Mirror Reflections by Lee Hannah

Lee Hannah is a Naarm-based librarian, artist and educator. Their practice involves a hybrid of field recordings, new age synthesis and ecological composition to create works inspired by environmental artists such as Hiroshi Yoshimura and Yoshio Ojima. Mirror Reflections, their debut album, showcases the artist’s rich explorations into environmental sound design, utilising field recordings and samples to produce compositions that embrace their role as ambient tone-setting music for daily tasks, while also provide enough texture and hue for those who desire to slowly absorb them.

Tracks like Day Spa and Sunset Traffic transport the listener into the complex ecological world, not just with bird sounds, but with the intricacy of movement, wind and the physiological facets of nature, while Telese Terme and Moss Acrylic play with the environment captured in sound, at times mimicking natural moments with soft synths and washed out saxophones. The resulting work, accompanied by it’s Malevich-esque artwork, is a new age juxtaposition of organic landscapes and digital commodities with neither overpowering each other - a sharp contrast to the anthropological and technological dominance irreparably shifting societies today.

Mirror Reflections will be released digitally and on limited cassette on
Thursday November 17.

This work was made on land rightfully owned by the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

Lee Hannah (Lee Ó hAnnaidh) is a field recordist, librarian, and sound artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.