What the Stars Remember
An unfolding constellation of story, sound, memory and connection
In development in 2026 for presentation in 2027
A new creative world by Elise Romaszko, Maggie May Jeffries, Alex Moss and Julia Drouhin.
A rising tide of memory and imagination is gathering across stages, studios, and the spaces between. What the Stars Remember is one of our most expansive works yet — an evocative performance installation weaving together sound, sculptural form, and lived experience into a tapestry that pulses with wonder, remembrance and collective breath.
Influenced by the rhythms of night skies and the quiet electric hum of human stories, this project explores what we hold in common, what we forget, and what rises back into presence when we listen close. It’s less a show with a beginning and end than a shared dream in motion — one that invites audiences to remember themselves as part of something wider, richer, and mysteriously connected.
The StoryA living constellation
Here, memory isn’t static. It vibrates through:
Sound that reverberates like stars shifting in the dark
Sculpture that feels like a body halfway between dream and constellation
Movement that tracks across time and place
Shared space where audiences and artists breathe, reflect, and respond together
Through these interwoven threads, What the Stars Remember becomes an experience that meets people where they are, and invites them into the deep pulse of collective imagination.
The Audience ExperienceStep inside the universe
What the Stars Remember is an immersive performance and installation that audiences can enter, inhabit and change.
At its centre is a 40–45 minute live performance inside a specially designed projection dome. Audiences enter together and can sit, recline or lie down as live poetry, spatial sound, radio signals, moving images and kinetic sculpture shift around them. Voices appear from somewhere in the dark. Screens move. Light changes what can be seen. A suspended mobile turns slowly overhead.
There is no puzzle to solve and no single way to experience the work.
Listen. Watch. Lie back. Follow a signal. Let yourself float for a while.
Leave a trace
Alongside the main performance space, a smaller timber dome invites audiences to make and connect stars using thread, drawing, transparent materials and found objects.
A star might hold a memory, a person, a place or a message to the future. Each new thread joins another, gradually transforming the dome into an evolving constellation made by the communities the work encounters.
Make a star. Connect a line. Leave a trace.
Between performances
When the live performers leave, the universe doesn't disappear.
The main dome remains open as a drop-in immersive installation, holding traces of the performance that came before. Audiences can wander in, lie beneath the moving sculpture, listen to fragments of sound and poetry, watch slowly shifting projections and encounter the constellations left by others.
Stay for five minutes or twenty.
Be curious. Be still. Look up.
At the heart of What the Stars Remember is an invitation to let go of needing to understand everything. For a little while, the dome holds us in the unknown: tiny, temporary and connected inside an enormous, unfolding universe.
Meet the Creative Team
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Elise Romaszko
Elise Romaszko is a Hobart-based artist, performer, poet and emerging director whose multidisciplinary practice moves effortlessly between movement, sound, text and visual form.
A long-time collaborator with Second Echo Ensemble, Elise’s work is lyrical, bold, and grounded in embodied storytelling. She has appeared in and directed numerous SEE works and is now charting a new creative horizon with What the Stars Remember, a project born of curiosity, invitation and radical listening.
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Maggie May Jeffries
Maggie May Jeffries is a Lutruwita/Tasmania-based visual artist whose practice explores expanded painting, materiality and sensory experience. Working across painting, installation and collaborative projects, she creates spaces where colour, light and surface invite slow looking and sustained attention.
A thoughtful and inventive collaborator, Maggie's work is grounded in observation, perception and the subtle traces left by time and place. In What the Stars Remember, she brings her distinctive visual language to the project, shaping an environment where memory, material and imagination converge.
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Alex Moss
Alex Moss is a Lutruwita/Tasmania-based digital artist working across projection, sound, interaction and responsive media. His practice explores the meeting point between people, technology and environment, creating works that shift and evolve through participation.
A long-time collaborator with artists across performance, installation and community contexts, Alex is interested in systems that invite curiosity rather than control. In What the Stars Remember, he develops the responsive visual and sonic elements that allow audience presence, voice and interaction to become part of the work itself.
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Julia Drouhin
Julia Drouhin is a French-Australian sound artist, radio maker and curator whose practice explores listening, transmission and the hidden connections between people, place and environment. Working across sound, broadcast and participatory projects, she creates experiences that invite audiences to listen differently to the world around them.
Known for her innovative work with radio and community-based sound practice, Julia approaches listening as both an artistic and social act. Through What the Stars Remember, she brings her expertise in voice, signal and transmission to the project, helping shape a shared sonic environment where memory, distance and connection can be heard, felt and reimagined.
Why this matters
At SEE we believe art reshapes how we see ourselves, each other, and what might be possible next. This project turns that belief into a felt universe — one where memory maps itself in light, movement and sound, and where each encounter can open a path to connection and insight.
As this work continues to grow, What the Stars Remember will unfold through:
Creative labs and rehearsal sharings
Site-specific explorations
Community collaborations and storytelling circles
Visual and sonic installations
…all leading toward its first public encounters and invitations to audiences to engage, reflect and form their own constellations of meaning.
Bring the stars to your communityWhat the Stars Remember is being developed for festivals, venues, schools and communities, with live performance, installation and creative participation able to connect with different places and audiences.
Are you a festival, presenter, school or community organisation interested in bringing What the Stars Remember to your community?
We'd love to hear from you. Get in touch with Second Echo Ensemble at hello@secondechoensemble.org to start a conversation.
What the Stars Remember Reflections
Second Echo Ensemble is proudly supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; the Tasmanian Government through Arts Tasmania and our generous donors and volunteers. Our internet partner, Aussie Broadband, keeps us connected.
This project has received support from Clarence City Council, Performing Lines Tasmania, Ten Days on the Island and the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals.
The Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative is managed by Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc.
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