Yenting Hsu - Flash 須臾 (2022)

As the continuation of the Relight+MUSIC project collaborating with zhēnzhēn Stained Glass lab, Flash is dedicated to the theme of ‘time’. Sound, music and glass exist as art forms of time. In this album, sound materials are from samples of glass sounds, accompanied with field recordings, electronic sounds and voices. I use various approaches to imagine and depict the concept of time and different time frames.

1. Unknown deconstructs one sound of patterned glass, discovers and reconstructs the hidden melody within the glass sound. Exploring the unknown in the known to uncover the veil of time. It is the prologue.

2. Coordinates illuminates moments often ignored and amplifies the corners of cities. Following these inconspicuous fragments, we get the direction of our mundane lives.

3. January. Winter. The beginning. Paces harmonized in one. Cool passion. Born and reborn.

4. Circle. Some scientists believe that we have memories from the past and the future both. Past memories and future memories come together as a Circle. The nearest past is the closest to the farthest future.

5. False or True is made with a no-input mixer. It resonates with the present and acceptance. Without editing carefully - like I usually do in my sound creation - this track reminds me of living in the moment, and simply accepting the consequences.

6. Starry flashes back to my first impression of listening to the sound of pattern glass placed on a turntable. Each piece of glass is like a planet, twinkling within the space of unique rhythms and sounds.

In this sound universe, let’s fold and unfold time and space incomprehensible to our human senses.