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Me and the Glassbirds

by Heejin Jang

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    Via NPR Music by Joshua Minsoo Kim:

    On "Our Brief Eternity," a 13-minute epic from Heejin Jang's forthcoming album Me and the Glassbirds — out March 3 on Doom Trip Records — the Korean experimentalist delivers a barrage of noises that are at constant risk of exploding. She doesn't care for an all-out assault on the senses, though, instead opting to capture an apocalyptic trek through fog and rubble. There are familiar sounds — electronics revving like engines, uninterrupted beeping and birdsong — and they settle into a rhythmic loop, the song resembling an industrial dance track heard from afar. When a clattering breakbeat arrives, the sample gets stretched like putty, sounding like wooden furniture being ripped apart by a tornado. The overarching feeling is of uneasy displacement; without a groove to latch onto, or invigorating catharsis, "Our Brief Eternity" becomes a portrait of life at its bleakest, for when we trudge through each day burnt out and broken. Amid the haze is a genial conversation dotted with laughter, but any such solace is fleeting here. Jang depicts hell on earth as dreary and hopeless: an empty void.

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about

• Heejin Jang returns to Doom Trip with "Me and the Glassbirds" • A full length LP to be released March 3rd, 2023 •

The Korean producer's new album features the most intricate and brutal tracks of her career. She presents mosaics of sound that endlessly mutate and rearrange themselves with elegance. Jang's ability to position harsher sections against moments of unnerving calmness provokes the listener into a variety of mental states, including panic, confusion, and nervousness.

Via NPR Music by Joshua Minsoo Kim:

On "Our Brief Eternity," a 13-minute epic from Heejin Jang's forthcoming album Me and the Glassbirds — out March 3 on Doom Trip Records — the Korean experimentalist delivers a barrage of noises that are at constant risk of exploding. She doesn't care for an all-out assault on the senses, though, instead opting to capture an apocalyptic trek through fog and rubble. There are familiar sounds — electronics revving like engines, uninterrupted beeping and birdsong — and they settle into a rhythmic loop, the song resembling an industrial dance track heard from afar. When a clattering breakbeat arrives, the sample gets stretched like putty, sounding like wooden furniture being ripped apart by a tornado. The overarching feeling is of uneasy displacement; without a groove to latch onto, or invigorating catharsis, "Our Brief Eternity" becomes a portrait of life at its bleakest, for when we trudge through each day burnt out and broken. Amid the haze is a genial conversation dotted with laughter, but any such solace is fleeting here. Jang depicts hell on earth as dreary and hopeless: an empty void.

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Further Glassbirds information:

On "Me and the Glassbirds," Jang imagines a laboratory in which she hatches birds from a bricolage of painted sounds. These glassbirds are constructed with parts that are fragile, transparent, and frequently malfunctioning. As some break and others are disassembled, new glassbirds emerge on their own, eventually combining and forming a mirror image of their creator. Fearing the reflection of herself that she sees in the mob of these creatures, she attempts to move their nest to a secure location. But it's too late. As the flock grows, she dons a heavy veil to protect herself and raises a slingshot against them. One by one, she shoots her creations down and crushes the fragments of their bodies beneath her feet. Once they've all been destroyed, she removes her veil and begins to gather the shimmering pieces of her dead creations.

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Heejin Jang is a multidisciplinary artist based in Seoul. Since she graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in New Genres in 2013, Jang has lived, exhibited, and performed around the world. In her live sound performance, Heejin presents a set of improvised computer music. She arranges and synthesizes sonic spaces that draw from the everyday and the trivial, forming them into phenomenal situations of meditation or digitally induced panic. Distorting field recordings and sound samples from the internet, Jang creates reverberating forces that the listener can lose themselves in.

Heejin has played live and exhibited her pieces at The Lab, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, mumok Vienna, Harvestworks, Rhizome DC, High Zero Experimental Music Festival, SeMA Nanji, Dotolim, Platform-L, Superdeluxe, Center for New Music, Dublab, and many more.

credits

released March 3, 2023

All Sound: Heejin Jang

Mastering: KIM, Changhee DNTS Studio @dingndents

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Photography: Bahron / @bahronjpg
Hair and Make up: E-You / @eyou_cha.cha.ji
Accessories: Misé / @miseseoul

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