The creative practice of The Hague–based writer and artist Marianna Maruyama oscillates around ideas of translation, heritage, and sensing bodies. Her work spans performance, sculpture, radio, text-based works, and sound – the last of which being the arena of her collaboration with Hessel Veldman, a musician and veteran of the Dutch musical avant-garde. Salt (2025), released as a collaborative album on cult label STROOM, brings Maruyama's poetic spoken word into the abstract realm of Veldman's soft, droning ambient soundscapes. Maruyama's diaristic and confessional yet metaphysical utterances resound above Veldman's low, darkly hued tones and bleak Lynchian textures. In their entanglement, a fricative sense of fullness and hollowness scraping against one another is brought forth – coalescing into music abundant with mystery and intrigue while remaining deeply human. "Many voices spoke through me in this album," Maruyama says of Salt. "You might even recognise one of them as yours."