Vermilion

Chromesthesia, or sound-to-color synesthesia, is a condition in which sound involuntarily evokes experiences of color, shape, or movement. Releases in this series are artifacts of remote, improvised performances over the internet by members of the Exposure Therapy collective.

For this album, four members of the Exposure Therapy collective improvised together remotely, each responding to the color vermilion. Long associated with life, power, passion, and ritual, vermilion has carried different meanings across cultures for thousands of years.

Info

Formats

Digital & Cassette

Release date

September 4, 2026

Recorded on

October 4, 2025

Catalog #

CHX003

Credits

Production

Ben Domanico-Huh & Samuel N. Ortiz

Design & Duplication

Performed By

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Darren Russel

ululo

Montréal, Canada

Montréal’s ululo (Darren Russel) builds both digital and physical instruments to explore the fluid boundaries between rhythm and texture. Each recording is an individual performance, existing as the singular remnant of a lived moment imbued with focus, attention, and flow.

Photo of Alexandre Klinke playing guitar

Samuel N. Ortiz

Pericopae

Lebanon, PA, USA

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Simon Bridgestock

Ashford, Kent, UK

Simon Bridgestock is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist from Canterbury, United Kingdom. He has worked in a wide variety of musical contexts that encompass Jazz, Psyche-Rock, Electronica and more, usually with a focus on using improvisation to generate ideas. Recent years have seen Simon explore the aesthetics of hauntology and retrofuturism, both sonically and visually and how past memories skew and inform our present.

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Théa Martine-Gauthier

Light Time Delay

Seattle, WA, USA

Seattle-based Light Time Delay (Théa-Martine Gauthier) is a performing sound artist that regularly creates ambient and microsound works using field recordings, granular synthesis, and custom-built software.