Trying To Remember What a Bird Sounds Like is an immersive sound installation and performance in development — a speculative meditation on the human relationship to birdsong, and the possibility of a world without it. The work takes its imaginative departure from a real predicament: currently there are approximately 11,000 living species of birds, with over 1,480 at risk of extinction and 223 critically endangered. From this reality, the artists ask what it would mean to carry the memory of birdsong into a future where the birds themselves are gone.

Aviva Endean, Artist & Composer

Tamara Saulwick, Artist & Director

Nick Roux, Sound Engineer & System Design

Kate Davis, Visual Designer

Michelle Heaven, Movement Consultant

Jenny Hector, Lighting Designer

Presented by CHAMBER MADE

Special Event:
The Sound of a Bird: Archive & Absence

Join us for this special Salon event to experience a panel discussion, as well as an excerpt from Trying To Remember What A Bird Sound Like – a new Chamber Made work-in-development.

Thursday 19 November 2026, 6PM – 7PM
Arts House (The Warehouse), 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
FREE: RSVP HERE

This project is supported by The Phillip Hunter Fellowship and was seeded through Creative Victoria’s Creator’s Fund.