mimosa|moize
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Out NOW on Murmur Records, Japan
Inspired by the image of the merging of sea and sky, mimosa|moize strives to create sound to 'depict' this visual phenomenon of the sea in the state of extreme stillness and almost indistinguishable from the sky.
In attempt to extract the essence of the sea, Seiren is composed through harnessing the melodic resonant frequencies of 13 different seashells. The prolonged still sound and extreme low volume are the key features of Seiren as it is not a mere representation of the sound of the sea, it is, more importantly, a reflection towards the background sound in our surroundings that dives in and out our awareness and consciousness.
What Seiren wishes to achieve is to integrate with the sounds that exist in the room where it is played into through speakers, and to direct our attention to the sounds that we normally neglect in our daily lives.
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exampleOne
(untitled1 excerpt)
00:00 - 01:04
An excerpt of a simple live practice run, whereby we are playing with layering, textures, resonance and our studio ambience.
The Glassed Spring (excerpt)
00:44 - 03:05
'The Glassed Spring' is a soundscape composition merely using one single recording.
Inspired by the empathetic relation between objects and sounds, I make an attempt to capture the traffic and other environmental sounds that vibrate the window glass through contact microphone. Using the similar technique employed by Alvin Lucier 'I am sitting in a room', the recorded sound is played back on to the window glass and recaptured by contact microphone till it reaches the resonant frequency of the window glass.
In attempt of using single one sample/recording to compose, the recording is analysed and deconstructed according to the frequency bands, then it is 'pieced' back by merely adjusting the volumes of each frequency bands.
(untitled2 excerpt)
01:41 - 04:13
A recording of an unidentified constant tone heard inside and outside our studio.
(untitled3 excerpt)
02:57 - 07:28
Experiments with resonance and a field recording of a puppet show in Taiwan.
2 p.m. (site recording excerpt)
05:12 - 11:25
2 p.m. is a site-specific sound installation that intends to work and incorporate with its surrounding sounds, in turn, to draw the listener’s awareness of the significance and the qualities of the sounds that specifically belongs to the site.
In attempt to achieve the idea of combining and integrating the sounds of the environment and the playback, 8 field recordings are taken from 8 different reference points at the site. Through analysing the spectrums of these recordings, a selection from the most prominent frequencies are then combined with the recordings that these data are derived from. In doing so, 8 to 10 different elongated tones containing the frequencies that assimilated to the environmental sounds are generated, and then, are placed back where they are taken from, totalling approximately 64 tones.
The listeners are encouraged to walk around the site to listen to how the playback and the environmental sounds interact with each other. As the frequencies of the environmental sounds are being used by the generated tones, this leaves less space for these environmental sounds to be heard as clearly. What one can hear is a kind of alteration of these environmental sounds as they entangle with the placed generated tones. This entanglement will be heard differently depending on the position where one takes on the site. With the sounds of the environment being now coloured or masked, our attention will be drawn to these sounds, in turn, to our relation to the environment.
Often when we hear an ambiguous sound our tendencies will be to attach some definition to this sound, in an attempt to categorise or discern the nature of its cause. Little clues within the sounds makeup will aid during this period of definition, as we might cross reference sounds in our own memory. If presented with an object and an accompanied sound, but with a sound less likely for us to recall as having an obvious connection to that object, how then, would we experience this aforementioned defining moment? Would we now be more aware or perhaps confused during this defining moment, as we fall into and out of clear definition?
(untitled4 excerpt)
11:57 - 15:10
A recording taken during our first audio experience at the University of Debrecen and it's tremendous reverberant sounds. The music that is heard is a combination of two pieces being played at the same time.
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exampleTwo
00:00 - 11:06
exampleTwo is a collection of works in progress and excerpts of finished works. Much like exampleOne, exampleTwo is not a track in itself, but more a demonstration of what we get up to in our studio, which is something we would like to share with you. I hope you can enjoy and be inspired by our work.
mimosa|moize is the collaborative project of Lucia H. Chung and Martin J. Thompson, both living and working in London. Their work expresses a passion for minimal and resonant sounds brought together as conceptual based electronic ambient music. Their debut album seiren was recognized and subsequently released in 2009 by the Japanese label Murmur Records. mimosa|moize are also behind the newly formed sound art/music label threeplusone.
ArtistSon Clair Title From the Bridge Duration 15'00 Date of Release 18th August 2009 Format zip · 35.4 MB
From the Bridge is an audio-montage of sounds recorded from the same location over an 18 hour period. The audio material was recorded on 4 separate mono channels and mixed in surround sound for optimum spatial representation.
you two have a wonderful sound, I can really hear a lovely interaction between the two of you. The extract of Seiren you have uploaded here is drone-bliss. In fact, I loved it so much I just bought the whole album from CD baby. Can't wait until it arrives :)
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