Kia Hautala is a project of the Drone Music studio that draws on the vocabulary of classical string writing. Sampled and synthesized strings hold long chords built from close intervals, in the manner of slow orchestral cluster music, while individual lines rise or fall by a semitone across several minutes.
There are no beats, loops or electronic textures in the foreground; the focus is on harmony and the friction between neighbouring pitches. The mood is serious, tense and luminous by turns. Volume should allow the quietest passages to remain audible, as dynamics are a structural element here.
