artist research

“I’m still trying to work out the boundaries and overlap between my music making and research” – An Interview with Semi Precious

How did it all start for you? I learnt keyboard and piano from a relatively young age, but was never particularly good at practicing instrumental playing. Around my teenage years, I developed an interest in singing and started taking vocal lessons, whilst also taking music theory and performance at school. At that point, I was […]

Make music like no one is watching: a conversation on bedroom production in audio-visual piece Queen Aquamarine

Guy Baron is an academic and a singer-producer working under the name Semi Precious. His musical practice fuses electronic music production and songwriting to explore notions of bedroom production and hauntology, with previous musical works being endorsed by The Sunday Times (‘real emotional depth’), The Guardian (‘subtly dislocating beauty’) and i-D (‘celestial pop suspending and spinning […]