Isolation can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, you might discover certain facets of your personality that had remained embedded in the inner recesses of your mind. But on the other, a creeping sense of loneliness can gnaw you up from inside like a worm that's biting through an apple. Abhi Meer is a musician who felt the force of this duality during the lockdown. He was reading the Collected Works 12 by the Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung, when a passage struck him. "It talked about how being alone might be your biggest test, and the part of your psyche that comes out might be the most formidable one," Meer tells us.

These are the sort of ruminations that led to Isoxia, a musical project for which the Mumbaikar conjoined two words – hypoxia, which is a medical term for a suffocating feeling, and isolation. Meer has taken up a residency at Method Art Gallery at Kala Ghoda, and the idea is to create 20 hours of music spread over five days while cutting himself off from the rest of the world. In a sense, he's shifted his bedroom to the gallery and fitted a camera there to create a Truman Show-like experience for viewers, since he is live streaming his creative process from 4 pm to 8 pm for the rest of this week.