Scoring
Majed Fayad , Daniel Jenatsch , Jon Tjhia , Lucreccia Quintanilla , Mia Salsjö , Pratyay Raha , Wukir Suryadi
29 Apr–30 May 2026
Following B-Side Radio, which transformed Blindside into a live broadcast environment, Scoring extends the collaboration between Blindside and Composite into the expanded field of cinematic sound. Departing from the immediacy of live radio, the project turns toward the conditions of the film score: sound composed in relation to image, narrative, and affect, yet here loosened from the screen and reimagined as an autonomous and spatial practice.
In cinema, the score operates beneath and alongside the image, shaping rhythm, emotion, and perception. Scoring draws out this unseen layer to explore how sound can structure experience without the presence of moving image. Across listening-based works, the exhibition considers how audio can imply narrative, hold tension, and generate its own forms of temporality.
Bringing together artists working across experimental music, radio, performance, acoustic ecology and sound art, including Majed Fayad, Daniel Jenatsch, Lucreccia Quintanilla, Pratyay Raha, Mia Salsjo, Wukir Suryadi and Jon Tjhia, the project traverses diverse approaches to composition, voice, and sonic world-building. From the infrastructural and communicative logics of radio to embodied and ritualistic sound practices, Scoring positions listening as a site of encounter, where meaning emerges through resonance, duration, and attention.
Exhibition Closing event: Saturday, 30th May, 3-6 pm. Artist talk + performance
Developed in collaboration between Composite and Blindside, Scoring explores the expanded field of cinematic sound, turning toward the conditions of the film score: sound composed in relation to image and affect, yet here loosened from the screen.
Featuring works by Majed Fayad, Daniel Jenatsch, Lucreccia Quintanilla, Pratyay Raha, Mia Salsjo, Wukir Suryadi and Jon Tjhia
Majed Fayad is a Melbourne based artist whose creative practices address the differences between the Middle Eastern and Western cultures by clashing the cultures with a strong focus on consumerism, westernised ideologies and current popular culture. Majed Fayad has presented solo and group exhibitions at Kings ARI; Seventh Gallery and the Union Hotel, Melbourne. He has created public artwork for Pridham Plaza in partnership with Moonee Valley Council and was a finalist in the Majlis Scholarship Exhibition at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery in 2014.
Daniel Jenatsch is an artist and music producer from Melbourne who makes interdisciplinary works that explore the interstices between affect and information. His work combines hyper-detailed soundscapes, music and video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio pieces and performances. His work looks at the social construction of subjectivity, with a concern for the ways in which forms of knowledge and power construct and inform our social and mental ecologies.
Jon Tjhia is an artist, writer and editor working across radio and podcast, literature, installation, photomedia, music and digital publishing. His recent work has been published by LOOM, Un Magazine, Institute of Modern Art, LIMINAL, Avantwhatever, Liquid Architecture, WFMU, the Powerhouse Museum and the ABC. He is a member of the Manus Recording Project Collective and a co-founder of Paper Radio and the Australian Audio Guide. Jon’s work examines experiences of time, perspective and language, and the complex ways we make sense of our lives.
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.
Mia Salsjö Scoring and performing music compositions is one facet of Mia Salsjö’s investigation of architectural forms and systems, their underlying principals of mathematics and geometry and how these representations can be traced to underlying base codes. Working from pictorial references, plan projections and meticulously plotted co-ordinates, Salsjö intersperses notational values throughout the spaces under inquiry. The resulting outpouring includes drawings, codexes, diagrams, word association games and multi-instrumental manuscripts. These give rise to films, installations and performances with chamber and ensemble groups. Now based in Australia, Salsjö has worked for many years in Havana, Cuba, New Zealand and in Indonesia, where both musical and architectural traditions have influenced her work.
Pratyay Raha is a sonic arts and music practitioner interested in field recording, sound arts, soundscape composition and ecological awareness. He is interested in developing artistic works to enhance awareness, dialogue, and action related to the preservation of endangered environments. He holds an MA in Composition and Creative Music Practice from the University of Limerick (Ireland) with Eoin Callery and Óscar Mascareñas. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD (Fine Art) at RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia) with Philip Samartzis and Michael Graeve.
Wukir Suryadi Hailing from Malang, in Eastern Java, and currently based in Yogyakarta, composer and instrument builder Wukir Suryadi fuses ancient Javanese tradition with contemporary music practice. Wukir Suryadi began playing music for theatre at the age of 12 with the Idiot Theater Studio, and later with the Rendra Theater Workshop. In his solo work, and as a member of Senyawa, Error Scream, Bendera Hitam Setengah, Potro Joyo, and other groups, Wukir breaks the boundaries of traditional music, death metal and avant-garde performance.
Channon Goodwin is an artist and arts worker whose work engages with collective, collaborative, and artist-run practice and forms of artist-led organisation building. Channon is the founding Director of Composite Moving Image, Director of the George Paton Gallery and Convener of All Conference, an organising network comprised of 16 artist-led, experimental and cross-disciplinary arts organisations from around Australia. From 2012–2021, he was Director of Bus Projects, one of Narrm/Melbourne's longest-running Artist-Run Initiatives. He aggregates his various collaborative and independent videography work under Fellow Worker.
Ming Liew is an artist-researcher based in Naarm (Melbourne). His practice spans moving-image art, experimental film, archival research, and artificial intelligence, probing Chinese diasporic identity at the intersection of culture, ideology, and technology. His work has been exhibited across Australia, including at NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Footscray Community Arts, and MARS Gallery. He has received several accolades, including first prize in the fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award and the Ignition Prize from the National Association for the Visual Arts. Ming has been an Artistic Director at Blindside ARI since 2024. He is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University and a creative resident at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.