Cyparissus is the moniker of musical artist Kenneth E M Moss. Moss grew up in the northeast United States where they were exposed to the beauty and musicality of nature. They began making music in 2004 and suffered through a number of painful periods of discovering how they could use music as a way to express what they could not speak. Nothing was adequate – there was always something left unsaid. 

Though not a student of music or the arts, Moss spent time studying English and the natural world (ecology, entomology) and used these academic experiences as lenses through which they could translate broader themes of temporariness, queerness, and the universality of a personal hell. Their music relies on incidental sounds, experimentation, improvisation, and ultimately recontextualization to articulate the unspoken and unrealized. 

Moss continues to learn technique while maintaining their core of improvisation and recontextualization.

Photo by Andrew Chernosky.