Gemma Horbury
Performance, Art, Community
The story of here
2023-24, narrator and electroacoustic quintet, 49’59”
Cross Street Records, alternate take, released April 29, 2024
Recorded at Alan Eaton Studio, St Kilda
Engineered, edited and mixed by Ross Cockle
Produced by Richard Fields, Trailblazer Records
Mastered by Philip Rex
Artwork by Marcos Villalta
Photographed by Makiko Ryujin
VIDEO EXCERPT: Oxygen. Cover image by Darren Gill (La Mama Musica); Video shot by Hayley Miro, edited by James Masefield (Alan Eaton Studio)
A collaboration that intertwines spoken word, sound, and science to narrate the 4.6 billion year history of the Earth. Improvising ensemble Deep Carpet navigate a time-based score, traversing evocative soundscapes and genre-hopping games, unfurling a collective stream of consciousness – tumbling forward at a million years a minute.
Written and devised by Gemma Horbury, performed by Deep Carpet
Gemma Horbury - spoken word
Ros Jones – trombone
Kirri Büchler – violin, double bass, FX
Marcos Villalta – guitar, FX
Emily Bennett – synthesiser, voice, FX
Sarah Childs – sound design
VIDEO EXCERPT: Only the bird dinosaurs survived... Cover image by Darren Gill (La Mama Musica); Video shot by Hayley Miro, edited by James Masefield (Alan Eaton Studio)
Flux
2022, narrated video, 3’57”
Gambut Kita project: RMIT / Borneo Orangutang Survival Foundation - Central Kalimantan Flux Field Trip documentation
Trip report viewable here
Five minutes about the stars
2024, spoken word, 5’00”
Commissioned for Schizy Inc., Mojo Festival - Trades Hall, Carlton, 2024
Action on Cities
2022, a psychoacoustic walk, 3’30”
mother, daughter, lover
2018, audiovisual performance, 70 minutes
2018, One Square Mile, Satellite image, Google Maps. Yamatji Country, Bunjil, Western Australia
B&W images by Darren Gill
Studies for everlastings
2020, ASMR video, everlastings, 4’55”
grow
2020, uncommissioned public art, aeoniums, 5m x 1.2m, Thorbury Station
DEAD SET
2012, 10-channel generative video installation and interactive mapping blog
While you were sleeping
2021, ASMR video, everlastings, 3’52”
2022, uncommissioned public art, aeoniums, 5m x 1.4m, Brunswick Tram Depot
“STOP UPGRADING began in late 2010 as a collaborative map attempting to document the number of TV sets and computer monitors being abandoned on the streets of Melbourne.
Given that Australia still has no effective e-waste recycling scheme, these products join 19 million other unwanted tellies already in our landfills.
And it’s set to get much worse as the transition to digital transmission gains momentum (Australia flicks the switch on December 31, 2013).[1]
If nothing changes, the amount of e-waste in Australian landfills will treble by 2020.”
Listen for the future
2020, lockdown participatory video art curation, La Mama Musica, 17 x 30 second videos
Ritual for plastic and flowers
2021, performance for UV light, plastic, synthesizers, everlastings