NEWPORT, VIC. — Chamber Made’s The Enormous Radio is a new large-scale immersive audio experience by artists Roslyn Oades and Bob Scott with collaborators. A ring of old radios replete with glowing dials, crackling speakers and twitchy antennas fill The Substation Main Space.
This strange hive has been hacked, revived and repurposed to operate as an interconnected machine-medium capable of seeking, receiving, translating and transmitting uncanny messages from the animal world.
In the time of a human-made climate emergency, The Enormous Radio stokes our longing to connect and tune into the unknown and the wild.
At the heart of this project is an ongoing collaboration between innovative documentary director Roslyn Oades and internationally acclaimed sound artist Bob Scott, whose combined skill set spans documentary, sound design, composition, expanded theatre, installation and immersive design.
Old-fashioned valve radios dating back to the 1940s to 1960s – before transistor radios – like those illustrated in the main picture, are arranged on industrial-style shelving in a circle with the radios facing inwards, and some seating in the centre core of the circle for humans to sit and listen to the 45 minutes of six wildlife sound transmissions.
Their previous theatrical installation experience, The Nightline, was presented by Malthouse Theatre in August 2026.
On The Enormous Radio, they are joined by creative technologist Kevan Atkins, production designer Jenny Hector and text dramaturg Sarah Walker.
Venue: The Substation, 1 Market Street, Newport, Victoria.
Dates: September 30 to October 10, 2026.
Tickets:
Full $20.00
Concession $15.00
Hump Day Discount $15.00
Fringe Member Discount $15.00
Extra Applause $30.00
Blak Tix $10.00
Group 4+ $15.00
A single $5.50 transaction fee applies to your booking
Babes in arms allowed.
Event Warning: Both Sudden and sustained loud noises. Contains sustained bright lights.
