Prudence Rees-Lee

In this presentation, composer and researcher Prudence Rees-Lee introduces the idea of Immanent Composition, a theoretical and practical framework emerging from feminist epistemologies of sound and spatial electroacoustic practice. The framework has developed through iterative work across residencies and workshops at MONOM Berlin (2024, 2025), an octophonic Sonorous Commission (2025), and loudspeaker orchestra environments. Rees-Lee maps the thinking behind a compositional approach in which the composer works from within a system, entangled with automated and human processes, rather than standing above it. The presentation combines a discussion of technical routings and considerations, theoretical reflection, and live demonstration.

Thursday May 14, 2026, 5:30 for 6pm

Black Box Multichannel AV Space
Room 12.02.103
RMIT City Campus, Naarm/Melbourne

Prudence Rees-Lee is a composer, electroacoustic musician, and PhD researcher at RMIT University. Her research, Sonic Utopias: Reclaiming Radical Imagination through Spatial Electroacoustic Performance, draws on the utopian philosophy of Ernst Bloch to ask how sound can hold open possibilities that do not yet exist. She is a founding member of Golden Sands, a multigenerational feminist electroacoustic ensemble, and half of the group Popular Music. She has performed throughout Australia, Europe and the US and her work has been supported by Creative Victoria, Music Australia, and Music Victoria, and commissioned by MESS and the State Library of Victoria.

Entry near the RMIT tram stop on the eastern side of Swanston st, at Little Bang Cafe’s location – enter through the glass doors on street level near the ‘Building 10’ sign and head straight down the half set of stairs, the Black Box is straight ahead

Elevator available nearby the cafe entrance for those with accessibility requirements

Listening Practice is a monthly gathering of listeners open to all, where sonic research and practice is shared in a dedicated listening environment, with informal discussion encouraged afterward.

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