CREDIT: LIA LEPRE
Local artists Davita Guslits jams out on the drums July 13.

Clarence Street in downtown London is known as a hub for local music with Call The Office, the APK, Grooves and the VibraFusion Lab sitting side by side.

Vibrafusion is the newest of these music venues and is a place where film, art and music collide. If you’ve been there, you’ve probably met Davita Guslits and didn’t even know it.

The London native has been putting on shows and even her own music festivals at the venue since its creation last year. She began with Radiorama and continued this past summer with Collateral Jamage, which ended up becoming a web series featuring local bands.

Currently playing drums for Posers and Never Betters, Guslits is also classically trained, which is beginning to take it’s own form of art.

“I compose music under the name Oubliette… it’s kind of experimental classical so I’m taking a bunch of private music lessons to better my techniques with violin, piano and voice,” Guslits said.

Music has always been part of Guslits’ life ever since being given a guitar when she was six-years-old.

“[I] would sit there playing the strings until my family told me to shut up.”

Though playing and running shows at the Whippet Lounge and going to Bealart, the push to focus on music happened after Guslits met Olenka Krakus, a singer, songwriter and guitarist for the popular folk band Olenka and the Autumn Lovers.

“I was lucky enough to be involved with the open house arts collective because of Olenka, she really took me under her wing.”

Guslits saw Krakus perform at Lola Fest one year and said after a five-minute conversation she was invited to go to an open mike with Krakus while she was on tour.

Being part of the Forest City’s music scene for a few years, Guslits has seen and heard a variety of things.

“My friends decided they wanted to put on [an event] called Radish Fest earlier in the summer [in 2014], and [during the show] a pipe burst.” The room was flooded, and Guslits said they had to carry all the gear upstairs down the street.

Guslits said that they then continued the show there.

“Two minutes before our set I was [still] bailing the basement out with pots and pans…my mom came with a shop vac to suck the water out.”

As for Guslits’ favourite venue to play at, she was quick to answer.

“I really like playing Call The Office because I think the sound is great.”