5 September 2025

Where does the human end and the machine begin? "ALGORITHMS DO DREAM" explores these shifting boundaries and creates something new – complex, hybrid, and very much alive. An audiovisual performance for sound, light, and movement.

August 2025

An interdisciplinary performance of voice, instruments, movement, video, sound.

‘Floating Memories’ is a poetic exploration of how memory drifts through time - fragile, shifting, and deeply human. Through six individuals, it reveals memories not as fixed stories, but as fleeting fragments shaped by feeling and silence.

4 May 2022

Premiere of Caerwen Martin’s ‘i see you like rain’; an interpretative transcription of summer rain on a tent in Walkerville, South Gippsland. i hear you, like Rain Octet for 37 chromatically tuned cowbells.

5-6 August 2022

Performance of Lisa Lim’s Anactoria, and premiere of combined percussion ensemble finale piece RoundUp!

25 May 2023

Melbourne Recital Centre

A deep dive into the captivating percussive sound-worlds of three international composers: Viet Cuong (VN/US); Tonia Ko (HK/US); and Sarah Nemtsov (DE).

THE HORROR OF THE AVANT-GARDE(S) World premiere of Joseph Franklin’s concerto for piano, percussion, and large ensemble. Featuring renowned international guests Marc Hannaford on piano and Satoshi Takeishi on percussion, art direction by Tina Stefanou, words by Diego Ramirez, performances by Yumi Umiumare, and Young Voices of Melbourne featuring Bridget Bourne on percussion and Michael Mews on Hammered Dulcimer, and culinary horror by Long Prawn.

Speak Percussion presents Sonic Eclipse, an immersive percussive event that interweaves four new Australian compositions into a seamless exhalation of spatialized sound. Featuring 50+ mobilized drummers and wind players and an ensemble of 12 leading percussionists, this performance bleeds across three floors and into the magnificent acoustics of the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, reimagining the venue’s conventional acoustics and redefining the sonic boundaries of its traditional concert hall.

17 June 2023

The Mission To Seafarers, Norla Dome

A concert of contemporary percussion and string music that engages with current environmental issues faced in Australia, including 3 world premieres by Ceridwen McCooey, Xiaole Zhan, and Oscar Tudge

11 November 2023

Oratory, Abbotsford Convent

Juliana Kay, in collaboration with percussionist Bridget Bourne, poet Kristen Lang, and chamber ensemble Alta Collective, have composed a song cycle for treble voices and percussion that will challenge our human-centered worldview and remind us of the vast timescale of our planet.

14 October 2023

Innovative chamber ensembles Choral Edge and WHACKollective combine forces in a dazzling interplay of voice and percussion. "Shrewd Awakenings" dances around themes of enlightenment, consciousness, life and death, and the eruption of dormant ideas. Working with a vast palette of vocal and instrumental tone colours, the two ensembles conjure up a technicolour world and mind-state that screams AWAKE!

Alongside contemporary dancer Niki Tarling, Jesse Vivante and his ensemble respond to Meagan Streader's Sky whispers through a program of world premieres commissioned in response to this artwork, including a new work by Klearhos Murphy.

5-7 April 2024

World Premiere works by Travers K. Eira and Bridget Bourne, with additional works by Aditya Ryan Bhat and Oscar Tudge.

In a new work “islands” by composer-linguist K. Travers Eira, our four musicians inhabit and perform in different, musical ‘islands’. Within these contrasting percussive sound worlds, each player explores their physical and timbral environment, finding connections to another’s territory, and enabling movement between them.

7:30pm 29 July 2022

Hason Dyer Hall

WHACKollective’s sold-out debut full-length concert: virtuosic and visually compelling contemporary percussion works, featuring 4 world premieres, including a commission from Anne Hsuyin.

Collaboration with dancer Jarrod McWilliams and the National Youth Ballet Company performing an innovative work by Michael Askill choreographed by Graeme Murphy

5 March 2022

Performance of the spatialised bass drum quartet Qilyaun at the concert ‘In The Dark’

3 March 2023

50th Anniversary celebration concert, featuring Exaudi Choir and 10 piece brass section at the Melbourne Town Hall

29-30 October 2022

A centenary celebration for the legendary composer and architect Iannis Xenakis, featuring his epic four-movement percussion sextet work ‘Pléïades’ in full.

27 & 28 January 2023

Performance at Sacred Heart College Performing Arts Centre, Geelong

29 April 2023

Folk-inspired choral works sung by treble chamber choir Alta Collective, featuring Bridget Bourne on percussion