Merinda Dias-Jayasinha

Melodic Fictions

11 December 2025

Melodic Fictions is a contemporary choral, improvised layered work by creative vocalist Merinda Dias-Jayasinha. For this intimate performance, Melodic Fictions is crafted live by Merinda in collaboration with vocalists Hannah Cameron, Imogen Cygler, Hannah McKittrick, and Ebony Tait - four artists whose unique voices and sensitivity bring new life to this work. Together, they create an expansive vocal landscape that is deeply transportive, gestural, and imaginative.

The recorded work, Melodic Fictions, was inspired by Merinda's experience working on choreographer Siobhan McKenna's 'Rhythmic Fictions' in 2022, working with dancers to discover sounding their own voices, and performances that culminated in a collective sound bath. Merinda recorded five improvised sonic portraits for each dancer - Claire, Emma, Siobhan, Belle, and Rachel. An offering of gratitude; a unique reflection of an ephemeral experience.

This will be the debut live performance of the music from Melodic Fictions. 

Featured Performers

  • Merinda Dias-Jayasinha

  • Hannah Cameron

  • Ebony Tait

  • Hannah McKittrick

  • Imogen Cygler

Opening DJ

LMDZ

Luke M de Zilva is a Sydney/Gadigal-based musician, composer and the presenter of Surfacing on fbi.radio. He has performed at, and created works for, the likes of Dark Mofo, the Art Gallery of NSW, NTS Radio, Sydney Festival and the University of Technology, Sydney, amongst other Australian and international programs. As LMDZ, Luke presents live mixes of mostly Australian musicians, collating, sampling and abstracting their work to create a series of new ‘collaborations’ between the featured artists.

LMDZ will perform from doors at 6.30pm.

Performances

Performance

Thursday 11 December 2025
6:30pm & 8:15pm

Location

Phoenix Central Park
49 O'Connor St, Chippendale

Tickets

Free, by ballot only

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Ballot draw date: Tuesday 2 December 2025

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