[1][2][3] In March 1979 they performed, "works by Cage, Johnson, Berio and others" at Cellblock Theatre, East Sydney Technical College.
[4] By 1982 it had developed into an ensemble by adding Graeme Leak on percussion and auxiliary members Hector McDonald on horn and Daniel Mendelow on trumpet.
[5] For their North American tour, in January of the following year, de Haan, Leak and Vine were joined by Geoffrey Collins on flute.
[6] In 1984 they issued their album, Australian Music, the five tracks were composed by Vine, Keith Humble, Martin Wesley-Smith, Robert Douglas and Graham Hair, respectively.
[9] In the nine years of its existence Flederman commissioned and premiered 89 new works for the ensemble and its subsets, largely from emerging and established Australian composers but also from several important British and American ones.