Rough as guts is an album about how our emotions and feelings affect how we perceive the world around us. Its primary composition involves the manipulation of field recordings to such extremes that the character of their sound changes, or takes on new meanings. Through this, the album explores feelings of depression, anxiety, and happiness.

Rough as guts

NB 01

GLN 01

Cold Cold Clay

Come Out And Kill Us

Kondalilla

Tidsguiden (wɪljəm smɪθ) is a composer, producer, and visual artist based on the Sunshine Coast, Australia in stolen Gubbi Gubbi country. Their work combines the electronic world of synthesisers and DAWs with the human world of drawing and animation. Together, in conjunction, the listener is transported to worlds of intense feelings and subtle truths.

Working across a range of styles, their work is diverse spanning multiple genres. Their output includes sound design and music on LJ Project's award-winning short film "Endless", arrangements of original work for wind ensemble and orchestra, as well as various chamber works and graphic scores performed locally and internationally. Their art has been displayed in local galleries, in exhibitions run as part of Meanjin's underground art scene.

It is said that, one day, Tidsguiden will escape their extra-physical bonds beyond the veils of materiality, and they will spew forth into this world, our own. On that day, we will be rendered as colourful snakes, and in crude lines. Our movements will jump and skip as if they cannot be contained within our plane of reality. Until that day of terror, however, all we know we can do is enjoy every day.