Seen
For two years, Daniel Barwick (a producer and composer from Australia) had been living in Montréal, where he 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, Daniel 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. Seen was released January 23, 2026.
Bec Bowman chats with Danny Barwick.
