@prudence_reeslee will be giving a talk next month to introduce the idea of 'Immanent Composition', a theoretical and practical framework emerging from feminist epistemologies of sound and spatial electronic practice. Prue will map out the thinking behind an approach in which the composer works from within a system, entangled with automated and human processes, rather than standing above it. The presentation combines a discussion of technical routings and considerations, theoretical reflection, and live demonstration. Thursday May 14, 2026, 5:30 for 6pm Black Box Multichannel AV Space Room 12.02.103 RMIT City Campus, Naarm/Melbourne FREE- Register sign /lp11-prudence-rees-lee/ Listening Practice is a monthly gathering of listeners open to all, where sonic research and practice is shared in a dedicated listening environment, with informal discussion encouraged afterward. Organised by the DSP research group 📷 with assistance from anisynth and @grant.wyeth courtesy of @prudence_reeslee

https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/1606136/184062436654974194 Listening Practice No. 10 - Ben Denham Ben will perform with a custom synthesizer system that allows him to sense and sonify changes in barometric pressure. He will discuss the practice of atmospheric listening and its place in the broader artistic investigation of the atmosphere that informs his forthcoming work Sovereign Air. Thursday April 16, 2026, 5:30 for 6pm Black Box Multichannel AV Space Room 12.02.103 RMIT City Campus, Naarm/Melbourne Ben Denham is an artist living and working on Gadigal, Kamaygal, Wangal, and Bidgigal land. He builds instruments and machines as part of a transmedia practice that includes the weather, drawing, electronics, kinetic sculpture, text, video and sound. He creates installations and systems that are transductions, reflections, and abstractions of more complex phenomena that exist in the world. He develops and works with synthesizer modules that incorporate air pressure and electromagnetic sensing to shape sound and control movement. He calls this mode of practice expanded synthesis and argues that it can help us understand the broader cultural significance of the synthesizer and its relationship to art, politics, science, and philosophy. Ben's work has been selected by his peers several times for funding through Creative Australia grant programs. Exhibition highlights include Primavera 2014, curated by Mikala Dwyer at the MCA, the Cementa 2022 festival, and Topographies (2024), curated by Vicky Browne at SCA Gallery. Pictured: @joycehinterding - Floric Oscillator, 2022. Graphite on glass, wood, mixer with headphones, 2 units, each 85 X 85 C. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. Listening Practice is a monthly gathering of listeners open to all, where sonic research and practice is shared in a dedicated listening environment, with informal discussion encouraged afterward. Organised by the DSP research group.

Rosalind Hall rehearsing for Entropy Installation event - today 13 March 4pm to 7pm. This will be the last opportunity to hear the system as there is no showing tomorrow 14 March as previously advertised. Free entry today.

After careful consideration on preparations for Saturday night’s Entropy event at Mycelium Studios, we’re disappointed to announce the show will not go ahead. While we were working to present the best possible experience for audiences, we’ve met a series of challenges that could not be resolved in the available time to the show. All pre-sale tickets have been refunded. Although the 14 March 7-10 pm show will not run, the installations modes to hear the spatial system are still Wednesday 11 March (today) 12.30pm-3.30pm, Thursday 12 March 2.30pm to 5.30pm and Friday 13 March 4pm to 7pm. See details on second slide.

We invite expressions of interest for a fully funded PhD position investigating audience experience of sonic arts and sound installations in art museum and gallery contexts. This PhD is part of the Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded project ‘From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery’. The PhD candidate will be supervised by Associate Professor Lawrence Harvey and Dr Jeffrey Hannam, SIAL Sound Studios, School of Design, RMIT University. Expressions of interest close midnight, 12 March, 2026. See News link in bio for more information.

Technical setup and testing are underway with MIST (Melbourne Immersive Sound Theatre) for our 24 channel installation in March @myceliumstudios basement. Artist and PhD candidate @prudence_reeslee will be performing using three beautiful Moog Mother-32's among other exciting synthesizers! The technical team are excited to be working on new techniques to spatialize the artists works through SPAT Revolution immersive mixing software - a first for SIAL Sound Studios - developed by @ircam_paris . We look forward to sharing with you the next month of testing on our live 24 channel spatial system. Other artists performing on March 14th include: @fiafiell @lask.music @simonjkaris @memilesb In the meantime please grab yourself a ticket to the upcoming immersive spatial audio showcase with @featherprintrecords - through the link in our bio.

Join us as we step outside the boundaries of the stereo field to showcase a night of encapsulating psychedelic ambient music like you have never heard it before. At the centre of ‘Entropy’ is a 24-channel 3D immersive loudspeaker orchestra installed throughout the basement Gallery Space at @myceliumstudios Rather than sound coming from a stage, audio is distributed in precise spatial patterns around the room - allowing music to move, evolve, and immerse you within the space. This collaboration between RMIT, Mycellium Studios, MIST (Melbourne Immersive Sound Theatre), Sial Sound Studios & Feather Print Productions aims to create an environment in which the artists’ musical & visual works combine for a whole new immersive experience. Attendees are able to sit, stand and walk around the speaker orchestra, while the music takes on a 3D form. The sound is accompanied by sculptural elements and stimulating visuals. The space will be in installation format from the 10th of March until the 14th, enabling ticket holders to come and go and partake in alternative sonic experiences and workshop events - curated by MIST. /e/entropy-24-channel-3d-immersive-spatial-audio-showcase-at-mycelium-studios-tickets-1981288144174?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Threshold - Across the afternoon, two dancers move through a continuous cycle of demanding physical choreography. When: Saturday 22 November Choreographer: Sandra Parker Composer and sound designer: Lawrence Harvey Session times: 2pm, 2:45pm, 3:30pm 4:15pm Where: Solidarity Hall, Victorian Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3053

@sialsoundstudios Spatial Sound Composition and Diffusion (SSCAD) 2025 Semester 2 Student Presentations. Soon to be uploaded to the sial YouTube page and sial student portal. SSCAD provides a practice based learning context where participants investigate spatial sound composition and diffusion using the studios 16.1 channel system. The course comprises lectures, listening based course work and individual studio time. Participants conduct their own creative endeavours investigating spatial sound experience in 'sound-only' contexts such as concerts, digital media, film, games, and other acoustic real-world scenarios. /@sialsoundstudios https://sialsound.studio

Sonorous Xii features @sialsoundstudios PhD candidate @prudence_reeslee as well as @r_rebeiro (My Disco). The twelfth instalment of the Sonorous series sees new electroacoustic, multichannel works premiere at @melbrecital ’s Primrose Potter Salon. Crafted using the incredible instruments of the @mess_ltd collection. The Sonorous series is an ongoing commissioning project by the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) that supports artists in creating immersive, multichannel electroacoustic performances. Prudence Rees-Lee explores the utopian dimension of spatial sound, weaving classical, psychedelic, and electronic traditions into immersive compositions. ⁠ ⁠ Rohan Rebeiro pushes music to its linguistic limits, presenting a study in contrasts and extremes, where tangible objects resonate with human touch while electronic systems create patterns of causality and chaos. ⁠ Experience these brand-new commissioned works in glorious octophonic surround sound.⁠ Dates & Times Thursday 20 November 2025 - 7:00pm ⁠ Limited tickets available – get yours via the Melbourne Recital Centre website and link in bio. Photo Credit Keelan O’Hehir and Melbourne Recital Centre .au/whats-on/current-productions/sonorous-xii

@pollystanton presents: Thresholds Polly will present and discuss her audiovisual piece Thresholds with one of her key collaborators, sound designer and mixer Byron Dean. Thursday September 25, 5:30 for 6pm Black Box Multichannel AV Space Room 12.02.103 RMIT City Campus, Naarm/Melbourne Entry near the RMIT tram stop on the eastern side of Swanston st, at Little Bang Cafe's location - enter through the glass doors on street level near the 'Building 10' sign and head straight down the half set of stairs, the Black Box is straight ahead Elevator available nearby the cafe entrance for those with accessibility requirements Thresholds is a moving image performance work that invites audiences into the hidden depths of the historic Mt Lyell copper mine in remote Western lutruwita / Tasmania. Commissioned by The Unconformity and developed over 18 months in collaboration with the Queenstown Community Choir, the work stages an underground performance where human voices resonate alongside geophonic recordings of the mine’s subterranean fields. The resulting interplay of sound and image evokes both the seismic impact of the mine’s closure and the lingering possibility of renewal. The remote landscapes of Western Tasmania bear the marks of a brutal, extractive past. Primordial glaciated mountain ranges rich in minerals are at once hauntingly beautiful and profoundly scarred. Thresholds draws attention to the ways these extreme and isolated environments have shaped settler experience while exploring the entwined relationships between geology, extraction, and community. Presented as a large-scale, polyphonic, multi-sensory encounter, the work makes tangible these forces and histories by using voice to re-sound the now silent mine. Listening Practice is a monthly gathering of listeners open to all, where sonic research and practice is shared in a dedicated listening environment, with informal discussion encouraged afterward. Organised by the DSP research group Free by RSVP with attendees added to the DSP mailing list /lp7-polly-stanton https://dsp.rmitschool . #rmituniversity #rmitblackbox #designandsonicpractise #listeningpractice #lp7

/lp6-lawrence-harvey Lawrence Harvey Thursday August 21, 5:30 for 6pm Sound, cities and museums: a short series of travel insights Part reflection on recent visits to (mostly sound) shows and museums, part travel log of sound observations while on a European and UK holiday. I didn’t set out to think about sound, space, sonic exhibitions and concerts – but it happened. Having time to visit and just experience spaces, history, new work and some great shows is the basis for a series of sometimes connected, sometimes discrete field notes on the Barbican in London, Athens, Thessaloniki, Dublin, and elsewhere. Listening Practice is a monthly gathering of listeners open to all, where sonic research and practice is shared in a dedicated listening environment, with informal discussion encouraged afterward. Organised by the DSP research group sign/ Free by RSVP with attendees added to the DSP mailing list /lp6-lawrence-harvey . . . Black Box Multichannel AV Space Room 12.02.103 RMIT City Campus, Naarm/Melbourne Entry near the RMIT tram stop on the eastern side of Swanston st, at Little Bang Cafe's location - enter through the glass doors on street level near the 'Building 10' sign and head straight down the half set of stairs, the Black Box is straight ahead Elevator available nearby the cafe entrance for those with accessibility requirements