Finding Our Voice is a national portrait in sound of Australia’s most exciting composers, working in wildly diverse ways.

The project commissioned eight Australian artists to create an ambitious new musical composition, and presented each of the works live in an iconic Australian venue - filmed ...

Finding Our Voice is a national portrait in sound of Australia’s most exciting composers, working in wildly diverse ways.

The project commissioned eight Australian artists to create an ambitious new musical composition, and presented each of the works live in an iconic Australian venue - filmed ...

Singer-songwriter Lior and composer Nigel Westlake join forces with Dr Lou Bennett AM to create a tribute to the life and actions of Aboriginal activist William Cooper. An extension of Lior and Westlake’s first creation together, the song cycle Compassion, this work reflects a real-life story emb...

Nightfalls celebrates Mark Atkins' unique gifts as a poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter and didgeridoo virtuoso in a semi-staged program, imagined as a gathering around a campfire, and created in collaboration with composer Erkki Veltheim, dramaturg Ruth Little and lighting designer Niklas Paja...

Driven by Matthias’ propulsive percussive playing, and made in collaboration with a team of leading designers, Tethering is a visceral, trashy and fun exploration of the materiality of sound.

Bassist and composer Linda May Han Oh’s collaborative composition, Ephemeral Echoes, explores the transient nature of things – from the flickers of a firefly or the spectacle of the Aurora Borealis/Australis, to planned obsolescence. Presented as part of Perth Festival.

DarkQuiet is a new architectural sound and light installation by artists Madeleine Flynn, Jenny Hector and Tim Humphrey, created with the International Dark Sky Alliance, Science Gallery Melbourne, and producer Erin Milne. Various events featuring the installation took place in November and Decem...

Lisa Illean is an Australian composer of acoustic and acousmatic music, based in the UK. Her music has been praised for “exquisite quietness” and “compelling stillness”. She has conceived arcing, stilling, bending, gathering for strings, piano and electronics. The work reflects on an ongoing desi...

Discover why collaboration, and connection to place, people, past and language, is central to William Barton's music.

"We become the spirit of the land. We become the whisper of the wind through the trees. We become the embodiment of nature. A reflective interpretation of landscape, we with our ...

Discover vocalist and percussionist Sunny Kim's collaborative new work exploring the nature of motherhood and the moving stories of immigrants' lives lived far from home.

The story behind Korean performer Sunny Kim's moving collaboration with fellow musicians Aviva Endean, Gelareh Pour and Mindy...

Lior and Nigel Westlake reunite after 'Compassion', joined by Lou Bennett, to present 'Ngapa William Cooper', the powerful story of an indigenous Australian protest that took place against Nazi atrocities in the 1930s.

Discover the stunning new work 'Ngapa William Cooper', telling the story of t...

Inside poet, singer-songwriter and didgeridoo virtuoso Mark Atkins's campfire gathering-inspired work featuring poetry, music and song.

'Nightfalls' is a semi-staged program imagined as a gathering around a campfire featuring poems drawn from composer Mark Atkins's life, stories inspired by the ...

The story behind a fascinating new work by Australian artist, composer and percussionist Matthias Schack-Arnott.

Matthias Schack-Arnott's visceral new work 'Tethering' was commissioned by The Unconformity, The Substation, UKARIA and Finding Our Voice, and premiered in March 2023. Finding Our Voi...

The story behind Grammy Award-winning Australian bassist, Linda May Han Oh's 'Ephemeral Echoes', commissioned by UKARIA and Finding Our Voice, and premiered at Perth Festival in 2023.

Finding Our Voice Artistic Director, Genevieve Lacey, meets Linda and her band to explore the creative process b...

Artists Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Jennifer Hector and Erin Milne, Bureau of Works, are developing a set of principles and an evolving methodology to explore how we react to the spaces we're in, and question the impact of human and non-human beings on sites.

In DarkQuiet – commissioned by F...

Discover Australian composer Lisa Illean's atmospheric work featuring shimmering constellations of piano, strings and live electronics.

Composer Lisa Illean introduces the processes and inspiration behind the fragile soundworlds she creates, combining acoustic instruments and almost otherworldly...