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Signals - Album release

Very happy to announce the release of the album Signals on May 22, 2026. Here is a little more on Signals;

“Signals is a collection of audio compositions by Australian composer and sound artist Anthony Lyons that explore sound as a conduit for place, memory, and hidden connection. Drawing on field recordings, historical archives, analogue synthesis, and bio-electrical signals from living environments, the album listens closely to the traces and interferences that shape how we inhabit the world. Bells echo through locked-down towns, prison songs fracture into pulse and grain, sacred caves hum with technological intrusion, and forests and islands speak through layered sonic gestures. Across the album, the Buchla Music Easel and modular synthesis weave through these environments, binding the organic and electronic into a shared sonic language. Signals listens for what is often overlooked: the hidden infrastructures of sound, the rhythms and resonances of place, the fragile connections between environment, technology, and human presence. Concealed patterns, whispers, and hums of the world are drawn into focus—amplified, reshaped, and heard anew.”

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Experience the immersive sounds of Cave Song, spelunking into the mysterious realms of caves, myth and music.

In this evocative new musical work, Karen Berger, Kate Neal and Anthony Lyons explore the paradox that darkness can be a medium of vision and descent can be a movement towards revelation. Cave Song compositions juxtapose live, recorded and manipulated voices, including interviews and original writing, with rarely heard instruments: the deep tones of the contraforte bassoon, the unique Buchla music easel synthesiser, and the extraordinary resonance of stalactites. Instrumental and recorded sounds are interwoven with live foley and live and recorded text in unusual ways, creating moments where it becomes unclear what is live and what is recorded—at times engendering a feeling that the earth herself is speaking.

Audiences experience a five-part journey: The Call, The Search, The Struggle, The Breakthrough and The Return – into the earth, and into deep time, inviting reflection on the question: Are we being good ancestors?

Linking the local to the global, prerecorded interviews include comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell; imminent Indigenous scholar Professor Lynette Russell; Gunditjmara man Tom Molyneux; Djaara Elders; historian Barry Golding; geologist Clive Willman; ecologist Gidja Walker, and other community members.

Cave Song began as a creative development in the David Li Sound Gallery in early 2025, when Berger, Neal and Lyons were awarded an MPAC Progress Links commission, forging connections between artists and Monash University researchers to develop new art.

Image: Brendan McCarthy

$20 - $45

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Elektronmusikstudion EMS Residency Stockholm

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Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Münchenbryggeriet, Stockholm

In residence at the Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm. EMS is the centre for Swedish electroacoustic music and sound-art. EMS' aim is to support artistic development of electroacoustic music and its integration within other artistic areas at the national and international level. Very excited to be back at the wonderful EMS working on new material and working towards completion of a new album.

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