Flying to Singapore to reunite with Tamara Saulwick @tamsaulwick to pitch our performance “One Day We’ll Understand” to delegates gathered there for the ISPA International Society for the Performing Arts annual congress.
Produced by CultureLink Sg @culturelink.sg / Goh Ching Lee in collaboration with Chamber Made, @chamber.made our performance is one of ten works selected to make these pitches.
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The performance premiered at @esplanadesingapore in August 2024 and toured to @asiatopa in Melbourne in March 2025.
The hour-long monologue won "best multimedia design" in The Straits Times' theatre awards last year for Nick Roux's work! And two nominations for theatre awards in Australia.
Here goes!
Director Tamara Saulwick
Dramaturg Kok Heng Leun @hengleun
Musician Cheryl Ong @cheryleatschips
Multimedia artist / sound engineer Nick Roux @enjay.are
Executive producer Goh Ching Lee @culturelink.sg
Production manager Yap Seok Hui @sssseeeeooookkkk
Lighting design Andy Lim
With production and support from Kylie McRae @kylie.mcr
Photos from Esplanade / Singapore premiere by Joseph Nair @roundthebout and @bryanvanderbeek@nacsingapore@ispaglobal
Three days of talking, eating and art. A privilege to meet with local Bangkok artists and to start to understand the context of their practice. Thanks to Sasapin and the whole BIPAM team for taking such good care of @fw_ok and @tamsaulwick
Chamber Made is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Executive Producer Gemma Robertson. Gemma (she/her) is a Naarm-based producer and organisational leader working across creative practice, governance, strategy and operations. She brings a wealth of producing and general manager experience from organisations including Te Matatiki Toi Ora Arts Centre of Christchurch (NZ), Showcase Victoria, Arena Theatre Company, Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres, Craft Victoria and Australian Print Workshop. We are so excited to welcome Gemma to the team!
Image: Headshot of Gemma Robertson, a smiling woman with shoulder length brown hair and a colourful top.
Join us tomorrow for a cup of tea, a biscuit, and new ideas for Test Flight #1.
Test Flight
📆 18 April
🕑 Session 1: 11:00-12:50 // Session 2: 13:30-15:15
📍 Darebin Arts Centre
Test Flight is a new platform for hybrid practice in music and contemporary performance, created by Speak Percussion and Chamber Made. This opportunity is for artists to share work at its early stage of development, and get feedback from industry and peers. Test Flight is a low stress, light touch, supportive context for artists at all stages of practice.
The facilitators for Test Flight #1 are:
Hadley Agrez CEO & Program Director, Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Tamara Saulwick Artistic Director, Chamber Made
Kaylie Melville Artistic Director, Speak Percussion
The artists for Test Flight #1 are:
Reuben Lewis (with Tony Yap), Erica Bramham, Benjamin Anderson (with Kate Milligan), Margot Morales (with Peta Coy), Moses Mohammed, and John Cheong-Holdaway (with Jeremy Dullard & Adelista Widjaya).
Test Flight
📆 18 April, 11.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m
📍 Darebin Arts Centre
Introducing Erica Bramham, one of the artists for the inaugral Test Flight. Test Flight is a new platform for hybrid practice in music and contemporary performance, created by Speak Percussion and Chamber Made. This opportunity is for artists to share work at its early stage of development, and get feedback from industry and peers. Test Flight is a low stress, light touch, supportive context for artists at all stages of practice.
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Erica Bramham is a Melbourne-based composer, vocalist, and double bassist whose work begins with text — using poetry as the foundation for melody, rhythm, and sound design. Her interdisciplinary practice draws on modal composition, improvisation, movement, and performance art, creating work that moves between the lyrical and the experimental.
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, she has released three albums and an EP since 2016. Her work has been praised by The Age/Sydney Morning Herald and All About Jazz, and she was nominated for the 2021 Music Victoria Awards (Best Folk Act).
Test Flight
📆 18 April, 11.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m
📍 Darebin Arts Centre
Introducing Reuben Lewis, one of the artists for the inaugral Test Flight. Test Flight is a new platform for hybrid practice in music and contemporary performance, created by Speak Percussion and Chamber Made. This opportunity is for artists to share work at its early stage of development, and get feedback from industry and peers. Test Flight is a low stress, light touch, supportive context for artists at all stages of practice.
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Reuben Lewis is an artist investigating the intersection of electro-acoustic sound design and physical performance. Over a fifteen-year career, he has developed a singular musical language described by The Australian as “beyond category” and by The Wire as “a vivid listening experience that gleams with sinister detail.” Devised through trumpet alongside live processing with pedals and laptop, his music aims to play on expectations and unravel all semblance of familiar form.
Central to his work is PhD research into the creative possibilities of trance. This is rooted in a decade-long collaboration with dancer Tony Yap, through which Lewis is developing modular systems for trance principles within sound design. An APRA Art Music Award winner and ARIA nominee, Lewis has been commissioned by festivals and organisations including Mona Foma, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Musica Viva, and the Melbourne Festival. His practice is further informed by professional roles with MESS, Dancehouse, and the Australian Art Orchestra.
The Nervous Atmosphere, a Chamber Made work by Zoë Barry is being presented at Her Majesty’s Theatre Ballarat on Saturday 1 August and tickets are now on sale!
We couldn’t be more thrilled that this stunning work is getting another life. This solo performance by cellist, composer and theatre-maker Barry draws on three personal encounters with lightning and the curious events that unfolded in their aftermath. The work explores the awe, rupture and isolation of confronting forces beyond our control. Through storytelling, live cello and striking design (featuring Bosco Shaw’s sculptural lighting) the work evokes the immense power and beauty of a thunderstorm alongside the disorienting psychological impacts of a close encounter with nature.
Please spread the word far and wide and book early as it is one performance only. All details via our linktree.
Image: A figure playing a cello against a red backdrop with clouds at her feet.
Image by Sarah Walker
Applications close today 7 April for Chamber Made’s Executive Producer position! This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a small and dynamic team and to help shape the future of the company. All details at link in our bio.
Image: hands strumming strings against a dark background. Image from Listening Acts: Tactile Piece for Human Ears by Aviva Endean. Picture by Sarah Walker
Join us for the inaugural Test Flight! We are delighted to announce the artists who will be sharing work:
Reuben Lewis & Tony Yap
Erica Bramham
Benjamin Anderson & Kate Milligan
John Cheong-Holdaway, Jeremy Dullard & Adelista Widjaya
Margot Morales & Peta Coy
Moses Mohammed
Saturday 18 April | 11.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. Darebin Arts Centre
Artists will share an excerpt of works in development with peer feedback and discussion built in. This will be a wonderful day to get a snapshot of what artists are exploring at the intersections of sound-led work and contemporary performance. Come and be part of the conversation.
Test Flight is a platform for hybrid practice in music and contemporary performance, created by Speak Percussion and Chamber Made.
This is a free event but bookings are essential. Visit the link in our biog to see the event schedule and secure your ticket.
Image: a close up of a camera with blurred musical instruments in the background. The names of the Test Flight artists are overlaid across the image
Development of Welcome (by Johannes Kreidler) for Scream Star Image: Cobie Orger
We are delighted to announce our 2026 Orange House Residents: Elise Romaszko and Julia Drouhin.
Elise Romaszko is a writer, performer, director and advocate, and a long-standing core artist of Second Echo Ensemble. Her practice centres storytelling, identity and ethical attention.
Julia Drouhin (VK7HAG) is a sound artist and researcher working across radioscapes, transmission and performance. Her practice engages electromagnetic frequencies, broadcast culture and site-responsive sound environments.
During their residency Elise and Julia will explore a focused research strand of a work in development: What the Stars Remember. The work is an exploration of memory, listening and connection via channels of broadcast and atmospheric listening.
Second Echo Ensemble (SEE) is a lutruwita/Tasmania-based contemporary multi-arts organisation led by an ensemble of diverse artists.
Congratulations Elise and Julia, we look forward to seeing where your research takes you.
The Orange House Residency is a program supporting mid-career women and gender-diverse artists working at the intersections of performance, sound and music. Thanks to our partnership with @cultureatrmit the residency takes place at McCraith House
Image of Elise Romaszko (left) supplied by artist. Image of Julia Drouhin (right) by Anna Abella
Chamber Made is seeking an experienced and passionate Executive Producer to join Artistic Director and CEO Tamara Saulwick in leading the organisation. The role has become available for the first time in over eight years, with strong foundations to build on and a genuine opportunity to help shape what Chamber Made becomes in the decade ahead.
Few Australian arts organisations can claim the longevity and consistency of Chamber Made. That history has built financial stability, enduring stakeholder relationships, and an artistic reputation that continues to attract exceptional artists and partners nationally and internationally.
We are seeking a highly capable leader with strong organisational, financial and strategic capability, deep knowledge of the performing arts, and well-developed networks. You will bring a genuine investment in cross-artform practice and the artists who drive it. You will be motivated by working with the Artistic Director to realise the company’s artistic and strategic vision, and by helping vital work find the audiences and resources it deserves.
The position is full-time. See our linktree for more information and position description.
Applications close Tuesday 7 April 5.00pm AEST.
Image: two hands strum strings against a blue background.
Image from Listening Acts Tactile Piece for Human Ears by Aviva Endean.
Photo by @sarahtakesphotos
Chamber Made today announces the departure of Executive Producer and Co-CEO Kylie McRae, who will conclude her role with the company on 24 April 2026.
Kylie joined Chamber Made in 2018 as Executive Producer before stepping into the Co-CEO role in 2024. Across eight years she has worked alongside Artistic Director and Co-CEO Tamara Saulwick to steer the organisation through a period of sustained creative ambition, deepened artist development practice, and growing international reach, including significant partnerships across Asia.
Kylie said: ‘It has been a tremendous pleasure to work with Chamber Made and the extraordinary staff, board members, artists, partners, donors, audience members, arts colleagues - so many people that make what we do possible and precious. I extend deep gratitude to all, in particular to Tam for her alliance and friendship, and hope Chamber Made continues to thrive for many years.’
Tamara Saulwick, Artistic Director and Co-CEO, said: ‘Kylie has made an extraordinary contribution to Chamber Made. Her intelligence, care and commitment have shaped the organisation in lasting ways, and her partnership has meant a great deal to me personally and professionally. We wish her every success in her new role.’
Kylie moves to Lucy Guerin Inc where she has been appointed to the role of Executive Director and Co-CEO.
Chamber Made thanks Kylie for her dedication and leadership over eight years.
Image: headshot of Kylie McRae by @sarahtakesphotos
