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I Speak Machine

Bloody Wonder

If Laurie Anderson and Art of Noise had a love child, it might resemble I Speak Machine, the experimental music and audio-visual project of vocalist Tara Busch and filmmaker Maf Lewis. Thoroughly original in its own right, I Speak Machine has spent the last decade stirring our subconscious and defining the conventional, combining music technology and vintage synths with striking, can’t-look-away visuals that reflect and imprint themselves on our deepest and darkest dreams. It’s saturated, cinematic and unforgettable. And bloody. Sometimes I Speak Machine gets very bloody. “Visually it gets right to the point, which is to unsettle and release,” frontwoman Tara Busch explains. “The image of blood dripping and splashing is what this music looks and feels like, if that makes sense.” She n...