DJ Würm: Exploring the Boundaries of Sound and Image
Gaspard Emma Hers, also known as DJ Würm and Emma Dowdy, is a Brussels-based artist whose practice drifts between drawing, painting, and sound. Their work exists in a liminal space, blurring the lines between experimental and club music, between the imaginary and the grotesque.
Through multiple aliases and mediums, DJ Würm conjures visions that intertwine popular culture with elements of magic. Hybridized bodies emerge, merging and mutating like the Grylles of the Middle Ages. Landscapes shift, bending into anachronistic architectures—visions of futures that have already passed. A delicate balance of melancholia and playfulness breathes through their work, each piece infused with an energy that feels both nostalgic and untamed.
Their imaginary realms serve as both a refuge and a glimpse into alternative possibilities—opening new perspectives on our relationships with living beings, objects, and matter. Instead of a single narrative, their work unfolds in fragmented stories, woven together through emotions and layered images, allowing for multiple interpretations.
Now, DJ Würm is reigniting their music label, Sal de Fête, with a new release set for April 4th—a split EP featuring Berlin-based artist 2550 and their own project, Emma Dowdy. A release party in Brussels will mark the occasion, an event promising to immerse audiences in their unique sonic and visual universe.
Meanwhile, their next DJ Würm EP is in the works, with more details to come soon. Looking ahead, they aspire to deepen their collaborative efforts—producing music for other artists, exploring multimedia projects that weave sound with video, text, dance, and performance.
For DJ Würm, there is no single story to be told—only a shifting mosaic of visions, inviting us to lose ourselves in its depths.
