Live performance at the 2024 MuTeFest in Helsinki, Finland.

Vibration and resonance are at the core of this piece. By plunging into the perception of oscillations with an emphasis on listening, the piece is musing how music can exist beyond or below its cultural tropes, purely as states of affects and emotions. With this piece, the musician goes far back in his biography and seeks to uncover buried sonic motivations, attempting to shed accumulated rules and constraints of musical styles and compositional complexity.

'Fox fires' is the Finnish name for the Auroras, revontulet, also 'spell fires', the double crown in our planet's magnetospheric plasma that originates from its ionization and excitation by gusts of solar wind. As a fire fox's rubs it fur against a tree and its tail whips up crystals of snow, the sparks weave a spell of undulating cold fire that covers the entire sky in a mysteriously intangible presence, impossible to capture but by pure experience. Nine-tailed foxes are the kitsune, fox spirits of Japanese culture, benevolent guardians or mischievous spirits that can change their shape, as evoked by the shifting fires in the sky.