A kind of woman-machine interface with wry, 1960s girl-group-influenced songs about fragile relationships, and perfectly complemented by the vulnerability of her cheap technology, no one can have expected Isolation Loops (2007), recorded in a remote South Island cottage in winter, to be both her long-playing debut and her masterstroke.
Annabel Alpers’ pre-Bachelorette groups in Christchurch included Hiss Explosion, surf band Hawaii Five-O and Space Dust.
She gained a degree in composition at the University of Canterbury, followed by post-grad studies in computer-based composition at Auckland University.