MUSIC IMAGE TIME SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 at 2pm – Free Entry – all Welcome.

An interactive presentation and screening of “Sovereign Air” by Ben Denham . Sovereign Air (2026) is an essay and audio-visual work of electronic and dialectical synthesis. It was commissioned by Ben Byrne for the Avantwhatever platform. https://avantwhatever.com/

Ben Denham is an artist living and working on Gadigal, Kamaygal, Wangal, and Bidgigal land. He builds instruments and machines as part of a transmedia practice that includes the weather, drawing, electronics, kinetic sculpture, text, video, sound and bushcare. He makes custom synthesizer modules that form part of larger installations and systems that transduce, reflect, or abstract more complex phenomena that exist in the world.

Ben Denham will screen and discuss his work Sovereign Air (2026), read excerpts from the essay that is part of the work, and invite the audience to participate in the practice of atmospheric listening, through the sonification of air pressure changes in a modular synthesizer system.

Sovereign Air (2026) is an essay and audio-visual work of electronic and dialectical synthesis. The work comes out of the practice atmospheric listening; a multi-sensory activity that includes an awareness of the air and its touch on skin, environmental sound, and audible analogues of air pressure changes produced in a synthesizer system.