Late Bush
Hoarses
Rather than staging a conflict between human and machine, Hoarses positions artificial voices as a continuation of an already speculative tradition. If every baroque performance is imaginative projection, voices generated and transformed through artificial intelligence render that instability explicit. Singing without breath and speaking without visible source, they function as artificial sonic memory. Their bodiless presence becomes poetic material, participating fully in the dramaturgy of the project and echoing questions of simulacrum, playback and recomposed heritage. Late Bush, the project of Brussels-based composer and producer Pierre Dozin, blends early music with power ambient, IDM and avant-pop, which share affective intensity, ornamentation and sonic excess. The strings, recorded with ensemble Echo Collective, introduce an organic and tactile dimension that contrasts with the fluid and intangible quality of the voices and electronics. Echo Collective have released on Deutsche Grammophon and !K7 and have collaborated with composers and artists such as Jóhann Jóhannsson and Stars of the Lid. Late Bush approaches ensemble composition through a method stemming from electronic production, often beginning with virtual strings before gradually transposing the writing toward acoustic instruments. The AI voices are treated as sonic material in their own right, shaped like instruments between human presence and assumed artificiality.