New Waves introduces you to five emerging indigenous composers of diverse musical backgrounds, with new works performed by Ensemble Offspring.

Composers Alice Humphries, Caerwen Martin and Michael Backrncev talk about their backgrounds and their featured compositions, performed by Syzygy Ensemble in a special award concert at Lowland Farm, Mt Macedon.

Music for clarinet, percussion, piano, psalterphone and electronics from innovative new Perth-based ensemble Intercurrent.

Meet Leah Blankendaal, Dan Thorpe and Mark Wolf, three of the five young composers at the 2016 Soundstream Emerging Composers Forum. They discuss their music, inspiration and creative journeys, sharing their works written for the forum.

Meet Alex Turley and Mitchell Mollison, two of the five young composers at the 2016 Soundstream Emerging Composers Forum. Along with forum composer-mentor Cat Hope, they discuss their music, inspiration and creative journeys.

Pianist, curator-producer, and artistic director of Adelaide's Soundstream New Music, Gabriella Smart, previews a fascinating project delving into sounds and stories of Australia's colonial pianos, with music by Jon Rose, Elena Kats-Chernin, James Rushford, and Cathy Milliken.

Percussionist and all-round creative musician, composer, improviser, producer, researcher and teacher, Vanessa Tomlinson talks about music, life, and percussion as an attitude, and presents solo works of hers from across her career and musical palette.

Violinist, composer and pied butcherbird specialist Hollis Taylor talks about her music and research, and presents new music combining the music-making of these birds with human musicians.

Percussionist, composer and Speak Percussion artistic director Eugene Ughetti joins Jon Rose at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House to explore a new interactive electronics project.

Four performances in rural sheds by some of Australia's leading contemporary musicians reflect the voices and history of their place.