Microfiche

Sydney/Eora based, six-piece improviser-composer collective Microfiche tie improvisation and composition into serpentine knots and unravel them live in unexpected and alluring ways. Since forming as a student jazz ensemble at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2015, not only have the Microfiche’s six members individually become some of Australia’s most esteemed improvisers but as an ensemble have shown themselves to be one of the most creative and boundary pushing improvising acts to emerge within Australia in recent years.

In the last four years Microfiche has been a hive of activity, including a 2019 European tour (including a performance at Copenhagen Jazz Festival); the release of their second studio album 'Everything and Other Infinities' on Portuguese label Creative Sources Rec and in 2021, a month-long performance residency with very special guests, including Chris Abrahams, Sia Ahmed, Phil Slater and Bonniesongs at 107, Redfern. In 2022 alone they delivered a five-star performance at Phoenix Central's jazz festival STRATA, collaborated with Living Room Theatre in a multidisciplinary theatre work and hit the road on 10 date tour of Australia's eastern states, from Hobart to Cobar.

★★★★★ - “The whole ensemble come together to create a lush, slightly tense sonic landscape that could be the closing credits to a film...the overall effect is spellbinding" - Hugh Robertson, Limelight Magazine