A music piece by two Ukrainians Khrystyna Kirik and Yurii Boiko, who live in between different EU cities but both with hearts and minds in Ukraine. This 36 min 49 sec piece made from a 2 min 19 sec fragment of improvisation on piano and ukulele found in a friend’s apartment in Berlin, played by Khrystyna and Yurii, and then slowed down 16 times, pitched down, and became melted, floated, disassociated, vulnerable, and intimate. Afterward (lessness) it appears to be alive & strengthless, in a way broken, empty, silent. Silent as a comfort. Silent as a pause between explosions, as a disappearance, as a lack of response. Silent as a neutrality. Silent as a responsibility. As a residue of presence. As a system where sound does not reach upwards. Disappears between levels. Distorted along the way. Losses without an addressee. Decisions without bodies. As only duration. As listening aesthetically. As listening ethically. Can we hear what lasts in between the magnitudes of the present?
Credits:
Music by Khrystyna Kirik and Yurii Boiko.
Photo by Hlib Koshmak.
Design by K&Y.
Details:
Release date: 05.03.2026
Cat.#: SONG 42
Formats: Digital