Alice Kemp

Recorded, composed and edited between 2013 and 2025, A Profound Loss of Meaning feels less like a single album than like a long fault line traced through twelve years of listening. Alice Kemp treats time itself as a sculptural medium: fragments are gathered, set aside, returned to, eroded, overwritten. Sounds that may have begun as clear signals - a voice, a room tone, a cheap electronic, a knock, a breath - are subjected to slow, almost geological processes of repetition, forgetting and re-inscription. The result is a work that does not move from point A to point B so much as circle, sink and resurface, as if replaying the same dream until its edges begin to fray.

A British multi-disciplinary artist based between Devon and London, Kemp has spent years cultivating an idiosyncratic praxis that threads together sound composition, conceptual music, public and private performance, installation, visual art, poetry, video and fetische-object making. That breadth is not decorative; it’s the backbone of how A Profound Loss of Meaningoperates. Pieces feel like cross-sections through a wider practice: a muffled thud might be the echo of a performance, a whispered phrase an afterimage of a text piece, the scrape of fabric a residue of an object handled in ritual. The album inhabits the blurred zone where documentation becomes composition, where the act of recording is already a form of performance and divination.