chromasy - When These Mountains Turn To Oceans

Back in 2020 Berlin-based community VJ Open Lab and NYC event series Never Knows Better brought together chromasy, the artistic alias of audiovisual artist Benjamin Charles, with visual artist Mahir Duman, tasking them with remotely creating a 15-minute AV show together. At around this time chromasy had self-released their debut EP, When These Mountains Turn To Oceans, combining carefully collected Tascam field recordings, taken during a period spent in and around Asia immediately before the first days of the Covid-19 pandemic, with somnambulant drone and glitchy, bit-crushed percussion. “The field recordings gave my tracks such character and provided unique moments captured from my travels, so whilst they are a universal celebration in worldwide sounds, they are also very personal to me,” they explain. “Included inside are train announcements from China and Japan, also traditional vocals from Vietnam, amongst other bits such as children singing and market sounds I caught by chance when wondering aroun