In Desert, a digital collaboration born from VP’s album COSMOSIS, sonic and visual worlds entwine to evoke speculative ecologies that are at once uncanny and dreamlike.
VP, a bioacoustics researcher and sound artist, transforms her field recordings—from forests to deserts to subterranean hums—into immersive, otherworldly soundscapes that redefine how we listen to the Earth’s pulse. Jonathan Zawada answers this auditory terrain with hyperreal imagery: meticulously crafted digital landscapes that blur the boundaries between the artificial and the organic, the imagined and the material. Together, they map a sensory realm where images and sound echo each other in an expanded experience—a realm where speculative biomes come to life through fractured beauty and immersive resonance.
Commissioned by Cement Fondu and supported by Vital Commons in association with Phoenix Central Park, this new digital collaboration accompanies the ‘Desert’ track on VP’s COSMOSIS album—which will be performed live for the first time at Phoenix Central Park, on Thursday November 27, 2025.
Drawing on a decade of field recordings and research into the hidden sounds of our environment, VP composes an expansive soundscape that moves between the earthly and the otherworldly. This immersive album surrounds audiences with rhythms, textures and atmospheres—“an invitation to hear the world differently.”
Performance: Thursday 27 November 2025
6:30pm & 8:15pm | Phoenix Central Park
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.
