For listeners interested in Australian music culture and the contemporary music scene, the New Waves podcast delivers downloads of diverse ABC-exclusive music recordings and related interviews to your computer.
Nardi Simpson shares music and stories of Yuwaalaraay Country in concert with Ensemble Offspring, Kevin Hunt and the Barayagal Choir.
Liza Lim on how storytelling through opera has shaped her own story as a composer.
First Nations composers share stories and visions. And make new music for an C18 square piano, voice, violin, and didgeridoo.
First Nations composers share stories and visions. And make new music for an C18 square piano, voice, violin, and didgeridoo.
Immerse yourself in the sounds of some of Australia’s great songbirds. And the human music they inspire.
Immerse yourself in the sounds of some of Australia’s great songbirds. And the human music they inspire.
Deborah Cheetham presents her Woven Song Embassy Tapestry Project and more.
Deborah Cheetham presents her Woven Song Embassy Tapestry Project and more.
A sonic evocation of a post-apocalyptic world in which humankind scrambles to decipher the remnants of civilisation with the aid of a mysterious machine.
A sonic evocation of a post-apocalyptic world in which humankind scrambles to decipher the remnants of civilisation with the aid of a mysterious machine.
A dramatic musico-poetic telling of the life experience of a disabled person from the inside, with inspiration from the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
A dramatic musico-poetic telling of the life experience of a disabled person from the inside, with inspiration from the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
An operatic re-imagining of Homer’s Odyssey through the eyes of a female 'Odyssea' on her night-time walk home.
An operatic re-imagining of Homer’s Odyssey through the eyes of a female 'Odyssea' on her night-time walk home.
An operatic parable of the disappearance and re-emergence of the elusive endangered Australian bird the Night Parrot.
An operatic parable of the disappearance and re-emergence of the elusive endangered Australian bird the Night Parrot.
Old faves and new releases from the personal playlists of 12 outstanding Australian musicians.
Old faves and new releases from the personal playlists of 12 outstanding Australian musicians.
16 artists from the Australian music scene talk about staying creative and connected in these times of physical and social isolation.
16 artists from the Australian music scene talk about staying creative and connected in these times of physical and social isolation.
10 creative musicians from around the country expand your music collection with some great new releases and old faves.
10 creative musicians from around the country expand your music collection with some great new releases and old faves.
Listen to Cat Hope's wordless opera, inspired by The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.
Listen to Cat Hope's wordless opera, inspired by The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.
Cat Hope and singer-collaborators talk about her wordless opera that aims to give voice to the voiceless.
Cat Hope and singer-collaborators talk about her wordless opera that aims to give voice to the voiceless.
Katie Noonan, Liza Lim and Alice Chance introduce more artists that inspire them.
Katie Noonan, Liza Lim and Alice Chance introduce more artists that inspire them.
Katie Noonan, Liza Lim and Alice Chance talk about careers, role models, gender equity, and their visions for a more diverse and inclusive musical world.
Katie Noonan, Liza Lim and Alice Chance talk about careers, role models, gender equity, and their visions for a more diverse and inclusive musical world.
Syzygy Ensemble performs a selection of works by female composers, including a new work by the Commission recipient for 2019, Deborah Cheetham.
Syzygy Ensemble performs a selection of works by female composers, including a new work by the Commission recipient for 2019, Deborah Cheetham.
ELISION ensemble records sounds by Lim, O'Dwyer, Alvarez and Flenady in the ABC studios in Melbourne.
ELISION ensemble records sounds by Lim, O'Dwyer, Alvarez and Flenady in the ABC studios in Melbourne.
New Australian music performed by wind dynamos Arcadia Winds, recorded in Melbourne's Iwaki Auditorium.
New Australian music performed by wind dynamos Arcadia Winds, recorded in Melbourne's Iwaki Auditorium.
Michael Kieran Harvey performs new works in concert from Hobart’s MONA
Michael Kieran Harvey performs new works in concert from Hobart’s MONA
Shape-shifting voices in the 2018 Resonant Bodies Festival
Shape-shifting voices in the 2018 Resonant Bodies Festival
Expansive listening from two intimate voice and instrument duos – life partners Deborah Kayser and Nick Tsiavos, and Sonya Holowell and her father Jonathan.
Expansive listening from two intimate voice and instrument duos – life partners Deborah Kayser and Nick Tsiavos, and Sonya Holowell and her father Jonathan.
Five new Australian works for saxophone, presented by composer-saxophonist Katia Beaugeais.
Five new Australian works for saxophone, presented by composer-saxophonist Katia Beaugeais.
From an audience choir, to the sound-world of a country waterhole, to the digital cutting and fusing of sound, three Australian women composers make their mark.
From an audience choir, to the sound-world of a country waterhole, to the digital cutting and fusing of sound, three Australian women composers make their mark.
Five indigenous composers challenge assumptions about what indigenous music sounds like, shaping new western classical musics to tell their own stories.
Five indigenous composers challenge assumptions about what indigenous music sounds like, shaping new western classical musics to tell their own stories.
Improvising violinist Jon Rose and three classically-trained string players make music and reflect on the interplay between their classical and improvising experience.
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