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Hyunhye, or Angela Seo, best recognised for her work with Los Angeles’s Xiu Xiu, cuts a path into esoteric electro-acoustics and ecstatic piano for her first solo edition. Exploding her song writing sensibilities outward, Seo casts a looming sonic shadow, rippling with waves of percussive intensity. Strands catalogs her deep interest in percussion, noise electronics and piano. Each side of the work focuses on one set of these interests.

Strands I merges reductive electronics with a deeply restrained exploration of gong and percussion; the results manifest as some kind of unsteady meditation in time. Strands II by contrast is dynamic and free, a cascade of intense piano work that breaks away with a sense of abandon. Strands is marked by two works that diverge outward, but with equally weighted trajectories.

Sharing with us her personal insights to the origins, construction and underpinnings of the record in this handwritten note, Angela details her responses to the questions posed about dualities, emotional constructs and instrumentation.