'Lost Souls of Saturn are Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa, with further opaque participants. They congregate to combine music, new technologies and storytelling into an inextricably linked whole.
Challenging the convention of ‘format’ in every sense, LSOS transmit and engage via the mediums, to date, of vinyl record, digital formats, art installation, artefact, augmented reality, 360 video and live performance.
Through LSOS, Troxler, Moffa et al. explore new ways to open doors of perception and challenge the ways we see our world, whilst marrying the ideals and psychedelic energy of science fiction and early rave culture, with postmodern philosophy and contemporary art.
LSOS have performed in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Foundation Beyeler in Basel and at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Site-specific performances include collaborations with contemporary installation artists Olafur Eliasson and Ernesto Neto.
In February 2024, LSOS return to London with the show ‘Reality’ at W1 Curates, presenting an augmented reality comic book publication, companion AR app, both showcased within an immersive art gallery experience.
Partnering with comic book artist and AR pioneer Rob Shields, and Abstract Comic’s co-founder Mike Bundlie, the Lost Souls of Saturn comic books are a genuinely new type of totally immersive artwork, with comic pages that can be enjoyed with the naked eye or enhanced through AR to create a new type of synesthesia. Every page and panel, when viewed through the LSOS app, comes to life in animated 3D.
Moreover the LSOS soundtrack is synched perfectly to the comic book in augmented reality, with the music fully integrated, looping and layering as the reader follows the panels of the comic book itself. A soundtrack that evolves as the comic book is read is the first of its kind, opening up exciting new possibilities and collaborations in the soundtrack space, while giving the reader both a unique experience and a heightened emotional connection to the story itself. The goal being to merge art and music like never before.
The month long exhibit will coincide with the release of the new accompanying Lost Souls of Saturn album ‘Reality’ available in vinyl and digital formats.'
