薄明 HAKUMEI Hakumei is an album that emerged from a journey to Mount Osorezan and reflects on the boundary between the living and the dead, loss, memory, and the meaning of being alive. At its core is the sense that the dead are not simply gone, but continue to inhabit the self as forces that shape one’s present life — through the memory of a childhood turtle, a friend who took her own life, and a mother suspended in an ambiguous state between life and death. Through timbre, texture, stretched and contracting time, repetition, the intertwining of noise and music, sudden interruptions, sustained tones, and field recordings from Osorezan, the album gives sonic form to unanswered thoughts and inner landscapes.
2023