Hiro Kone
LIVE ARTIST | MOTHER CLOUD SPATIAL SOUND FESTIVAL
Photo Credit: Mara Corsino
Hiro Kone is the alias of Nicky Mao, a New York based musician and producer. She uses a combination of hardware, synths, and modular to cultivate her sound - a visceral meditation on rhythm, noise, and melody that has seen her release on leading experimental labels including DAIS Records and BANK Records. No stranger to manipulating macabre disorientations into enchanting new shapes, her music exposes the unsettling and sublime. She is known to draw upon a combination of modular synthesis, noise and live instrumentation. Instinctively responding to the precariousness of humanity, Kone’s cascades of twisted field recordings find an inherent partner in the effervescent current of synthesis and in the process, forge new terrains.
Silvercoat The Throng by Hiro Kone (50 minutes)
“Silvercoat the throng", a line borrowed from Mallarmé's poem "The Tomb of Paul Verlaine" refers in itʼs most simplest form to possibility, rescued from darkness.
In the context of this poem and the absence of the poet Verlaine, Mallarmé in his grief invokes his dead friend's humanity and vision, as matter that fractures, sparks and fuses . Leading us to reflect on how a poem eternal may live on to have some transformative effect on the public