Reverse Image is a sound artist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She builds her works using analogue and digital equipment looking for the intersection between repetitive motifs and disjointed incidences.The title is inspired by the search for moments of silence amidst the discord. Recordings from 2022-2023.

'The birth and brief existence of Mirror Tapes, a Malaysian label devoted to sonic traffickers not necessarily winking at the mainstream’s avant-garde, will be recalled by collectors with good memory and appreciation of the cassette format for music ranging from cultivated noise to post-industrial (with other equally exciting stuff in between) in the period around 2010/11. Kuala Lumpur’s Y’ng-Yin Siew, a woman endowed with a superb inner ear and seemingly limitless intellectual curiosity, presided over that enterprise.

As is frequently the case, receptive individuals who grow up immersed in sound eventually reach a point where the need to create their own acoustic synthesis is the inevitable result of a lifetime of attentive listening. As Reverse Image, Yin crossed over to the opposite side of the glass and started experimenting with numerous instruments; at first for the purpose of self-discovery, and subsequently with a more clear-cut compositional objective. Yin’s artistic preferences are eclectic, but not really a determining influence on her output, whose main characteristic is a rare-to-find unique personality. Analogue and digital equipment are put to use as an extended palette, but also to generate a fundamental (though often erratic) pulse. A prodigious timbral variety is exploited to achieve a balance among layered strata of rather unconventional sonorities, extreme constructional complexity and quasi-alien thematic cues that may even be born in pseudo-tonality, yet dissolve in harsh distortion moments later.

Semi-consonant minimalism changing to a multi-headed frequency monster, biotic emanations utterly shattered by spastic motions, oppressive achromatic structures embellished by richer harmonic components, never remaining stationary for longer than a nanosecond. And “Still Air Vibrates,” one of this debut CD’s finest tracks, features what appears as the howl of a sandblasted ghost to this writer’s ears. Reverse Image rewires your brain by disassembling norms, chasing a truth which is only revealed to souls who can let sound move through them without ego involvement. Unconcerned with “cosmic geometries” as stupid as the haircut of those who peddle them as art, ever ready to seize the infinitesimal quivering shade to transform it into something that puzzles and dazzles.' - Massimo Ricci