Quieter Skies: A Rest Fest Pop-Up · 8:20 PM showing

About this event

All over the world, people are gathering to listen. In Tokyo's jazz kissa. In hi-fi bars in London, New York, Mexico City. Rooms with one rule: the music gets your full attention.

Quieter Skies brings the listening room to Richmond, under the Dome at the Science Museum of Virginia.

Award-winning composer and immersive sound artist Robot Koch presents the Richmond premiere of his immersive sound journey, part of his current international tour following recent sold-out performances.

The music is built from a reduced palette of soft tones, analog synths, vibraphone, chimes and bells, shaped slowly through tape. It unfolds gently, inviting listeners into a shared space of stillness, presence and deep listening.

Facilitated by Kathi Hendrick, whose work integrates somatic practice, mindfulness and nervous system regulation, the experience is more than a performance: it's a grounded journey into embodied restoration. Kathi opens each showing with a guided meditation.

The ceiling falls away. You listen.

This is rest as interruption. An hour where nothing is asked of you except attention. Two showings, 250 seats each.

Doors 8:00 PM · Show 8:20–9:10 PM

Tickets start at $33. Pay more if you can: everything above $33 goes to Rest Fest's operating costs.