object blue Opened Close (Live @ Grotto Twitch Stream)

“Grotto is a bit like if King Lear had been a millennial soap opera with a happy ending,” says object blue of her latest release for London label TT, a five-track, audiovisual EP that sees the producer teaming up with her wife and creative partner, artist and photographer Natalia Podgórska. “Grotto is a stage,” blue continues. “It’s not a soundtrack to an existing play, but whilst creating it I was thinking about the space we move in, the characters we play, the dialogues that happen.” Ahead of the premiere of this unique virtual performance, which takes place tonight at 19:00 GMT on TT’s Twitch channel, blue and Podgórska have shared an excerpt featuring a live rendition of the project’s anthemic opener, Opened Close. blue corrals an ecstatic, stabbing synth line as Podgórska conjures a fantastical digital environment around her. “The video is half inspired by object blue’s interest in medieval art and theatre, half inspired by imaginary friends/characters we make up to cope with our ho