FATHM is the debut, solo album of American, New York-based flutist Laura Cocks (her X account suggests that she lives in the Occupied Native American Lenape Land). She is the executive director of the experimental TAK ensemble and a member of the contemporary Talea Ensemble.
Cocks approaches the flute with a freeform embodied curiosity and investigates and rethinks its simplest and most fragile physical qualities through the use of voice, breath, key sounds, buzzing, and intertwining of percussive mouth and flute sound while developing stacked counterpoints of different textures and extended techniques. Cocks sees FATHM as a portal that offers “a transubstantiation of self
