Josephine Michel & Mika Vainio - The Heat Equation Book+CD

Edition of 750. The Heat Equation is a 100pp book and CD set showcasing a new photographic work by Joséphine Michel alongside a live recording of Mika Vainio's final performance in the UK, featuring all new material intended for his proposed 2017 solo CD for Touch. Following their previous collaboration on Halfway to White, Michel and Vainio had been planning a second production, and in March 2017, Michel visited Vainio in Oslo to show him the first examples of the photographs she had been taking for this purpose. Included in the book, as a postcard insert, is Michel's tender portrait of Mika Vainio taken at this meeting. Shortly before Mika's untimely death in April 2017, the project took an unexpected turn. The recordings for the new album for Touch were nearing completion but his sequencer broke down and the project needed to be restarted. The collaboration turned into a complementary exploration between Michel's both quasi-scientific and lyrical photographs, a perception of a worl