Call of the
Naxos moon
Immersive sound installation (Greece, 2018). You sit in a room of found and created totems, and sensations from just beyond its walls and windows. A voice calls to the seven cosmic sounds that hold all the key frequencies of our inner and outer nature. Listening invites a unique process by which one can experience the absolute unstruck sound, which we understand as silence.
Call of the Naxos Moon is an immersive sound meditation and ceremonial space, created in collaboration with musician, composer, vocalist Prassanna Vishwanathan. Recordings were made in the early mornings at the Bazeos Tower, a former monastery on the island of Naxos, Greece. Created at the time of day when air moving through the space is most perceptible. Also the time of birds.
The meditation cycles the seven notes of the Indian music scale–Sa, Re , Ga , Ma , Pa , Dha , Ni– the sonic structure of each of the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether) merging into one other. Meditated upon by many sages and wisdom mothers, listening invites a unique process by which one can experience the absolute “unstruck sound,” which we understand as "silence."
