Helen Svoboda announces Headwater, out June 26 on Room40, built from sixteen interconnected pieces. The Finnish-Australian composer works with double bass, voice, and electronics, arranging them as shifting layers rather than fixed roles. Across the album, low-frequency resonance and vocal lines fold into each other, with loops and processing shaping a continuous flow.
The material moves through reduced song structures, where repetition and fragmentation guide the listening experience. Each section functions as a discrete study in tone and texture, while contributing to a larger, evolving sonic field.
“Void of Space” is the new excerpt. She explains: ” ‘Void of Space’ exists in the in-between, in a daydream, where thoughts evaporate into one another. The lyrics paint this picture, where a stream of thought “climbs up a cloud, but falls through”, in a never-ending abstract void of space.“
Filmmaker Angus Kirby adds, “This video is a trip from the vaguely familiar to the unknown. Besides a literal interpretation of the title, ‘Void of Space’ has a celestial quality in its silences and sense of scale. To listen to it is it float through an eerie vacuum. I figured the video should reflect that with experiments with light and empty locations we’re used to seeing populated. Gradually we become untethered until we find ourselves in the titular void.”
