Recently we both had the pleasure of meeting with sound artist Felicty Ford, and was involved in a discussion that she organised for the podcast Cut and Splice program series: Living Rooms. We met with Felicity and other sound artists to discuss domestic soundscapes and sonic wallpaper. The podcast entitled Rooms and Chambers, and others in this series can be heard at the Sound and Music website.

The kind people at Floor Sugar have offered to stock our release and others from Murmur Records in their incredible store. Floor Sugar is an independent store created for the purpose of selling and distributing unique experimental music and sound from Japan. We are very excited to have our work stocked by them. They are very nice people with great taste, so please support them all you can.

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.

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Murmur Records, Japan