Name: Sensing a presence 🍂 with Sol Ring & An echo across an uncanny valley by Inner Most
Duration: 1 h

Jiyoung Wi is a multi-faceted artist from Seoul, Korea currently residing in The Hague, Netherlands. Jiyoung’s work can be situated within fictional literature, improvised music, field recording, with an interest in juxtaposing or disjointing these fields of practice through her sonic and literary methodologies. Jiyoung’s debut album 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔, is a concise body of work that punctuates a beginning point to her work within the 12” LP format. The recording serves as one of the two releases concluding the three year sonic endeavor that is the ENXPL (Enmossed X Psychic Liberation) series.

Having previously released recordings on compilations for labels like Mirae Arts, Eastern Nurseries, and Psychic Liberation, here Jiyoung hones a cinematic-like structure that exemplifies the biome within her craft. While presently Jiyoung is performing the systematic dismantling of a violin in her live improvisations paired with approachable boutique synthesizers, 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 is a pairing of the inimitable Korg MS-20 and field recordings staged or captured by Jiyoung in Seoul and Busan, South Korea.

With three scenes per side, Jiyoung walks us through different geographical and spatial intimacies. Public spaces and intimate conversations are obscured and reconstructed. Glass elevators, an unknown hotel lobby piano recital, office toilet rants, windowside night bus travels, and multiple languages interplay with staged and unstaged conversations to transmogrify themselves into a world of Jiyoung’s view. Money, sex, relationships, and cultural parameters are at once idiosyncratic as well as disorientingly familiar to the listener.

As an extension of the series coined by Jiyoung as 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, the album feels crisp, pressurized, and at times funny, at other times melancholic. As language, space, and viewing perspective shift, Jiyoung’s succinct album invites the listener to an aural world uniquely of her own viewpoint. While collecting source material relying on the outside world (conversations, elders, the closing track featuring Sungeun Lee), we have a listening experience that deeply illustrates Jiyoung’s perspective. The disjointed experience of someone maneuvering internationally to further develop a practice is encapsulated brilliantly here by Jiyoung with 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔. Alongside Makoto Oshiro’s 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅, it is a perfect bookend to the ENXPL series.

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Jiyoung Wi is a writer and musician based in Seoul and The Hague. She writes fiction in-between institutional and non-institutional contexts, and works with sounds in-between clubs and art museums. Her methodology involves building and breaking sonic narratives by arranging and re-contextualizing disparate sound sources ranging from field recordings to fragmented anonymous dialogue.

She approaches sound and text as invisible experiences and phenomena, and is interested in the narrative symptoms that emerge when both are juxtaposed on the same axis. In a series entitled 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, she explores these symptoms operating within and without the art space. She has been co-organizing an experimental/leftfield listening event 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘚𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘭 since 2019. 

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Voices by Windy Kim, Carl G., Schang09
Piano by Sungeun Lee
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Design by Dominique S

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Jiyoung Wi - Walking Tumor (ENXPL22)

heavenly (Demo01)

A teaser for the upcoming album 'Luvaphy' by @xeniareaper

Luvaphy

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XENIA REAPER — MxB

Mastered by Rashad Becker

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Nkisi produces intense, powerful sonics influenced by ancient Kongo rhythms, rhythmic noise, our planetary electromagnetic grid, and experimental improvisation. The creative musician and visual artist is one of the co-founders of NON Worldwide. She recently launched her label INITIATION and research platform The Secret Institute, exploring the secrets and mysteries of vibrational rhythm, the ritual as a socio-political tool, invisible gestural sonics, noise tantra, and strategies of trance.

https://nkisi.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/nkisi
https://www.instagram.com/nkisiii/


🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

We want to establish new ways to think and act collectively via sonic means. Sound’s ability to touch the listener, to involve them via emotional and physical affection, turns the sonic into a partner in the fight for a more just world. Sonic Agency is led by urgency and the pressing need for articulation. It is an effort to enable and reinforce transformative processes in our societies, while critically questioning hegemonic systems. Sonic Agency opens up space for a caring community of equals. Sonic Agency is grounded in the sonic’s ability to introduce the feeling of connectivity, and the possibility of community – a community yet to come.


…being together, in community


Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - NKISI - "Drum Signalling"

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
credits
released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - JK

Mix from @powerdynamics & @yakayaka

originally aired on March 12th, 2024 on Ola Radio https://olaradio.fr/

𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓲 
Akio Suzuki - A record of the space
Lorien... Live!!! - love bites
Wilted Woman - The Worm Should Have a Treat
imryll - come out and play
Topdown Dialectic - 20170804-02
resilient - 1.2
pent - 2_
Chaperone - Miniature Plastic Flower
Pontiac Streator - l'amour toujours
sean mccann, matthew sullivan & jeff witscher - barb

𝓨𝓪𝓴𝓪
Yaka - ???
Deepchord - Immersion I
Yaka - ???
Mikkel Rev - Sphal
Volodymyr Gnatenko - Subra
Mike Midnight - You Are How the Light Gets In
Pupajim - Homeless

Long Thaw 🍂 with secret getii & Yaka

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Dissident - Gabrielle Rose - 02 Mar 2024

@sowet

On Friday the 16th of March, corecore invited sixteen DJs and artists, all more or less local to Amsterdam’s music scene(s), to share mini-mixes and hybrid performances in a six hour listening session in De Sering. 

Sets by 55ever, dj audio (⊥), cdr103, Frog of Earth, he1een, interlude, jp'♡, Mandy Pixel, mary, nefo, Odete, Pharfetchd, sara plusplus, so wet’s water kingdom, tj0ki and umanea.

so wet's water kingdom | y'all don't fw music like i do

Celes Live February 2024 (02.29.24)
Mastered by Yyed
@celes11235

Neutral Cloud Mix 009 | Celes @ 123

From secret getii's new album "flutter", out May 3rd on Inner Most.

https://inner-most.bandcamp.com/album/flutter

@powerdynamics
@inner-most

Premiere: secret getii - evaporate reality [Inner Most]

Mix from @dionysianromance @anechoacross 
originally aired on February 1st, 2021 @internetpublicradio
radionopal.com/programas/inner-most/

𝒮𝑜𝓁 𝑅𝒾𝓃𝑔
d!ana - honey bee feeding at Briones
d!ana - sliding wind chime
shadow heart - slow evil
d!ana - solaris
sol ring - passage through Grace Cathedral
d!ana - echoes in the tower
shadow heart - bloodbornesampleplay
Anne Gillis - Untitled
shadow heart - phasing out
shadow heart - greenfireshadowplay
d!ana - green fire shadow play
Dark Souls - Darkroot Garden
d!ana - wind blast
Escaflowne - Fatal
C-Schulz - Part 3
d!ana - ring of prophecy

𝒜𝓃 𝑒𝒸𝒽𝑜 𝒶𝒸𝓇𝑜𝓈𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝒶𝓃𝓃𝓎 𝓋𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓎
strange, but true (an echo across an uncanny valley)
anthéne - best intentions
kai tracid - conscious (an echo across an uncanny valley spleeter moment)
horizon zero dawn gameplay
NWIII - Леший под сугробом
eternal wetlands - outro
an echo across an uncanny valley - grouper ~ second wind-zombie skin x cosmic gate ~ exploration of space coalescence
l0user - Never forget Halo 3 OST but you're thinking about that friend that has been offline 8 years
an echo across an uncanny valley - bismuth ~ weltschmerz x dumonde ~ see the light coalescence
an echo across an uncanny valley - believe in you
an echo across an uncanny valley - ahmea continuum
an echo across an uncanny valley - better off alone (dark rehab hardstyle remix) (social distance rework)

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