Sun-yi records Seoul subway platforms and fish markets, then slows them until the words become texture. No instruments were played on “Platform 1”—the recording is the instrument.
Busan slowed to forty percent
A Busan subway announcement was stretched to 40 percent speed until the Korean words dissolved into ambient sound. “Every sound is treated field audio,” Sun-yi says of Subway Light.
The horn as downbeat
On “Evening Ferry,” Vale recorded the ferry horn as the downbeat and built a four-minute piece around the water’s wake.
Discography
- Subway Light (2024) — 8 tracks, ambient field recordings
Start with “Platform 1” or “Tunnel Echo” on LyricsMirchi.
