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Cave Song

Cave Song

David Li Sound Gallery - The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne

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

$20 - $45

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Elektronmusikstudion EMS Residency Stockholm

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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Signals - album release 

Very excited to announce that Signals, a solo album of 11 tracks is released and now available on all main digital platforms - including my Bandcamp page where you can stream and/or purchase it here.

Here's a little more on this album from the liner notes:

"Signals is a collection of audio compositions by Australian composer and sound artist Anthony Lyons that explore sound as a conduit for place, memory, and hidden connection. Drawing on field recordings, historical archives, analogue synthesis, and bio-electrical signals from living environments, the album listens closely to the traces and interferences that shape how we inhabit the world. Bells echo through locked-down towns, prison songs fracture into pulse and grain, sacred caves hum with technological intrusion, and forests and islands speak through layered sonic gestures. Across the album, the Buchla Music Easel and modular synthesis weave through these environments, binding the organic and electronic into a shared sonic language.

Signals listens for what is often overlooked: the hidden infrastructures of sound, the rhythms and resonances of place, the fragile connections between environment, technology, and human presence. Concealed patterns, whispers, and hums of the world are drawn into focus—amplified, reshaped, and heard anew."

Overdrive Festival - New York City 

OVERDRIVE is a festival for experimental electronic music and multimedia art in the heart of Manhattan. The festival presents multichannel electroacoustic compositions, interactive performances, and ensembles with live electronics, alongside video artworks, sculptural and sonic installations. Thrilled to be selected to be part of the concert and screening on April 14 at Elebash Hall with the work Memory of Water. With artists including: Janet Biggs, Noise Catalogue, Zorica Colic, (Anthony Lyons), Michał Sieczka, and Tobias Fandel.

Underland - 2026 Castlemaine State Festival 

Created by Karen Berger, Anthony Lyons and Kate Neal, Underland is an immersive sonic journey into the hidden worlds beneath our feet. Using field recordings, contre forte bassoon, buchla easel synth with spoken and recorded words, this new work performance invites audiences to travel through layers of sound and inner worlds of the Underland - offering a reflection on subterranean life, ecology and deep time.

Venue: Punctum ICU Basement, Castlemaine

Date: Friday 27 March 6pm and 9pm / Saturday 28 March 3pm and 6pm

Admission: $35/$32

Duration: 60 minutes

More Info: https://castlemainefestival.com.au/event/underland-2/

 

eviMus Festival 

The audiovisual work ‘Capillary Motions’ by Anthony Lyons & Paul Fletcher is to be featured at the 2025 eviMus Festival. The eviMus Festival is a four-day festival in Saarbrücken, Germany, that showcases new electroacoustic and visual music. It features a variety of events, including concerts with live electronics and fixed media, as well as audiovisual works. The festival is held at the KuBa - Kulturzentrum am EuroBahnhof, and all events are free and open to the public.

Audiovisual work at the Portuguese National Museum of Music 

Cosmos by Anthony Lyons (sound) & Paul Fletcher (visual) is one of 10 selected audiovisual installation works to be featured specifically for the Immersive Room at the Portuguese National Museum of Music and part of the Sounds in Museums International Conference at Mafra Portugal 17-19 October 2025. Experience these immersive works across 4 large screens and 24 speakers taking full advantage of the space's distinctive audio and video technologies.

SonoTactile 

SonoTactile - an evening dedicated to exploring the tangible dimensions of sound. Celebrating the tactile nature of musical instruments, audiovisual and embodied experience, composer-performers reimagine musical engagement, extending beyond traditional approaches to create immersive, multisensory experiences. Spanning diverse areas, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, gestural music, synthesis, immersive performance, and DJing, join us for a rich evening of audiovisual composer-performance works. 

Tue, Jul 29 @ 7:30PM / Hanson Dyer Hall, Melbourne

NIME 2025 

The Glass and Fans installation is part of NIME 2025 in Canberra! New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), is an international conference about new musical interfaces, their artistic use and the technologies involved in building them. Researchers from all over the world share their knowledge and late breaking work during the conference. The conference started as a workshop at the CHI conference in 2001 and, since then, has been held annually around the world.

Glass and Fans: Spatial Infra-Instrument Framework is an installation that explores the entangled relationships between technology, creativity, accessibility, and participation through Glass and Fans, two interactive spatial sound installations developed using the Spatial Infra-Instrument Framework (SIF).

Rooted in Percy Grainger’s vision to “blur the distinctions between performance, composition, and listening”, SIF transforms everyday materials—such as glass and fans—into versatile instruments, enabling participatory engagement for composers, performers, and the public, regardless of prior musical or technical experience.

Ripple Fest 2025 

Ripple Fest:

Anthony Lyons and Paul Fletcher, collectively known as AntPaul Projects, deliver immersive live performances that seamlessly blend experimental soundscapes with dynamic visual artistry. As part of their activation in this evening at Rochester Shire Hall they will demonstrate their innovations such as transforming plant energy into interactive audio-visual experiences. They will combine live audio-visual compositions with abstract animations, creating a sensory journey that explores the interplay between organic forms and digital media. Their work invites audiences to engage deeply, fostering a unique connection between the performers, the art and the viewers.

Performance: Ripple Fest 2025 - May 22 @ 8pm-10pm, Rochester, Victoria

More details here

 

MPAC - David Li Sound Gallery - Cave Song 

 
Cave Song was created by Karen Berger, Kate Neal and Anthony Lyons, who are recipients of an MPAC Progress Links creative development grant, which forges connections between artists and Monash University researchers to generate new art. Using the extraordinary capabilities of the Meyer Active Acoustic Constellation sound system, Cave Song transports the audience across time and space, exploring the ways caves have impacted the human journey.
 
Developed at the Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts - David Li Sound Gallery in Melbourne with support of MPAC. Performance showing Feb 21, 2025. Stay tuned for future iterations and developments!

Residency at Elektronmusikstudion_EMS Stockholm 

It's been wonderful to be in residence at Elektronmusikstudion_EMS Stockholm this October. I've enjoyed working with the buchla and serge instruments as well as the ems spatialisation studios. Thanks to lovely ems folk for having me and @creative.australia for helping me get here.

Since 1964 EMS has been the centre for Swedish electroacoustic music & sound-art. EMS is a part of the Swedish National Collections of Music, Theatre and Dance with an aim to support artistic development of electroacoustic music and its integration within other artistic areas at the national and international level.

Cultural Resonance: Crafting Future Narratives and Soundscapes 

 

A collaboration with the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore responding to cultural and historical sites in Singapore city. New audiovisual works, design and installations exhibited at the On-Air Gallery Singapore from the 3-10 October 2024, including the new work Memory Flower.

SOUND/IMAGE FESTIVAL 

 

 

The SOUND/IMAGE audiovisual festival brings together international artists and experts exploring the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves. The festival delivers a rich programme of complementary talks, screenings, loudspeaker orchestra concerts, and performances – bringing together composers, filmmakers, electronic musicians, live visual performers, researchers from all over the world to stimulate discussion, debate and engage diverse perspectives and new insights on sound and audiovisual practice. Selected as one of the performed works is Bundanon - Between Earth and Sky by Anthony Lyons - a fixed media, multi-channel spatialised sound work. The work was written as a reflection on the land and spirit of the location Bundanon on the Shoalhaven river, NSW, Australia and comes out of an artist in residence period at Bundanon last year.

Casting Light Projecting Ripples - Immersive Audiovisual Installation 

Casting Light Projecting Ripples is an audiovisual installation work by Australian composer/artist Anthony Lyons that is inspired by the light, foliage, rock and mirrored blue waters of Zervati Cave. Through a process of bio-mapping and re-imagination of the sounds, plant data, light and wave patterns of Zervati as they resonate onto and off the cave walls, the work tries to capture moments of suspended beauty, emergent patterns and rhythmic processes through the interplay of light, shadow and sound.

Casting Light Projecting Ripples is an immersive installation integrating field-recordings, synthesis, plant sensors, and video. The work aspires to unveil fresh perspectives and direct attention toward UNESCO Global Geopark sites — extraordinary realms of ecological significance and rare beauty.

(This project was made possible with the support of Regional Arts Victoria)

Home - the Art of Listening 

Home - the Art of Listening is a fantastic project exploring the sonic terrain of Kefalonia, and the practice and art of listening itself. So blessed to have worked with these wonderful people and to have contributed sounds to the permanent installation at the GEO Park, Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece.

AudioVisual Garden installation work at Conflux Bendigo 

The AudioVisual Garden is a botanical installation for Conflux Bendigo of sound and light that creates interactions between the energy existing in living plants and people with images and sounds in a quest to appreciate and recognise our place in nature. Perhaps even to find glimpses of hidden forms of communications, exchange or fields of influence between plants and people. 

A collection of indoor plants, multi-channel audio and large-format video projection form the AudioVisual Garden. Selected plants are wired up via sensors and signal translators to directly generate and manipulate sound and visuals according to parameters and structures collaboratively designed with the plants by composer Anthony Lyons and visual artist Paul Fletcher. The aim is an installation that is continually influenced by plants and their bio-feedback signals generating beautiful evolving patterns and shapes of light and sound. Further info on Anthony & Paul's collaborative work with sound, light and plants can be found at AntPaul Projects.

Capital Theatre, Bendigo: Fri 9 - Sat 10 September

 

Melbourne Recital Centre - Au Revoir Hands 

A special concert performance by Au Revoir Hands of Hemispheres at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Friday August 5, 7pm

"A stunning, imaginative and mesmerising sound world by two exceptional artists."

About the artists 

Au Revoir Hands fuse cello and buchla easel synth, exploring the worlds of experimental ambient and contemporary neo-classical music. Cello and analogue synth lines meet fragments of noise, broken and reframed beats, underpinned by samples of viola da gamba, harp and strings. 

About the concert 

The duo’s performance in Primrose Potter Salon presents original works from their album Hemispheres, exploring concepts of navigation and voyage. An immersive sound world sitting at the intersections of neo-classical, soundscape and electronics. 

Hemispheres is a rich tapestry of musical sound forged from the layering of melodic cello, analogue synthesizers, electronic atmospheres and ambient rhythms. A deeply immersive and expansive concert experience, Hemispheres invites a momentary pause to look out beyond the forces that push and pull us. 

‘Created across our northern and southern hemispheres, the album furnishes a program that embraces themes of nautical voyages, ocean channel crossings, time, tide, and celestial navigation.’ Au Revoir Hands on Hemispheres

Hemispheres album now available!! 

‘Hemispheres’ is out now! The album by Au Revoir Hands is available on all platforms. This has been awhile coming so it’s very nice to let it out into the world. An instrumental album about the sea, navigation and voyage it weaves cello, buchla & moog synths with fragments of noise & reframed beats, underpinned by loops of viola da gamba, harp and strings. You can listen/download/purchase here: https://aurevoirhands.bandcamp.com/album/hemispheres

ASRA 2021 Conference 

Dr Anthony Lyons and Dr Heather Gaunt present on the Living Instruments project at the 2021 Australian Sound Recordings Association Conference.

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. The project has resulted in significant student learning experiences and outcomes with Interactive Composition students from the University creating over 20 new audio works from the recording and digital instrument making process.

More info: https://www.asra.asn.au/asra-2021-conference-survival-and-revival