Zul Mahmod is one of the leading sound artists from Singapore whose outstanding works have drawn global attention from the contemporary arts circuit. He has exhibited at contemporary arts exhibitions in various countries including the 52nd Venice Biennale where Singapore presented a full-scale sound sculpture for the first time. Thanks to his training in sculpture, Zul’s works are marked by their unique blend of sculpture and sound landscape. With his strong interest in aural perceptions of spaces, Zul gives new meanings to specific spaces either with created sounds or existing ones. His works help raise the audience’s awareness in social, political and environmental issues.

For BAB 2024, Zul has created ONAT Of Nature and Technology: A Symphony of Coexistence, focusing on the relations between nature and technology. He has installed electronic circuits and FM radio receivers which turn signals into sounds and operate with light censors onto the logs which have been through life cycles, time and climates, habitats for various living beings with many narratives of nature. As these logs function as radios, the sounds are being transmitted through wood and bark, conveying mixed narratives of humans and nature. This combination of past and present, nature and technology as well as layered memories gives life and breath to this sound sculpture as the audience hears stories of natural solitudes and those of birth, decay and rebirth.