Past shows

15 Nov 2024  /  KNOTS THAT BIND  /  David Li Sound Gallery, Clayton VIC 

Performing in an experimental chamber opera by Jaslyn Robertson that takes the audience through a journey of understanding self-censorship and its impact on queer and disabled lives. Through experiments with non-traditional notation and improvisation in restricted environments, the opera tests the limits of the stage as a space to unpack the complexity of silence and erasure. Get a free ticket.

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23 Nov 2024  /  SOUND PICNIC  /  The Coal Loader, Waverton NSW

Join the music box project for a Sound Picnic at the historic Coal Loader site in Sydney. Free.

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​23 - 24 Mar 2024  /  CUT PASTE PLAY  /  Church Street Studios, Camperdown NSW

A solo set, a set by the music box project, and as part of the festival orchestra. Cut Paste Play is a festival of music outside the usual order of things. More info & get tickets.

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9 Dec 2023  /  SOUND PARTY  /  Church Street Studios, Camperdown NSW

The music box project invites you to SOUND PARTY – an end of year celebration of new music & old friends plus the launch of something new for 2024! More info & get tickets.

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6 Dec 2022  /  Live Soundtrack to silent films with Elizabeth Jigalin /  Tempe Jetsets, Tempe NSW 

Improvised set with composer/pianist Elizabeth Jigalin as part of the Jetsets series, an artist run gig series presenting jazz and improvised music. Tickets at the door.

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18 Nov 2022 /  Xani + Peter Hollo (Cello Raven) + Jane Aubourg /  The Servo, Port Kembla NSW

Supporting Naarm/Melbourne-based contemporary violinist/vocalist Xani and cellist and electronic musician Peter Hollo for a special night of improvisatory, explorative and contemporary amplified string music. Get tickets.

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15 Oct 2022  /  Upstairs @ The Glebe: CHANGING EARS  /  The Glebe Hotel, Ultimo NSW
Make your way up the stairs at The Glebe Hotel and join the music box project for an afternoon of music outside the usual order of things. This is just your usual afternoon of music made from teapots, toys, skateboards, noise, zombies, data, music, etc. Curated by Elizabeth Jigalin. Get tickets.

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20 Aug 2022  /  Upstairs @ The Glebe: COME PLAY  /  The Glebe Hotel, Ultimo NSW

Make your way up the stairs at The Glebe Hotel and join the music box project for an afternoon of music outside the usual order of things. Spin the top, roll the dice, pick a card, you know you want to. Open the music box for an afternoon of games and game-inspired pieces. Curated by Naomi Johnson. Get tickets.

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18 Jun 2022  /  Upstairs @ The Glebe: STIR, FLUTTER /  The Glebe Hotel, Ultimo NSW

Make your way up the stairs at The Glebe Hotel and join the music box project for an afternoon of music outside the usual order of things. Music made in cut & paste, each syllable a bit of dust from wings. Curated by Jane Aubourg. Get tickets.

 

16 Apr 2022  /  Upstairs @ The Glebe: TICK TICK  /  The Glebe Hotel, Ultimo NSW

Make your way up the stairs at The Glebe Hotel and join the music box project for an afternoon of music outside the usual order of things. An exploration of time through sound, its movement and stillness. Curated by Peter Leung. Get tickets.

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15 Oct 2022  /  Upstairs @ The Glebe: BLIND DUƐTS  /  The Glebe Hotel, Ultimo NSW

Make your way up the stairs at The Glebe Hotel and join the music box project for an afternoon of music outside the usual order of things. The music box project are setting each other up on a series of improvised blind duets. Curated by Joseph Lisk. Get tickets.

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16 Mar 2022  /  SOUND PARTY: the music box project launch Upstairs 2022  /  Online

Join us online for a SOUND PARTY at home as we launch our 2022 Upstairs @ The Glebe series. Watch for free.

 

15 Oct 2022  /  the music box project presents: SOUND PARTY (cancelled due to COVID)  /  The Glebe Hotel, Ultimo NSW 

The music box project is back upstairs @ The Glebe! To celebrate, we’re throwing a SOUND PARTY and you’re invited! Join us for an afternoon of music outside the usual order of things with music/situations/games/maps composed by Jane Aubourg, Elizabeth Jigalin, Naomi Johnson, Peter Leung, Joseph Lisk and Arvo Pärt. Get tickets.

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15 - 16 May 2021  /  the music box project presents: Shallow Listening  /  Australia Hall, Sydney NSW  

Artfully beguiling, subtly chaotic and deliciously zany, the music box project brings you the Sydney premiere of Shallow Listening (winner of the 2020 APRA AMCOS/AMC Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Music). SOLD OUT - more info.

 

8 Sep 2020  /  2020 Virtual APRA AMCOS & AMC Art Music Awards  /  Online

The music box project is a Finalist in the Award for Excellence for our project Shallow Listening - tune in to watch the Virtual Awards this year! Watch here.

 

21 Jun 2020  /  Hibernation Festival: Sound Game Picnic  /  Online

Join the music box project while they play, explore and sonically activate Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour.
A 6 hour live-streaming event with music made from maps, sonic scavenger hunts, notes on isolation, adventuring sound keepers/seekers, droning chase sequences, live drawing/scoring and more. each artist will be wearing a camera for online audiences to choose their view, mix, match and experience this curiously noisy picnic at home.

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09 Nov 2019  /  Upstairs @ The Glebe  /  The Glebe Hotel, Ultimo NSW

Curated by Joe Franklin.  In 2019, the music box project will continue its monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things. Get tickets.

 

11 Oct 2019  /  Wollongong Writer's Festival Program Launch  /  Music Lounge, Wollongong Town Hall

Join us for the launch of our 2019 program. Hosted by Sydney comedian Lizzy Hoo, this free, public event will see us raise a glass or two to writing and its power to illuminate topics that usually remain hidden in the dark, while local violinist Jane Aubourg sets the party mood with her post-minimalist, looping tunes. The theme of this year's festival is All Lit Up, so this is sure to be an enlightening evening!  Get tickets.

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07 Sep 2019  /  Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music: Shallow Listening  /  Bendigo Trades Hall

The major component of Sydney composer | performer collective The Music Box Project’s 2019 BIFEM début is an immersive event featuring world premieres from two of the collective, as well as rising star composers, Brisbane-based Jasmin Leung and Melbourne-based Jaslyn Robertson. Some 45 years after it was composed, and rounding out the programme, is the Australian premiere of iconic Australian composer Moya Henderson’s Clearing the Air. These works speak to each other across two generations and BIFEM audiences are all the richer for the exchange. Get tickets.

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06 Sep 2019  /  Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music: Cushion Concert  /  Banquet Room, The Capitol, Bendigo VIC

As part of their residency at 2019 BIFEM, Sydney composer | performer collective The Music Box Project open this year’s festival with our 6th annual Cushion Concert, BIFEM’s next- generation programme for pre-school audiences and their adult companions. The Cushion Concert remains one of the most hotly contested performance opportunities for BIFEM artists. Holding the attention of an adult audience is a coded and negotiated space, but holding a group of under-5-year-olds’ attention really means you have to perform!The exploratory collectivism that is the heart of The Music Box Project promises to deliver one of our best Cushion Concerts to date! Get tickets.

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24 Aug 2019  /  Live Soundtrack to Silent Film: The Lost World  /  Mt Keira Scout Camp

To raise money for the Mt Keira Scout Camp The Lost World (1960) is showing with a live improvised soundtrack by Elizabeth Jigalin on piano & Jane Aubourg on electric violin. Tickets at the door.

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10 Aug 2019  /  Upstairs @ The Glebe  /  The Glebe Hotel

Curated by Naomi Johnson.  In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things. Get tickets.

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20 Jul 2019  /  Jamberoo Music Festival  /  Jamberoo Uniting Church

A solo set on electric violin and loop pedal. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/178227046393831/

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13 Jul 2019  /  Upstairs @ The Glebe: Dust  /  The Glebe Hotel

Curated by Jane Aubourg.  In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/1184886501677025/

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11 May 2019  /  Upstairs @The Glebe: You, Me, Us  /  The Glebe Hotel

Curated by Tina Stefanou.  In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/2238504473036718/

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13 Apr 2019  /  Upstairs @The Glebe: Blind Duets  /  The Glebe Hotel

Curated by Joe Lisk.  In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/400435963858826/

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20 Mar 2019  /  A Night of Ambience  /  RAD Bar

Featuring sets from Gregory Mineeff, Yasmine Russell, Clocks & Clouds, and Jane Aubourg. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/2288537354796320/

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02 Mar 2019  /  Live Soundtrack to Silent Film: Peter Pan (1924)  /  Wesley Mission

Wesley Mission and Australia’s Silent Film Festival presents the very first film version of J.M Barrie’s play Peter Pan, created in 1924.  The film will be brought to life by two musical talents, Elizabeth Jigalin and Jane Aubourg, performing live during the screening.  $30 Adult | $25 Concession/Child Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/813477875662784/

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16 Feb 2019  /  Upstairs @The Glebe: please be quiet  /  The Glebe Hotel

Curated by Elizabeth Jigalin and Danica Hobden.  In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/242364480037321/

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12 Jan 2019  /  Trio Nueva es Norte + Chasing the Dreams  /  The Servo Food Truck Bar

Saxophonist/clarinetist Joe Glaysher has assembled an improvising trio that will explore territory not yet imagined in Wollongong. Featuring Melbourne saxophonist Rod Gregory, Gary Norwell on drums, Clayton Thomas on Bass, and Jane Aubourg on violin. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/551748925299415/

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05 Jan 2019  /  Yasmine Russell + Jane Aubourg  /  The Servo Food Truck Bar

An evening of Instrumental Ambience at The Servo Food Truck Bar, with sets from Yasmine Russell (Harpist), Jane Aubourg (Electric Violinist), Percy Rain, and Gregory Mineeff (Pianist). Get tickets.

https://www.facebook.com/events/297778524190326/

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13 Dec 2018  /  Town Hall Laneway Launch  /  Lower Town Hall

Come and hear my newly commissioned music installation works, alongside music by Andrew Gilholme and projection art by Daniel Breda, Andrew Gilhome & Abhiruchi Chhikara. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/1212353138889613/

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30 Sep 2018  /  Yours & Owls Festival  /  Stuart Park

Playing a set on electric violin with loop pedal at 5pm. Get tickets. https://www.janeaubourg.com.au/events/yours-owls-festival/form

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29 Sep 2018  /  TEDx Wollongong: Exposition  /  University Of Wollongong

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Performing with Sarah Whillier to bring you some new sounds from Iceland, among a line up of research storytellers. Get tickets. http://tedxuwollongong.com/

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17 Sep 2018  /  Pride Tide  /  Servo Food Truck Bar

PRIDE TIDE is an arts and music event for the LGBTQIA+ community and their pals. Featuring music from Maxine Kauter Band, FRUIT - the band, and Jane Aubourg. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/672594816439407/

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16 Sep 2018  /  Live soundtracks to silent film  /  State Library of New South Wales

Australia's Silent Film Festival presents Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness (1926) with a live improvised soundtrack by Liz Jigalin & Jane Aubourg.  Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/316572375570932/

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13 Sep 2018  /  Upstairs@AYH: foss  /  Australian Youth Hotel

Part of the music box project series, I am curating October's programme. Featuring artists from the music box project. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/1133123680185355/

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29 Apr 2018  /  Jam Night  /  Servo Food Truck Bar

Short solo set on electric violin with loops, then joined some other fantastic local improv artists in a jam session. Bring something that makes sound and join in! Get tickets. 

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11 Mar 2018  /  Port in a Storm  /  Servo Food Truck Bar

Featuring a mix of local, interstate and international acts that will challenge your mind and intrigue your ears, Port in a Storm will celebrate diversity and foster unity with music, performance and food. Get tickets. https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=349379

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04 Oct 2017  /  UOW Big Ideas Festival  /  University Of Wollongong

Solo set on electric violin with loop pedal Get tickets. https://www.janeaubourg.com.au/events/uow-big-ideas-festival/form

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28 Sep 2017  /  Ashley Bathgate + the music box project.  /  creative space 99

​ Playing as part of the music box project. to support touring Bang on a Can All Star’s Ashley Bathgate, who is playing a set of works for cello and electronics. Get tickets. https://www.janeaubourg.com.au/events/ashley-bathgate-the-music-box-project/form

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21 Sep 2017  /  Wollongong Fringe Festival  /  Innovation Campus, Squires Way

I am collaborating with artists Jasmine Ryan and Maya Saunders to create an interactive sound+light installation called The Grotto. Get tickets. http://www.wollongongfringefestival.com.au/

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18 Jul 2017  /  Silent Films with Live Soundtrack  /  Sydney Unitarian Church

Collaboration with pianist/composer Liz Jigalin to perform live, improvised soundtracks to four avant-garde silent short films from the early 20th century. A recording of this performance is now available for sale as an album. This event was part of a series presented by Australia's Silent Film Festival. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/800908356757325/?acontext=%257B%2522source%2522%253A5%252C%2522page_id_source%2522%253A136471716554%252C%2522action_history%2522%253A%5B%257B%2522surface%2522%253A%2522page%2522%252C%2522mechanism%2522%253A%2522main_list%2522%252C%2522extra_data%2522%253A%2522%257B%255C%2522page_id%255C%2522%253A136471716554%252C%255C%2522tour_id%255C%2522%253Anull%257D%2522%257D%5D%252C%2522has_source%2522%253Atrue%257D

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24 Feb 2017  /  Masterclass with Eighth Blackbird  /  Artbank Sydney

Playing as part of the music box project as part of a masterclass with Eighth Blackbird. We performed and workshoped 3 works by Australian composers. Get tickets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cRFAKRSJ3w

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19 Aug 2016  /  Backstage: yMusic + the music box project.  /  creative space 99

Playing as part of the music box project to support yMusic as part of their Australian tour. We performed a set of new Australian works, starting with a solo work by me for electric violin and loop pedal, with each successive piece adding another member of the ensemble. Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/756028737873367/?acontext=%257B%2522source%2522%253A5%252C%2522page_id_source%2522%253A603822176350044%252C%2522action_history%2522%253A%5B%257B%2522surface%2522%253A%2522page%2522%252C%2522mechanism%2522%253A%2522main_list%2522%252C%2522extra_data%2522%253A%2522%257B%255C%2522page_id%255C%2522%253A603822176350044%252C%255C%2522tour_id%255C%2522%253Anull%257D%2522%257D%5D%252C%2522has_source%2522%253Atrue%257D

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04 Mar 2015  /  In 4  /  Glebe Justice Centre

Playing with the music box project. Terry riley’s “in C.” is a piece written for any number of humans, playing any number of instruments. We’re asking you to come along, grab your instrument and jam on this awesome work. In response to “in C.”, a quartet of quartets (feat. 16 upcoming Sydney musicians) will be premiering a new collaborative work “in 4.” - 40 cells of music by 40 composers from around the world.  Get tickets. https://www.facebook.com/events/1598979350333111/?acontext=%257B%2522source%2522%253A5%252C%2522page_id_source%2522%253A603822176350044%252C%2522action_history%2522%253A%5B%257B%2522surface%2522%253A%2522page%2522%252C%2522mechanism%2522%253A%2522main_list%2522%252C%2522extra_data%2522%253A%2522%257B%255C%2522page_id%255C%2522%253A603822176350044%252C%255C%2522tour_id%255C%2522%253Anull%257D%2522%257D%5D%252C%2522has_source%2522%253Atrue%257D

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04 Mar 2015  /  Lunch in the Arts Precinct  /  Arts Precinct

Solo set on electric violin with loop pedal as part of the Wollongong City Council initiative. Get tickets. http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/city/events/Pages/Lunch-in-the-Arts-Precinct.aspx#gref

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24 Feb 2015  /  UOW O-Week  /  University Of Wollongong

Solo set on electric violin with loop pedal. Get tickets. https://getstarted.uow.edu.au/orientation/index.html