Sound Lab returns in 2026 with a loud lineup! Meanjin/Magan-djin’s cyberBanshee joins forces with Lismore’s Ghost Variations and MANI\VRMES for a night of fierce, performative, and playful sonic exploration.
Free, all welcome, no bookings required.
cyberBanshee aka Han Reardon-Smith (they/them) is a queer-trans/nonbinary settler flutist, electronic musician, improviser, radio producer, community organiser, writer, researcher, and thinker. Their work is rooted in queer and feminist collaborative and contaminative co-creation with other “holobionts with history”—soundmakers and artmakers, physical and social environments, ecologies, histories, and narratives, exploring the emergent possibilities of making-kin and finding agency within community (soundmaking as kinmaking: musickin). As a musicker, they play with Magan-djin's radically inclusive symphonic pop collective Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra, and improv and experimentation trio Rogue Three, as well as exploring electronic flute soundings under the moniker cyberBanshee.
MANI\VRMES is the dark audio-visual project of Lismore-based artist Nathan Jenkins. Working with sound and audio-reactive imagery, it explores control, collapse, and the persistence of structure within decay. PerformingThe Last Tongue, MANI\VRMES traces the transformation of language from vessel to emblem. When words no longer carry essence, only allegiance. Drawing from repetition, noise, and transcendence, MANI\VRMES is equal parts hypnotic and repulsive.
Ghost Variations is a temporal autonomous collective of humans living on Bundjalung country. They value DIY processes, the legacies of ‘brutal musick’, anti fascist action, critical creative practices and the pursuit of inclusive communities. They recognise local mythologies and narratives as a thematic jumping-off point to explore social and interpersonal dynamics.
Sound Lab is a new music series, presented within the context of the current exhibitions. It is part of Revive Live - an Australian Government initiative.
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