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gi - Thought Makes Music

01. 21, 22, 23
02. fold
03. laces
04. knots
05. morning
06. coil
07. feedback
08. rapture (with Marcus Whale)

Digital + Vinyl 12”
@gistrung

Absorb is proud to present ‘Thought Makes Music’, the highly anticipated long-player by gi, solo moniker of unbridled musician, performer, and lyricist Gigi De Lacy (Optic Nerve).

'Thought Makes Music' is gi’s farthest-reaching work, a conclusive vision that follows a succession of revered sketches and short-form releases on labels such as Altered States Tapes (AUS) and Beyond the Bridge (ROK). So far her work sits on the outer limits of what can be considered “dance music”, and at full-length, its singular and immersive quality is glaring. Here, gi’s familiar spacious sound design and metallic IDM percussion is refined by an intertidal palette and restrained songwriting parameters. Given a larger canvas, gi works with increasingly blurred, distorted and feedbacking sounds, enclosed by asynchronous rhythms, bent and then snapped back into grid; the album reveals its musicality in moments of overlap, where everything happens at once.

Across eight tracks, listeners find electronic music that is less concerned with narrative so much as with landscape. gi habitually uses a set of recurring samples, melodies and drums to create the murky atmosphere that permeates the record. Instances of repetition, like a re-used drum break across 'laces', 'coil' & 'rapture' reveal a practice that is constantly rearranging itself via generative drum programming and resampled modulation. This impulse for repetition snowballs into a prominent exploration into feedback on this release. From the warping harmonies on 'feedback'; screeching textures on 'rapture'; and the metronomic jolts of frequency on 'morning' and 'knots', we hear gi’s fascination with “failed” methods of capture, nodding to her history with DIY, punk and hardcore scenes in so-called Australia. Exploring “blown out” re-recorded musical qualities for the first time under the gi alias, we find overtures of amplified noise bleed into otherwise crisp arrangements.

Allowing discreet reference-points to blur, new tonal profiles and distorted intensities arise for gi. 'Thought Makes Music' draws connections with the world around it, following rolling moments of feeling. gi presents her debut confidently, but the sound remains curious, playful & protective of itself; it answers no questions.

Written by Gigi De Lacy
on Wangal and Gadigal land

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Clara Joyce
Inner Artwork by Mackenzie Benato
Layout by J Amelie Cantrell

Thank you to Kavil, Marcus Whale, Kenzie, and to everyone who the music comes from.

08. Rapture (with Marcus Whale)

Farewell (Instrumental)

Order arises not from control, but from understanding. Every fragment of existence remains exactly where it belongs, woven into the silent mathematics of the cosmos. Between the pulse of the stars and the breath of thought, a balance unfolds, eternal and invisible. Harmony is not the absence of chaos, but its perfect arrangement; the silent alignment of all things within the geometry of being.

Crystal Verse

Beat Tape - Track 3

Premiere performance of "clouds" by the Birch Creek Festival Orchestra (Door County, Wisconsin), Brian Groner, conductor in 1996.

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