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OUW027: Danny Barwick feat. Juliette Duguay / Seen
For the past two years I’ve been living in Montréal, where I met Québécois writer Juliette Duguay. During that time, she spent six months creating adult content, promoting it through an anonymous Instagram account of faceless nudes. She regularly received DMs ranging from pleading to aggressive, tender to absurd. Struck by their tone, she began arranging them into poems, using each message verbatim.
Together, the poems form seven voices: different men reaching out into the void, their messages unanswered except by the notification ‘Seen.’
In Juliette’s home, in the depths of a Montréal winter, I recorded her reading these poems into a Torso S4, a new sound manipulation instrument from Copenhagen, and looped them with long-form live piano improvisations.
The result is a haunting sonic space of collaged voices, dissolving loops, and blurred emotion in which longing mutates into something stranger and more revealing.Seen is a naked and unfiltered portrait of male desire, digital loneliness, fantasy, delusion and hope.
Danny Barwick: Production and Mix
Juliette Duguay: Lyrics and Spoken Word
Julien Wilson: Clarinet and Saxophone
Gareth Thomson: Mastering
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“The kind of original record that we wait years for major label pop stars to release.” - Indie Shuffle
“Danny Barwick is right up there amongst Australia’s best producers.” - Tommy Faith,Triple J
“It stuns every cell and takes the mind millions of realms away.” - Cloudberry Mornings
Danny Barwick is a producer and composer from Melbourne, Australia, creating heartfelt, textural music that blurs the line between song and cinema. A jazz-trained drummer and pianist with a background in philosophy, Barwick’s work balances precision with emotional depth, creating spacious, intimate, and vividly human sonic worlds.
After years touring as a sideman, he began releasing his own music in 2017 with a series of remixes that reached over five million streams. His debut EP, Distance, followed soon after, earning national radio rotation, a support tour with revered Australian artist, Gordi, and slots at boutique festivals along Australia’s east coast.
Subsequent releases, The Tigers, Naddi, and Iluka, pushed his sound further into experimental songwriting and textural production, weaving jazz sensibility through minimalist electronica and narrative storytelling.
Digital release on the 23rd of January 2026.
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