Colorless Green Ideas is out ❀˖°⋆˚
Here are a few more songs for you from the Green universe. Made evolving, open-eared, and with love from places we’ve been and places we mean to go. More music and stories to come.
Written and produced by Qi Ming and Slowread
Violin by @yeetlicia
Cello by @lucifer_mcknight
Guitars by @stevenrockwell1
Mixed by Slowread and @petrinjason
Mastered by @petrinjason
Artwork by Slowread
a few of my favourite shots from the she is gentle music video for @qimingmusic feat. @nan_macmillan
directed, shot, edited by me
thank you @irou.world for helping us shoot in cold spring!
check it out on youtubeee
Like Mercury is out everywhere today!
@slowread and I started writing and producing this song in the dead of NYC’s 2023 winter. The original demo was called “Icelandic light deprivation” which led to a song about calling in the light and one’s energy in times of depletion.
Huge thanks to our collaborator @lexivollero who wrote the luscious string arrangement and played viola.
Additional heaps of gratitude to
@yeetlicia on 1st violin
@timothy.tuxedo on 2nd violin
@willpittock on cello
The 🐐 @petrinjason on the mix and master
Cover art by @slowread 🔥
The two of us have been working on music together for over a year, exploring new effects, timbres, and throwing anything we can at Ableton to see what sticks. ‘Green’ took shape last March as we applied our findings: field recordings of the wind and city, textured microsounds, recursive warping and resampling, and callbacks to our shared but distinct Chinese heritage.
Lyrically, Green is about reconnecting with nature and a yearning desire to wander and to explore again when life has you stagnating in the city.
Yet Green’s also a reflection of our journeys with music, wandering through new soundscapes, soaking in everything we can, embracing the unknown. The hardest journey we’ve embarked on this year was finding ourselves musically—only made possible through countless hours together in the studio and everyone we’ve had the pleasure of working with and learning from.
From us to you with love, we hope you enjoy Green. Out now 🌱
Cover art by @pppanik
Written by Qi Ming, Slowread
Produced and mixed by Qi Ming, Slowread
Mastered by @zinomikoreymastering
