MESS returns with its annual Residents Reveal. This yearly concert is a highlight of our concert calendar. This year we are showcasing creations by Melbourne / Naarm-based sound artists sally ann mcintyre and Sachin de Silva made during their MESS studio residencies.

Across the last six weeks, both artists have been given full access to one of the world’s most eclectic and historically significant collections of musical instruments at the MESS studio. At Miscellania, they will share the sounds they’ve been crafting followed by a live Q&A giving a more in-depth insight into their creative processes.

We can’t wait to hear what they’ve been making and hear from them directly about their lives and work.

About the artists:

sally ann mcintyre is a sound/radio/transmission artist, writer and researcher. Her work combines investigations into technical and conceptual aspects of sonic history, including radio’s ability to conjure the presences on the edge of listening. Sally's work since 2006 (as technician, operator and collaborator) with the mobile micro-radius project station radio cegeste 104.5FM has led to the development of an experimental method of sonic fieldwork that allows intersections between sonic archives, environmental sites and mediated cultural histories

Sachin de Silva’s sounds fall anywhere between drone, noise, minimalism and defragmented club music. Rooted in computational complexity and semi-stochastic processes, sonic materials are derived from both modular synthesis and Max/MSP. Delicate and essential, nothing here is stable. Every fragile texture and tone emerge from the mangled convergence of synthetic and organic sound.

For Miscellania’s full accessibility document, see here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fHR60VwEErBidoSdSbRgbWh8LDVlDjW5RQB8JE916B8/edit?tab=t.0.