Listening Acts

An IV machine is transformed into an instrument in this intimate performance. Vocalist and medical device entwine in a unique duet of hums, beeps and mechanical rhythms, exploring ideas of healing, dependency, and transhuman connection.

An intimate listening experience, capturing sounds through binaural microphones designed to replicate the acoustic properties of human hearing. Wind currents, pipe tone and vibrations heard through bone conduction build acoustic landscapes shaped in real time.

An evolving electroacoustic performance that highlights the physicality of sound and listening. Spence uses tuned sinewaves to resonate and vibrate custom-built perspex instruments and drum skins - illuminating the animation of space, bodies, and objects.

An unfolding work of sonic archaeology. At its centre is a single recording of an accordion transformed across multiple devices, places, and spaces. Shifting slowly over time, each iteration layers new acoustic textures while partially veiling those before it.

One listener at a time is invited into a sculpted sound environment which plays with ideas of memory and architecture. Inspired by classical mnemotechnics – ancient memory systems – it conjures imagined spaces through reverberant sound and image.

A thirteen-foot plait suspended on a wall – a powerful symbol of the artist’s matrilineal connection to the Stolen Generations and the (meta)physical presence of the Indigenous body in space. The work is a dynamic representation of cultural knowledge, revealing how settler systems can often fail to comprehend Indigenous ways of being.

Tuning into the private lives of two water coolers in perpetual dialogue. Their conversation – generated live by AI – is endless, uncanny and strangely familiar.

The listener is placed within a constellation of voice and image – captured, distorted, digitised and redistributed. Surrounded by fragmented sound from three extraordinary vocalists (Jessica Aszodi, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang & Tina Stefanou), the audience encounters the question: whose voice is it, once it's no longer ours?

A powerful solo audio-visual experience which draws from letters exchanged during Soddel grandparents’ divorce, the work underscores the act of ancestral listening – unearthing latent emotion through sound.