Hwapo.
Wil Bolton
Wil Bolton's SITE release is Hwapo, a work in four parts, based around field recordings from the place of the same name, a tiny fishing port in South Korea. These environmental sounds were processed and combined with electronic tones during a residency at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Hwapo is a small coastal village that developed around a traditional fishing port in the Jeolla Province on South Korea’s southwestern edge. The village is part of a protected ecological region linked to Suncheon Bay Nature Reserve, known for its tidal mudflats and wetland ecosystem. It is home to migratory birds and diverse marine flora and fauna including seaweed, shellfish and octopus, and its ecological characteristics are now attracting ecotourism as well as sustained fishing activities.









