A stone, a grape fruit, a bus ticket, some smoke, a sound. What happens if sound is treated as something existing, in principle, not different to any other object? The Seoul based duo HOSOO approaches sounds as entities, objects or bodies, postponing the temptation to organise them into established relations, arranging them according to human preferences. This approach offers the listener the liberty to form relations on his, her, or their own, instead of being promoted a certain experience. HOSOO’s sound extensions establish gradual and temporal terrains, foreign spaces and mystical place holders, through which sound becomes somatic, acting on the listener beyond analysis, reflection or reason. The two instrumentalists reveal the nature of sound, the beauty of its timelessness.

HOSOO is an ambient/experimental music duo consisting of Baek Hohyun and Byun Woongsoo. Without fixed rules or goals, they pursue improvised collaborations, guided by their differing senses of place. Since their debut release Mist (2019), on the LA-based label LINE, they have released SALTLAKE FM on Helicopter Records and Odyssey on Dragon’s Eye Recordings.