Menacing waves of dark ambient crash through the brooding electronic music of Hiro Kone, a New York–based musician and producer who cultivates a distinct, shapeshifting sound – a visceral meditation on rhythm, noise, and melody. Using her modular hardware set-up to manipulate macabre sonic disorientations into enchanting new shapes, her music exposes the unsettling and the sublime. Fluidly navigating the outer-edges of dark electronics and experimental club music, while incorporating traces of chamber music, field recordings, and industrial, Kone crafts evocative music that’s texturally rich and rhythmically pulsating. Her previous, critically acclaimed albums Love is the Capital (2017), Pure Expenditure (2018), and A Fossil Begins To Bray (2019) showcase the range in Hiro Kone’s alchemical sound, all of which is beautifully crystalised on her most recent release Silvercoat the Throng (2021) – Kone’s most personal record to date, made as a response to the lockdown years.
Intonal Festival 2022: Hiro Kone