Sharp FM 024: Miho Hatori for Sharp Serif Text

"The Viriditas mixtape is a parallel path to the Viriditas project: tracks by artists I deeply admire, assembled as another way of listening. Like plants sprouting randomly through concrete, it follows the sideways, offbeat, sometimes askew logic of dreams - listening for resonances that emerge where we least expect them." - Miho Hatori

For Sharp FM 024, Sharp Type partnered with our friends at Age of Reflections to present a mix by Japanese artist, musician, and producer Miho Hatori.

Miho made a mix that acts as a companion piece to her latest body of original music. Inspired by the legendary Hildegard von Bingen and her concept of Viriditas, this music "is both a reminder and a release, a kind of play and an experiment in hearing Hildegard’s codes in another way," says Miho.

Miho Hatori, 2025

Hildegard’s Viriditas - her codes and intricate wisdom - belonged to a feminine cosmology, the vision of the cosmic egg, long obscured by systems of power that sought to silence it. For Sharp FM 024, artist and producer Miho Hatori brings those echoes forward through Reflections, crafting a sonic experiment that sits between meditation, play, and coded transmission. This is not a New Age revival, but a living dialogue - a way of decoding, re-coding, and re-imagining Hildegard’s fragments within the layered noise of contemporary sound.

Hildegard of Bingen's Viriditas is a 12th-century concept referring to the divine "greening power" or life force in all of creation, a cosmic energy that promotes health, growth, and vitality in nature, the human body, and the soul

Sharp Serif Text takes the lead in the mix’s cover and tracklist art, joined by Cordier Script and a preview of Sharp Fraktur Bold. Together, these typefaces bridge historical erudition with modern finesse. Their interplay highlights each font’s distinct qualities: the sensuous strokes of Cordier playfully abut the hard edges of Lucas’s unreleased Fraktur, while Sharp Serif Text flexes its scalability — set large, set small, and set smaller still.

Spiral Extension of Helix is a work by architect Anne Griswold Tyng, published in the 1969 Italian architectural journal Zodiac 19 as part of the broader article "Form finds Symmetry in Geometry". The work explores the application of natural growth principles, like helical forms in plants and organisms, to architectural design, proposing geometries that follow these natural laws

The mix follows no straight path; it drifts like signal through static, tracing the sideways, off-beat logic of dreams. It’s a parallel path to the Viriditas project itself - a way of listening differently, where resonance sprouts unexpectedly, like plants breaking through concrete.

Limited Cassette

This mix has been released ahead of Miho’s October concert in New York City at Age of Reflections with John Carroll Kirby. To commemorate the occasion, it seemed appropriate to materialize this mix in cassette tape form. Together with Miho and the Reflections team, we produced a small run of tapes which will be available exclusively at the event.