On most evenings, the stage at G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture holds stories that are seen as much as they are heard. But the experience turns inward in a special show, Melodies in Slow Motion, where Soumik Datta invites audiences to close their eyes and listen to the fragile architectures of life.

Premiering today to mark Earth Day, and returning on April 23, the performance emerges from a seven-month-long tour of the same name. Conceptualised as a sonic exploration of the planet’s fragility, it draws on the ecological idea of trophic cascades — the domino effect that ripples through ecosystems when even a single element is altered. What sounds like science on paper becomes something far more intimate on stage.