School of the Arts & Media

Music old and new, reimagined in bold, adventurous and often startlingly unpredictable ways.

In the last SAM Seminar of 2019, provocateurs have been invited to challenge the notion of de gustibus non disputandum est.

Writers present performative works-in-progress. 

Two UNSW Music Ensembles in a night of acoustic guitars and big brass sounds. 

A selection of small classical ensembles presenting music for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.

An evening with one of Australia's most celebrated speechwriters

Pentatonic scales, beats, reverb, electronic music, and improvisation.

Part mystery, part documentary, part forensic investigation, this performance work-in-progress explores the experiences of three generations of women from 1920s Budapest to Western Sydney today.
 

An immersive trans-media installation and performance investigating the ways in which the body and the world mimic each other in modes of panic and crisis. 

This paper reconsiders Kathy Acker’s feminism and experimentation with a special focus on her 1978 novel Kathy Goes to Haiti. 

What is Honours? Why do Honours? 

Find out all you need to know and ask questions from staff and current students. 

A lecture-demonstration and masterclass with acclaimed and ‘genre-defying’ contemporary Australian composer, Liza Lim.

Exploring theatres that no longer exist to recover what we can about the social relations of production in performance from the past. 

From the flute to the marimba, an exploration of musical forms and traditions. 

Find out all you need to know about our major production! All UNSW students welcome in this open elective. 

A lineage of Australian musical theatre, starting long ago with operatic arias, and finishing with a recent Australian work about a caterpillar...

Vocal interpretations of well-loved classics and hidden gems. Fresh compositions for short films.