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As the animation team came together to adapt Charlie Mackesy’s 2019 book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, the challenge for art director Mick McCain was to recreate Mackesy’s artistic style in motion. The animated short follows a boy searching for a home. Along the way, he meets three animals who are also looking for a place to belong and begin to develop a bond. While McCain hadn’t had much experience with ink lines and watercolors at the start of the project, he had Mackesy helping to guide the animation to capture his “fluid and gestural” style. By the end of the project, McCain and the animators created hundreds of backgrounds for the animation.

Art Style about his inspiration for the project, Hwang explained: “Clubs and dance floors are essential spaces for people to dance and enjoy music – that’s where my love of electronic music blossomed,” says Hwang in Art Style.“I want to evolve from these places to exhibitions or galleries where music and sound can take on a different role; where people can listen, think, and reflect on their environments, rather than react to the immediacy of spaces, such as a club.”You can listen to the ‘Signal’ EP below.A post shared by Psients (@_adaacid_)The record, which uses a completely different manufacturing method than conventional vinyl records, has the music physically etched onto it.Hwang has spoken of his desire to advance scientific research on living instruments and believes that electronic music will have a biological future – including the ability to hear expression from non-human lifeforms (per Mixmag).Hwang is now expanding his work, and continues to sample and take recordings of organisms to transform into electronic music.