Tag: Sonic and Audio Culture

Sarai x Listening Academy | Public Sessions | 9th-15th December

The Delhi chapter of the Listening Academy is anchored to the prompt of listening as writing, sonic fictioning, and rhetorical action – thinking relations between sound, voice, writing and language, and the ways in which the entanglements of these with mediatic landscapes contribute to forms of meaning-making. While writing is mostly understood as an act…
Modulating Realities | Report

Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking 14th and 15th December, 2023 Sarai-CSDS, Delhi A detailed report of the symposium is available here. The programme booklet with abstracts is available here. Concept Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking came together as the closing chapter of the existing project Capture All: A Sonic Investigation –…
Sonic hallucinations and media archaeologies

Sonic hallucinations and media archaeologies Public evening with Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP), Ravi Sundaram and Shikha Jhingan The session will discursively move through certain nodes and ideas of working with sonic materials, hybrid media, data sets and information flows that produce unexpected mediatic encounters and contingent moments. What are the archaeologies that can sense this kind…
Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking

This symposium foregrounds and critically examines the multiplicity of sites and forms of sonic practice and thought that emerge from contemporary conditions in India, South Asia and Australia. The two-day programme ‘Modulating Realities’ takes off from the existing project Capture All: A Sonic Investigation– a collaboration between Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, and Sarai, Centre for the…
Amplification and Listening Publics in Urban India

A project under TM7 – Media and the Constitution of the Political
Pirate Modernity & Hypersocial Networks: Ravi Sundaram + Tiziana Terranova: Dialogue

Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence & Speculative Computation 2020 Episode 09 Thursday, 10 December Pirate Modernity & Hypersocial Networks 5 pm CET / 9:30 pm IST / 11 am EST Dialogue: >Ravi Sundaram (CSDS, Delhi) >Tiziana Terranova (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) Chair: Ezekiel Dixon-Roman [The event will be hosted on Zoom. Please click here…
Lives of Data Workshop – Report & Recordings

The ‘Lives of Data’ workshop, 05-07 January 2017, brought together a diverse group of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to reflect upon the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge production in India and South Asia. The workshop initiated wide-ranging conversations on history of statistics, media and computational cultures, politics and practices of data-driven governance, and…
Decree and Devotion: Sacred Property on Internet

I took a murky turn between the Sunday market on Biplabi Rash Behari Bose Road and the Portuguese Church that is called the Portuguese Church Lane. Behind the white church, in the lane teeming with resting pushcarts, small shops and old shabby buildings, I found my address – 10, Portuguese Church Lane, Kolkata 700001. It was a typically dilapidated building whose façade could not be fully seen from where I stood, it overwhelmed my field of vision. There was an A3 sticker on a closed part of the door that spoke about martyrdom and I was sure that it was the front gate of Haji Kerbalai Imambara…
The Attentive Heart and Its Apparatuses – Facebook, Bluetooth, WhatsApp

Ayesha befriended me at our Arabic preliminary class. An English literature student, she caught my eye in the university corridors as not many burqa-clad girls take admission in Jadavpur University. Recently, after five-six years when I found her using WhatsApp, we started exchanging messages. Last October, I was elated to see her using panjtan pak[1]as her display picture during Muharram. I thought I’d now get to know from a university educated woman what affect binds religion to technology. No, she was not a Shia but reaffirmed that “we, who claim to be Muslims, all mourn the death of Imam Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet. But, we, the Sunnis, do it differently. We are not so… physical”…
Mourning Martyrdom on Facebook: A Cyber Imagined Community

I was watching a video post on the Facebook wall of ‘Calcutta Azadari’ where religious practitioners were beating their chests to mourn the martyrdom of Imam Husayn and uttering his name in rhythm. A religious performance captured on camera doesn’t make us wonder anymore, thanks to television and the proliferation of channels. But in this video, the position of the camera person was curious. It is undeniably difficult to capture on camera the intense frenzy of mourning, but here, the video, shot by a member of the group with a handheld camera, gave the footage a compelling authenticity raising, at the same time, the question of how far a non-ritualistic act could be accommodated within…