haze by Sergey Hiiri

The concept of this album came to me about three years ago, although looking back, I realize that it had been forming subconsciously for much longer. This is not difficult to trace if one is interested. I love listening to the movement and refraction of city sounds, but even more fascinating is the hidden world of sounds behind this "facade"—distant and quiet, blurred by the air and countless reflections.

I have always been intrigued by the possibility of conveying these subtle shifts through musical means. After a long search, I found no better approach than using only white noise and filters to capture this interplay of sounds. This method brings the "natural" aspect of atmospheric noise to the foreground while submerging filtered tonal elements within it, forcing them to coexist with its dominance.

The result is a series of static yet intricate soundscapes, where music seems to emerge fleetingly, only to dissolve again into a dense haze—an ever-recurring sensation of an elusive but distinctly present melody. At the same time, the album attempts to capture and preserve the moment when these mirages of melodies merge with the listener’s sense of dissolution into attentive stillness, creating a deeply personal perception of space and time.

These recordings hold a certain duality—on the surface, almost nothing seems to happen, yet with careful listening, a wealth of sonic events, strange harmonies, and dissonances can be discovered. One can approach them as purely atmospheric and relaxing, or, through focused attention, attempt to unravel the threads of perception—distinguishing where the sounds truly form musical patterns and where the mind itself assembles them.

No real field recordings, reverbs, or additional effects were used in these recordings—only filters and envelope generators. Thus, all spatial sensations arise purely from the movement and interplay of noises, filtering, and the psychoacoustic effects they produce.

Sergey Hiiri is an Ingermanland sound artist working in the field of experimental ambient, microsound and glitch.