Our artistic journey originated with the desire to create worlds through sound and visual media. Viewing sonic textures as directly mirrored in visual textures or vice versa, we began to interpret sound as synesthetically laminated to visual perception.
Our practice draws upon many sources…design, literature, film, visual communication etc. Melissa’s paternal line is from Nagasaki and that comes through in some of our imagery and sound, however we are most influenced from the experiences we have. Combining the habitual familiar with the imagined, there is an element of cosplay in our work. We call this ‘spatial tesseracting’ (or to spatially tesseract), perceiving illusory textures as integrated within the visual/audio spere.
Our first release, “Twin Lovers” was loosely based on the novel, “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, by Philip K. Dick”. Released in the summer of 2019, the album was described by the Austin Chronicle as “carrying its weight in musical ideas, recalling the ethereal dream-pop of Chromatics and AI-keen artist Holly Herndon, with nods to Tangerine Dream’s mood-building savvy” and by KUTX Austin as “feeling right at home on a brilliantly bizarre reimagined Blade Runner”.
We started work on our second release titled, “HERO” just as the covid pandemic hit. Composed in tandem with videos, photography, and drawings, the album resembles the format of Japanese Image albums which contain musical compositions paired with concept art. Released in 2021 the album was described by Journalist Chris Becker of Houston CityBook as resembling “A moment in a Tarkovsky film”.
Currently we are working on our third release, “Angel Songs for H”.
Photography: Jhane Hoang