Tom Avgenicos & Jordan East: Ghosts Between Streams II

Join us for an immersive live audiovisual performance that reimagines the Coquun/Hunter River through genre-bending music and projections

Trumpeter and composer Tom Avgenicos—one of Australia’s boldest jazz innovators—joins forces with virtuosic multimedia artist Jordan East (Rüfüs Du Sol, The Freedom Collective) to capture the complex life of the ancient Coquun/Hunter River. Fresh off their sold-out premiere at New Annual Festival, this new live audiovisual work brings together an extraordinary creative team, featuring the award-winning jazz ensemble Delay 45 and the pioneering string quartet APEX4

At its heart, this is a conversation between past and present. The genre-bending ensemble creates a sound world that shifts between intimate chamber music, free-flowing jazz, and electronic landscapes. Hundreds of hours of Hunter River field recordings and archival footage have been transformed through experimental audiovisual technologies, into an immersive visual counterpoint.

The river itself becomes the central character—once a source of abundance, now simultaneously a channel for the world's largest coal exports and a living ecosystem struggling with pollution. Through music and image, we're invited to see Coquun as more than just a waterway—it's a mirror reflecting the tensions of modern Australia.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Co-presented by Newcastle Improvised Music Association (NIMA). Ghosts Between Streams II is supported by City of Newcastle's New Annual festival, the NSW Government through Create NSW, and the Awabakal Local Aboriginal Land Council.

This event may be photographed and filmed and your image could be used in advertising and promotion by Lake Macquarie City Council. Should you wish to not be photographed or filmed please advise event organisers on entry at the event

MAP mima is located in Speers Point Park, off Park Street, on the edge of Lake Macquarie. MAP mima is accessible by ramp with accessible toilets. MAP can be reached easily from the lake foreshore cycleway, the water, or by public transport. There is plenty of parking for cars, and buses with accessible spaces available, onsite and in the surrounding parklands.