performance.

To celebrate the opening of the new exhibition Fabric Culture, there is a special evening of exhibition performances within the galleries of the Grainger Museum. With works and performances by leading academics Anthony Lyons, Paul Fletcher from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne, and students from MCM Interactive Composition and VCA Animation, this event is certainly not to be missed. Performances will begin at 5:30 pm, with the event concluding at 7 pm. All are welcome, and no bookings are required.

Fabric Culture is an interdisciplinary collaboration project, between the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and the Grainger Museum. Through sound and vision, patterns and threads of cultural connection are traced in the exhibition, featuring work by academics and students from the Faculty. Major new commissioned works by Anthony Lyons and Paul Fletcher allow visitors to interact with and be immersed in an audiovisual sculptural space. The exhibition also showcases a new collaborative audiovisual work, "Pattern Loops" recently created by MCM Interactive Composition and VCA Animation students in response to the ideas, patterns and clothing designs of Percy and Ella Grainger.