…Close to a century ago Virginia Woolf captured duration and sensation in flux in her 1928 novel Orlando in a line Sunik Kim quotes in an essay accompanying her new album, Formenverwandler: “An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second”.
As Kim’s essay explains, Formenverwandler seeks to explore perceptions of time and memory. Spread across two CDs and close to two hours, the album sees dazzling irruptions of electronics test the limits of how much information and variation can be stretched across or condensed into units of time. Where long-form compositions…

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