Presented by The Sound Collectors Lab, this album launch event will feature a meditative, deep listening journey through the full work Cosmic Time via the extraordinary Meyer Sound Constellation spatial audio system in the David Li Sound Gallery at Monash University, Melbourne.

Co-created by visual artist Michaela Gleave, composer Amanda Cole and percussionist Louise Devenish, Cosmic Time takes concepts of time on a cosmological scale as a point of departure. Unfolding over 40 minutes, Cosmic Time explores representations of time ranging from the endless circling of planetary forms, to measures of time on Earth such as human breath and the fluttering heartbeats of desert mice, as well as abstractions of dissolving consciousness. It is presented as a sequence of eight overlapping movements representing forms of cosmic time: Big Bang, Cosmic Soup, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, and Esoteric.

Recorded by four percussionists (Louise Devenish, Hamish Upton, Kaylie Melville and Nat Grant) in the Digital Hub at Monash University and spatialised through the Meyer Constellation for this launch event, listeners will embark on a sonic journey centered around gentle metallic percussion instruments, sparkling clusters of bells and triangles, ultra low drums, gongs, cymbals, and a wide range of singing bowls, microtonal tubes and chimes. Together, these instruments pulse, blend and resonate together, to evoke sonic representations of atmospheres, sensations, and rhythms through time and space.

We would be delighted if you could join us for this event. Please rsvp via email to: louise.devenish@monash.edu

THE ALBUM IS OUT NOW VIA BANDCAMP

This project has been supported by the Australian Research Council, CreateNSW, and Monash University.