Artist Bio
Willem Blomfield is a Sydney-based music producer whose work blends digital beat-making with organic instrumentation. Beginning in hip hop and evolving into experimental forms, he creates textured, authentic productions that fuse analogue warmth with modern sound design, reflecting a deep commitment to innovation and musical storytelling.
Artist Statement
Silence as a project presents 3 linked piano vignettes that move from bare piano and spoken word to electronically produced sections. Running just under six minutes, it traces my shift from hiding behind the boards to stepping forward as writer-performer: unquantised piano and single-take vocals lead into programmed drums, resampling and sound design in FL Studio.
The middle section builds around a chopped sample of Bon Iver’s ‘Holocene’, bridging acoustic and digital worlds and framing the core theme: finding a voice in the digital age, where speaking up can feel risky, with music as the bridge that lets me say what I believe. This is a solo work: written, performed, produced, mixed and mastered by myself. The project is the practical companion to my CACS304 exegesis, ‘Humanising the Grid’, which details the project’s methods (off-grid recording, selective quantisation, and transition design) and the rationale behind them.
Acknowledgements: sample source ‘Holocene’ (Bon Iver, 2011).