'Named lover but not lover' made a fire. is a track by Fire is Scary from our debut album. Fire is Scary, is a collective from artists Sol Enae Lee and Gordon H. Williams and musicians Agustin Faundez Rojas and Ariel Sin Yu Lee.

This track was developed as part of our thinking through translation as a survival tactic, as a generative method and as a hybridizing process. 'Named lover but not lover' made a fire. comes from the album Fire is Scary, which was created through a series of translations from text to sounds to image.

Translation brings two separate languages/disciplines into relation with one another. Fire is Scary is particularly interested in the in-between spaces of these relations– the traces, the noise, the leftovers, the gaps, the silences. Which qualities travel across the distance of translation and which qualities remain behind? Fire is Scary seeks to follow what accumulates during our translations from text to sound to image to performance to video, recognizing that in translation there is space for opacity, unknowing, ambiguity and discomfort. Translation is a movement, a process, a cycle.

We welcome you to download the track 'Named lover but not lover' made a fire. as a way to take part of the a.k.a. MAMA show home with you.