Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

NTS Radio X Powerhouse

Sampling the Collection

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Parramatta

2023

Stories

NTS Radio X Powerhouse

Sampling the Collection

Mix by Andras (Andrew Wilson)

Stories

Sounding the Collection

NTS Radio X Powerhouse

‘Diving into the collection of over 500,000 objects, I’ve pulled together samples, live performances, radio plays, soundtracks and degraded tape renditions of popular music.’

Andras

Andras is a resident host on NTS Radio, a global online radio platform. For his broadcast on 1 February 2023, he created a mix that dived into the Powerhouse collection, arranging samples from the Sounding the Collection project, live performances, radio plays, soundtracks, and degraded tape renditions of popular music.

16 black, translucent and white cassette tapes laid out in a grid. — Tape recordings of historic flutes and interviews with Linda Vogt and other Australian flautists.
Object No. 2004/115/1-7

Andras (Andrew Wilson) is an Australian musician working the gap between dance and ambient music. Using a wide variety of aliases (including Wilson Tanner, Berko, Art Wilson) his releases are increasingly concerned with breaking and reassembling an Australian vernacular sound and identity.

Track list

Powerhouse – Promotional recording, 1998Corin and Rainbow Chan – Live performance excerpt (, , And from the Powerhouse collection)

NTS Radio X Powerhouse

Track list

Andras

SOUNDING THE COLLECTION