The centaur of attention: horsegiirL is captivating clubland

The speculation around her true identity seems less important as time goes on, with her fans actively dissuading talk on the subject online. Right now, she is focused on grand ideas to bring the human and natural world together. As a resident of Sunshine Farms, she hears music in nature where others may not, and she describes how she would love to throw musical get-togethers – not just raves – in and amongst nature so that humans can hear it too.

“It would be cool to have an interspecies music festival that looks at different creators of sound, not just from a human perspective, touching on birds and other animals that are composers,” she ruminates, stroking her hair. “It’s kind of a new concept to some human beings that birds are composers. So many animals use rhythmic variations, changing of pitch and changing of combination of notes in order to have a unique melody to communicate, but also to express oneself. It’s not just to find another bird, and birds sing completely differently when they’re by themselves which sometimes have even more beautiful and intricate melodies.”

As much as she is fascinated by the idea of an interspecies music festival, she delivers another one of her bewildering answers that means something greater than the animal kingdom phrasing, this time alluding to the importance of community preservation. “From an animal’s perspective, there’s always a danger that you’re bringing humans into a safe space for the rest of the animals, and it’s gonna be trampling down the grass and leaving trash behind and just the noise pollution. But if there can be a respectful way of interacting with each other, then it’s a great idea to have more music events in nature.”

Are there any sounds in nature that rival the hard kicks that she loves in her music? “Things breaking, volcanoes erupting, ice caps crashing and falling into the ocean… anything with rocks. Roaring of any kind of predatory animal can be very intense. I’d be interested in making a techno track made entirely out of nature sounds,” she ponders. “Because that’s why techno was born, in a way, to create sounds you can’t really find in nature.” Good thing, then, that she’s got one world at her hooves, and another at her disposal.

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Nathan Evans is a freelance music journalist, follow him on Twitter