Bundanon

Sydney-based The Music Box Project is an award-winning collective of musicians presenting creative, community driven and collaborative musical experiences. Increasingly recognised as keen instigators of creative music making, the ensemlbe has premiered over 50 works of local, national and international early-career composers.

In March 2024, The Music Box Project presented their inaugural festival Cut Paste Play, bringing together musicians and audiences for two days of “music outside the usual order of things”. In 2020, the ensemble was awarded the APRA AMCOS/AMC Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Music for Shallow Listening (2019), deemed by panellists as “a concert experience demonstrating ability to facilitate, curate and perform experimental music at the highest level.”

For their 2025 Bundanon residency, the ensemble is joined by Stephen Adams, a composer, improvising musician, voice and sound artist with rich experience in radio production and content curation of contemporary classical and experimental music.

In residence at Bundanon

We plan to develop Imaginary Radio Station, a concert-length sound, performance work in collaboration with composer Stephen Adams. The work is envisaged as an unfolding series of live-performance scenes. In conjunction with their ‘conventional’ instruments and voices, artists will explore the sonic and communicative possibilities of smart phones and transistor radios. Throughout the work, sources and social meanings of sounds will be constantly shifting as artists move between solos, duets and ensembles, private and public utterances, direct and technologically mediated communications, and between live and rebroadcast material.