A jam-packed day of nine contemporary audiovisual performances takes over the galleries, theatres and courtyard of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra on Saturday. Collaborative works by musicians, artists, performers and sound engineers explore how music both inspires and is inspired by motion.

Audience movement around performance spaces is encouraged in two of Saturday’s shows: Forever Changed by Nat Bartsch and MAPPA, directed by Fiona Hill.

Opening the day, proud AuDHD pianist and composer Nat Bartsch presents a collection of her most cherished “lullabies”. Breaking rigid, seated concert expectations and informed by clinical psychology, this neurodiverse-centred concert – complete with storybook-like motion picture, fidget toys, low lighting and moderately volumed music – soothes the nervous system.

Nat Bartsch: Forever Changed. Photo © Dalice Trost

MAPPA invites audiences to curate their own experience by moving around the dimly lit gallery as musicians create sound using bells and knitting needles. Among the shifting activity, Miranda Wheen weaves and entangles herself in a giant web of yarn – an intense performance in which she battles the web before ultimately...