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Live Events

Finding Our Voice is a portrait of Australian art music now. Discover in-person performances.

Image: UKARIA Cultural Centre
Credit: UKARIA

Sunset external view of the Ukaria Cultural Center and the surrounding lush green landscape

Past Events

Past Finding Our Voice premieres.

Lisa Illean on a Tasmanian beach looking to camera on a nice blue sky day

Sunny Kim

Mothertounge,
Motherland

Lisa Illean:
arcing, stilling, bending, gathering

Melbourne Recital Centre
Friday 21 April 2023 7.30pm
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 desire through human history for moments of kinship and tenderness that counter the immensity of the world we inhabit.
Matthias schack-arnott stands on the side of a hill looking at camera

Sunny Kim

Mothertounge,
Motherland

Matthias Schack-Arnott:
Tethering

The Substation
13 - 15th April 2023
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.
moody studio portrait from the side of Linda May Han Oh holding her double bass with a studio light over her head casting a harsh shadow

Sunny Kim

Mothertounge,
Motherland

Linda May Han Oh:
Ephemeral Echoes

Perth Concert Hall
Sunday 5 March 2023, 5pm
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 and objects designed to become obsolete. Presented as part of Perth Festival.
Portrait of Sunny Kim on the rocks in Sydney on a sunny late afternoon with the ocean and city in the background

Sunny Kim

Mothertounge,
Motherland

Sunny Kim:
MotherTongue, MotherLand

Sydney Opera House
Sunday 12 February, 3pm

12 February 2023
In her new work, MotherTongue, MotherLand, Sunny Kim has assembled a stellar cast of musicians: Aviva Endean, Gelareh Pour and Mindy Meng Wang. At the heart of their work is a poetic response to motherhood referencing the artists' and their mothers' experiences of migration, longing, belonging, joy, and pain.
Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey & Jenny Hector standing in a grassy field on a cloudy day looking at the camera

Sunny Kim

Mothertounge,
Motherland

Madeleine Flynn, Jenny Hector, Tim Humphrey & Erin Milne: DarkQuiet

Bundanon
Sunday 27 November – Thursday 22 December 2022
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 December 2022.
William Barton sitting on a stool in the corner of a sunlit room holding his didgeridoo, looking out of the window

Sunny Kim

Mothertounge,
Motherland

William Barton & Friends:
Connection

Sydney Opera House
Sunday 27 November 2022, 3pm
This one-time event, part of Sydney Opera House’s UnWrapped series, featured Barton alongside his hand-picked ensemble of exceptional colleagues Simon Barker, Scott Tinkler, alongside other new works including Veronique Serret and Chloe Kim.
Portrait of Mark Atkins outside in a mountainous setting looking to the right of camera

Sunny Kim

Mothertounge,
Motherland

Mark Atkins & Erkki Veltheim:
Nightfalls

UKARIA
Saturday 22 October 2022, 7.30pm
UKARIA presented a special showing of Nightfalls, which 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. Music by Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim, and performance created in collaboration with dramaturg Ruth Little and lighting designer Niklas Pajanti.
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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and create, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Low view of Australian Outback landscape with red dirt texture heavily feature and dry grassy hill in the distant background
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