peak is an environmental improvisation recorded in Mr.maestro's hairdressing space, using noinput feedback to improvise with events occurring in the space during the salon's business hours: hair dryer, comb, stylist, time, dog, footsteps, music, extractor.... These elements alternate and coexist in the space to produce a sound ethereal link between time and the group, generating in the senses a certain way of feeling that belongs to the group in the space.
These recordings were part of my solo exhibition at Mr. Maestro, which was released as 30 cassettes.
The first part of the first track is the sound inside the improvisation machine at Mr.maestro the night before the improvisation recording project, while the second and third tracks are the sound recorded on the day of the environmental improvisation.
Fantasies extends from the inside of the machine to the surrounding environment, where tiny electrical sounds are amplified, connecting and isolating space through the body.
Eventually this environmental improvisation is recorded as a digital file to be 'reappear' and listened to as a gateway to spatial and temporal memory.
In these transformations of spatial nature and differences between carriers, abstract memories are generated, and in the process of feelings and changes in consciousness, it is like navigating the deep waters of the subconscious, re-experiencing the blurred boundaries and marvelous resonance of language.
credits
released May 16, 2023
Noinput sound composed and performed by HeChenEn
Record, mixed and mastered by HeChenEn
Cover Art by HeChenEn
special Thanks to : mr.maestro barber shop, MG ,BK , GD , ctcct, yamahut cafe, ban secondhand goods, and all the friends who came to the xingzhe that day.
as always excellent stuff from Tsss tapes - this one low key/minimal glitches and hum, interplay between the two electronic musicians seems to match the soundmaking process, interferrance patterns, static and rumble / bouncing off against one another Graham Dunning
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