Sonic rituals where medical machines sing, bones whisper secrets, and vibrating forms create sublime performance.

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 performances 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 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, and yet profoundly human.