Recent PBS Feature Album artist Helen Svoboda's Headwater explores notions of fragmentation,
individuality and wholeness, shaped by disparate and complementary aspects of her practice. Threads and earworms run throughout the record, forming an abstracted picture of self that unfolds non-linearly – traversing between spaces of lightness and weight, bound by a sense of youthful curiosity, balanced with expressions of adult intensity.
Across sixteen vignettes or ‘miniatures’, the album delves into distinctive sonic worlds built around two double basses, two voices, and electronics; heard as singular and combinatory bodies of material. The ensemble features Helen Svoboda (double bass, voice, composition) with close collaborators Jacques Emery (double bass), Finnish vocalist Selma Savolainen (voice), and Tilman Robinson (electronics, production).
Playing songs off her latest release, Helen stops by PBS for an exclusive Studio 5 Live performance on The Sound Barrier. Tune in from 10pm on Sunday August 2 for this special set and interview with host Ian Parsons.
Studio 5 Live is made possible by Carlton Audio Visual and is supported by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
