Encounters and transformation inform the video for the duo’s collaborative track
“I think I do my best work when I’m having that exchange with someone,” electronic musician Nicky Mao aka Hiro Kone tells Chloe Lula in The Wire 451. “There’s so much to be discovered in that dialogue if you are receptive to it.”
New York based Mao is discussing her upcoming fourth album Silvercoat the throng, which includes remote collaborative input from ONO member travis, Ramallah based producer Muqata’a and DeForrest Brown Jr as Speaker Music.
Created by Somnath Bhatt, this animated video features drawings made whilst listening to “Reciprocal capture” featuring Speaker Music. The track's title is taken from a term used by the late extinction studies scholar Deborah Rose to explain the process of “encounter and transformation, not absorption”.
“When I sent stems back and forth,” Mao continues, “it was like pulling back the veil and seeing what was excess. I entered into a process of cutting away and reprocessing.”
Read The Wire's full interview with Hiro Kone in issue 451. Subscribers can also read the magazine online via the digital archive.
Silvercoat the throng is released 24 September via Dais.
