Experimental musicians Elisha Morningstar and Mercury Hall announce the release of "Contropiano," an immersive 30-minute cassette that explores the opaque intersection between memory, machinery, and the sonic residue of everyday life. This unique collaboration emerged from two deeply personal origin stories that inform each artist's approach to sound. For Elisha Morningstar, the inspiration to play guitar came unexpectedly during an experimental film screening, where massive film reels spun and clattered in the background as grainy images flickered on screen. The tactile sound of celluloid in motion, the hum of the projector, and the meditative presence of analog machinery became a kind of music in itself — one that Morningstar continues to carry into his playing.

Mercury Hall takes a contrasting approach, turning inward to find inspiration in the obsessive textures of domestic life. His contribution to "Contropiano" is steeped in the often-ignored sounds that surround us: the drone of appliances, the click of light switches, the rhythmic rattle of cutlery drawers. These overlooked acoustic elements become central voices in his work, speaking of repetition, containment, and the poetry hidden in routine.

"Contropiano" unfolds as a dialogue of contrasts and convergences, where strings tangle with static, warmth cuts through rust, and presence is haunted by echo. The result is a document of two artists listening intently to the world around them — and to each other — through a shared language of texture, tension, and tone.

The cassette represents a meditation on how the mechanical and the personal intersect in our daily lives, transforming the mundane into the transcendent through careful listening and artistic interpretation.