Prudence

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✨🌀💙🐬Manifesting 💙🐬🌀✨

I’m delighted to have contributed sound design alongside and for the exhibition Creative Acts, which is running until May 2026.

My piece is called The Hidden Reverse, and the exhibition looks at the idea of creative process, from occult techniques, tarot, automatic drawing and spiritualism to the way artists connect with animals, myths and archetypes.

Thank you so much to for creating the opportunity and so expertly dealing with all the technical aspects.

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The Hidden Reverse is a spatial sound work created for Creative Acts at the State Library of Victoria. The idea of the reverse is recurrent in spiritual and creative practices. In occult lineages and chaos magic, reversal is a working, a way to unfasten habit: mirror-gazing, writing backwards, walking widdershins, turning the spell inside out. In apophatic traditions and alchemy, the reverse becomes a path of unsaying, a refusal of surface that opens deeper attention.

All sounds were recorded to cassette tape so I could turn them over, rewind, and listen back. Tape’s grain allowed me to stretch, smear, and reverse material until it revealed its seam. I built the textures with resonant sweeps and filters that draw hidden harmonics into audibility. When harmonics emerge, they remind me that perception is only a thin slice of an infinite field.

The work is mixed for multichannel diffusion. Spatial shifts are subtle but constant. Rather than leap or startle, the sound holds you, rearranging the room by degrees, inviting attention to what moves at the edge of hearing. Built primarily around 4 asynchronous loops, harmonic beds unfold and recede; threads surface, then return below, as if memory were sounding itself out.

In a library shaped by collective memory, I wanted listening to be both inward and shared. The Hidden Reverse offers a room within a room, a sanctuary for the moment before naming, when imagination first takes shape, guiding what is hidden toward the surface and letting it linger.

✨💙🌀 New era ✨💙🌀

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Grateful to be home in a country that is safe, and for the privilege of being about to travel and tour to share the music and art that I make with my favorite person.

These are from a stone circle on the England Scotland boarder called Long Meg and her Daughters, constructed around 3000BC. One legend states that they were a coven of witches turned into stone by a Scottish magician. If you count the correct number of stones clockwise and then anti-clockwise you can bring them back to life, or get really bad luck.

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Thanks for making us feel spesh on tour Em!

Our album Against Men is out now! Streaming everywhere and as a limited release tour cassette.

I love these songs! Most of the sounds were recorded at with a treasure trove of rare and amazing equipment.

We have a Melbourne show on Saturday April 26 with and then leave for Europe and the UK. Would love to see you there!

Thank you Kate for the boost and support. Tour made possible by funding support from .aus 🎶

I am in a new group, Golden Sands

Working with and biddy over the last few months has been the kind of supportive and creative enclave that feels so necessary at the moment, as we navigated the wild ways of the world together - our own little attunement cluster.

We are playing our first show, a five hour durational performance at on Friday 28th Feb, as we experience the transition from day to night. It’s free. Tickets can be reserved on the M Pavillion website.

Thank you .sun.in.abstract for the photo!

New Year’s resolutions come early… I just posted by first substack.

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I can’t believe it was just this year 🌲🌲☕️