My debut album Upon Reflection is stepping out ✨ And I'm marking it with something close, a listening session. Low light, held bodies, the first offering.
I'll be playing alongside Nat Grant @natgrantmusic and Katerina Stathis @_katerinastathis , and Nicholas Marriott @nicholaspjm will be building visuals for my set.
It feels like a beginning.
More to come x
Credits:
Record label: @eternalmusicprojects
Mastering: @other__joe
Artwork: @jesterempath
Costume: @helenmaryadam
Featured synthesizers: @mess_ltd Minimoog Model D, Sequential Pro 2, UDO Super 6 and Juno-106
Vocal recording: @library_vic
Special thanks to @_matwatson_ , @unclequentinmuzac and Elizabeth Kelly.
🔗 Link to tickets in bio 🔗
#ambient #electronic #minimal #spokenword #synthesizer
We are very happy to share EMP019 Upon Reflection by @handclap is available now, exclusively via Bandcamp.
Releases today, 14th May 2026 via Eternal Music Projects.
Extremely limited 7” single coming. Details shortly.
Upon Reflection is the first release by Maya Borjesson, aka Hand Clap. Composed sporadically over a three year period, the work dives into a deeply personal sonic world, utilising synthesisers, spoken work and field recordings to explore themes of connection and memory, vulnerability and solitude.
Listen and purchase via the link in the EMP bio.
#drone #spokenword #minimal #handclap #eternalmusicprojects
I’m playing 2 sets as part of Melbourne Design Week 🤍 The first on 15.5 is a solo performance for the opening of Wild Tenderness presented at @the_level_iii
The second on 24.5 closes the exhibition, an improvised collaboration with opera singer and pianist Sunny Li @sunnyli0402 where I’ll be working with field recordings and low drones in quiet response to Sunny’s delicate piano notes.
Slow shifts, resonant space, sound as dialogue.
Very grateful to be part of this one. Hope to see you there x
#ambient #electronic #minimal #drone #melbournedesignweek
Introducing Maya, performing Upon Reflection in its entirety on Friday, May 22.
Hand Clap, is the moniker of Maya Borjesson, an Architect and visual/sound Artist. Using synthesizers, spoken word, and field recordings, their compositions explore themes of connection, memory, nostalgia and grief. Hand Clap's practice is deeply personal, and sits at the crossroads of ambient music, electronic experimentation, string composition, and visual art.
Photography by Joshua Maxwell de Hoog @jesterempath
#ambient #electronic #minimal #spokenword #synthesizer
Introducing Nick, performing Friday May 22, at Hand Clap’s listening session for their debut album Upon Reflection.
Nick is a digital artist working at the intersection of nature, technology, and human experience. Nick's practice explores how the unconscious mind attempts to rationalise experience through absurdist and surreal forms. Using photogrammetry and textural photography as a foundation, he then applies traditional techniques such as Sgraffito within a digital context. Nick recently created the music video for Nine Inch Nails’ As Alive As You Need Me to Be, which went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song this year.
#worldbuilding #installation #touchdesigner
I’m playing at MIUC 🖤 One that’s been sitting on the wish list for a while. A live reimagining - slow-moving, stretched out, washed in reverb. Grateful to @anelko9 and @eternalmusicprojects for the opportunity.
Hope to see you there x
#ambient #electronic #minimal #spokenword #synthesizer
Introducing Nat, performing Friday May 22, at Hand Clap’s listening session for their debut album Upon Reflection.
Dr. Nat Grant is a composer and sound artist working on unceded Wurundjeri country, producing works for live performance, recording and broadcast. Nat’s work focuses on the creation of multidisciplinary and long form musical compositions, performance events, and installations using traditional and graphic notation as well as improvisation.
Photography by Yunis Tmeizeh @photoyunist
#experimental #soundart #installation
Introducing Katerina, performing Friday May 22, at Hand Clap's listening session for their debut album Upon Reflection.
Katerina Stathis is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Her synthesiser sound palate draws from her extensive interest and appreciation for acoustic instrumental timbres combined with highly visceral electronic evocations. Fusing timbres of western classical and electronic music, she uses temporal identity as part of her works inviting listeners into sound worlds echoing past, present and possible futures.
Photography by Prudence Rees-Lee @prudence_reeslee
#experimental #electronic #modular #synthesizer
Welcome Maya Borjesson aka @handclap to the EMP family 🖤
EMP019 Upon Reflection by Hand Clap is now available for preorder via EMP.
See link in bio ⬆️ to preview & preorder.
More news imminent!
#handclap #minimal #drone #spokenword #eternalmusicprojects
EMP019
Upon Reflection by Maya Borjesson aka Hand Clap @handclap
Pre orders open 14.4
Limited press 7” + digital via @eternalmusicprojects
#drone #minimalist #spokenword #ambient #naarm
Analogue alchemy on a Saturday afternoon ✨ Elizabeth transformed my sound into a live, liquid light show. Using an old-school overhead projector, she mixed coloured oils and dyes on a Petri dish, the shifting forms unfolding on the wall behind us. Grateful for this shared current of art and life x
📸 by @belindawhy
#ambient #experimental #liquidlightshow
Feeling fortunate to be part of this very special show, playing alongside @tahl_palm .Tahlia is an artist of Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay and mixed European background, who works across multiple mediums to explore history, identity, and perception. Alongside sound, I’ll also be collaborating with Elizabeth Kelly to unveil my first liquid light show. Hope to see you there x
#ambient #experimental #liquidlightshow
