Digital Echoes
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Music
Her Majesty’s Theatre Ballarat and Speak Percussion Presents
Digital Echoes
Created by Aaron Wyatt with Speak Percussion
31 Jan 2026
Sessions
Information
Show type
Music
duration
55 minutes, no interval
Location
Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat
Time
SHOW 1
Bars Open: 12.00PM
Show Start: 1.00PM (followed by a post-show Q and A)
SHOW 2
Bar Open: 6.30PM
Show Start: 7.30PM
Bars Open: 12.00PM
Show Start: 1.00PM (followed by a post-show Q and A)
SHOW 2
Bar Open: 6.30PM
Show Start: 7.30PM
Prices
EARLY BIRD PRICING UNTIL 01 FEB 2026
ALL PRICES LISTED ARE 20% OFF THE USUAL PRICE
Full: $32
Concession: $24
$30 Under 30: $20
Mob Tix: $16
We are proud to offer Mob Tix. These are discounted tickets for self-identified First Nations People to selected shows at Ballarat’s Cultural Venues.
ALL PRICES LISTED ARE 20% OFF THE USUAL PRICE
Full: $32
Concession: $24
$30 Under 30: $20
Mob Tix: $16
We are proud to offer Mob Tix. These are discounted tickets for self-identified First Nations People to selected shows at Ballarat’s Cultural Venues.
Suitable for
Recommended 15+
A concert for viola, percussion and electronics exploring the transformation of sound, messages and meanings displaced by time and space.
In Digital Echoes, melodic fragments of a viola are sent via internet connection to five different locations around Australia.
The captured sound is then sent back to the performance space where it resonates percussion instruments, blending into the live soundscape.
As the viola echoes, bouncing around the country, in and out of the live performance, its journeys create unpredictable timings, mapping the unseeable landscapes of our information highways.
Digital Echoes explores translation and what is lost and gained through coding and decoding. Inviting reflection about the history and future of internet and interstellar communication, this new work from Aaron Wyatt and Speak Percussion combines remarkable technology, contemporary classical music and percussive art to create an enthralling and otherworldly score.
NOTE: The audience is invited onto the stage at Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat to witness this performance from a new, more intimate perspective.
AARON WYATT - ARTIST STATEMENT
I created Digital Echoes as a way of continuing to explore the themes of landscape and connection to country that I was looking at in Our Place, a 20-minute live performance and audiovisual installation work that I created for and with Ensemble Dutala, Australia’s first First Nations chamber ensemble. In this new work though, I wanted the electronic component to be generated live rather than being prerecorded, and this led to the idea of combining two of the major coding projects that I’ve either been responsible for or have contributed to: the Decibel ScorePlayer and JackTrip.
Inspired by Chris Chafe’s work on using the topology of the internet to create different virtual reverberant spaces, I decided to use JackTrip to map out parts of the Australian landscape as a series of delay lines and used the ScorePlayer to continue my practice of combining elements of traditional and animated graphic notation. I also took inspiration from previous works produced by Speak Percussion that made use of transducers to combine percussion with electronics. The result is part soundscape, part hybrid instrument, that hopefully captures a sense of time and space.
With thanks to Speak Percussion and Deadly Fringe, Melbourne Fringe Festival.
SUPPORTED BY
Digital Echoes was conceived by Aaron Wyatt and commissioned by Speak Percussion as part of their artists in residence program. Supported by Melbourne Fringe Festival and the City of Melbourne through Arts House.
Digital Echoes is a Regional Exclusive at Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat
In Digital Echoes, melodic fragments of a viola are sent via internet connection to five different locations around Australia.
The captured sound is then sent back to the performance space where it resonates percussion instruments, blending into the live soundscape.
As the viola echoes, bouncing around the country, in and out of the live performance, its journeys create unpredictable timings, mapping the unseeable landscapes of our information highways.
Digital Echoes explores translation and what is lost and gained through coding and decoding. Inviting reflection about the history and future of internet and interstellar communication, this new work from Aaron Wyatt and Speak Percussion combines remarkable technology, contemporary classical music and percussive art to create an enthralling and otherworldly score.
NOTE: The audience is invited onto the stage at Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat to witness this performance from a new, more intimate perspective.
AARON WYATT - ARTIST STATEMENT
I created Digital Echoes as a way of continuing to explore the themes of landscape and connection to country that I was looking at in Our Place, a 20-minute live performance and audiovisual installation work that I created for and with Ensemble Dutala, Australia’s first First Nations chamber ensemble. In this new work though, I wanted the electronic component to be generated live rather than being prerecorded, and this led to the idea of combining two of the major coding projects that I’ve either been responsible for or have contributed to: the Decibel ScorePlayer and JackTrip.
Inspired by Chris Chafe’s work on using the topology of the internet to create different virtual reverberant spaces, I decided to use JackTrip to map out parts of the Australian landscape as a series of delay lines and used the ScorePlayer to continue my practice of combining elements of traditional and animated graphic notation. I also took inspiration from previous works produced by Speak Percussion that made use of transducers to combine percussion with electronics. The result is part soundscape, part hybrid instrument, that hopefully captures a sense of time and space.
With thanks to Speak Percussion and Deadly Fringe, Melbourne Fringe Festival.
SUPPORTED BY
Digital Echoes was conceived by Aaron Wyatt and commissioned by Speak Percussion as part of their artists in residence program. Supported by Melbourne Fringe Festival and the City of Melbourne through Arts House.
Digital Echoes is a Regional Exclusive at Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat
Cast & Creatives
Aaron Wyatt
Performer
Performer
Eugene Ughetti
Performer
Performer
Concept, realisation and performance
Aaron Wyatt
Collaborating Artist / Performer
Eugene Ughetti
Collaborating Company & Producer
Speak Percussion
Sound
Alistair McLean
Lighting Design
Jenny Hector
Image Credit
Darren Gill
Aaron Wyatt
Performer
Aaron Wyatt, a Noongar, Yamatji, and Wongai man, is a violist, composer and software developer. A member of Decibel New Music Ensemble, he created their animated graphic notation app, the Decibel ScorePlayer.
Since 2020, Aaron has been a major contributor to JackTrip, a system for high-quality audio network performance over the internet, initially developed out of Stanford University, USA.
Since 2020, Aaron has been a major contributor to JackTrip, a system for high-quality audio network performance over the internet, initially developed out of Stanford University, USA.
Aaron is a rising star in the contemporary classical world, having worked with Deborah Cheetham, Cat Hope, Electric Fields and the Western Australia, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney Symphony Orchestras plus many more.
Aaron is Speak Percussion’s Artist In Residence: an ongoing position that empowers first nations artists to self-determine projects with the full support of the whole company.
Aaron is Speak Percussion’s Artist In Residence: an ongoing position that empowers first nations artists to self-determine projects with the full support of the whole company.
Eugene Ughetti
Performer
Eugene Ughetti, the Co-Artistic director of Speak Percussion, explores the materiality of percussion, engaging with broad ideas such as drumming aged rum, supersonic performances and the percussive military. He is known for tackling complex and ambitious art music projects whether as director, composer, performer or conductor.
He includes Pierre Boulez, Liza Lim, Steve Reich and John Zorn among some of his many collaborators.
Eugene founded Speak Percussion in 2000.
Eugene has worked closely with Aaron on Digital Echoes as both performer and collaborator.
Eugene founded Speak Percussion in 2000.
Eugene has worked closely with Aaron on Digital Echoes as both performer and collaborator.