This album unfolds from the tension between tenderness and friction, breath and circuit, gesture and resistance. Performed and recorded live through a series of improvisational performances, The Gentle Motion of an Abrasive Touch captures the intimate dialogue between two performers, Enrique Mendoza on live electronics and Sandra Muciño on a deconstructed bassoon, engaged in a raw, responsive exploration of sound.

At the heart of the project lies a paradox: while the sonic textures lean into distortion, noise, and spectral abrasion, the act of making them was one of attentive listening and delicate interaction. Harshness was not imposed but discovered, shaped through sensitivity. This is a music of contact, where every abrasive gesture is the result of gentle motion.

Mendoza manipulates a volatile setup of Strega and Benjolin synthesisers, feeding their signals, and the live bassoon, through spectral processing tools that stretch and fragment the timbre in real time. Muciño’s bassoon, altered and extended beyond its traditional voice, becomes both source and surface: splintering air, creaking wood, shrieking metal, and sometimes, singing.

The album unfolds like a cycle of disintegration and renewal. Each track is a stage in a ritual process of sonic decomposition, where corrosion, fracture, and residue are not endpoints but transitions. They do not resolve, they pulse, scrape, shimmer, and breathe. Together, they navigate a tactile sonic terrain where chaos is not destruction but transformation.