Sonic Spaces

Sonic Spaces returns for 2025 with an exciting new series of music performances, held in one of the city’s most unique venues.

Join us for an intimate series of performances in one of the city’s most unusual spaces, the hammock room at the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Hyde Park Barracks. Originally housing convicts, the hammock room is steeped in history and personal stories.

Can music change the way a space makes you feel? And can a space change the way you interpret music? Experience the hammock room in a different way as you listen to some of our best and brightest musicians in this intimate setting. Can music change the way a space makes you feel? And can a space change the way you interpret music?

Immerse yourself in an audiovisual experience with atmospheric lighting, projected imagery and surround sound. From the comfort of a hammock, soak up the sounds of some of Sydney’s most interesting and diverse artists exploring a range of genres.

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Friday 7 February

Ziggy Ramo

Ziggy Ramo is a singer and songwriter known for his lyricism and story-telling ability. The son of an Aboriginal and Solomon Islander father and a mother of Scottish heritage, Ziggy’s experiences with racism in Australia have led him towards activism, both in his music and in the wider world.

Through his music, Ziggy aims to tell the story of Australia’s true race history, so that we can move forward and find answers that will help us improve.

Ziggy captured the attention of the Australian public with his single ‘Little things’, a heartfelt update of Paul Kelly’s ‘From little things big things grow’ that put forward a First Nations perspective on invasion, intergenerational trauma and deaths in custody.

Friday 7 March

Alyx Dennison

Alyx Dennison is a singer-songwriter, composer and sound artist living and working on Wangal and Gadigal land. She was one half of beloved experimental pop duo kyü alongside Freya Berkhout, releasing two critically acclaimed albums before disbanding on a high in 2012. In 2015, her debut solo LP was lauded as a marked evolution from her previous work, with music journalist Kate Hennessy writing of her ‘ability to take pain to the loom and spin it into pure light’.

Since then, Alyx has established herself as a highly versatile composer and sound artist, moving across contemporary art, dance, film and theatre. She has written original music for Belvoir St Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, and Australasian Dance Collective, - as well as some of the country’'s most exciting choreographers and performance makers, including Charmene Yap, Cass Eipper, Thomas E .S. Kelly, Taree Sansbury and Sara Black. In 2022, she scored Lauren Brincat’s large-scale performance project Other tempo, for the Sydney Opera House and Vivid Sydney.

In 2022, Alyx released her anticipated sophomore LP, Fine. Good. Great. Super., which previewed at Phoenix Central Park, Chippendale.

Friday 4 April

Eric Avery

Eric Avery, Kabi Marrawuy Mumbulla, is a violinist, vocalist, dancer and composer from the Ngiyampaa, Yuin and Gumbangirr people of NSW. He works with his family’s custodial songs and his haunting compositions often feature him singing while playing violin, predominantly in the Ngiyampaa language.

Quickly gaining an international reputation, Eric has appeared alongside and in association with some of the greatest artists of our time, from Yo-Yo Ma to Tina Arena. He has commissions and performances booked with Camerata Queensland, Ensemble Offspring, the JACK Quartet, Marrugeku and several of Australia’s major orchestras. In 2021 he received a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship.