en mouvement
Guy LaBorde creates textural imaginary environments in "en mouvement"
Culminating his four years at UC San Diego under the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major, Guy LaBorde presents his senior project - en mouvement: a 7-track album with a full-length visualizer July 20, 2023.
The project focuses on the complex emotions that humans experience as a result of their physical environment, contemplating how natural and urban settings affect well-being.
Guy constructs colorful and textural sonic scapes with driving beats that simulate the feelings induced by his surroundings. The visual component of the work features glitched and layered footage, which he recorded in locations ranging from the UCSD campus to points across the globe during his undergrad experience.
Guy has been living in an urban landscape after growing up immersed in mountains, and has found solace by exploring man-made environments in the same way that he would explore peaks as a mountaineer. In making this album, he was attentive to how spatial design and textures made him feel. Through reflection, themes emerged such as:
- Seeing environments at face value and as whole
- Naturalizing urban structures
- Being intentional with how we move forward in civilized spaces
He infuses en mouvement with these themes, and hopes it will help listeners find a deeper connection with their everyday environments.
artist bio
Guy LaBorde is an independent music producer and musician from Mammoth Lakes, California. He grew up surrounded by mountains near Yosemite National Park, and is currently based in San Diego after graduating from UCSD's ICAM Program.
Guy found electronic music in elementary school, and was enamored by the possibilities of synthesized sounds. From then he started experimenting with Digital Audio Workstations, gravitating towards ideas that resembled the phenomena of nature in the environment around him.
Immersed in online communities and collectives that pushed the envelope of electronic music, Guy developed a personal connection to the Hyperpop and Future Beats scenes, and their extrapolation of details.
He sees the creative process as reactive rather than proactive, where experimentation and interaction lead to discovering an idea that he resonates with. Allowing emotions, experiences, and social connotations to influence his decisions, Guy LaBorde assembles each creative project as an intricate puzzle, with each necessary piece serving the greater whole.
