The experimental musician and techno producer Hiro Kone has released her Silvercoat the throng LP via Dais today. The release comes along with a fascinating new video for the track “Mist to petrifact” directed by the London-based visual artist Natalia Podgorska. Regarding the new cut, Hiro Kone’s Nicky Mao offers:
“Mist to petrifact. From obscure possibility to actuality. Solidification and reification. From formless mass to punctuation. From pure being to existence. As the song moves, it becomes more and more articulated and differentiated.“
As the track opens a buzzing, primal ambiance takes shape while slowly gaining force and magnitude until it becomes a storm of orchestral-like sound. Eventually, various sonic figures become articulated, each seeming to add tension to the environment as searing tones of anxiety reverberate. Reaching a fevered pitch, “Mist to petrifact” finally resolves into the void of negative space.
Natalia Podgorska’s visuals take their “direction” from the track’s title, offering “…it made me think about the Dark Forest Theory and how it’s super depressing that potentially all life needs to stay hidden to remain safe.” The theory itself was outlined in the science fiction novel The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin and it postulates that intelligent life forms are like rival bands of “armed hunters” seeking to annihilate or be annihilated. Podgorska wonders, then, how such rivals might coexist and share information safely. Perhaps her visuals provide just such an answer.
