Live Arts: Hinako Omori

In the organizer's words:

Hinako Omori is emerging as one of the UK's up-and-coming musicians blurring the boundaries between classical, electronic and ambient. Released in 2022, her debut album a journey..., a concept album inspired by the ancient Japanese ritual of forest bathing, was critically acclaimed. Omori's most impressive feature is the effective mix of hypnotic frequencies, drones and her ethereal falsetto voice.

She calls her second album Stillness, Softness... "a collage of experiments", which she then put together "like a puzzle", with each song representing a memory space. Recorded and written between her bedroom in London and her grandmother's house in Yokohama, Japan. The title may be Stillness, Softness... but the album is actually about making yourself uncomfortable in order to grow. "It's about embracing the things we want to hide from and are ashamed of," she says.

Omori was born in Japan but grew up in south London and studied sound engineering at the University of Surrey. Her interest in machine music began earlier, in college, thanks to a teacher who introduced his class to analog synthesizers. "That sparked my curiosity," says Omori. "I grew up with classical piano lessons, and when I was first introduced to synthesizers, it totally captivated me. With a synthesizer, you can really shape the sound: It opened up all these endless expressive possibilities that I hadn't even thought of before."

19 €/ reduced 9,50 €
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