Düsseldorf-based Japanese artist Miki Yui's latest Hallow Ground set is a sequence of visceral modular improvisations that subtly echo the Amazon rainforest's verdant soundscape.
On a trip to the Manaus in Brazil back in 2018, Yui was exposed to an immersive sonic experience that felt eerily familiar. In some ways, the burr of insects, birds and other fauna that surrounded her in the Amazon felt intrinsically linked to the music she'd been producing for two decades, but she wanted to make the connection even more present. It was at this stage that she decided to go full pelt into modular synthesis, embracing an artistic methodology that allowed sounds to blossom and bloom in real time, or mutate and grow organically.
'As If' isn't a collection of artificial rainforest sounds, but its interlinked tracks highlight Yui's revelations. On 'Summer Night', chirping oscillators mimic moonlit cricket song, and Yui turns crackling glitches into pebbly footsteps, surrounding everything with oozing, watery droplets that take us to the mouth of a vast cave system. Yui's movement is slow but noticeable, with the track flourishing like flora as she cautiously adds extra DNA, shifting the rhythm and tone.
And the mood is very different on 'Generativ', a track that parallels Laurie Spiegel's iconic 'The Expanding Universe' with its cascading microscopic rhythmic sequences. Despite its rigid meter, the piece sounds sensual somehow, as if light is sparkling from every surface. We can just about make out a church bell chiming in the distance on 'Shio', straddled by tweeting, high-pitched synth tones and light-headed drones, and on 'Abyss', Yui heads towards the darkness, layering brassy drones and complimenting the gloom with ratcheting, lively sputters and sizzles.
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Düsseldorf-based Japanese artist Miki Yui's latest Hallow Ground set is a sequence of visceral modular improvisations that subtly echo the Amazon rainforest's verdant soundscape.
On a trip to the Manaus in Brazil back in 2018, Yui was exposed to an immersive sonic experience that felt eerily familiar. In some ways, the burr of insects, birds and other fauna that surrounded her in the Amazon felt intrinsically linked to the music she'd been producing for two decades, but she wanted to make the connection even more present. It was at this stage that she decided to go full pelt into modular synthesis, embracing an artistic methodology that allowed sounds to blossom and bloom in real time, or mutate and grow organically.
'As If' isn't a collection of artificial rainforest sounds, but its interlinked tracks highlight Yui's revelations. On 'Summer Night', chirping oscillators mimic moonlit cricket song, and Yui turns crackling glitches into pebbly footsteps, surrounding everything with oozing, watery droplets that take us to the mouth of a vast cave system. Yui's movement is slow but noticeable, with the track flourishing like flora as she cautiously adds extra DNA, shifting the rhythm and tone.
And the mood is very different on 'Generativ', a track that parallels Laurie Spiegel's iconic 'The Expanding Universe' with its cascading microscopic rhythmic sequences. Despite its rigid meter, the piece sounds sensual somehow, as if light is sparkling from every surface. We can just about make out a church bell chiming in the distance on 'Shio', straddled by tweeting, high-pitched synth tones and light-headed drones, and on 'Abyss', Yui heads towards the darkness, layering brassy drones and complimenting the gloom with ratcheting, lively sputters and sizzles.
Düsseldorf-based Japanese artist Miki Yui's latest Hallow Ground set is a sequence of visceral modular improvisations that subtly echo the Amazon rainforest's verdant soundscape.
On a trip to the Manaus in Brazil back in 2018, Yui was exposed to an immersive sonic experience that felt eerily familiar. In some ways, the burr of insects, birds and other fauna that surrounded her in the Amazon felt intrinsically linked to the music she'd been producing for two decades, but she wanted to make the connection even more present. It was at this stage that she decided to go full pelt into modular synthesis, embracing an artistic methodology that allowed sounds to blossom and bloom in real time, or mutate and grow organically.
'As If' isn't a collection of artificial rainforest sounds, but its interlinked tracks highlight Yui's revelations. On 'Summer Night', chirping oscillators mimic moonlit cricket song, and Yui turns crackling glitches into pebbly footsteps, surrounding everything with oozing, watery droplets that take us to the mouth of a vast cave system. Yui's movement is slow but noticeable, with the track flourishing like flora as she cautiously adds extra DNA, shifting the rhythm and tone.
And the mood is very different on 'Generativ', a track that parallels Laurie Spiegel's iconic 'The Expanding Universe' with its cascading microscopic rhythmic sequences. Despite its rigid meter, the piece sounds sensual somehow, as if light is sparkling from every surface. We can just about make out a church bell chiming in the distance on 'Shio', straddled by tweeting, high-pitched synth tones and light-headed drones, and on 'Abyss', Yui heads towards the darkness, layering brassy drones and complimenting the gloom with ratcheting, lively sputters and sizzles.
Düsseldorf-based Japanese artist Miki Yui's latest Hallow Ground set is a sequence of visceral modular improvisations that subtly echo the Amazon rainforest's verdant soundscape.
On a trip to the Manaus in Brazil back in 2018, Yui was exposed to an immersive sonic experience that felt eerily familiar. In some ways, the burr of insects, birds and other fauna that surrounded her in the Amazon felt intrinsically linked to the music she'd been producing for two decades, but she wanted to make the connection even more present. It was at this stage that she decided to go full pelt into modular synthesis, embracing an artistic methodology that allowed sounds to blossom and bloom in real time, or mutate and grow organically.
'As If' isn't a collection of artificial rainforest sounds, but its interlinked tracks highlight Yui's revelations. On 'Summer Night', chirping oscillators mimic moonlit cricket song, and Yui turns crackling glitches into pebbly footsteps, surrounding everything with oozing, watery droplets that take us to the mouth of a vast cave system. Yui's movement is slow but noticeable, with the track flourishing like flora as she cautiously adds extra DNA, shifting the rhythm and tone.
And the mood is very different on 'Generativ', a track that parallels Laurie Spiegel's iconic 'The Expanding Universe' with its cascading microscopic rhythmic sequences. Despite its rigid meter, the piece sounds sensual somehow, as if light is sparkling from every surface. We can just about make out a church bell chiming in the distance on 'Shio', straddled by tweeting, high-pitched synth tones and light-headed drones, and on 'Abyss', Yui heads towards the darkness, layering brassy drones and complimenting the gloom with ratcheting, lively sputters and sizzles.
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Düsseldorf-based Japanese artist Miki Yui's latest Hallow Ground set is a sequence of visceral modular improvisations that subtly echo the Amazon rainforest's verdant soundscape.
On a trip to the Manaus in Brazil back in 2018, Yui was exposed to an immersive sonic experience that felt eerily familiar. In some ways, the burr of insects, birds and other fauna that surrounded her in the Amazon felt intrinsically linked to the music she'd been producing for two decades, but she wanted to make the connection even more present. It was at this stage that she decided to go full pelt into modular synthesis, embracing an artistic methodology that allowed sounds to blossom and bloom in real time, or mutate and grow organically.
'As If' isn't a collection of artificial rainforest sounds, but its interlinked tracks highlight Yui's revelations. On 'Summer Night', chirping oscillators mimic moonlit cricket song, and Yui turns crackling glitches into pebbly footsteps, surrounding everything with oozing, watery droplets that take us to the mouth of a vast cave system. Yui's movement is slow but noticeable, with the track flourishing like flora as she cautiously adds extra DNA, shifting the rhythm and tone.
And the mood is very different on 'Generativ', a track that parallels Laurie Spiegel's iconic 'The Expanding Universe' with its cascading microscopic rhythmic sequences. Despite its rigid meter, the piece sounds sensual somehow, as if light is sparkling from every surface. We can just about make out a church bell chiming in the distance on 'Shio', straddled by tweeting, high-pitched synth tones and light-headed drones, and on 'Abyss', Yui heads towards the darkness, layering brassy drones and complimenting the gloom with ratcheting, lively sputters and sizzles.