KALDI MOSS
Moss is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in sense perception, time, networked systems, insect perception, tree intelligence and experiences of beings that are not human.
Moss’ (they/them) practice spans sound, film, browser-based art and bio art. They are part of a community of engineers and technologists, and are invested in exploring alternate methods of knowledge production. Their video and installation work has been shown in multiple exhibitions in Milan, Toronto, Dresden, Brighton, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Himachal and Goa.
They are a part of Cynk Collective, a noise band producing immersive audiovisual concerts. In addition, they are the artistic director at Walkin Studios,an independent multidisciplinary art studio and project space in Bangalore, India and have co-founded the collective NOTAAT with artist Puneet Jain.
Moss previously worked under the name Sultana Zana.
AKAR PRAKAR, DEFENCE COLONY
NEW DELHI
AUGUST 2023
NEW DELHI
AUGUST 2023
FRAME OF REFERENCE
The sound wave and its absorptions, reflections, refractions and shadows produces a sonic image of the listener's surroundings.
Consider three Scenarios-
Scenario 1: You are passing through a forest in a vehicle. You have fleating sense(s) of all the beings you are passing through. The glass box that packs you in is one of many units.
Scenario 2: You are an insect in a forest. There is a path cutting through the forest. Every once in a while, and sometimes more often, a loud, fast moving object beaming light at night and can be heard from a distance, passes through. Each instance of this has a distinct beginning and end in the sound field. It cuts out everything at its peak.
Scenario 3: You are an insect on/in a vehicle on the road and your kin are in the forest - sounding. You can hear their collective din but none of them can be heard distinctly. You make a call. But in the time that they hear you, you will be gone.
We hear not just the sound but also the room, the resonant frequency of the room, the time it takes for sound to be absorbed, it's echo and reverb, distances and disturbances - connecting the physical space to the psychoacoustic experience of the room.
Frame of Reference consists of a speaker, pendulum and apparatus, a composition and two images. The two images are studies of sound waves - one of the room where the work was installed and one of the woods and a crustatean.
MOIST
MOIST is an instruction based interactive sound installation which is an invitation into a space that may be a dry installation or a performance moist with people. The work is an exploration of intimacy -- of the relationality between bodies, metal and sound where the tensile quality of these relations creates the texture of the experience.
The work as a response to the question: Where is the body? Who is the performer?
WETSPACE NOISE DRIPS 1.0
WETSPACE NOISE DRIPS is a live immersive event that explores spatiality and synthesis in sound and video. Wetspace is an invocation to produce an intimate acoustic chamber where sounds, thoughts, ideas and instruments can float up and lie beside us - it is an immersive audio-visual dome created in order to foster a new ethic of listening, engaging and composing in a sound-field.
This series started as a noise event that expanded to include field recording concerts, installations, DJ sets and lasers. The intention is not just to create noise but to find periods of intense silence, moments of complete surrender to sound, and conditions for artistic collaboration.