Composition

Libeau composes for screen, stage & sonic installations across film, television, live & fine art contexts. Their compositions often explore the aesthetic and affective possibilities of found/foraged materials, with a focus on  appropriated/misused technologies and (post/un)human epistemologies. 

Libeau’s ongoing recorded and performance project i.e. crazy explores the boundaries of civilised behaviour through exploratory modes of aural collage and narrative folksong. Melding narrative folk-song, industrial, noise and ambient influences, Libeau’s recorded output persistently draws on an array of found-sounds & Aotearoan pop-cult/ure detritus.

Women In Love
i.e. crazy

Performance project, 2019

Something Entirely Natural
Biljana Popovic

360 film

Physics Room, NZ
Synthetic Baby
27 September – 28 October 2018

Using two pieces of recent technology—The Fortwo Smartcar and the Samsung Gear 360 camera, Synthetic Baby opens up a historical moment—namely the early 21st century—via a dance. This dance concerns the cultural role of technology, and it takes place between two sensibilities: romantic naturalism and technophilia.

Medusa
Julia Croft, Virginia Frankovich & Nisha Madhan

Presented by Zanetti Productions

Circa Theatre
21 September - 6 October 2018

Q Theatre
24 October - 3 November 2018

Awards
Wellington Theatre Awards 2018 Nomination –
Sound Designer of the Year

Auckland Theatre Awards 2018
Winner –
Excellence in Sound Design

From acclaimed feminist theatre makers Julia Croft, Virginia Frankovich and Nisha Madhan comes a new work of dissection and dissent on female bodies, female violence and female rage. With Medusa as their muse, and Jill Soloway as their spiritual guide, Medusa is a blood boiler, a stealthy deconstruction, and one of feminism's great reclamations.

– Zanetti Productions

Non Compos Mentis
i.e. crazy

Muzai Records, 2017

Produced by Maggie Magee. All songs by Maggie Magee with Sean Kelly & Catherine Cumming.

Performed with Maggie Magee, Seth Frightening, Catherine Cumming & Shab Orkestra.

Mixed by Sean Kelly.
Mastered by James Goldsmith.

Recorded between Magee’s home and the old family beach house in South Auckland, Non Compos Mentis sees Magee explore the refractions of small-town relationships, subjectively inhabiting the role of villain, victim and detective. As the mythic wandering womb travels around the body to hysteric effect, the songs duck in and out of allusory narrative alcoves. Teasing out moral standpoints with delicious care and a perverse pleasure, the boundaries of prescribed “sanity” are blurred. Where the real Maggie lies is anyone’s guess.

Shab Orkestra ft. i.e. crazy
Grotesque (October Skin)

Shab Orkestra, 2016

Words & voices by i.e. crazy.
Rest by Shab Orkestra.
Recorded by Joshua Lynn, Shab, i.e. crazy.

Dress and plate the buttered beast
The meat turns bitter ‘fore the feast

Nostalgia (Shocking Pinks)
i.e. crazy & Seth Frightening

From Translation, A Low Hum, 2016

Written by Shocking Pinks.
Performed, produced and recorded by Maggie Magee & Seth Frightening at Bach 62. 

Cock-shaped Copper Pipe
Diana Tribute ft. i.e. crazy

From Imbibing, Freezing Works, 2015

Written by i.e. crazy & Diana Tribute.
Mixed by Jackson Hobbs. 
Mastered by Joshua Lynn. 

I admit at the end of my years, it’s a cheap sequined variety store fight, in a city like this

Some Kind of Eden
Dear Time’s Waste

Scrappy Disk/Universal (NZ); Spunk (AU); 2012

Written, performed and recorded by Claire Duncan. 

Mixed & mastered by Dale Cotton.

 

Steeped in the gothic permanence of early Cure and the cloud-skipping gaze of Garlands era-Cocteau Twins, Some Kind Of Eden works in a playful orbit, dancing between the lightness and weight of experience with cold purpose and red desperation.

Spells
Dear Time’s Waste

Isaac Promotions/FMG 2010

Recorded by Claire Duncan with Brent Harris, Rikki Sutton, Michael Ramirez & Rosemarie Powell.
Mixed & mastered by Dale Cotton.

Room for Rent
Dear Time’s Waste

Isaac Promotions/FMG, 2009

All songs written by Claire Duncan.
Recorded, produced, mixed & mastered by Djeisan Suskov.

Born from sleepy disillusionment with life in Auckland's leafy suburbs, Dear Time's Waste paints an aural picture of soft water-colour with a grey wash of light that is - according to one listener - 'akin to a morning orgasm'. Dear Time's Waste's debut EP Room for Rent has emerged from the earth shaking the soil from its limbs, after six solid months recording in a rambling hospice.