Soft Centre 2025 – Eora/Sydney, NSW
Proudly partnering with NTS, Resident Advisor and FBi Radio
Supported by Creative Australia and Create NSW

Thu 28 Aug 2025 – Workshop
BrandX – 1pm to 5pm
Line-up:
Stelarc presents ‘Extreme Bodies to Virtual Selves: Sumo, Butoh, Robots and Avatars’

Fri 29 Aug 2025 – Discourse
St. Barnabas Church – 11am to 4:30pm
Line-up:
Hosted by Levent Can Kaya and Carmen Schieb aka S.C.U.M
Keynotes:
Andrew Brooks ‘The Noise of Crisis’
Liz Pelly (US) ‘Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist’

Panels:
Making Local History Oral Again – Penrith Miers Archive presents a six hour Yuin Country sound compilation
Snake Bites Tail; Building Sonic Collectives Across South-East Asia – Rắn Cạp Đuôi’s Zach Sch, content.net’s Kuya Neil, Liquid Architecture’s Kristi Monfries, moderated by Alexandra Crosby

Films:
Dana Dawud ‘Monad+’ [PS]
Tina Stefanou ‘You Can’t See Speed’
Riar Rizaldi ‘Notes from Gog Magog’ [ID]
Kate McGuiness ‘I Like Long Walks on Parramatta Road’

Fri 29 Aug 2025 – PARA.CINE
Chauvel Cinema – 7pm to 9:30pm
Line-up:
EEK ‘Hearsay’ feat. Kirby Casilli & Tina Stefanou (A/V)
Team Rolfes & The Mustang Speedrun (A/V)

Sat 30 Aug 2025 – Festival Day
White Bay Power Station – 2pm to Midnight
Line-up:
2 Dual x Jaxon Stickler ‘Tank’
404.zero ‘Grey Sunday’ [RU] (A/V)
Alex Guevara ‘Phantoms of Existence’ [PE] (A/V)
Andrea Illés x Mara Galagher ‘Fuck U Caserole’
Bhenji Ra x Karina Utomo ‘Wetan’
C Bong Sae [KR]
Coki [UK]
Ecstatic Utopian Fantasy by House of Vnholy ft. Capital Waste, Marcus Ian Mackenzie, Eugene Choi, Makeda (A/V)
Excited State !!! (Kavil! Crwlr! Rama Parwata!)
Fei Gao ‘The Shell – Angel’
Isayerr x Landfill
Gift Exchange
Klein [UK] (A/V)
Liam Keenan
Litvrgy (Solo) [USA]
Michael Candy
Null Hypothesis [Live]
Passive Kneeling & Kuya Neil present Content.net.au: The Musical ft. David Ketamine, Sidney Phillips, KK88, Bayang (tha Bushranger) (A/V)
Pink Siifu [USA]
Queen Asher & Rehema Tajiri [TZ]
Rắn Cạp Đuôi [VN]
Robin Fox ‘Triptych’
Rydeen x Sovblkpussy
S280F [USA]
Shapednoise x Sevi Iko Dømochevsky ‘Absurd Matter Continuum’ (A/V) [IT x ES]
Sirc_uit
Stelarc ‘Extended Arm, Involuntary Arm and Amplified Body’
Upsammy ‘Strange Meridians’ (A/V) [NL]
Worlds Only x Junior Major (A/V)
Young Boy Dancing Group [CH]

Sat 30 Aug 2025 – Late Night (TBC)
Location TBC – 11pm to 5am
Line-up:
Aquenta
Bec Jensen
Con Pani x Paramat
Nick Skitz ft. Kidd Kaos
Spidercunt (DJ Dogcunt x Spiderdog)
Uwuwuu (Umki x Wanja)
VV Pete

more to be announced

Sun 31 Aug 2025 – Closing Concert
White Bay Power Station – 7pm to 10pm
Line-up:
Aarti Jadu Ensemble ‘SICFWYLF’
Malibu [FR]
Ryoji Ikeda ‘Ultratronics’ [JP] (A/V)

Tickets via softcentre.com.au