Juni

Cassette tape featuring artwork by Paris-based artist Caroline Ventura and graphic design by Denise Häberli & Alina Scharnhorst at INTR in Bern. Limited to 100 copies.

Finding herself in different emotional and physical spaces over the past years, The Hague-based Seina creates four ambiguous tracks for Juni, her debut EP out on Präsens Editionen. The material, which comfortably sits between ambient, glitch and noise, feels like a long-overdue update of Mille Plateaux and Raster-Noton’s golden days. The result, however, is much richer in texture and much more sensual than these dinosaurs of electronic music.

On Juni, Seina, who has a background in electroacoustic music and live performance, layers a range of source material created with different means and techniques—from Supercollider-generated elements, to field recordings gathered in Finland, France and The Netherlands, to analog electronic instruments, digital feedback and manipulated human voices.

The EP, which is partly composed and partly improvised, does not point in one particular direction but in many at the same time, making it an immersive experience and, at the same, a bold debut.

Juni is available on tape, for streaming and as a digital release via Präsens Editionen, a Switzerland-based platform for community-run publishing projects. It was founded in 2011 while launching zweikommasieben Magazin. Ever since, music on vinyl, cassette, CD as well as in digital formats has been released next to magazines, books and other printed matter. Recent audio releases include material by Anom Vitruv, Red On, Belia Winnewisser, Martina Lussi, Samuel Reinhard and Magda Drozd.