Exhibition view: Décalage A3 art contemporain, Valence, 2021, © Phoebé Meyer

A conversation between Charlotte Moth and Mo Laudi (Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape)

We got up at dawn, when the birds began to sing. Mo’s field recordings blend the bird song within the garden, a local ecology, its echos, proximities and distanced murmurings of bird communication, linguistically complex and musical as any score enable sound to become a material, where non-music elements mix with low frequencies and the sounds of waves of birds migrating. I photographed the garden as the light appeared. In the exhibition space in Valence a multilayered composed sound scape fills the space, its silences as rich as the bird song that appears and fades in and out. The walls have a displaced visual score, a line zig zags and divides the space in layers and colour, a series of selected photographs of the garden, its details, at a glance float like a sound score. A delayed experience of another space slowly unfolds in this space. 

Charlotte Moth Décalage installation layers of different coloured acrylic paint, black and white photographs various dimensions, 2020

Mo Laudi What did Chris Hani say to John Cage, 2020 sound