Asha Sheshadri’s work involves investigative narration of observational occurrences, seeming ordinary in content at times, while deeply puzzling. Where there is context to be found, the listener may find themselves transported to someplace familiar for a moment before being dissected again, reanalyzed and exported into the continuation of an unsettling environment.
With “Interior Monologues” we find ourselves being escorted by Sheshadri’s voice into a room in a museum, hidden from its observers. Our surroundings are being described to us by a nauseous announcement, consistently interjected by it’s own thought-loops that shift in fidelity to adjust the contrast of what is being conveyed and what is yet to understand about where we are. However disorienting, it is clear that there is a depth of information to consume in this place. Memories of an old radio tune emerge and dissipate while we sift through a collage of explanations and recounts of something cryptic but also vivid. There is an intoxicating cipher falling out of the reach of our awareness, as we conclude our visit with a sudden resolve.
Sheshadri is a NYC based artist with various releases via Anomia, Recital Program, Stellage, and more.
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released March 4, 2022
Assembled, Performed and Recorded by Asha Sheshadri, 2021
Mastered by Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets, August 2021
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My humanities professor showed me this piece and i cannot stop coming back to it. Something deep and alluring of this piece keeps me wanting more. Absolutely one of my favorite cuts from last year. Ra!