Wyncote resident Katy Avery, a staff singer at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill since 2014 who previously taught private voice at Germantown Friends School, has helped create “This Silent Music,” a stunning piece that will receive its world premiere on Saturday, Aug. 8, 7:30 p.m., at the James Turrell Skyspace in the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, 20 E. Mermaid Lane.

‘“Silent Music’ was created specifically for this Skyspace,” said co-creator and fellow soprano Liz Lang last week. “Turrell’s architecture asks us to slow down and experience something as familiar as the sky in an entirely new way, and we wanted to build the music around that same shift in perspective.

“There’s also something special about discovering that one of only 100 James Turrell Skyspaces in the world exists in Chestnut Hill. We hope this premiere encourages audiences to experience this remarkable local space in a new way. While Aug. 8 marks the world premiere, we see it as the beginning of an evolving artistic practice rather than a one-time event. We’re already exploring future performances in other Skyspaces, but it felt important that the first chapter begin here.”

According to the creators, “This Silent Music” proposes something almost radical: listening. The interdisciplinary performance inaugurates a new ritual, bringing together three world premiere commissions that reimagine silence, light and sound as the language of collective listening.

“Audiences become part of an immersive performance where music, architecture and community converge in an act of witness,” Lang told the Local.

Lang is the winner of the Sherrill Milnes American Opera Award and a finalist in the Joy in Singing International Art Song Competition and the Winter Park Oratorio Society Competition. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Oklahoma City University.

Co-creators Avery and Lang have spent years creating interdisciplinary projects that examine the ways contemporary audiences experience sound. Avery’s recent commissioning initiatives, including “Bombe Fits” and a forthcoming exploration of body image through female-identifying performers, continue her interest in collaborative vocal performance. Lang’s projects “Prohibition” and “Rooted” similarly blend classical and genre-bending experimentation and cultural history.

“This Silent Music” is supported by the International Foundation for Contemporary Music.

“We’re living through a moment when many people feel simultaneously overwhelmed and disconnected,” said Avery. “Every part of this project resists speed — the commissioning process, the venue, the pacing of the music itself. That felt increasingly urgent to us in a culture that rewards reaction over contemplation.”

Anchoring the program are three world premiere commissions: a duet by transmasculine composer LJ White incorporating black hole data from astrophysicist Becka Phillipson; a song cycle by Hawaiian-based Mieke Doezema confronting ecological loss through natural soundscapes; and a song cycle by Lebanese composer Alex Wakim and poet George Abud that melds Arabic tonality and instrumentation with Western techniques.

One of the world premieres, “At the End of it All,” is by White, who told the Local that it “grew out of my experience of living through the current political, economic and technological climate as a transgender person and an artist. I think many of us recognize the feeling of screaming into a void as we navigate uncertainty and try to build safe and dignified lives ... I wanted to create a piece that considers the nature of chaos, the struggle to thrive amid uncertainty and the latent energy and potential we carry within us.”

Wakim, composer of “This Silent Music,” commented, “One of the things I love about ‘This Silent Music’ is how much expression can emerge from just a few musical elements. George Abud’s text speaks to anyone carrying the weight of ordinary life. Sometimes we do feel like we are screaming into a void, and that’s okay, but what if we are also able to listen to what the universe might be saying back? With just voice, percussion and oud, I wanted to create music that makes room for both.”

Doezema, composer of “Eucalyptus,” said, “In a contradictory age where the digital world offers new forms of connection while also encouraging isolation, finding our place within our communities feels more vital than ever. ‘Eucalyptus’ is a meditation on self and community ... It’s also my love letter to the Hawaiian islands and everything they’ve taught me.”

According to Avery, “At a moment when public life rewards noise over nuance, ‘This Silent Music’ offers an antidote to cultural numbness by treating collective listening not as a passive consumption, but as a radical public act.”

For ticket information, visit thissilentmusic.com/tickets. Len Lear can be reached at lenlear@chestnuthilllocal.com.