there’s no wifi in the barn
d³ (deep drone dreamer) · album · 5 tracks · 33′57″ · Roof of Air · 27 Nov 2024
… Seeing the deepest night still bright, waking up at 9pm to get in the zone. Its foggy landscape was a newly found home, a spiritual one we unconsciously yearned for. Feeling nostalgia from something new, here we instinctively use our most comfortable language to create.
This started with our visit to Hosanger, a suburban town near Bergen, Norway. We collected field recordings all across Europe — the Hosanger cabin, a train-track apartment in Düsseldorf, churches in Frankfurt. Travelling with laptops and headphones we improvised noise and made sounds with a modular synthesizer, then layered them over the recordings. We composed in Seoul and in the Netherlands, and mixed and mastered in Utrecht.
We first conceived it as a short film; it came out as an album instead, at the suggestion of the Netherlands-based label Roof of Air.
Both of us are Korean but grew up in multicultural environments, so we were no strangers to being strangers. As soon as we arrived in Hosanger we knew it was part of the spiritual home we had been looking for. What we caught there are the fragile moments of unheimlich, where belonging and unfamiliarity sit together.
Performed live as “There’s no wifi in the barn”, World Music House Seoul, 2023 — works index
- there’s no wifi in the barn
- i can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity
- safe in a womb of an everlasting night
- the angel’s breath meets the mountain’s edge
- it’s a shame only i can see the things i’ve seen
An audiovisual-ambient duo working between the Netherlands and South Korea. In ambient, drone and experimental, we weave synesthetic soundscapes that evoke nostalgia through dark yet sublime atmospheres, in a free-spirited but delicate structure.
By drastically modifying samples and letting incidental noise in, we try to make uncompromising yet introspective music — music for music decomposers.
electronic · ambient · experimental · drone · field recordings · electroacoustic · noise · dark ambient
