EM BURROWS
MUSIC PRODUCER/ARTIST
COMMUNITY ARTS FACILITATOR
As well as being a music producer and independent artist, Em has established a number of community music initiatives in Perth including Rock Scholars, Group Therapy Records, Girls Rock! WA. She has been a radio broadcaster for 10 years at RTRFM and is the host of Wide Open Road: The West Australian Music Podcast. In 2022, she was nominated for Western Australia's most prestigious music industry award, the Gold WAMi, for her contribution to the local music sector. Em was awarded a National Live Music Award in 2018 for All Ages Achievement.Community and connection is at the heart of Em's ethos. Her industry experience lies in building grass roots initiatives, mentoring artists, and developing holistic music education programs.She is passionate about empowering, educating, and supporting artists to build sustainable and fulfilling creative careers. Her strengths include forming relationships, bringing people together, creative strategising, and developing actionable pathways from big ideas.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2021 Audio Engineering/Production Mentorship with Matt Gio (RADA Studios)
2020 Diploma of Audio (SAE Institute) (selected modules)
2002 Graduate Diploma of Education
2000 Bachelor of Arts (English/Gender Studies)
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 New Forest National Park Authority Artist in Residence for ‘New Forest Collage Radio’, with Jeremy Segal
2024 DLGSC Arts Individuals and Organisations Grant, “Marketing, promotion and distribution of Web Rumors' Album 'Travelling Circuits' in Europe and the UK”
2023 Musician in Residence, SPUDWorks, UK
2023 DLGSC Arts Individuals and Organisations Grant, “Music composition residency for West Australian musician/producer Em Burrows”
2022 Gold WAMi Award Nominee
2021 DLGSC Arts Individuals and Organisations Grant, “ Professional Development and mentoring in audio engineering, production and mixing for Perth based musician/producer Em Burrows”
2019 National Live Music Award Winner, All Ages Achievement, WA
SELECTED RECENT INDUSTRY WORK
2024 Workshop facilitator and artist coach, Music Pool Berlin
2023 Interview with Mike Lindsay (Tunng) for Travelling Circuits Podcast
2022 Interview with Jack Sharp (Wolf People/Large Plants), RTRFM ‘Golden Apples of the Sun’
2022 Ableton Live for Beginners Workshop, Perth International Arts Festival
2021 Program Manager for WAM’s New Noise Schools Programs including the development of the Musicians in Residence Program
2021 Interview with Martyn P Casey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Wide Open Road: The West Australian Music Podcast
2021 Interview with Claire Pannell, Wide Open Road: The West Australian Music Podcast
2021 Interview with James Baker (The Scientists), Wide Open Road: The West Australian Music Podcast
2021 The WAM Awards, Host
2021 Girls Rock! WA Conference Programmer/Producer
2021 Life As A Creative Professional, Workshop Delivery, All Saints College
2021 Broadcaster and Curator, ‘A Company of Rogues’ 5 Part Radio Special on RTRFM on the British Folk Revival
2021 Interview with Dr Susan Rogers (Prince/Berkeley), WAMCon
2020 ‘The Producer/Artist Relationship’ Panel Moderation, Sound Check Webinar
2020 ‘Regional Artists’ Panel Moderation, Sound Check Webinar
2020 ‘Pitching to Radio’ Panel Moderation, Sound Check Webinar
MUSIC AND AUDIO
WEB RUMORS
2024 Travelling Circuits (LP)
2023 Disciple 2 (EP)
2022 Disciple (EP)
2022 Northern Service (single)
2021 New Tricks (LP)
2021 Human Commodity (single)
2019 Audio Video Disco (LP)
2018 Neue Heimat (single)
EM BURROWS
2020 Radical Love (single)
2020 Quaranqueen (single)
2018 Invisible Seams (LP)
2016 Solitary Sounds (EP)
THE LAMMAS TIDE
2014 Barefoot Electric (LP)
2012 Partridge Farm/The Murky Deep (singles)
2011 High Tide (EP)
Composer/sound designer 2022 Situ-8 City. Music for 'Pretty Purgatory' by Tom Mullane
Composer/sound designer 2021 Love Letters to the Revolution by Sian Murphy. Music/sound design.
Producer, Breath Remix (The Rosemary Beads)
Producer, and co-writer, Corrosive with Aria Scarlett
Producer, Wide Open Road: The West Australian Music Podcast
Mix Engineer, The Holy Smoke EP 2024
FREELANCE SERVICES
EMAIL: emburrows0[at]gmail[dot]com
- Production/songwriting/mixing
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Artist Development - one-on-one holistic artist development, strategic planning, mentoring
- Music Publicity Services - Release campaign facilitation, asset collation, servicing to media (specialising in Australian market)
- Copywriting - media releases, blog posts, content creation
- Facilitation/Workshops/Speaking - panel moderation, live interviews, MC
WEB RUMORS
Web Rumors is the new-wave style electronic project of Em Burrows. Her music incorporates influences from early underground dance styles such as EBM, proto-house, and post-disco through to 1980s pop and British folk music.
Burrows has released 3 full length albums, 2 EPs and numerous singles under the Web Rumors moniker. Her debut album Audio Video Disco was released in 2019 through Group Therapy Records and featured the come-down heater of that summer, ’Sinner for Your Love’. Follow up LP New Tricks (2021) was described as “Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark meets Austra” with electronic foundations and elements of baroque pop bound adroitly by highly accomplished composition. Later releases saw a left-turn into dance music with self-produced EPs Disciple and Disciple 2 channelling proto-house and electro sounds. Her first single from this body of work, “House of Yes” was described by a listener as being, “Like Paul Hardcastle, Sylvester, and The KLF jamming the Outrun soundtrack on a beach in Goa.” Her most recent album, Travelling Circuits, draws on folk song material, recontextualised with new wave/electronic sounds. “The influence of 80s synthop is all over these bewitching songs from Burrows, recalling peak Marianne Faithfull” - Bandcamp
Web Rumors’ tightly spun songs have been included in Spotify editorial playlists and Bandcamp features as well as numerous blogs and publications such as New Noise, White Light/White Heat and Something You Said. Burrows is a WAMi nominated artist (Best Keys/Synth Artist 2020, Golden WAMi 2022) and Web Rumors’ performances of note have included Laneway Festival Fremantle (2019), Nannup Festival (2019), Perth Festival (2019), and RTRFM’s In the Pines (2018, 2023).
Em continues to work on new music including more dance sounds, big pop ballads and further folktronic offerings.