LP9 – Assembly

For the first Listening Practice of 2026 Assembly will present Captive Portal – a work in progress which harnesses a local server architecture, cached security certificates, and aeroplane mode to coalesce the tech in our pockets for the purposes of musical expression.

Thursday March 19, 2026, 5:30 for 6pm

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

Assembly is the moniker of Thomas Capogreco, a sonic artist experimenting with ritual, texture, and emergence on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Assembly’s creative practice revolves around the concept of synthesis – the production of both material forms (musical instruments), and cultural forms (music performance rituals), and speculates on the effect the entanglement of these forms might have on the creative horizon of our collective technological becoming.

Assembly’s performances are predicated on attention, rather than intention, and incorporate the material infrastructure of the internet in their digital music instrument design, in an attempt to defamiliarise and restructure audiences’ relation to their immediate technological environs.

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.

Organised by the DSP research group

Free by RSVP with attendees added to the DSP mailing list