“This music creates space for those who don’t often find it ... confessions hold the gravity of an entire galaxy, and each word, each sound echoes into forever. Incredible.”
“It’s music that feels honest - it’s meticulously produced, but not overly manicured... the environment that surrounds her is bellowing as if it’s another instrument, and her memories, whether they’re stray melodies or more tangible sonic snapshots, are wrapped in transparent silk.”
“‘August and June’ bleeds in a way untopped since Judee Sill’s ‘Heart Food’, and delivers a treatise on grief which flies directly in the face of the seven stages lie, articulating the great sleep of loss and the bitter pang of hope that there will ever be a better day.”
Mara MacDonald is an artist, musician, and performer working on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong land.
She released her debut album ‘I’m just One Person’ on the Melbourne label JPEG Artefacts in 2023, and her sophmore release ‘August and June’ on the Manchester-based First Light Records in 2024.
She is a regular performer across Melbourne’s underground experimental music scene, both solo and collaboratively, and has worked with many local arts organizations including Liquid Architecture, Miscellania, SIGNAL, Nice Music, and ADM+S.
She was a participant in the SIGNAL Screen X Sound commission series, a recipient of the ‘Community Transmissions’ online residency program/grant, and has worked as an educator in the field of Livecoding across several programs.