Queen Victoria Gardens

Ghostly atonalism and sound collage from an artist working at the exploratory edges

A restless dance of scratched strings, scurrying about in a soft pneumatic rain of noise. Slow plucks unravel into labyrinthine harmonies and maximalist shrieks, echoing among the greys. It’s all happening—sometimes all at once—courtesy of Chloë Sobek , a composer-performer and electroacoustic sound artist from Melbourne/Naarm. 

She’s setting up her custom-built violone—a six-stringed baroque variation on the instrument we know today as double bass—and delving into one of her improvised experiments at dusk, in an effort to help deconstruct and re-shape our visions of the future.