Lucy Railton & Alex Zhang Hungtai
British cellist and composer Lucy Railton and Taiwanese-Canadian musician Alex Zhang Hungtai (formerly Dirty Beaches) undertook the first stage of their collaboration entitled Whorls of Desire in Providenza. The duo, recognized on the international experimental scene — Railton collaborating with Kali Malone or Peter Zinovieff, Hungtai with David Lynch and solo on projects combining saxophone, improvisation, and feedback — explores the connections between energy, sound, and movement through yin-yang, qigong, and the physics of feedback.
Their residency in Providenza enabled them to develop a shared language combining music, body, and landscape, blending improvisation, breath, and cycles of natural energy. There, they began creating an open-air performance at dusk and a future album, where the dialogue between opposing forces — masculine/feminine, acoustic/electronic, control/surrender — becomes a gesture of listening and balance deeply connected to the Corsican landscape.
