Getrude “Thelma Verse” Veremu : Open Fund for Music Creators
Getrude ‘Thelma Rose’
Getrude ‘Thelma Rose’ is an Audiovisual sonic composer who started her career singing with notable dance artists. She has written songs for companies like xBOx, and her debut solo EP was named on John Peel’s 2004 BBC2 coverage of Glastonbury Winner for the Jazz World. Thelma Rose has performed VR/ telematic performances at ARS Electronica with icons like Laurie Spiegel and featured on Chicks on Speeds 2021″Vaccinate me Baby”. Recently she featured as half of Avant Pop duo Digital Roses in Electronic Sound, after debuting her multimedia second Quasi Opera with Avant Garde Dance company.
GIRL ALONE
Thelma Rose will use her open fund for music creators grant and production of songs, spatial sound design, and sound effects, for an immersive VR film I am creating. This fund will enable me to remunerate composer Joanna Ramsay Patel and Alpines producer Bob Matthews for their skills and time at his Hackney Road Studio, at its highest quality. We will be intersecting haunting soulful vocals with noise-laden, sonic wave sounds and Afrocentric noir electronica that will bring together the Afro futuristic visual story. Girl Alone has already received funding from ACE to develop the visual, performance art and VR simulation elements. This grant is crucial right now as it facilitates the necessary next step of creating the songs, sound design, and sounds of virtual objects integral to the mood of the whole project. Girl Alone is an important project as Immersive technology is on the rise.