AOTEAROA PREMIERE: First Sound, Last Sound

Come witness the Aotearoa premiere of First Sound, Last Sound, a profound sensory performance that calls your body into deep resonance with the living frequency of the Earth. As performers activate towering tuning forks within the artwork, tuned to the ‘god note’—256 hertz—you’ll be immersed in a symphony of sympathetic vibration that echoes within your own breath and heartbeat.

This is sound not just heard, but felt—cellular, primal, and ancient. Join us and become part of the transmission.

Part of the opening day programme of our new Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre exhibition Direct Bodily Empathy — more on our website.

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Photo: Mel O’Callaghan, First Sound, Last Sound, 2022. performance, solid steel tuning forks, wooden resonance chamber, wooden, bronze and leather mallet. duration 20 minutes. Installation view, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada, 2023. Courtesy of the artist, Cassandra Bird Gallery, Sydney and Galerie Allen, Paris. Image: Elyse Bouvier.

You may also like the following events from Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre:

• This Saturday, 17th May, 02:00 pm, Direct Bodily Empathy: Curator Talk with Artists Yona Lee and Mel O'Callaghan in New Plymouth
• This month, 29th May, 07:00 pm, Pitchblack Premiere: Sufjan Stevens in New Plymouth
• This August, 6th August, 12:30 pm, Waiata in the Gallery Aug 2025 in New Plymouth

Also check out other Arts events in New Plymouth, Performances in New Plymouth, Exhibitions in New Plymouth.