Listening Acts | Performance

The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility.

In this multidisciplinary project, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre with Listening Acts – a series of live music performances that explore listening and its role in memory, belonging and identity. You are invited into stillness and asked to consider how we perceive, process, and hold sound – whether through medical devices, recording technologies, or the quiet resonance of everyday objects.

Grounded in the artists’ personal histories and diverse cultural perspectives, these works reveal listening as both solitary and collective – shaped by technology, yet profoundly human.

Each work invites you to consider, in different ways, what it is to listen. This immersive sound journey will be complemented by Listening Acts | Conversation on Sat 23 Aug and Listening Acts | Installations, six installations throughout Melbourne Recital Centre, offering a meditative gateway to listening as a practice.