Lucia Chung is an experimental sound and sculpture artist based in London. In her sound works, Chung has a fascination with noise and feedback generated by analogue equipment. One of her mediums of improvisation is no input mixing. This technique consists of using a mixing desk as an instrument, by connecting the output to an input of it and creating a feedback loop. This loop is then is modulated and altered to create a performance.

Above is a video showing Chung doing no-input mixing. For this improvisation Chung uses two mixing desks and then process the output through different pedal effects. The sound design Chung is able to create with this limited amount of gear is insane, the sound sources are so simple but the final outcome are powerful electronic drones and textures.

Havin a visiting Lecture with Lucia Chung was very interesting. I had heard in the past about no-input mixing but I never met anyone that actually does it. Noise music and experimentation has been a growing interest of mine. I have looked into artist such as Merzbow but I had never seen more contemporary artists.