The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music installations that explore listening and its role in memory, belonging and identity.

Chamber Made invites you into stillness, and asks you to reflect on how we perceive, process, and hold sound – whether it be through ancestral memory, recording technologies, or the unexpected agency 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, and yet profoundly human.

Each work invites audiences to consider, in different ways, what it is to listen. These experiences will be complemented by a trio of live performances, Listening Acts | Performance, offering fleeting yet powerful moments to surrender to the sound.