The mycelium orchestra is an experimental, improvisational music and sound ensemble based in Naarm/Melbourne.

 

‘mycelium orchestra’, playing as support act in EXPLORATIONS 2026 MUSICA: SOME WHACK SHIT, La Mama Courthouse 2026. Video by Alex Hamilton. Camera by Peter Webster and Janset Selbas.

Orchestra

•        Jennifer Callaway — Melbourne experimental musician, member of Snacks, Hi God People, Propolis, and the duo Is There a Hotline?

•       Genevieve Fry — Melbourne multi-instrumentalist / composer. Writer for post-ambient project Cold Hands Warm Heart. Performed and collaborated with Hantu, Jen Valander, On Diamond, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Jacob Coppedge, Jillian Steiner, Birdsnake, Grand Salvo, Manisha Anjali, Jesse Boylan, Outer Urban Projects and Geoffrey O'Connor, and internationally based artists Taylor Mac (US) and Four Larks Theatre (US).

•       Alex Hamilton — Melbourne artist, painter, filmmaker and performer, represented in public collections including the NGA, AGSA, Saatchi Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Library, Baltimore Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum.

•       David Palliser — Melbourne artist, painter, performer. Member of Charles Ives Singers (formed 1992),  People With Chairs Up Their Noses, a post-punk era band (formed 1982). Represented in public collections including the NGV and NGA.

•       Allanah Stewart — Melbourne experimental musician, member of Snacks, and host of the monthly podcast Enquiring Minds on Noods Radio.

•       Colin Hodson — Filmmaker associated with the Aro Valley Movement (Wellington, NZ). Formerly New York–based, associate member of The Wooster Group, and technical director/occasional performer with avant-garde playwright-director Richard Foreman. 

•       Anna White— Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist incorporating Butoh into poetic short art films, including In My Father's Garden (2020), In My Mother's House (2021) and The Mark: Fall (2025).

Conductor

•       Tina Douglas— Melbourne multidisciplinary artist, composer and performer. Recent presentations include hyphae (mycelium) (2024–2025) at Blindside Gallery and Five Walls, featuring a 3D visual score modelled on fungal networks used as a live conducting ecosystem for choreographers, sound artists and the public. Her visual score Gone Lost Assembly (Dwell) was presented at the Third Experimental Music Festival, Kanazawa City Art Village, Japan. Her collaboration with Berlin musician Magda Mayas resulted in the album Objects of Interest on Room40.