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Step into an expanded universe of sound.

Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) returns with the tenth edition of Sonorous – a series of octaphonic, commissioned concerts. Founded by Robin Fox and Byron J Scullin, MESS is dedicated to the creation of electronic sound and music. Representing one of the most unique, eclectic, and historically significant collections of electronic instruments worldwide, the ever-growing MESS collection is made available to creatives and the broader public to learn, play, and record with hundreds of electronic instruments at their fingertips.

About the concert

Reaching a landmark tenth instalment in its Sonorous series, MESS invites electronic music producer Lauren Squire and sound artist Joel Stern to engage with the limitless possibilities of the MESS collection. Commissioned to create an immersive multichannel electroacoustic performance, these two extraordinary artists push their work in new directions through the experimentation of spatial sound.

Join us as they demonstrate the unrealised potential of sound and diffuse their brand-new works in stunning, octaphonic surrounds in this unmissable Intimate Salon Experience.

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About the artists

Lauren Squire sound artist
Lauren Squire is an electronic music producer, synthesist, DJ, audiovisual artist, and sound designer based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her practice focuses on experimental and ambient music, underground dance music, audiovisual installation art and the spaces where these disciplines intersect. As an artist, Lauren works with her partner Matthew Wilson in an audiovisual duo called OK EG. Together they create wholly immersive live sets, superbly textural, ambient techno that ensconces all listeners in reach. Also producing and DJing under the alias Zosia Kossak, she explores the relationship between the human voice and that of synthesisers whilst incorporating heavyweight bass and rhythm into the mix.

Joel Stern sound artist
Joel Stern is an artist, curator and researcher based in Naarm. He has been involved in experimental music and sonic art for more than two decades as a solo artist and in groups including Sky Needle, Abject Leader, Soft Power and more. Joel is currently a Research Fellow at School of Media and Communication RMIT University, and co-lead on the Machine Listening project with Sean Dockray and James Parker, a platform for collaborative research and artistic experimentation, focused on the political and aesthetic dimensions of the computation of sound and speech. Machine Listening emerged out of Stern’s previous work, with James Parker, on Eavesdropping, a multifaceted project staged at Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, and City Gallery, Wellington, addressing the capture and control of our sonic worlds, alongside strategies of resistance.