Dinner Club: How are we listening?
15/04/2026–15/04/2026
5:30 PM–7:30 PM
George Paton Gallery, Level 1, Arts & Cultural Building
University of Melbourne Student Union
- Free
- Registrations Required
Presented by UMSU Events, in partnership with un Magazine and the George Paton Gallery.
Hear from Lucreccia Quintanilla editor of un Magazine 19.1: Resonant imaginaries and sound clashes: contemporary – political – disruptive – polyrhythmic in conversation with contributor Hayden Ryan, who will discuss his article 'Denoising is not a metaphor’.
This conversation discusses how sound, music and noise shape our experiences, cultures, and ways of understanding the world. Lucreccia and Hayden will speak to their practices, writings and research within the broader framework of Resonant imaginaries, considering the reverberations of sound and noise across time and in place.
Hosted by Farrago Magazine.
After the talk, enjoy free food, drink and conversation with your peers. Spark new ideas in an evening with great company.
Free food and drink included. Alcohol will be served — 18+ only with valid ID.
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About the Presenters
Lucreccia Quintanilla has over decades built a cultural practice which is comprised of various artistic modalities.
Her work is concerned with sound, culture and collectivity which drives her to create sound works, written works, sculptural and painting works, events and DJ across a wide range of contexts.
She has worked as a Co-Director/ CEO of sound focused organisation Liquid Architecture as well as completing her artistic practice-led Doctoral research titled Whose Myth, on the echo as a sonic phenomenon and a metaphor.
She is interested in various approaches of sound and amplification. Quintanilla has presented her research at the Sound System Outernational Conference in Naples, Italy organised by Goldsmiths University and In 2014 she constructed a soundsystem as a way to create experimental spaces for culture, multiplicity, respite, dancing, music and sound.
Hayden Ryan is Yuin-Walbunja sound artist and scholar from the south east coast of New South Wales, currently residing in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). His sound work explores Indigenous identities, histories and relationships with place through the medium of ambisonics and spatial sound techniques.
Hayden is a graduate of New York University’s Master of Music in Music Technology (2022-24); a 2025 Helsinki Interntaional Artist Programme (HIAP) resident; and currently a Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University (PhD; Associate Lecturer). His PhD research investigates how sonic practice and acoustic space influence ways of understanding the environment, history, law and positionality within Indigenous cultures - blending signal-processing, (psycho)acoustics and spatial audio with Indigenous research methods to encapsulate the nuances between First Peoples and sound.
un Magazine is an independent contemporary art magazine published bi-annually. It is printed in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia, and distributed to art organisations, galleries and education institutions around Australia and to selected outlets internationally, as well as being published online.