Sonic Travellers: Guided tours for the blind and low vision community

Sonic Travellers seeks to discover shared connections between sonic pasts and presents, exploring regional affinities between Australia and Southeast Asia.

In their Australian debut, Rosemainy Buang and Syafiq Halid of ANTARMUKA (Singapura) feature Nusantara instruments in a new sound installation composed of deconstructed gamelan and Malay percussive elements, electronic sounds and vocal experimentation. Naarm-based composer James Howard (Jaadwa) builds a space of sanctuary, inviting listeners to drift through spiralling time-streams by way of language, electronic tones, and echoed histories. A new video work by Victoria Pham and James Nguyen (Việt Nam / Warrane / Naarm) meditates on the sacred Moon of Pejeng in Bali, the largest single-cast drum from the Bronze age that still remains in-situ, and is part of a longstanding regional sound practice and research on the Đông Sơn drum.

Join co-curator Gillian Daniel for a guided tour of this exhibition and experience these three new sound and video works. Tour slots are available on Friday 28 June at 12pm and 1pm for up to 4 people per session.

This program has been planned in consultation with Arts Access Victoria. Entry is free. Please let us know if you have any access requirements we should be aware of to make your experience more comfortable.

This projects has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

ACCESS NOTES

• Visitors should note there are uneven surfaces both inside the gallery, and outside on the foothpath.
• There are no stairs to access the building.
• Two visitor parking spots are available for use.

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