Events

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Call-out: ECF 2025
May
15
to 19 May

Call-out: ECF 2025

Soundstream invites emerging composers to participate in the 2025 Emerging Composers’ Forum (ECF) between May 15-19 2025. 

Five participants will be selected through this national call-out to join a creative development intensive at Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park, an extraordinary landscape that inspires experimentation and collaboration. 

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Omnium-gatherum: Gabriella Smart
Dec
1

Omnium-gatherum: Gabriella Smart

Welcome to Omnium-gatherum, a ‘medley of various things’ around the piano in two solo concerts in November and December, featuring two acclaimed pianists with divergent practices.

Sunday December 1st, 2pm: Gabriella Smart

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Omnium-gatherum: Marianna Grynchuk
Nov
22

Omnium-gatherum: Marianna Grynchuk

Welcome to Omnium-gatherum, a ‘medley of various things’ around the piano in two solo concerts during November and December, featuring two acclaimed pianists with divergent practices. 

Friday November 22nd, 7pm: Marianna Grynchuk

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MUD: Composer In Residence Performance
July
6

MUD: Composer In Residence Performance

Join us on July 6th for an extraordinary evening of music showcasing the creative achievements of the MUD: Composer-in-Residence program. Esteemed cellist David Moran will open the night, presenting new works by our composer-in-residence, Joseph Franklin, alongside guest performer Gabriella Smart on Electric Cristal.

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MUD: Composer In Residence Workshop
July
4

MUD: Composer In Residence Workshop

Join us for an engaging community workshop led by acclaimed composer and bassist Joseph Franklin, whose work fuses notated and improvised modalities with elements of experimental music, sound art, and unique instrument design. Esteemed cellist David Moran will join him, helping to unpack and demonstrate the intricacies of their collaborative process…

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Apr
1
to 31 July

Inarma Choir Workshops

2024 saw two workshop series with the Inarma Choir (SA/NT) held in April at Ross River, NT; and July in Mparntwe-Alice Springs, NT. This was a continuation of the ongoing Titjikala Community project, and collaboration with the Inarma Choir.

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Considering Matthew Shepard Fundraiser
June
18

Considering Matthew Shepard Fundraiser

Join conductor and producer Jesse Budel in an afternoon fundraising event for Considering Matthew Shepard, a modern-day oratorio by Craig Hella Johnson, reflecting on the 1998 homophobic murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming USA. This year marks the 25th anniversary of these tragic events, and Soundstream performing the work between October 12-14 in Adelaide's Elder Hall…

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Emerging Composers Forum Concert
Mar
12

Emerging Composers Forum Concert

Join Adelaide's Soundstream New Music for four world premieres of new works by Olivia Davies (WA), Christopher Williams (SA), Luke Cuerel (QLD) and Elizabeth Jigalin (NSW), each responding to the environment of the Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park on the Fleurieu Peninsula.

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Gabriella Smart at Dim
Mar
8

Gabriella Smart at Dim

Deep drones - Gabriella Smart performs on Electric Crystal and Seaboard Roli, blending microtonal, acoustic and electronic sounds. Smart brings the Electric Crystal for the first time to Europe- to Dim.

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PRIMORDIAL @ MONA FOMA
Feb
26

PRIMORDIAL @ MONA FOMA

A time-travelling marriage of science and sound, played on a ‘time machine’ that looks suspiciously like a piano (with some additions)—it’ll be plucked, stroked and hammered by Gabriella Smart…

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A Deep Black Sleep @ MONA FOMA
Feb
23
to 25 Feb

A Deep Black Sleep @ MONA FOMA

A film noir opera about a composer in an authoritarian state, and the price of artistic freedom. Live vocals and performance intertwine with projected film, blurring the line between live performance and cinema…

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WAVE at Adelaide Film Festival
Oct
19
to 8 Jan

WAVE at Adelaide Film Festival

This genre-defying work of art unites digital imagery, ceramics and sound in an immersive 360-degree installation in the Elder Wing of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Gerry Wedd’s iconic ceramics and drawings are brought to life with an evocative soundscape composed by Gabriella Smart in this cinematic production co-directed by Wedd, Mark Patterson and Smart, produced by Patterson with digital production by Jumpgate VR.

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QUARTET
June
6

QUARTET

Join Gabriella Smart on Seaboard ROLI & electric cristal, Lisa MacKinney on guitar, Cat Hope on bass and Tina Havelock Stevens on drums as they form a new ensemble, QUARTET, for the first time.

Immersive improvised noise textures by foggy seascapes, disappeared women and lost masterpieces.

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