Projects
STORYSCAPE — Bendigo Military Museum
Client: Bendigo Military Museum
Role: Co-creator/Artistic Director
What if you could walk through a museum and feel history move around you?
Status: COMING MAY 2026 (Interior:10 Experiences · Exterior: 10 Experiences)
Storyscape is a new immersive audio artwork created by Aimee Chapman & David Gagliardi. Across a 10-stop binaural headphone experience inside the museum and a 10-stop GPS-triggered outdoor journey, visitors encounter diary fragments, interviews, re-enacted voices, and layered composition and sound design—inviting them not simply to hear history, but to feel it.
SONIC BLOOM
Client: City of Greater Bendigo
Role: Artistic Director · Composer/Producer
What do flowers sound like?
Date: SPRING 2024
Centred around stories from the City’s Parks and Gardens team, Sonic Bloom was a multi-facted project commissioned by the City of Greater Bendigo.
Through a series of sound recordings, installations and live performances, Sonic Bloom transformed the historic Rosalind Park Conservatory into a vibrant hub of exploration and connection for the whole of Spring.
EVERYONE GOES TO HEAVEN IN THE CLOTHES THEY DIED IN (2.0)
Client: Embargoed
“What would a month-long takeover of EGTH look like?”
Date: COMING 2026
A coming together of multiple partners across a diverse range of industries for a major health and wellbeing event and museum style immersive experience. Spread across multiple floors at one of Australia’s most innovative venues this project reimagines EGTH as a multi-modal program of events including immersive pre and post show experiences and ancillary events. Featuring animation, multi-screen video art, sound design, interactive exhibits and a composition for six pianos.
YORDJA
Client: Troy Firebrace
Role: Composer · Music Producer
How can contemporary sound carry cultural heritage without diluting it?
Status: Launched October 2024 - CURRENT
Yordja takes audiences on a transformative journey, exploring the depths of Aboriginal culture through immersive installation and performances. By incorporating ceremonial elements like Smoking Ceremonies, Troy bridges tradition and modernity, creating powerful metaphors for healing and connection to Country. Through Yordja, he invites audiences to experience the rich intersection of culture, art, and innovation.
Yordja has been presented live at events such as Ok Motels Charlton and White Night Ballarat.
THE WANDS
Client: Ben Wrigley
Role: Composer (accompanying sound works)
What if sculpture could become a pilgrimage—five works, five stations of life?
Date: LAUNCHED MARCH 2025
The Wands is a suite of five monumental sculptures carved from the same 100-year-old radiata pine, created as a “living sculpture” project and unveiled in Bendigo before dispersing to multiple sites across the city. Aimee composed accompanying sound works to deepen the reflective, site-based experience.
COMING HOME
Client: Mount Alexander Shire Council
Role: Artistic Director · Producer · Contributing Artist
How do we remember coming home?
Coming Home was a community driven sound project supported by Phee Broadway Theatre At Home: a Mount Alexander Shire Council program.
Coming Home documents and celebrates the sounds of the commute from the city to our home in the goldfields of Castlemaine and surrounds. The music of train and road trips, once so familiar made almost a memory in the events of 2020, were brought back to life through sound recordings, remixing and a live concert performance at the Phee Broadway Theatre.
HOUSE OF LOONG
Client: Ivan Sun for the Golden Dragon Museum
Role: Composer (accompanying sound works)
What is the sound of a dragon coming home to his community?
Date: LAUNCHED NOV 2024 (3-year installation)
House of Loong is a multimedia experience delivered via an iPad application, telling the story of why three generations of imperial processional dragons—Loong, Sun Loong, and Dai Gum Loong—were commissioned and brought to Bendigo. The project includes a short documentary, an audio experience, and an interactive quiz with 3D animations.
WOMEN OF GOLD
Client: We Are Untold
Role: Composer (soundtrack for the short film)
If you can’t be what you can’t see—who are we failing to show?
Date: International Women’s Day 2024
Women of Gold is a public-facing project celebrating local women through a short film and exhibition outcomes, including QR-based viewing at Pennyweight Walk Outdoor Gallery and a showcase on the iconic BENDIGO sign in recognition of IWD 2024.
VAST (The Vast Project — Pilbara, WA)
Client: City of Karratha
Role: Project Co-Lead · Contributing Artist
How do we creatively market a place so vast and complex?
Date: 2017–2018
A documentary, an album, paintings, sculptures, a residency, workshops; a full program designed to celebrate the Pilbara. Bernard Fanning, Tyson Mowarin, Sally Seltmann, Paul Dempsey, Ro, Glenn Richards (Augie March), Alan Pigram, Adam Harvey, Paul McDermott and more. Camped out 1500 kms North of Perth, once a thriving port and now a relic of European settlement ‘Bajinhurrba’ was reanimated when artists from around Australia descended on the stunning environment and its surrounds for this happening called ‘Vast'.
HEART MAPS
Client: Aimee Tsilemanis | Regional Arts Australia fellowship
Role: Mentor · Contributing Artist · Mix & Mastering
What if mapping a place could reveal its emotional layers?
Date: 2023
Heart Maps is a creative research residency on Gadubanud Country exploring past/present/future through maps and audio, culminating in a live audio-walk outcome (Winter Wilds Festival)
SOFTER CURRENTS
Client: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)
Role: Artistic Director · Producer · Contributing Artist (Mt Alexander Shire)
What does renewable energy sound like?
Date: 2022
The tangible yet largely unseen energy generated by renewable sources expressed through the universal language of music. Sounds generated by renewable technologies - and the creation of sculptures in a renewable environment - and returning them as a compelling compositions which illustrate the evolution of this energy into melody, harmony and rhythm.
MONSTROUS BEAUTY
Client: Ivan Sun
Role: Composer (accompanying sound work)
What happens when a room becomes a body—tender, defiant, and alive?
Date: 2 NOV 2025
Monstrous Beauty is an immersive, intimate work presented at the Black Swan Hotel, pairing visual/installation elements with an accompanying soundscape by Aimee (“Her Silence Is Not Still”), designed to hold the audience inside the emotional temperature of the work—quiet, protective, and charged.
ROSALIND PARK — Nature Writing Workshop & Audio Walk
Client: Emporium Creative Hub | City of Greater Bendigo Creative Recovery Residency
Role: Creative Producer · GPS audio experience production/management
What if a park walk could become a writing practice you carry home?
Date: 2021
In collaboration with award-nominated writer Mia-Francesca McAuslan, this guided walk blends literary insights and writing exercises into a GPS-triggered audio experience available 24/7 via smartphone.
