Paper Dollhouse: Women Make Music
Paper Dollhouse began in 2010 as a side-project of Rayographs‘ Astrud Steehouder to experiment with music production. While Astrud recorded in the kitchen and garden Nina Bosnic made projections creating a home theater of image and incidental sound. These recordings became the glacial, night-time folk debut A Box Painted Black on Jane Weaver‘s Bird Records. Following a split release with fellow Bird artist Magpahi on the esteemed Folklore Tapes imprint, collaborations with Old Apparatus and techno remixes by AnD and Joe Cocherell on Resilience, they unearthed the post-punk rooted electronica album Aeonflower on Night School and Bird/Finders Keepers in 2015. Following a headline performance at Sounds From the Other City and a slot at Festival No. 6 the duo showcased a highly immersive AV-live show in London employing UV light, helium and neon balloons ahead of the self-released Plutonic Rainbows EP on their own MoonDome label.
The PRSF grant will allow Paper Dollhouse to further their exploration of sound and visual art they have demonstrated on previous records by creating new compositions in a variety of studios and introduce different instrumentation to the found-sounds and DIY industrial psychedelia already woven into their music. They will also use the grant to fund live shows with a stronger theatrical element to create a thoroughly immersive experience; “With site-specific performances and recordings planned in London and Manchester we hope to encapsulate a lot of the industrial heritage of these environments within new recordings that build upon our previous experiments and passions.”