Someone’s trying to reach you. Composer and broadcaster Stephen Adams is on the air, and he’s trying to reach you – to inform, excite, bemuse; to channel, transport and accompany, maybe, but not to explain.

He’s positioned in the centre of the audience, only a metre or so away, but he can only really be heard via distorted proxy, through a collection of small radios positioned around the venue, sitting on tables or held by roaming members of new music ensemble The Music Box Project (TMBP). His warm voice spills in through crackling speakers. He’s here, but he might be more so there – this strange space which we can only hear, not see.

Stephen Adams in Imaginary Radio Station. Photo © Jared Underwood

In Imaginary Radio Station, both Adams and TMBP layer together a series of beautifully crafted sonic, virtual and physical worlds, which unfurl in segments tied together by Adams as host.

Like a radio signal, the boundaries of these worlds are undefined and permeable – some bleed into our own, others drift further and further out of reach. Adams’ radios are peepholes into them; all eerie, surreal and exciting. In...