VP

COSMOSIS

27 November 2025

Phoenix Central Park is proud to present COSMOSIS, VP’s debut album performed live for the first time. Drawing on a decade of field recordings and bioacoustic research, VP composes an expansive soundscape that moves between the earthly and the otherworldly—“an invitation to hear the world differently.”  

Join VP for the launch of her debut album COSMOSIS, an immersive journey through imagined sound-worlds and speculative ecologies. COSMOSIS unfolds like a living sonic map of biomes and beyond, blending field recordings of forests, deserts, oceans, and more with ethereal electronic textures. Each track, from the subterranean hum of underground to the expansive speculative skies sky to atmos, invites listeners to explore the intricate pulse of ecologies on other planets. The launch promises a deep listening experience where natural and synthetic worlds converge with the experimental and acoustic. COSMOSIS is an invitation to listen differently to species that exist between the known and the imagined.

Alongside the performance, a new digital collaboration between VP and Jonathan Zawada—commissioned by Cement Fondu and supported by Vital Commons—is shared across the digital channels of Cement Fondu, Vital Commons and Phoenix Central Park. This sound/video work accompanies the ‘Desert’ track on COSMOSIS, combining Zawada’s hyperreal visuals with VP's “sonic imagined landscapes” to create an immersive audio-visual experience of speculative ecologies. 

VP is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, sound installation creator, composer, and bioacoustics researcher based in Paris. Her work spans performance, installation, radio, exploring deep listening, speculative ecologies. She transforms field recordings from her work as an archaeologist and biologist into immersive sonic worlds, blending organic sound with electronic synthesis to create otherworldly ecologies.  

Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally, with institutions and festivals such as Tate Britain, Sydney Opera House, ACCA, Now Or Never, VIVID amongst others. VP is the founder of EARTHLY FUTURES STUDIO, a Paris-based acoustic ecology and bio-design lab, and works as a radio host, sound producer, and collaborator, expanding the possibilities of sound as an immersive, living practice. 

COSMOSIS is assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia. The Cement Fondu–commissioned VP × Zawada collaboration is proudly supported by Create NSW. 

Vital Commons
Vital Commons is a new curatorial practice that reimagines the role of art in public. It collaborates closely with artists to create innovative, site-specific works that have meaningful social and cultural impact.

‘Desert’ Digital Premiere

Opening DJ

Mara

Mara is a composer and curator based in Eora Sydney. She plays the viola and collaborates with her laptop to create live performances and recorded pieces for film, dance, and gallery spaces. Her work is led by the shifts of perspective and interaction of rhythms and beings within environments. Mara's most recent album At Every Corner is a testament to her deep connection to time, place and community, as well as her skill in transforming everyday sounds into immersive auditory constructs’.

Mara will perform from doors at 6.30pm.

Performances

Performance

Thursday 27 November 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 18 November 2025

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