Radical Synthesis | Nū | Assembly | Prudence Rees-Lee presented by Eastmint x Liquid Architecture

Name: Radical Synthesis | Nū | Assembly | Prudence Rees-Lee presented by Eastmint x Liquid Architecture
Start: 2026-04-25T09:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-04-25T12:00:00+10:00
Location: 25 Eastment street, Northcote, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3070

Schedule

Sat Apr 25 2026 at 09:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

25 Eastment street, Northcote, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3070 | Northcote, VI

>>> This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE <
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Radical Synthesis | Nū | Assembly | Prudence Rees-Lee

presented by Eastmint x Liquid Architecture

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7pm Doors

7:30pm Prudence Rees-Lee

8:30pm Assembly

9:30pm Nū

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$5 Vegan Laksa / Bar / Card and Cash accepted
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pay what you can afford sliding scale tix $10-$60
Free First Nations tix
Free companion tix
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For a three-act lineup, we suggest $25, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10–$60.
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Radical Synthesis situates the creative practices of three Narm-based synthesists – Nū, Assembly, and Prudence Rees-Lee – together, at Eastmint.
The three performances of synthesis showcased will seize the material parameters of the music performance ritual in different ways to judo-flip what emerges from it in the direction of various forms of emancipation.
Such practices understand music performance rituals as having an important role to play in the processes of identification, indexation, and inference involved in the reification of collective subjectivities.

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Nū
Nū is an Ethiopian-Australian sound artist, vocalist and live coder whose work blends non-Western musical traditions, improvisation and Afrofuturism. Using Sonic Pi, Strudel and her vocals, she creates immersive sonic worlds that weave elements of ambient, jazz, R&B and electronic music.
Nū has performed debut EP, TECHNIFRO-185, internationally in China, Malaysia, the UK, Berlin and New York and nationally at Phoenix Central Park, the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney Observatory), Dark Mofo (Hobart) and Hopkins Creek Music Festival. Recipient of Sydney Opera House's Shortwave Commission, she scored the short film A Being, Of Course (dir. Kalu Oji), which played at the Opera House in January 2026.

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Prudence Rees-Lee
Prudence Rees-Lee is a Melbourne-based composer, performer and spatial sound artist whose work draws on sounds from across the spectrum of popular and obscure music to create immersive, emotionally resonant experiences that defy easy categorisation. A multi-instrumentalist with expertise in cello and synthesis, she works across songwriting, multichannel composition, experimental performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
As a songwriter, Prudence has released two critically acclaimed baroque pop albums, Court Music From the Planet of Love (Special Award Records, 2013) and Growing Closer (Eastmint, 2019). Her recorded output also includes experimental tapes (Stereophonic Experiments in Magnetic Tape and Circuitry, 2020), orchestral recordings (Inner Voices, 2022), multichannel works (Crystal Universe and Beyond Nature, 2022), and music videos. She is also one half of the band Popular Music, with whom she has released four albums and toured internationally, and a member of the electroacoustic ensemble Golden Sands, a six-piece group exploring long-form, immersive and feminist approaches to sound-making.
Alongside her song-based work, Prudence has developed a distinctive spatial sound practice. She undertook a compositional workshop at MONOM in Berlin in 2024 and returned for a residency in 2025, where she began developing material for her long-form electronic work An Unfinished Forward Dream. In 2025 she received two major spatial commissions: The Hidden Reverse, a ten-channel sound work for the State Library of Victoria’s exhibition Creative Acts, and a commission for MESS’s Sonorous series, through which she further developed and performed material that would become An Unfinished Forward Dream.
In addition to her own music, Prudence has contributed to recordings by artists including Lehmann B Smith, Helena Plazzer, Esther Hannaford and Chelsea Rose, and has worked extensively in theatre, particularly with the experimental multi-award-winning company Four Larks. Since 2015 she has also collaborated with scientists from NASA and Stanford on projects exploring artistic responses to scientific research.
Her work has been supported by Creative Victoria, Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio, Flor de Sol (Bolivia), the Getty, New Music USA, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Australian Embassy in Berlin, among others. She is currently undertaking a PhD on spatial music and utopias and teaches in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
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Assembly
Assembly is the moniker of Thomas Capogreco, a sonic artist experimenting with ritual, texture, and emergence on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.
Assembly's creative practice revolves around the concept of synthesis - the production of both material forms (musical instruments), and cultural forms (music performance rituals), and speculates on the effect the entanglement of these forms might have on the creative horizon of our collective technological becoming.
Assembly's performances are predicated on attention rather than intention, and incorporate the material infrastructure of the internet in an attempt to revitalise audiences' relation to our familiar technological environs.

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ACCESSIBILITY
Eastmint is accessible via wheelchair through the non main entrance, there is a small sliding door frame that we can place a ramp over the top of. Please get in touch if you require this option via email [email protected]. Closest accessible toilets located at the Peacock Hotel 150m away. Please contact if you require any other info.