Sonorous XIII MESS Commission at Melbourne Recital Centre Primrose Potter Salon, 30 April 2026
Putney meets Rovelli 74-26
Acoustic Sounding of Altar Pop-up Surround Sound Venue, 30 Jan 2026
Duo set with Genevieve Fry (harp/recorders) and Ros Bandt (Recorders/Voice/Psaltery)
Drifts in Sand for amplified 3D printed tenor recorder (Kunath) with reverb, Elbow Room Concert at Church of All Nations, 4 Oct 2025
World premiere. Played in F fingering by Melinda Barrie.
Flying Home AFAE Listening event Maroochy Botanic Gardens, Sunshine Coast Arts & Ecology Centre, 3 Oct 2025
Eight Channel dispersion by Jesse Budel, dedicated to AWSRG sound recordists. Watch
We Called It New Music presented by Astra & Liquid Architecture, Lithuania House, North Melbourne, April 12, 2025
Music in Glass and Clay by LIME duet. Celebrating Clifton Hill Community Music Centre (1976-1983).
Sonic Fissures, High Note Northcote, Feb 25, 2025
World premiere of new collaborative electroacoustic sound art by Ros Bandt and Sasha Bogdanowitsch, featuring amplified seaweed, ancient Greek lyre, Tortoctopus, Kamelengoni, Ney and amplified slide whistles
Make It Up Club, Bar Open, Brunswick St Fitzroy, Feb 2025
Trio improvisation: Genevieve Fry (harp, voice, tenor recorder), Ros Bandt (tarhu, psaltery, tenor recorder), Sasha Bogdanowitsch NY (ney, voice, appalatian dulcimer)
Sonic Hugs, August 17, 2024
Radiophonic commission, one of nine pieces curated by Colin Black, funded by Creative Australia. World premieres at Red House, New People’s Republic, Earlwood, NSW
For Genevieve, Sonic Excavations, Eastmint Northcote, Feb 11, 2024
Live performance on an amplified renaissance bass recorder with effects, surround sound recorded on reel to reel and lowered twice played back half speed each time. Original analog slide projections of Collins Place Subterranean car park ramp cylinder, level P5 in winter 1984. Watch
For Mary, celebrating 40 Years Of the World Silence January 1, 2024
Invented by Mary Cassini, played every year on radio stations around the world. See the dedicated website. For Mary is a joyful snippet from the beginning of Footsteps a work commissioned by Mary Cassini for the world silence heard every year, January 1st at 11.00 am before the vigil of silence “for everyone of us to remember the future and to wish for peace”. Published on Move records. Buy CD or download here. Her fascinating story of where this project has taken her in her book LINK Footsteps CD Booklet LINK
Debris, by Ros Bandt and Alana Blackburn
Friday 15 December 2023 6pm World Premiere of new co-composed piece using sound recordings we made at UNE music department before it was obliterated by a tornado. Paetzold recorder, Alana and Tarhu bowed spike fiddle, Ros Bandt. World first instrumental combination. Full Programme of Sounding Spaces duo concert in 8 channels dispersed by Jim Atkins. Watch
For Michael, Solo Flagong
Efficient Space and The Eighty Six Festival 30 Oct 2023 at The Chalice Northcote Uniting Church Hall
Ask the Black Swans: 16 speaker pre-colonial swamp environment walk-through installation,
Grainger Museum Open House Day July 30, 2023
1:00pm Smoking Ceremony, 1:30-4:00pm Concert Information Program
Threnody, solo flute
Composed Dec 31, 2022, the last day of Ros Bandt’s two year fellowship for Experimental Music funded by Australia Council. The work expresses the horror of 20 years of War in Afghanistan. The terror of being homeless and displaced is continuing in Ukraine and the Middle East. Premiered by Johanna Selleck 23 Sep 2023 at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, Victoria
Jawbone, New sound art performance with underwater images by Sandy Webb
Hear sea urchins from Jawbone Marine Sanctuary and amplified seaweed sculpture fight for survival. Dedicated to all underwater sea gardeners trying to help with the ecological balance. Eat more sea urchins. October 20 Miscellania 8.00 p.m. Tickets
Basilica Dreamings Sensing Sound Duo Ros Bandt and Vicki Hallett, Oct 2022
5 new world premieres including Mangroves at the 13th Annual Windfire Music Festival 2022 - October 8th St Mary's of the Angels Geelong 8.00 pm
Skyward -Electroacoustic + live-, Christchurch NZ, Aug 2022
ISCM/ACL 2022 World New Music Days presents world premiere of Raptor, Australian electro-acoustic selected entry. The golden eagle continues its flight from the U.S. to Christchurch performed by the composer on tarhu and 6 channel surround sound. 9.30 pm, Aug 30, 2022, Little Andromeda Theatre, Christchurch. Ticket info & program Photo by Celeste Oram
From Deep Time to the Deep Future by Sophia Club, May 2022
Ros Bandt to perform Ocean Bells. Thursday, May 19, 2022, 6:30PM ’til late @Aeon HQ Level 5 100 Flinders St, Melbourne
1001 Minutes for Ukraine! March 2022
Excerpt from Medusa Dreaming, movement 7, Water Dreaming contributed for 1001 Minutes for Ukraine! - “We are addressing everyone who wants to articulate themselves with sounds, words and sentences in order to express their compassion with the drama of the Ukrainian people that is taking place in the middle of Europe.”
The Listening Place, Alma park Voices, 2002-2022
Artwork concept: Julie Shiels | Sound: Ros Bandt. An installation of story telling and poetry about Alma Park, St Kilda East, featuring stories in different languages from park users. Still playing. Congratulations City of Port Phillip.
Soft & Fragile, Ros Bandt and LIME, Feb 2022
Vinyl Re-Issue on Efficient Space ES026
Re-Growth? - world premiere, Dec 2021
An environmental mixed media work for amplified recorders with surround sound commissioned by Alana Blackburn. Projections by Jutta Pryor.
Dec 16 2021 Armidale Playhouse NSW 6.30 pm
Tickets https://www.trybooking.com/BVWTT
Currawong 551 & Currawongs Calling, Nov 2021
Video teaser by Shosuke Suzuki commissioned by Ros Bandt. Performance info & video. Nov 29, 6.00pm. Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre. Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.
Medusa Dreaming,
CD Release by Neuma Records USA, Aug 2021
Electroacoustic Water Symphony with the Medusa Ensemble. Recorded live in the Byzantine underground water palace, the Yerebatan Sarnici Istanbul. A sonic archaeology of the site and a desperate plea for international water care in a time of global collapse.
Site and Sound : Sonic art as ecological practice, Feb-Apr 2021
Ros Bandt Raptor 2014 /2018/ 2021 15 mins 20 secs Spatialised in 24 speakers, Elisabeth Murdoch Gallery. WED FRI SUN 3:38pm, THURS SAT 12:24pm Digital catalogue page 49. PDF. Excellent articles on the state of environmental sound art. Rare opportunity to experience immersive embodied sound.
Koala Extinction,
Electro-acoustic work commissioned by Sonic Gallery, 2020
This is the audible journey of how we have dug ourselves into this abyss leaving the wails of koalas to scream the terror, drought, fires, floods, polar ice melt, shared habitat plundering towards annihilation. Multi channel sound installation, amplified tarhu with delay performance, electroacoustic composition.
A Wound Without a Tear,
Limited edition double vinyl & book, Weeds change the colour of water published by Daisart, Nov 2020
From Under the Sacred Oak, an oracle performed at the first ancient Greek oracle site, the sacred oak of Dodoni, North Greece archaeological site. Performed on site for the first Dordoni festival. Bandcamp
Barwon Listening, online project:
Ros Bandt with Vicki Hallett, 2020
New collaborative work Saltwater/Fresh water. Two artists listening to the underwater sounds of the Barwon River, performing together online from two different cities at the same time, Melbourne and Geelong. Premiered for Field Trip Arts Online, an online national research symposium featuring creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment.
庆祝Qìngzhù: Celebration, Dec 2019
I. Water Fall 瀑布 Pùbù 2. Prosperity 繁荣 Fánróng 3. Sea Urchins 海胆 Hǎidǎn. For the Australian Chinese Music Ensemble and surround sound. Commissioned by The Melbourne Recital Centre for their 10th Anniversary. Sponsored by the Playking Foundation. Premiere December 3, 2019, 6.00 p.m. The Primrose-Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre. Watch (Starting at 21 minutes).
Hydraion: In praise of water, 2019
A sound performance for ANIMART FESTVAL June 22-3, 2019. Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion, Hydra, Greece. View pics (A plea for international water care, Water Dreaming)
Echoes of Prespes, 2019
Group exhibition from International Encounters Walking Bodies, Byzantine Museum, Agios Germanos. Outdoor concert, For International Encounters Walking Bodies Festival.
Conference Hall, Municipality of Prespes, Laimos.
Lake Prespa
where the borders of Albania, North Greece and West Macedonia meet
,
hydrophone recording,
2019
Home of the dalmatian pelican, the waterbird with the largest wingspan. Feels like an aeroplane flying over the ancient Byzantine world, continuing since the 8th century.
Borderless I: Fish & Borderless II: Goats, 2019
Interspecies Sound Walkshops in Byzantine Ruins: from the point of view of fish and goats. International Encounters, Walking Bodies Festival, Prespes, North Greece, 2019. Curated by Yiannis Ziogas Professor of Fine Arts, University of Florina, and Geert Vermeire Made of Walking.
Human Aquarium, 2019
Collaborative work with Vicki Hallett and Jem Savage, commissioned by Geelong After Dark Festival 2019. Six channel underwater sound environment designed for an outdoor multi-sensory portal in Johnston’s Park, City of Geelong, Victoria.
Double Vinyl anthology Midday Moon by Bedroom Suck records, 2018
Starzones 13'39 Ros Bandt re-release of synthesizer improvisation commissioned by Danceworks and first performed as an 8 channel dancer -triggered installation for a foyer interval at the arts centre so the audience emerged from the performative to the anti- gravity mesmeric stellar space in silver and blue. Floating in the unknown.
Rodi (pomegranate), 2018
Amplified found objects with live electronics, ancient Greek text, live camera and video mix by Brigid Burke, small percussion Nat Grant, Loop Bar, Melbourne.
Raptor, RMIT Chaos and Order Exhibition, 2018
Surround sound multi channel work on the flight route of an eagle in Arizona. Commissioned by University of Arizona/RMIT International Sound Art Collection, Melbourne.
From the Sacred Oak, 2017
First festival of Dodoni 31 July 2017, commissioned performance interpreting the sacred oak, first ancient oracle site in Greece, in collaboration with Ancient Greek scholar Arthur McDevitt.
From the Sacred Castalian Spring, 2017
Performance by Ros Bandt with John Drummond, divining their hydrophone recording of the sacred spring in the Delphi soundscape.
A Sonic Metamorphosis: The Tortoise and the Spider, 2017
An ancient ritual performance created collaboratively with Made of Walking and friends at Sikelianos Amphitheatre to Parnassos, Delphi, Greece.
Listening through the walls, 2016
The collaborative installation in the Sabbionara Gate, Hania, Crete, combines sound recordings, sonic notations, photographs and historical information, from the walls of the old city and the spaces in between.
Floating Glass, 2013
Installation/performance of interactive glass sculptures in the air and underwater at Library Arts Space, Melbourne. Read article. Watch video 1.
Hearing Jaara Jaara, 2013
A digital acoustic sanctuary of Jaara Jaara box ironbark woodlands, North Central Victoria, Australia.
Kami: Sonic Blue Red Tracings, 2011
Collaborative work with Johannes S. Sistermanns, developed in Wakayama, Japan. Toured in Switzerland and Germany.
Blue Gold, 2011
The title work Blue gold, an electroacoustic work for cello and clarinets, sculptures, digital colour field and moving imagery, investigates the delicate balance between wet and dry, symbolised in the colours of the title. Read article.
Yerebatan, 2010
Tarhu and harp improvisation with Natalia Mann. Medusa dreaming, Site specific electroacoustic symphony designed for Yerebatan underground cistern, Istanbul, Turkey.
Isobue, 2007/2008
Finding the Japanese sea whistle of Ama abalone divers in Sugashima Island. ABC audio arts residency. Radiophonic work Waiting for the Tide. Instrumental music Sea Folk Voices, Shima eight haiku for Kumi and sound installation, Iso Nageki (Sea Lament).
Stack, 2001
Site specific radiophonic work interpreting a fifty-five metre chimney stack designed to extract fumes from the new CITYLINK tunnel in the heart of Melbourne's underground.
A Sonic Archaeology Mungo, 1992 (Sound Art Australia Prize)
Original Aeolian harps installed at the ancient dried salt lake Mungo, New South Wales, Australia.
Improvisations in Acoustic Chambers, 1979