Costis Drygianakis, Yiorgis Sakellariou Left: Yiorgis. Right: Costis The following is a conversation between electroacoustic music composers Costis Drygianakis and Yiorgis Sakellariou, both originating from Greece. Besides their compositional activities, Costis has been researching on and collecting folk music from Russia and other former Soviet republics while Yiorgis has done field work exploring music from Lithuania. His recordings are now part of the World and Traditional music archive of th…
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Robert Millis
Robert Millis is a musician, researcher and sound artist from Seattle, USA. A founding member of Climax Golden Twins and a frequent contributor to the Sublime Frequencies label, he has composed for long and short films, created sound installations, produced and designed audio projects, and released many LPs and CDs. He is the co-author of the book Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days and scored the cult horror film Session Nine. During 2012 and 2013 he was a Senior Fulbri…
Baul
If someone asks what are they are singing about, reply, what is you are listening about? What are you looking at?–Ruchir Joshi in Eleven Miles In this journey, the word baul has been one of the most difficult to understand and interpret. There are countless works and initiatives on the bauls—religious studies, ethnomusicological and anthropological research, travelogues, collections of poetry, films, recordings, sleeve notes, websites, performances on YouTube, blogs, debates and discussions, NGO…
In Bangla
দ্য ট্র্যাভেলিং আর্কাইভ: শ্রবণ, স্মৃতি আর সময়ের গল্প
মৌসুমী ভৌমিক
২০০১ সালের ফেব্রুয়ারি মাসে ঢাকায়, একুশে টেলিভিশনের স্টুডিওতে ফরাসি পরিচালক স্তেফান জুরদাঁ (Stefane Jourdain) সঙ্গীত সংগ্রাহক ও পরিব্রাজক দেবেন ভট্টাচার্যকে (১৯২১-২০০১) নিয়ে তাঁর ফিল্ম, Music According to Deben Bhattacharya-র জন্য শুটিং করছিলেন। সেদিন ঐ টেলিভিশনে দেবেনবাবুর সাক্ষাৎকার অনুষ্ঠানের শুটিং ছিল।১ সাক্ষাৎকার নেবেন অভিনেতা আল…
Introduction
‘Every passion borders on the chaotic but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.’ –Walter Benjamin, ‘Unpacking my Library’, in Harry Zohn transl. Illuminations, edited with an Introduction by Hannah Arendt. (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), p.60. My first encounter with Arnold Bake’s Bengal recordings was at the British Library in 2004. It took years for this encounter to start becoming a ‘collector’s passion’. I kept meeting him on the road, as he was part of the road that I…