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Sonorous XII: Rohan Rebeiro and Prudence Rees-Lee
Thursday November 20, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A liberation of sonics from the shackles of stereo, Sonorous welcomes audiences to go beyond a traditional listening experience into an expanded sonic universe.
Marking the twelfth edition of its Sonorous series, MESS invites Prudence Rees-Lee and Rohan Rebeiro to engage with the incredible instruments of the MESS collection. The sound artists will craft immersive multichannel electroacoustic performances, respectively infusing the space with explorations of utopia and extremes – each employing space as a fundamental compositional concern.
Join us as they diffuse these brand-new commissioned works in the acoustically rich Primrose Potter Salon of Melbourne Recital Centre. This is a rare chance to hear electroacoustic works in glorious octophonic surround sound.
Sonorous is MESS’s ongoing commissioning series devoted to multichannel concert works, providing artists with the resources, time, and creative space to forge boundary-transcending new compositions.
About the artists
Prudence Rees-Lee
Prudence Rees-Lee is a Naarm-based composer, performer, and PhD candidate at RMIT University, where she is exploring the utopian dimension of spatial sound. Her practice moves between spatial composition, experimental song, and performance, often drawing from classical, psychedelic, and electronic traditions.
Recent projects include workshops with the RMIT Speaker Orchestra, a European and UK tour with her band Popular Music, a residency at MONOM in Berlin, research at the Daphne Oram Archive at Goldsmiths London and the six piece electroacoustic ensemble Golden Sands.
Rohan Rebeiro
A core member of post-punk outliers My Disco, Rohan Rebeiro pushes sound to its breaking point, exploring music’s outer boundaries as a linguistic form. His work inhabits extremes – balancing raw intensity with precise control, grounded in deep listening to instruments, performance spaces, bodies, and the resonance in-between.
His performances move between the tangible and generative, where objects resonate with human touch while electronic systems release causality and chaos.