Kate Milligan, Louise Devenish, and Aaron Wyatt: Dark Oceanography

Next date: Sunday, 27 July 2025 | 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM

Monash University Performing Arts Centres presents the world premiere of Dark Oceanography as part of the Sundays in the Sound Gallery series for 2025.

[Sound] is the geography of encounters, misses, happenstance, and events... Performing the impossible territories of a poet on the night-time sea—on the ocean in the dark. - Salomé Voegelin

Music has an important role to play in climate crisis discourse, offering a sonic pathway to bridge the gap between data, understanding, reflection, and action.

Dark Oceanography integrates climate science with experimental music, modelling generative oceanic systems in spatial audio and percussion. In this new work by Kate Milligan, Louise Devenish, and Aaron Wyatt, the live performances of three percussionists converge with the 63-channel Meyer Constellation in the David Li Sound Gallery, creating a dynamic spatial instrument that sonifies the future impact of global warming in the ocean.

Collaboratively developed by a team of artistic and scientific researchers, this piece is part of the Sonic Vocabularies: Climate Weather and Music project. Led by The Sound Collectors Lab in partnership with ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, the development of this work has been supported by Monash University Performing Arts Centres.

Creative Team
Louise Devenish project lead / performer
Kate Milligan composer
Niki Johnson performer
Sofia Carbonara performer
Aaron Wyatt music technologist
Christian Jakob research scientist
Navid Constantinou research scientist
Marty Singh research scientist

This performance is part of the 2025 Sundays in the Sound Gallery series, showcasing exceptional artists in the intimate and acoustically superb David Li Sound Gallery.

When

Location

David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, 3800, View Map