Gordi (18+)

Sophie Payten’s (aka Gordi) professional lives are split in an almost perverse way, between a healthcare professional who needs to shut off the emotional valve and the songwriter whose job it is to flood the room. What better way to interrogate that contradiction than in a song?
Payten has learned the hard way of the need to be malleable, to form and reform in response to her environment and circumstances and self. The pandemic – a moment where we all lost control of our reliable structures and were instead completely shaped by our surroundings – prompted Payten to think about “What are the moments where you really transform in your life? I think grief is one of those things. Love is one of those things. Queerness is one of those things. And so is going into the next act of life.”