Category Archives: DSLB

The artists are in residence

Kieran sitting in new studio at Toi Pōneke

Today is a milestone. Kieran begins 3 months as the Creative New Zealand/NZSM/Toi Pōneke Sonic Artist-in-Residence 2024. You can guarantee that this funded watershed will result in a proliferation of work in sound, in music, and in painting and will foster a clutch of unexpected collaborations with makers in a myriad of disciplines.

The knock-on of Kieran’s relocation to Toi Pōneke, is I get to stretch into an empty house for 3 months. So I feel I have scored the inaugural Happy Valley/skirted Records Sonic Artist-in-Residence 2024. Who knows what this gift of time and space will generate?

We both aim is to keep you posted as we would if we were on tour. Subscribe if you’d like to follow along.

Pass-On-Ings: The New DSLB CD

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It’s here. We have the very beautiful Pass-On-Ings in our hands and now you can have it too, available from our Bandcamp page.

Pass-On-Ings is a work in 4-parts that maps an arc of time: The last weeks, days, and hours shared with my mum. The “instrumentation” is a weave of found sounds, sounds that found me, field recordings and ancient keyboards. It’s a spacious, light-filled listen and I’m pretty proud of where it landed.

Pass-On-Ings was initially commissioned as a podcast for the Pyramid Club (thank you Johnny Marks). It has been exquisitely remixed and mastered by Stephen Cole from What Studio in Liverpool.

Huge thanks also to Kieran for taking my photos and making such classy artwork. And to Mobineko for awesome as ever production.

Noise music at Covenant

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Rāmere (Fri) 24th May | [OFFSITE] Noise at Covenant: Bloodfucker / DSLB / Eveline Breaker / Hexus

Bloodfucker: Sparkle wave pixie demon noise pop

Eveline Breaker: Pixel ambient and bitcrush pop by Lilith Ercolano of Feshh (for the girls)

DSLB: Ditzy Squall’s Lunchbox (DSLB), is the solo project of Chrissie Butler from Mr Sterile Assembly fame, whose “sideways lyrics and staked up patterns” bring a glistening glean to erogenous ears.

Hexus: @lady_stab

Covenant is an occult gallery and boutique located at 2 Adelaide Road, Mount Cook, Wellington, New Zealand

Koha Entry

Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting Pyramid Club’s programme

Pass-on-ings – DSLB

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A new 4-part sound work from DSLB has gone live this week. It was made in response to a commission from the Pyramid Club for a podcast.

Between the commissioning of Pass-on-ings and its creation, my mum passed away. Making Pass-on-ings was a chance to process our last weeks together. It is a sketch in sound of moments in time that are etched in my head but for which I have no words. It is a gentle last post.

Huge thanks to the Pyramid Club for their support.