On Uranian Void, Jessika Kenney turns her ear toward the resonances of her own subconscious. Blurring sine waves, hydrophone recordings, a ghazal of Hafez, solo instruments, original texts, and voice, the album is a meditation on sound, space, and the fragile edges of perception. Kenney’s voice weaves in and out of every space perceived. Evocations of memory coalesce into compositions inspired by years of inquiry into acoustic phenomena, where shimmer and shadow are equally alive. Produced and recorded by Randall Dunn (Preston Singletary, Anna von Hausswolff, Ellen Arkbro, Erkin Koray, Annea Lockwood, Omar Souleyman, Kali Malone), the album’s sonic architecture is steeped in his signature depth and spatial clarity. Dunn’s immersive production amplifies Kenney’s intricate tonal explorations, creating an environment where every breath and vibration feels palpably close, yet otherworldly. “This album feels like an exercise of transparency in darkness - like the un-erasing of a loving reverberance,” says Kenney. “The process was like a constantly fluttering question: how to not know, remain in doubt, and stay open to the beauty and pain slightly beyond perceptibility.”

Bringing to the studio three recordings made during recent visits to Spokane, the place she grew up, Kenney transmuted these sonic fragments into incantatory quatrains - containing quiet yet permeating revolutions that reveal the hidden pulse of place. In these moments, echoes of the multiplicity of pasts resonate through the present, as if the walls themselves are gently roaring from their foundations. Uranian Void is an invitation into these liminal spaces: music that bends light, sways time, and slips between walls. A delicate but potent work, it reveals the inimitable pulse of invisible dancers, alive in the resonances themselves. The record features commissioned artwork by the riveting Osage photographer and filmmaker Keli Mashburn and a portrait by no-holds-barred and deeply empathic illustrator Caroline Harrison.

Jessika Kenney is a vocalist, composer, writer, sound artist, and teacher. Their deep commitments to improvisation, poetry, and aural study have yielded a unique perspective. They see learning and sound as ways of decentering the self towards a witnessing of shared breath across barriers of time, space, and preconceived orientations. Their explorations of tone, space, and the metaphysics of sound have been featured in many contexts and venues including the Seattle Public Library, Nottingham Contemporary, and the Benton Museum. Collaborators and projects include a lengthy discography with Eyvind Kang, the final recorded vocal work of Alvin Lucier, performances with Melati Suryodarmo, composing the vocal music of A24’s Midsommar, and choral direction on SUNN O)))’s Monoliths and Dimensions. Uranian Void is her first solo release with Kou Records.