COMMISSIONED WORK

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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Dust, Contemporary Dance — Dancenorth

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.”

— Maxim Boon, The Music - Review: Dust (Dancenorth) Brisbane Festival @ Brisbane Powerhouse

Laila at the Bridge, Feature Documentary — Elissa Sylvia Mirzaei, dir., GULISTAN MIRZAEI, Dir.

2017

Uploaded by BELDOCS - International Documentary Film Festival Belgrade on 2018-04-17.

Sound Asleep, Short Film — Aisling Chin-Yee, dir.

2014

Short Film by Aisling Chin-Yee Soundtrack by Jessica and Nadia Moss

Score composed with Nadia Moss

We Have An Anchor, documentary-based interdisciplinary film project — Jem Cohen, dir.

2012

We Have An Anchor Part of 2013 Next Wave Festival Sep 26-28 http://BAM.org/WeHaveAnAnchor Jem Cohen Presented in association with Wordless Music With: Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Jim White (Dirty Three), T. Griffin (The Quavers), Efrim Manuel Menuck and Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion), Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt.

Jem Cohen’s newest film project is a documentary-based, interdisciplinary hybrid built from footage he gathered in Nova Scotia over the past decade, coupled with live music and texts ranging from poems and folklore to mundane local newspaper fragments to scientific research. As an artist who has explored and deplored the disappearance of regional character brought on by corporate-driven homogeneity, the discovery of Cape Breton was a revelation for Jem, who describes it as a place as beautiful as any he has ever seen throughout his travels, but one that remains elusive and deeply “itself.” April 22–23, 2012 Curator: Kathleen Forde http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/quote-unquote/we-have-anchor

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)