Magnetic Fields Nomads
MAGNETIC FIELDS NOMADS
Artists Murthovic and Thiruda lead 'Elsewhere in India', a collaborative electronica and transmedia project uniting artists, technologists, and cultural preservationists. Their multidisciplinary team merges expertise in digital art, traditional Indian performing arts, new media, and cultural studies. Using tools like game engines, motion capture, and AI, they craft vivid realms where cultural legacy meets futuristic scenarios.
Jal Jungle Zameen (Water, Forest, Land) is a 60-minute live electronica performance that excavates Indian ecological heritage through sound, moving image, and immersive digital environments. The iteration for Nomads Festival marks a distinctive convergence: the transmedia architecture of Elsewhere in India meets the living vernacular music traditions of Rajasthan's hereditary musician communities with the help of Gopika, Sawai, Jakir, Dilip, and Roshan. They represent hereditary musical lineages whose repertoire tracks seasons, agricultural cycles, and the desert's ecological rhythms. Their instruments: kamaycha, morchang, bhapang, khadtal and dholak carry generations of environmental knowledge encoded in melody and rhythm.
The performance reframes climate discourse by tracing ecological narratives from pre-colonial philosophies of interconnectedness through the ruptures of empire to contemporary grassroots resilience. Rajasthan becomes both archive and oracle – geography where water scarcity forged architectural genius, where faith manifested as conservation, and where communities developed sophisticated climate adaptation strategies that predate modern environmentalism by centuries.
