SpectroDuo started to work in 2013 in a field of electroacoustic experimental art. Ensemble consists of two composer-improvisers, Martyna Kosecka & Idin Samimi Mofakham, who use their classical musical training in working on avant-garde and experimental sound projects, combining the experience in sound coming from orient and occident. Their music focus lies in drone, noise, beating phenomena, glitch, field recording transformation, microtonality and oriental modalities in particular. Except electronics, they use piano, saxophone as well as Iranian and Polish traditional instruments. Self-made visuals, some of them controlled live, have base in glitch art, distortion and binary operations.
Stowaway belongs to a new series of electro-acoustic works, inspired by the new country of residence for the group, Norway. Music uses filtered and transformed recordings made in Oslo (human laughter, speech, brass instruments sounds), mixed altogether with several chosen equal TET arrangements – 12, 17 and 19. Made during the dark time of international lockdown, Stowaway somehow resembles stagnation, limbo and out-of-this-world atmosphere.