Lucia H Chung is a Taiwanese artist based in London. She performs and releases music under the alias of en creux. A lot of her work shows a strong fascination with noise.

In her speech, she mentioned the many culture shocks she encountered when she first came to the UK as a non-native English-speaking student. But she used this culture shock to make one of her video projects in the UK, where the differences in translation between various languages and different cultures understand the same thing differently.

In the album The Water Lucia H Chung pushes into the “persistent” side of the Hard Return remit with two extended drone pieces for no-input mixer, exemplifying how so-called stillness is paradoxically a site of constant energetic feud. The two sides depict deficiency and surplus respectively: the first a semi-solid hum that flickers on the brink of becoming, the second a harsh buzz that presses into excess until it warps. Balance and stillness, so readily associated with drone, are therefore illusory – only ever implied in the cancelling-out of these deviations from equilibrium, manifesting as a non-state framed by exertion, arriving within that silent pause between these two exquisitely manoeuvred tilts.

The two pieces on this album are each 19 minutes long. There is a clear dynamic change in the sound during the 19 minutes, from a steady change at the beginning to an unstable and harsh change at the end. The two pieces on this album are each 19 minutes long. There is a clear dynamic change in the sound during the 19 minutes, from stable at the beginning to unstable and harsh at the end. This is just like my dreams, which also change. Like in Lucia’s piece, the sound has very abstract changes that are very difficult to describe. It is very much like a dream, and sometimes we may not be able to describe our dream feelings accurately.