ESSENCE
How do we express the sound of our soul? When should we surrender logic to impulse? What is it like to have a conversation with ourselves? Does the purest art showcase the artist thinking, rather than answering? This cosmic transmission comes from Lucy McWilliams, a singer-songwriter from Dublin, Ireland. Here, she sits down at her childhood piano to discuss the concept of expressing her soul through sound.
Curtis Winkelmann | 8th August 2025
Music is a focused form of conscious feeling. This is music. Cosmic occurrence colonised by human thought. It’s branded bird song, electrified, digitised, remixed, re-rationalised. We are not the definitive reason for music. Notes and tones are natural things. They do not rely on our intervention to exist. Rather, we are the ones who realise music, reorganise it, redefine it.
What Makes Something Beautiful | Live
The first performance of What Makes Something Beautiful at Camden Recording Studios for Lucy McWilliams’ Secret Show.
Music From Lucy McWilliams Making Music
The music performed by Lucy during the conversation.