Tonal contouring, spatial resonances, and octophonic diffusion.

Liam Keenan is a Gomeroi experimental guitarist based on Dharawal Country, Sydney. He works with exploratory and extended technique. In 2025, in residence at Soft Centre, he created a new improvised language that deepened his explorations into the outer zones of how his instrument might be understood.

Machine Listening are Sean Dockray, James Parker, and Joel Stern, from Naarm/Melbourne. Their Environments 12 project is a speculative addition to the influential records released by Irv Teibel between 1969 and 1979, anticipating a mass market in mood-altering nature recordings. Narrated by human performers and their AI-generated clones, their piece is a lesson in uncanny sound fields and dynamic listenership.

Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Mono is the IMA’s experimental sound program curated by Room40. Since 2006, it has brought sonic experimentation and boundary-pushing performance to Brisbane/Meanjin. Mono turns twenty in 2026.