“Cunningham once called Actress an image. It was, for him, a picture, an idea. One he could use to look out at the world and to look back at himself. He has spoken of his music tending to start with “a symbol, or a grabbed moment.”. Whether it was Ghettoville and the man he saw walking around South London with his life in a shopping trolley, or the chessboard he stumbled across in L.A.’s Pershing Park that became LXXXVII, or the feeling you get on Splazsh of music pounding through the walls of a club and you are stood on the other side, in the smoking area, taking a breather, Cunningham has painted with the Actress image. He has made wordless compositions that allow us to see the world as he sees it through Actress.

Cunningham is a writer. Heard one way, his music is often at a remove looking at the world through detached eyes. Heard another way, hidden in all the output on the Actress catalogue, is narrative. Cunningham always seems to be trying to tell us a story. Amidst all the hiss and crackle, the rumble and roar, it is as if we are listening in as the point of a pencil comes down on a piece of paper in a notebook.”

- Dhanveer Singh Brar, 2026

Across an expansive discography of more than ten LPs, Actress has created his own arcane language of hermetic references and inter-dimensional electronic composition. 

Last year, Actress collaborated with five-time Grammy award-nominated composer Suzanne Ciani for Concrète Waves, a groundbreaking live collaboration co-commissioned by, and first performed at, The Barbican, London and Sónar, Barcelona. The performances were captured and made available digitally and on vinyl earlier this year - the first in a new series by Werkdiscs capturing improvised musical conversations between two avant-garde icons.

Last week, Actress teamed with visual artist Filip Popik for ‘GABBA’, a new audio-visual piece released via Werkdiscs and available only on YouTube.