Fell to Fern
2022 2x File
2022 2x File Experimental
SUPERPANG
design Joe Gilmore
mastered by Roc Jiménez
mixed by Alex Inglizian
“Fell to Fern” is a 4-channel, site-specific sound installation by Chicago musician and artist Kikù Hibino. In partnership with Experimental Sound Studio and Chicago Park District, it opened at the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Conservatory from June 19 until October 16, 2022.
The Fern Room was designed by Jens Jensen in 1906, who wanted to give visitors a glimpse of what Chicago might have looked like millions of years ago. Lush ferns, rocky outcroppings, and an indoor lagoon evoke a swampy prehistoric landscape. Inspired by the fact that the room is a kind of time machine, Hibino’s long-form soundscape invites early memories from his grandparents' small interior courtyard in Japan into the present moment.
Grains of electronic sound from modular synths, the Prophet 6 and Tenori-on were recorded entirely by hand, asynchronous with clock signals in order to elicit the geometric patterns of flying spores, rhizomes, and fern leaves. The faint melody slowly transforms like the pale sunlight falling on the ferns that sway in the wind. And It slowly continues to metamorphose, like memory itself.
Track 2 is a recording of the closing performance on October 16, 2022. It features a live performance in collaboration with Alex Inglizian of Experimental Sound Studio. Alex plays a modular synthesizer while Kikù plays an OP-1, Monome Devices, and Tenori-on, again, without daring to intentionally synchronize these devices.
mastered by Roc Jiménez
mixed by Alex Inglizian
“Fell to Fern” is a 4-channel, site-specific sound installation by Chicago musician and artist Kikù Hibino. In partnership with Experimental Sound Studio and Chicago Park District, it opened at the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Conservatory from June 19 until October 16, 2022.
The Fern Room was designed by Jens Jensen in 1906, who wanted to give visitors a glimpse of what Chicago might have looked like millions of years ago. Lush ferns, rocky outcroppings, and an indoor lagoon evoke a swampy prehistoric landscape. Inspired by the fact that the room is a kind of time machine, Hibino’s long-form soundscape invites early memories from his grandparents' small interior courtyard in Japan into the present moment.
Grains of electronic sound from modular synths, the Prophet 6 and Tenori-on were recorded entirely by hand, asynchronous with clock signals in order to elicit the geometric patterns of flying spores, rhizomes, and fern leaves. The faint melody slowly transforms like the pale sunlight falling on the ferns that sway in the wind. And It slowly continues to metamorphose, like memory itself.
Track 2 is a recording of the closing performance on October 16, 2022. It features a live performance in collaboration with Alex Inglizian of Experimental Sound Studio. Alex plays a modular synthesizer while Kikù plays an OP-1, Monome Devices, and Tenori-on, again, without daring to intentionally synchronize these devices.