MA

MA is the collaborative sound works of ÉMU + insomniac hotel

ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature.

Using piezo microphones attached to wood bark wound with guitar strings and porcelain bowls carefully tuned with water measurements, Maria plays and conducts the sound-objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created solely with touches by hand, stones, branches, sandpaper, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed for added aesthetic atmosphere.

insomniac hotel

insomniac hotel is the music of surfaces. The swirls of synthetic-organic tone-spaces and refracted microphony evoke fractal geometries; each detail a world in itself, suggesting that the filigree of the sonic membrane springs from wholeness/unity rather than disintegration.

Working alone, Alec Fellman extrudes this geography from a pool of sound-objects: modular synthesizers, meditation bowls, contact microphones. The work is of-and-beyond sound; reaching into meditative practice, they produce rooms to think and be in, while never effacing the body and its capacity to listen.