GEORGIA FIELDS

FOURTH ALBUM PROJECT:

RESTRICTED AND REPETITIVE BEHAVIOURS

APPLICATION TO MUSIC WORKS 2025


Autistic singer-songwriter Georgia Fields seeks funding to write and record her fourth album, a deeply personal and innovative exploration of neurodivergence through an art-pop lens.

This new body of work is based on “restricted and repetitive behaviours,” a key diagnostic criteria for autism.

Recontextualising this medicalised label as a positive, Georgia will use loops, ostinatos and rhythmic figures within traditional alt-pop song forms to invoke “repetitive behaviour” as a means for self-regulation and autistic joy.

Lyrics will explore themes of masking, communication differences, stimming, identity, parenting, and the complexities of life as a neurodivergent person.

Two songs have been written: Chameleon (masking) and Night Swimming (autistic burnout). Funding is sought to write the remaining 9 songs, and record the 11-song album.

Night Swimming (demo)

  • Night swimming
    Violet tide
    Mind brimming
    Foam and fight

    And I become the static
    Spleen buzzing with blind bees
    It’s a violent, silent somatic
    Close up, tune out, fold in

    Night swimming
    Ride the seiche
    Try stimming
    Bend and quake

    And I become the sadness
    Psyche at appogee
    Wading through ink molasses
    Close up, tune out, fold in

    Close up, tune out, fold in

    What if the shadow is just my grief taking flight? (aah!)
    What if the break is just to let in the light? (aah!)

    And I become the static
    Spleen buzzing with blind bees
    It’s a violent, silent somatic
    Close up, tune out, fold in

    Close up, tune out, fold in

    What if the shadow is just my grief taking flight? (aah!)
    What if the break is just to let in the light? (aah!)

    Night swimming

Chameleon (loop demo)

This is an early live demo using a 2-track loop pedal.

The looped keyboard melody heard in the intro works under Verse/Chorus chord progression (Cm - Gm), and the Bridge chord progression (Ab - Bb).

The looped vocal line in the Bridge also works under the other Chorus vocal lines and chord progression.

The looped vocal line “who am I” works under all chord progressions.

The intention is to work with short (restricted) musical elements, and repeat these in interesting ways.

  • I change my shape to fit the catalyst
    Reading the room, reading the script
    Read it like an anthropologist
    Looking for code to encrypt

    I wear this mask so well
    So well that I can’t tell
    What’s underneath the shell
    What’s under

    I’m a chameleon
    I’m a chameleon

    (Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who?)

    Yeah it’s all in my delivery
    I mean what I say, I say what I mean
    But it’s not enough it seems
    Gotta fill it out with pleasantries

    I look you in the eye
    Hold tight to my disguise
    I feel my heartbeat rise
    I feel my

    I’m a chameleon
    I’m a chameleon

    Change my colours
    Change my skin
    But I can’t change, won’t change
    What’s within

    I’m a chameleon
    I’m a chameleon

Project Timeline

  • Monday 7 July – Sunday 10 August

    • Georgia writes the remaining 9 album songs (3 days per week for 5 weeks).

    • Writing will take place at Georgia’s home in Rosanna (Wurundjeri).

    • Songwriting includes research, lyric drafting, songwriting, arranging, demo-ing.

    • There is a week ‘buffer zone’ between Songwriting and Recording, to account for any unforseen delays.

  • Monday 18 August – Sunday 21 September

    • Georgia and Josh record the album over 15 non-consecutive days (approx. 3 days per week over a 5 week period).

    • Recording will take place at Josh’s studio in Mollongghip (Dja Dja Wurrung).

    • Georgia and Josh will contribute all instrumentation.

    • There is a week ‘buffer zone’ between Recording and Mixing/Mastering, to account for any unforseen delays.

  • Monday 29 September – Sunday 12 October

    • Josh mixes the album over 6 non-consecutive days (approx. 3 days per week over 2 weeks).

    • Mixing will take place at Josh’s studio in Mollongghip (Dja Dja Wurrung).

    • There is 2 week ‘buffer zone’ between Mixing and Mastering, to allow for reflection, final tweaks, and to account for any unforseen delays.

    Monday 3 November – Sunday 9 November

    • Lachlan Carrick masters the album at his studio in Richmond (Wurundjeri).

    • Mastering will take approx. 1 day, sometime this week.

  • Grant acquittal

    • Reflect on project outcomes.


    Approach potential release partners

    • Reach out to labels, distributors, publishers.

    • Approach booking agents for album tour opportunities.

    • Apply for showcases, domestically and abroad.

    • Contact neurodiversity/autism related organisations to share the work.


    Further financial support/partnerships

    • Georgia will continue to save her own funds for the project.

    • Further grant applications for marketing/release.

    • Consider crowdfunding or pre-sale campaign.


    Artwork & Packaging

    • Arrange album design and artwork, including vinyl pressing.


    Marketing activity

    • Long-leads (radio, media).

    • Single releases towards album release.

    • Pre-release campaign (teasers, behind-the-scenes).

    • Plan and shoot music videos or visualisers for single.


Previous Releases

Praise for Georgia Fields

“Fields' vocals float hypnotically, while meticulously crafted art-pop arrangements ruminate beneath. Fields presents each vignette of Hiraeth with vivid emotion, and a certain electricity runs across each line... Hiraeth feels like a moment of arrival.” ★★★★

— The Australian Newspaper

“Georgia's vocals take the lead dynamically as they dance between sincere and soft, to powerful and soul-moving. Beautifully composed and delivered between gritty and dainty moments, Holding My Hands Out is a testament to Georgia’s abilities as a songwriter and a vocalist.”

— Pilerats

“Georgia Fields dreams fantastic Technicolour. Her subconscious teems with breathless stuff about flying, falling and lunar possession. Darkly-coded collisions of fairytale and myth... Irrepressible pop.”

— The Sydney Morning Herald

“It’s in poised vocal and muscular percussion where Fields is in her element; when she’s off the leash yet achieving the balance of melancholy.”

— Rhythms Magazine

“A magnetic showing of fearless art-pop and searing vulnerability.”

— Ramona Magazine

“A voice you simply cannot unhear... The evocative songstress paints entire worlds with her tunes [and] the Andromeda String Quartet give the songs distinctly epic vibe.”

— Frankie Magazine

“Holding My Hands Out is less an indie-pop track than a carefully layered piece of sonic art. Each addition of an instrument is a brush stroke… Georgia’s vocals range from a breathy caress to soaring dominance.”

— The Point Music News

“Intelligent, seductive and touched by a vividly-blooming magic.”

— The Autumn Roses

“She possesses a powerful pop voice that’s at once forceful and elegant, and on Holding My Hands Out, her vocal control of the song is supreme.”

— Tone Deaf

“Her weightless vocal makes us feel airborne... Fields’ latest record Hiraeth beautifully encapsulates the rich complexity of the human experience.”

— Beat Magazine

“Holding My Hands Out is a quiet anthem.”

— TheMusic.Com.Au

“Astral Debris is her finest, most expansive work yet.”

— The Herald Sun Newspaper

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