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Jessica Moss is a Montreal violinist who has performed and recorded with a wide spectrum of ensembles over the last two decades. Best known as a permanent member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, she was also a founding member of avant-klezmer group Black Ox Orkestar, recorded and toured with the Vic Chesnutt band for the two albums released on Constellation, and worked extensively with Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista.
Moss was featured in Jem Cohen’s Empires of Tin project, and joined members of Godspeed, Fugazi, White Magic and Dirty Three to perform the live score to Cohen’s film We Have An Anchor in various locations in Europe and the USA. She recently composed the score for the Fact Award-winning documentary Laila at the Bridge, as well as the score for Aisling Chin-Yee’s short Sound Asleep and the live score for DUST, a new production from award-winning Australian dance company Dancenorth, which she performs on stage.
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Photo by Amber Haines, 2018
Composed with Alisdair Macindoe, performed live on stage
Premiered at Brisbane Festival 2018
Presented at Sydney Festival 2019 (Carriageworks, Sydney), IMBD Theatre (Merrigong, Wollongong), 10 Days On The Island (The Don Bosco Creative Arts Centre, Tasmania), Alexander Theatre (Monash, Melbourne)
“Violinist and composer Jessica Moss delivers a musical sound-scape perfectly in-sync with the production’s artistic vision. Characterised by similarly subtle, yet mercurial shifts in its emotional tonality, the combination of real-time looping and pumping electronica follows tremulous patterns through dense washes of sound. Much like the movement it accompanies, there is great sophistication in its intention and economy, capable of both totemic, febrile fury and breathless tenderness.”
Score composed with Nadia Moss
Performed with T. Griffin, Efrim Menuck, Guy Picciotto, Sophie Trudeau & Jim White
Premiered at The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, NY). Kathleen Forde, curator
Presented at Images Festival (TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, ON, 2012), the Next Wave Festival (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, 2013), the Barbican (London, UK, 2015) and Cent Quatre (Paris, FR, 2015)