This Be the Verse is the solo project of Callan von Bittrich, current denizen of Portland, Oregon. She is the female half of the synth/wave band Ruby Ridge (http://soundcloud.com/rubyridge). As TBTV, she dabbles in lysergic, vaguely danceable collage with a sound inspired by new age, world, '80s industrial, and contemporary dark electronic music. The project's moniker comes from the Philip Larkin poem of the same name (y'know, the one about voluntary human extinction)... though it's pretty cool that Anne Clark had a track with that title, too.