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Welcome to your gateway to Australian Music on ABC Classic FM. All the music available here is created by Australian composers, musicians and sound artists, and commissioned or produced for broadcast by ABC Classic FM. You'll find classic/amp, our streaming audio collection of Australian music from the archives, with new music added to the collection each month. You'll also find links to Australian music web features, and details of forthcoming broadcasts of Australian Music on ABC Classic FM. And the AMU podcast features mp3s of diverse new music recordings and artist interviews from the contemporary scene. Just subscribe to have new Australian music delivered weekly direct to your computer.  Subscribe to podcast

Stephen Adams
ABC Classic FM's Producer, Australian Music Unit

 Australian Music Presented ( amp )

classic/ampThe Australian Music Unit launches classic/amp - a collection of online recordings of Australian classical and experimental music drawn from the ABC’s vast archives. Go to classic/amp home | Composer Index


MP3 Audio for Download

SITE-SPECIFIC03: Greg Schiemer - Pocket Gamelan



This AMU podcast features an interview with composer Greg Schiemer and a performance of his Mandala 6 for mobile phones, recorded on location in the basement of Newcastle Town Hall at Electrofringe 2008.
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Lute Project

Lute Project

Four new works for lute commissioned by ABC Classic FM
Find out about the instruments and the music, including video demonstrations by lutenist Tommie Andersson. > more

Orpheus Remix Awards

Orpheus Remix Awards

It is 400 years since the premiere of the world's first acknowledged opera, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. To celebrate, the ABC is inviting you to compose your own response to both the Orpheus myth and the notion of 'opera', in the form of original 4-minute works for radio. > more


Val Camonica pieces

Val Camonica pieces

The Val Camonica Pieces by David Young are a heterogenous collection of works for diverse ensembles and soloists created over a ten-year period in response to the composer’s experience of the huge collection of rock carvings scattered across northern Italy’s Camonica Valley. > more




Australia's Musical Heritage

Canberra's Calling!

Canberra's Calling!

A trip through Australia's musical history via the music collection of the National Library of Australia, with audio of the entire series and concert.  > more

The A-Z of Spiritual Music: a user's guide

A-Z

An intriguing new web project created by composer Richard Vella, which presents a collection of music, sounds, images, memories, definitions and anecdotes around key words linking musical and spiritual ideas. Produced by ABC Classic FM, the A-Z features new recordings of Sonic Art Ensemble.  > more

Elision Ensemble - 20 years young

Elision Ensemble

Listen to the Anniversary concert celebrating 20 years of the Elision Ensemble recorded on 11 June 2006.  > About this concert and Elision  >> Listen to the concert

Broadcast Highlights

Wednesday 31 December 2008

8.00pm  Australians at the New Zealand International Arts Festival
The 12 Cellos of the NZ Symphony Orchestra  > more

New Music Up Late

Julian Day

For the latest in new Australian and international music, listen to Julian Day 10.30pm every Saturday in New Music Up Late. > more

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Information about broadcasts of new Australian compositions is included in Classic FM's weekly 'Classic Highlights' email newsletter.
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