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. Photo: Elyse Bouvier. Courtesy the artist, Cassandra Bird Gallery, Sydney and Galerie Allen, Paris.
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Performance Programme
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound is enlivened by an evolving performance series across the exhibition’s duration spanning choreography, performance, sound installations and kinetic sculpture.
Mel O’Callaghan, First sound, last sound (2022-2025)
Performances: 11 am every Saturday, 17 May – 23 August (except 14 June) | 20 minutes | Free
Come and witness First sound, last sound, a profound sensory performance that calls your body into deep resonance with the living frequency of the Earth. As local performers activate towering tuning forks tuned to the ‘god note’—256 hertz—you’ll be immersed in sympathetic vibration that echoes within your own breath and heartbeat. This is sound not just heard, but felt—cellular, primal, and ancient.
Performance Programme
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound is enlivened by an evolving performance series across the exhibition’s duration spanning choreography, performance, sound installations and kinetic sculpture.
Mel O’Callaghan, First sound, last sound (2022-2025)
Performances: 11 am every Saturday, 17 May – 23 August (except 14 June) | 20 minutes | Free
Come and witness First sound, last sound, a profound sensory performance that calls your body into deep resonance with the living frequency of the Earth. As local performers activate towering tuning forks tuned to the ‘god note’—256 hertz—you’ll be immersed in sympathetic vibration that echoes within your own breath and heartbeat. This is sound not just heard, but felt—cellular, primal, and ancient.
