Lucia H Chung (AKA: en creux) is a London based Taiwanese artist who works in the worlds of no input and feedback. I found her lecture to be extremely relatable, she spoke about the development and backstory of her artistic practice and how she came into No-Input. She talked about how she struggled to find anything that truly spoke to her and was interesting as an artist for a while, not being able to play an instrument also compounded this. As the solution to this problem she talked about how she discovered no-input, a technique where you plug the outputs of a mixer into the inputs and manipulate the sounds of the feedback with the volume and eq, this can create a whole range of sounds and can be extended even further by putting more outputs into inputs, adding pedals or even other mixers doing no-input. What struck me was how similar my own development of my artistic practice was, for all of first year I struggled to figure out what my practice actually was and it was only at the start of this year that I was introduced to no-input and I instantly knew I had found something I wanted to heavily incorporate into my artistic practice.
There is a slowness and subtlety to Lucias work, the track AUX1(U) exemplifies this really well I feel I have found that her released no-input work is a lot slower and softer in pace and it’s clear she has a lot more control over the technique, something I’m still in the process of trying to figure out myself. I attempted something a bit more subtle inspired by Lowercase and Sachiko M and I feel it takes both these influences quite well
https://dinas.bandcamp.com/track/low-input