*300 copies limited edition* Xiang was born in 1984 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. She started her experimental music activities in earnest in Chengdu in 2017. In performances she uses field recordings, violin, noise and body as materials. She listens attentively to subtle changes in sound and space and carries out site-specific performances adapted to each environment. In addition to solo improvisation and composition, Xiang carries out many performances and collaborative projects with other musicians and artists. She is also engaged in planning and presenting events, including the Vital Sounding Festival, which she started in Chengdu in 2017, and Daybreak Concert Series, which she has carried out on an irregular basis since 2023 in Chengdu, Beijing and Berlin.

This album contains an hourlong duo performance by Xiang and Otomo Yoshihide at Sichuan University in March 2025, when Otomo visited Sichuan on a tour of China. Both Xiang and Otomo prepared various non-instrument objects and hit, rubbed and scraped them to produce diverse loud and soft sounds. With the additional use of violin by Xiang and a broken guitar by Otomo, the sounds of instrument strings being scraped or rubbed sometimes emerge, but the sounds heard throughout the performance are clattering, banging and rattling noises. Voice, whistling and tongue-clicking sounds are heard occasionally as well. Among Otomo's works, this kind of album, with such noises as the predominant element, is quite rare. But the distribution and structure of the noises produced by the two musicians and the way these noises spread through the venue space are sublime. Not simply an unusual recording, this is an outstanding and truly valuable document.