The shemza.digital soundscape was commissioned specially for this exhibition and was created by NYX & Petit Oiseau. The work fuses traditional South Asian instruments (Petit Oiseau) with drone & ambient electronic sounds (NYX). The work creates an immersive experience for the viewer as they move around and interact with the shemza.digital exhibition highlighting the coming together of old and new, traditional and digital. 

About NYX

NYX is a collaborative drone choir and otherworldly electric chorus, re-embodying live electronics and extended vocal techniques. Using organic and modulated collective voice, they create ecstatic sonic landscapes, punctuated with acoustic glitching, polyphonic overtone and electric textures. 

NYX have worked with and been commissioned by Gazelle Twin, Vessel & Rakhi Singh, Holy Other & Pedro Maia, Hatis Noit, Sigur Rós, Laura Misch, LCY, Belinda Zhawi, Do.Om Yoga, Dan Tobin Smith, Nick Cobby, Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlan, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Deeper Into Movies, Arts Council England, PRS Foundation, Southbank Centre, Centre Pompidou, Rewire Festival, Supersonic Festival, London Design Festival, Alighieri (London Fashion Week, QEII Design Award) and many more. 

About Petit Oiseau:

Indian Classical player Jatinder Singh Durhailay's graceful mastery of the three hundred year old dilruba breaks new ground in contemporary music with the aid of experimental musician Suren Seneviratne's ambient synthesiser etudes performed with the rare EMU XL-7 workstation. Custom programmed sound-patches dance in curious rhythms alongside Singh's deeply evocative sitar-like wails that hark back to Northern India of many centuries ago.