Calling Country Soundscape
The soundscape you’re hearing is a curated selection of compositions by Eric Avery, salllvage, and Source Decay.
Each of these artists works with the sounds of Country and First Nations languages, weaving together field recordings, sampling, and the revival of traditional songlines. Curated by Awesome Black Studio, this special installation runs from 6–13 July 2025 as part of South Eveleigh’s NAIDOC Week celebrations.
These layered sonic works invite you to pause and attune to the textures of Country. Blending field recordings, strings, voice, and electronic atmospheres, the soundscape creates a shifting, reflective presence — a quiet reminder of place, memory, and belonging.
The Artists
🎻 Eric Avery
Ngiyampaa, Yuin, Gumbaynggirr, Bandjalang, Wiradjuri violinist, vocalist and composer. Eric works with his native tongues and the violin to create ethereal, atmospheric pieces exploring identity, Country, and the political spheres he inhabits. His work spans collaborations with Marrugeku, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Black Arm Band, and international programs like Silkroad Ensemble in Boston. In 2024, Eric was awarded a Create NSW grant to record his debut album, due for release this year.
🎛️ salllvage (Rowan Savage)
A proud Kombumerri man living on Wangal Land, salllvage is an experimental producer and DJ working at the intersection of queer club culture and connection to Country. His practice mutates on-Country field recordings into electronica, bridging the wild bush and the dancefloor, abstraction and emotion, authenticity and reconstruction.
🎙️ Source Decay
The sonic alias of artist and producer Travis De Vries, with collaborators including Alister Hill and Tristan Field. Source Decay operates at the intersection of ambient sound, experimental composition, and narrative ritual — building immersive audio worlds from field recordings, modular synthesis, archival fragments, and digital decay. Their work speaks in textures: of Country, grief, memory, and disruption.
Part fieldworker, part architect of atmosphere, Source Decay composes durational soundscapes that collapse the line between ceremonial presence and speculative storytelling, with works heard everywhere from the Sydney Opera House to underground spaces where silence hangs heavy before the drop.
