GB's debut album, Gusse Music, emerges as a collaged symphony of experimental music with a pop sensibility. Its makeshift compositions, stretched out to linger in memory, offers a 33-minute textural plunge into the melancholy of the infinite – shadowed by loneliness yet illuminated by glimpses of light, a longing for the memories ahead.

Tracks bleed into each other, like videos in a feed, momentarily grabbing the listener's attention only to be forgotten again shortly after. However, in the constant stream of impressions, GB patiently strives to inspire new thoughts and conjure an image, quaint and affectionate. 

From the sludged electric guitars and hypnotic baritone vocals of the opening track "FACETIME," to a solemn, almost Wicker Man-esque, acoustic instrumentation on "CONCRETE CITY," to stoned-out beats and rolling bass on "NEW PLANES”. Gusse Music evokes a world of music that is both welcoming and fun, hauntingly desolate, dark, and gritty. 

“the world in us 
and all the spectacle 
so much it hurt 
wouldn’t trade anything” 

Posh Isolation 291

Gusse Music

GB - WORLD IN US

Performance Trailer
https://www.tanzforumberlin.de/produktion/swing-duo/



A project in collaboration with Imogen Pickles, Camilla Barbera
Score designed using live recorded voice and bodily sounds in studio rehearsal> Performed live with experimental microphone set up. An ongoing work.

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Swing: duo was born out of Imogen's fascination with the dynamics of pendulums and how this swinging and doubling oscillation resonates with the human experience. What comes from a constant push and pull bound - with equal force - to repeated encounters? Can a pendulum rest? Where is the balance between attraction and repulsion? The choreography explores reliability, balance and flight; it examines how and when people relate, confront and love, highlighting points of differentiation, closeness and distance. The soundscape created by Daisy Wells shapes the two dancers' evolving relationships, conceptualising the dynamics of a pendulum through echo, playback and reverberation, mixing live speech and voice recordings. Looping materials were recorded during rehearsals, documenting the piece in the process of creation. The dynamic relationships between the two parts of a pendulum are reflected in the form: a dance duet or simply two people working together.

Swing Duo

“This score was developed as part of Continuum (2024) a choreographic performance by Sophie Gargan commissioned by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre as part of the exhibition Len Lye: Motion Compositions. It included original audio recordings by Len Lye, circa 1960s. Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation.”

Continuum Composition

A track composed for Open Spaces: A micro-festival of Storytelling & Sound in Berlin

Open Spaces

BABES performing at the Dunedin Fringe Festival Black Box 11/03/2017.
Photo by Edward Ritchie.

BABES @ BLACK BOX 2017

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A collection of experimental, electro-acoustic, ambient, noise, and industrial live performances, and recordings. Based in Dunedin, New Zealand.

BABES @ BLACK BOX 2017

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