{"id":599941,"date":"2026-11-06T20:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=599941"},"modified":"2026-11-06T21:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:25:48","slug":"music-like-air-how-the-hazy-flora-project-turned-breath-and-co-into-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/music-like-air-how-the-hazy-flora-project-turned-breath-and-co-into-art","title":{"rendered":"Music Like Air. How the Hazy Flora Project Turned Breath and CO\u2082 Into Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belarusian sound artists Mufer<\/b> and Ilya Semashkevich<\/b>, who founded the Hazy Flora project in Poland, have released their debut album, \u201cCO\u2082 in Stasis\u201d. The release features 15 electronic compositions created in the science art genre, with the physical and chemical properties of carbon dioxide serving as sound parameters.<\/p>\n

Hazy Flora works at the intersection of electronic music, performance, installations and sensory systems. For their new album, the artists used scientific data on CO\u2082 to create synthesiser and MIDI structures: the timbre, frequency and duration of sounds are determined by the gas’s physical properties. The conceptual foundation of the work is the relationship between human breathing and photosynthesis in plants. The music’s rhythm refers to the rate at which humans release carbon dioxide and plants process it.<\/p>\n

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Sound artists Mufer and Ilya Semashkevich.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Music That \u201cBreathes\u201d With the Audience<\/h3>\n

A distinctive feature of the project is its connection to a live audiovisual system. During performances, the CO\u2082 concentration in the space is measured using a specially built DIY sensor and converted into sound in real time through Ableton and synthesizers. As a result, the music is literally drawn from the air and \u201cbreathes\u201d together with the people in the room.<\/p>\n

The track titles refer to specific scientific terms, ranging from \u201cMolecular Weight\u201d and \u201cPressure\u201d to \u201cBoiling\u201d and \u201cSolubility\u201d. Each composition is a beautiful, atmospheric ambient soundscape.<\/p>\n

The music of \u201cCO\u2082 in Stasis\u201d stands out for its meditative quality and subtle beauty. It is a journey that helps synchronise the mind and body and, in a sense, become part of a shared space of elements and particles. At the same time, listening to the release raises a natural question: who is the principal creator of these soundscapes \u2013 the artists, carbon dioxide or technology? Or all of them together? And what should we call what we hear?<\/p>\n

As an artistic statement, \u201cCO\u2082 in Stasis\u201d looks firmly to the future. Breath as music? Or music as ether?<\/p>\n

You can listen to \u201cCO\u2082 in Stasis\u201d here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belarusian sound artists Mufer and Ilya Semashkevich, who founded the Hazy Flora project in Poland, have released their debut album, \u201cCO\u2082 in Stasis\u201d. The release features 15 electronic compositions created in the science art genre, with the physical and chemical properties of carbon dioxide serving as sound parameters. Hazy Flora works at the intersection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":599943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6aee1baf5a30a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Music Like Air. How the Hazy Flora Project Turned Breath and CO\u2082 Into Art"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599944,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599941\/revisions\/599944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}