Air Lab Listen Up! Session #6 is here, and this time the australian artist and researcher Tara Pattenden will be presenting a participatory concert with malleable wearable electronic instruments developed through her work as an artist, instrument maker, and performer. The concert invites audiences into a tactile and exploratory sound environment, where soft circuitry, deformable interfaces, and wearable instruments become tools for improvisational play and shared sound-making.

Pattenden’s practice explores the relationship between materiality, agency, and participation. Her instruments reduce familiar technological signifiers and instead foreground touch, texture, shape, and bodily interaction. In doing so, they open a space where sound performance is shaped through direct material engagement, collaborative expression, and the shifting relations between performer, audience, instrument, and sound.

Tara Pattenden is an artist, instrument maker, noise performer, and PhD candidate at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. Her work builds on two decades of practice in interactive arts, experimental sound, wearable electronics, and participatory performance. She is also the founder of Cyber Bunker, an artist-run not-for-profit supporting electronic and experimental arts in Magandjin/Brisbane, Australia.