Residency at School of Music, Bangor University, North Wales: Concert at Blipfonica

The Artist in Residence programme at School of Music, Bangor University ended with a final concert at Blipfonica on 23rd September 2011, 8 PM. The residency was supported and funded by British Council and The Charles Wallace India Trust. 

Two of the recent works, 'Eye Contact with the City' (awarded with Honorary Mention at PRIX Ars Electronica 2011) and the initial track from ongoing project 'The Well Tempered City' have been performed in this concert. Both of these performance versions have been mixed at Studio 4 of Bangor University during the residency. 

ELEMENTS 2011: Phonophon Concert at Institut für Neue Medien (INM)

ELEMENTS X is a series of live performances in the domain of sound art, incorporating practices of field recording, composing and spatializing sound live on stage in a collaborative setting having particular focus on the elementary sound sources of the nature and acoustic environment. Like its previous exposition of 2008, the 2011 version of this series of performances intends to sustain collaboration and extend artistic exchange between sound artists and practitioners coming from different social and cultural landscapes, having a common fascination for critical field recording and performing with environmental sound; two soundartists, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Lasse-Marc Riek respectively from India/Denmark and Germany initiate this ongoing series.

07.09.2011
Institut für Neue Medien (INM), Schmickstraße 18, 60314 Frankfurt
Phonophon
Einlass 20:00, Beginn 20:30 - Eintritt: 5 Euro

this_location: sound installation with moving image

this_location is a sound installation with video projection; the work addresses issues of dislocation from the perspective of urban constellation; this is approached by means of environmental sounds and images retrieved from a number of city landscapes, juxtaposed over spatial interaction, disorienting memory and immediate auditory experience, where moving image projected at the installation space intends to accentuate augmented listening.

The work has been produced in the occasion of Shunyasthan, a cross media art workshop and open studio at Studio 21, CIMA (Centre for International Modern Art), Kolkata. 

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Review at The Telegraph

The well-tempered Jaaga: multi-channel installation-performance

‘The well tempered Jaaga’ is a 10 channel sound installation-performance exhibited during an audio art fellowship-residency at Jaaga, the creative common ground in Bangalore. The composition is entirely developed upon structural vibration of Jaaga as part of the urban nature of Bangalore, while its metallic modular structure has been used as an instrument occasionally tempered with human intervention. The work is part of an ongoing project 'The Well Tempered City'. 

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'audible absence' sound installation at 'In Other Words' exhibit

"audible absence" is a site-specific acoustic space, created from recordings of speech, breathing and poetry-readings of my father who passed away three years ago. The work intends to juxtapose personal with public, in an attempt to investigate auditory memory and transcendence. 

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Sguardi Sonori: audio-work featured

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Eye contact with the city: sound installation with moving image

‘Eye contact with the city’ is a sound installation with video projection, produced in the occasion of  Bengaluru Artist Residency 2010, supported by India Foundation for the Arts.

The installation is an investigation in slowness in the context of the urban environment of Bangalore, and based on gathered audiovisual experiences in the three months of residency. These experiences are largely dominated by imagery of growth in the city while auditory perception is intruded by constant sound events from urban infrastructural development within an anticipation of indolence quite typical of Bangalore. 

Slowness is an attitude that involves a keen sense of time and history; found sounds that have been retrieved from the collected used-tapes at flea market and from personal archives, provide with an insight into the auditory memory of the city and samples of sonic layer for the work; the close slow-motion video projected within the installation space has been a methodology to accentuate listening by means of audiovisual augmentation and media convergence.

The work has received an Honorary Mention in the Digital Music/Sound Art category of PRIX Ars Electronica 2011 and has been released with Touch Music as an .m4v video for iPhone/iPod/iPad. 

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Review at DECCAN HERALD

workshop in field recording and live show at Samuha

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Artist's talk and presentation at Studio 21

A comprehensive collection of works has been presented at the programme 'Artist's talk' at Studio 21, Center for International Modern Art in Kolkata. 

The featured works include eralier pieces like Passage, and series of songcycles from Elements 2008 (Windsong and Watersong), as well as newer sketches from the project in progress 'Arithmetic of Distance'. 

The evening of presentation ends with a performance of 'Landscape in Metamorphoses'.

Review at The Telegraph

The four corners: sound installation at Religare Arts Gallery

4-channel sound installation ‘The Four Corners’ define territories of a certain geometric shape, which, in its exhibition, is used as the margins of sonic space covered by shifting urban narratives through ambient sound. The site-specific installation-work has been exhibited in the ‘Nature of The City’ group show at Religare Arts Gallery, New Delhi, 16th December 2008 - 12th January 2009.

Review at Artconcerns

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Passage: sound installation

Passage is a sound installation, developed on the concept of recording and mediating resonant frequency content in an urban non-place by a Max/MSP patch as a generative device, curated by Private Flat 4.1, Florence, June, 2008, 

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San Lorenzo: sound installation at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence

San Lorenzo is a collaborative inter-media project with Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, for installation with still images and sound composition. The Project is about the personalized ways to intervene, mediate and represent the busiest urban area ‘San Lorenzo’ in downtown Florence, which holds a rich multilayered audiovisual ambience. The images have been looped on a number of video‐screens, and the sound composition reproduces the essential locative atmosphere in a multi‐speaker set up within the installation space. 


The installation was held for a month at Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, May 2008. 


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live concert and vinyl release of 'on the move' at Club Transmediale, Berlin 2006

Live concert of 'on the move' at Club Transmediale 2006
Pressed on vinyl directly from the concert and released on 33.99 records/M12 Berlin

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