简介
mimosa|moize are sound artists Martin Thompson and Lucia H. Chung working together and respectively in exploring their common interests of minimal sound, resonance, sound art, sound installation and acoustic ecology. mimosa is the artisitc name of Lucia H. Chung who is a Taiwanese sound artist based in London. Trained as a visual artist, one of mimosa's interests is to explore the relationship between sound and visual objects. Applying the concepts of background and perspectvie to her sound works, mimosa examines those background sounds that people normally 'overlook' and create work from them. She is a keen sound listener and collector. Martin Thompson is UK, London based sound artist moize. His solo sound work explores his interests of minimal sound, resonance and the sustaining of sound, presenting much of his work as almost static or still sound. Also with keen interests in acoustic ecology and phonography, these can be found partly as themes in his work. About Seiren. Inspired by the image of the merging of sea and sky, mimosa|moize strives to create sound to 'depict' this visual phenomenon of the sea in the state of extreme stillness and almost indistinguishable from the sky. In attempt to extract the essence of the sea, Seiren is composed through harnessing the melodic resonant frequencies of 13 different seashells. The prolonged still sound and extreme low volume are the key features of Seiren as it is not a mere representation of the sound of the sea, it is, more importantly, a reflection towards the background sound in our surroundings that dives in and out our awareness and consciousness. What Seiren wishes to achieve is to integrate with the sounds that exist in the room where it is played into through speakers, and to direct our attention to the sounds that we normally neglect in our daily lives.