Hekh is a sonic cultural interface in New Delhi, India. It deviates from the traditional models of the artistic collective, studio or organisation, identifying as a modulating field- where different interfaces (Ideas, people, frameworks, environments) interact and inform each other. 

Hekh derives itself from a punjabi wor(l)d, named after a popular folk singing technique. The technique involves constant modulation of the vocal cords, to produce a vibrating frequency, capable of travelling endlessly. An undying call. It’s a sound wave, which vibrates, amplifies, spirals and echoes with and through histories, contexts and epistemes which shape our world. Allowing cultural practitioners to place themselves and be mobile within these trajectories, while conjuring new ones. At the core of hekh lies the question: How to move in, through and with the world? 

In our times, interface is not a mediator, an access point or a contact media; but rather the condition. We are in a constant interfacing. A continuous act of reconfiguration of the body and the environment which produces it and vice versa. Here, hekh appears an interface field. It detects, maps, collides and amplifies (contexts, histories, media, cultures) to create modulations for accessing contemporary paradigms and conjuring new futures. 

These modulations are in shape of encounters, tools, and protocols. Frameworks, ideas, people, infrastructures and environments all collapse into one level, allowing for geometric movements. Here, there is no agent or user. Each modulation is marked by varied amplifications, diffusions, whispers, screeches, resonances and echoes taking different forms. These can be assemblages, publications, exhibitions, informal and formal coming together of poeple, lecture performances, screenings, interactive walkthroughs and conversations. The world gathers, with its modulators in these moments of intensifications- with untested theories, trajectories and frameworks- All shaping the world, and each other. 

Rahul Juneja detected hekh in 2023.