Artist composer Isha Ram Das works with experimental sound techniques to produce installations, performances and recordings. His practice considers how sound serves as an expression of time and culture. For the opening of Promise the Earth, he will perform a new work he is developing as The Lock-Up’s Artist in Residence. Entitled When the Smoke Became a Recollection, the work re-interprets audio recordings from the collaborative archive of siblings Isha Ram Das and Sancintya Mohini Simpson. Through a series of experimental sound-processing techniques, Isha will construct a live soundscape that converses with Sancintya’s Dhūwã̄ (2020), another work in the show. Material objects and an audio recording of the original performance will remain throughout the exhibition as artifacts of the ephemeral live performance.

ABOUT ISHA RAM DAS

Isha Ram Das is a composer and artist working with experimental sound techniques to produce installations, performances and recordings. His practice considers how sound serves as an expression of time and culture. He has worked with institutions and festivals such as Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Sydney Opera House; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; MONA FOMA, Launceston; Melbourne International Jazz Festival; Brunswick Music Festival, Melbourne. His ongoing projects include his collaborative practice with sibling Sancintya Mohini Simpson, and Untitled (Death Song) with Megan Cope as musical director. His musical releases include Lithograph, Parable (2021), and A Leaf, a Flower (2019), which featured on the ABC television series Mystery Road and was nominated for a Music Victoria Award. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Lionel Gell Award for Composition.