Corporeality

“Plum makes the metaphysical singable, the immense relatable. She blurs auto-theory, the mixing of the philosophical with the personal, and psychogeography, the influence of environment on the psyche. Sonically, Corporeality is a flickering collage of buzzing synths hitting field recordings, fragments of speech and Plum’s own angelic voice.”

- The Quietus

“A kind of hushed etherality which is all Plum’s own”

- The Wire

Ingrid Plum’s new album Corporeality, released on Ryoanji Records as part of Keychange EU, demands that you listen louder. Corporeality draws on the archive of sound poet Lily Greenham, responding to her work in ‘Lingual Music’ and utilising shimmering sine-tone structures, intensely-grounded field recordings, and the interior of a grand piano to explore spaces amongst the oscillating layers of sound. At the core of the album is Plum’s voice and the unique circuitry of the EMS VCS4 synthesiser. Plum weaves these elements together into embodied, intimate compositions that get under your skin and activate an interior landscape of listening.

Sounding like a meeting between Julianna Barwick, Ian William Craig and Grouper that took place between the sea and a ruined church, Plum taps into the neo classical and ambient folk scenes with a taste for synths and spoken word and a unique voice that make it her own.

With thanks to the Lily Greenham Archive, Arts Council England, Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios, Keychange EU and Ryoanji Records.