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Jessica Moss

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407 Saint-Pierre Street

Space 1
Montréal, Québec H2Y 2M3

Doors: 6 PM
Music: 7 PM

Tickets

Regular Price 30$
Day of the Event 35$
Fees included, taxes not included.

All ages

For accessibility information, please refer to our Plan Your Visit page.

The Montréal violinist/composer premieres her new durational works of incantatory mourning in a newly spatialized live room.

About the Concert

"Unfolding was made slowly, over the last 12 months, the second full year of escalated genocide in Palestine, in direct response to our collective witnessing, our collective grief, as a portal to collective mourning, as a searchlight through our internal weather systems, seeking one another out in the dark." – Jessica Moss

Moss’s music has been moving towards heightened fragility and deep listening, becoming increasingly durational and ceremonial. Her devotion to holding space, conjuring entanglement, and connecting with intimate live audiences through a ritualistic, reparative musical process has only intensified with recent political and personal upheavals.

“One of the most respected figures in the Montreal experimental scene.” – Le Canal Auditif

The Unfolding album, out on Constellation in October, was also mixed in a Dolby Atmos version in collaboration with PHI’s resources and facilities. As an extension of this, Jessica will present her first ever live show in spatial audio.

PHI is an accessible venue, and for this show the audience will be offered various seating arrangements to match their needs. The show will be in low lighting, masks will be offered, and we encourage attendees to avoid wearing strong scents for the evening.

About the Album

Unfolding is Jessica Moss’s most meditative and plaintive solo album. Continuing to draw from her distinctive amalgam of influences—post-classical, drone, minimalism, industrial/metal, power electronics, Klezmer and other folkways—these longform compositions are suffused with a spirit of searching and summoning, unfolding in a prevailing atmosphere of incantation, sadness, and mournful restraint. Layers of melodic and textural violin, electroacoustic processing, field recordings, occasional voice, chimes and bells, conjure devastatingly emotive requiems of ambient dynamism. The album includes guest percussion on centrepiece track “One, Now” from The Necks drummer Tony Buck. Unfolding was co-produced with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart).

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