কথায় আছে গাইতে গিয়ে উনি তালিম, বিদ্যা বা জ্ঞান জাহির করার থেকেও তা কতটা প্রাণকে স্পর্শ করছে সে দিকেই নজর দিতেন। ভীমসেন গুরুরাজ জোশীর কন্ঠে :

হৃদয়বাসনা পূর্ণ হল আজি মম পূর্ণ হল, শুন সবে জগতজনে ॥
কী হেরিনু শোভা, নিখিলভুবননাথ 
চিত্ত-মাঝে বসি স্থির আসনে ॥


Pt. Bhimsen Joshi - Hridayobasona Purno Holo (Rabindrasangeet)

Interview with A.Sivanandan by Avery Gordon for the 2013 Historical Materialism conference

Interview with A.Sivanandan by Avery Gordon

A mixed tape of Sounds of India in different films. The tracks are: 

1. K. V. Narayanaswamy, V. K. Narayana Menon and Palghat R. Raghu in Koodal (1970), Tyeb Mehta. 

2. Bits of Indian music in Ron Rice's Senseless (1962). 

3. Pahadi Dhun by Shivkumar Sharma on santoor, Kasinath Mishra on tabla in Claudio Caldini's Vadi-Samvadi (1981). 

4. The electronic soundtrack is by Vijay Raghav Rao in Pramod Pati's Trip (1970)

5. Ustad Salamat Ali Khan in The Music Room (1958) by Satyajit Ray

6. Hari Prasad Chaurasia flute in Twilight (1982) by Govindan Aravindan. 

7. Ravi Shankar in Norman McLaren's A Chairy Tale (1957)

8. Subol Das, Baul singer in Eleven Miles (1991) by Ruchir Joshi

9. Music (and dance) of the Siddi ethnic group, a tribe whose history in the subcontinent dates back to the 16th-century migration of South East African slaves under Portuguese colonialism, in Velu Viswanadhan's Ether (2002). 

10. Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Rudra Veena recital in Mani Kaul's Dhrupad (1983).

11. The electronic soundtrack is by Vijay Raghav Rao in Pramod Pati's Claxplosion (1967).

Sublime and other variations

All sounds recorded in Marrakesh, Morocco, October 16th - 20th 2017

Sounds of Marrakesh

The General Election of June 2017, and the massive Labour surge under Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership, has provided a new sense of optimism for those hoping for an end to utilitarian approaches to culture and swingeing cuts to arts funding. This month, Juliet talks to Loraine Leeson, Hassan Mahamdallie and Hilary Wainwright about the concept of cultural democracy, the recent The World Transformed conference and the Arts for Labour initiative. What are Jeremy Corbyn's arts policies, and how are they informed by the anti-austerity movement? What has been learned from the Greater London Council's arts programmes of the 1980s, or the Attlee government's cultural policies? How did writers and thinkers such as William Morris, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams establish a long British tradition of 'cultural democracy', and what can we take from them in the 21st century?

WORKS REFERENCED:

Campaign to save The Cinema Museum: www.cinemamuseum.org.uk

'A Creative Future for All' - https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/news/a-creative-future-for-all
The Great Exhibition of the North - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43324069

The Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company - http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/gay-sweatshop/
LORAINE LEESON, Art : Process : Change (2017) - https://www.routledge.com/Art--Process--Change-Inside-a-Socially-Situated-Practice/Leeson/p/book/9781138670631
KEN LOACH, The Spirit of '45 (2017) - http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-spirit-45
HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE on William Morris - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1996/isj2-071/mahamdallie.htm
WILLIAM MORRIS, News from Nowhere (1890) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/may/17/guardian190-william-morris-news-from-nowhere
HILARY WAINWRIGHT, A New Politics from the Left (2017) - https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/persuasive-points-on-new-politics-from-the-left

Cultural Democracy

One of the more intriguing - and most Lacanian - slogans that appeared in Paris in May 1968 declared 'Il est interdit d'interdire' - 'It is forbidden to forbid'. In this follow-up to our recent Resonance 104.4fm show about the insurrections, Juliet Jacques talks to curator/writer Paul Clinton about his 'Forbidden to Forbid' exhibition, how May '68 launched a decade of queer radicalism, the tensions within its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elements, and its eventual collapse amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis and the decline of the wider French left.

SELECTED REFERENCES

MICHEL FOUCAULT, History of Sexuality vols. I-IV (1976-84)
GUY HOCQUENGHEM, Homosexual Desire (1972) - https://libcom.org/files/Hocquenghem%20-%20Homosexual%20Desire.pdf
Ixe (dir. Lionel Soukaz, 1980) - http://ubu.com/film/soukaz_ixe.html
PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI, La Monnaie vivante (1970) - https://frieze.com/article/illicit-trade
Race d'Ep (dir. Lionel Soukaz & Guy Hocquenghem, 1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvcrubBS5g

Oreet Ashery - 'Party for Freedom' (performance/film) - https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/oreet-ashery_s-party-for-freedom
Djuna Barnes
Roland Barthes
Georges Bataille
André Baudry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Baudry
Bazooka (punk graphic design group) - http://www.bazookadesign.com/en/
JULIAN BOURG, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2007) - https://networks.h-net.org/node/6873/reviews/7477/swoboda-bourg-revolution-ethics-may-1968-and-contemporary-french-thought
CLAUDE CAHUN, Disavowals (1930) - http://quarterlyconversation.com/claude-cahun-disavowals
RENAUD CAMUS, The Great Replacement (2008) - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12604/renaud-camus-interview
RENAUS CAMUS, Tricks: 25 Encounters (1979) - https://frieze.com/article/tricks
Jean Cocteau
Colette
Beth Collar
COPI, Eva Perón - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/music-and-performance/2012/04/parodying-eva-per%C3%B3n
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
Guillaume Dustan - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460715569138
Tony Duvert - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=37
Front for Revolutionary Homosexual Action (FHAR) - http://www.notbored.org/caress-yourself.html
Jean Genet - http://ubu.com/film/genet.html
Genet parle d'Angela Davis (dir. Carole Roussopoulos, 1970)
ANDRÉ GIDE, Corydon (1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydon_(book)
Michel Houellebecq
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU, De l'abjection (1939) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Jouhandeau
Jacques Lacan
JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD, Libidinal Economy (1974) - https://monoskop.org/images/c/c4/Lyotard_Jean-Francois_Libidinal_Economy.pdf
Herbert Marcuse
Pierre Molinier - http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8019/the-forbidden-photo-collages-of-pierre-molinier
Panic movement: Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Roland Topor
Marcel Proust
Wilhelm Reich
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, A Sentimental Novel (2007) - http://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2014/4/29/alain-robbe-grillets-a-sentimental-novel
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, Le voyeur (1955) - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2819/alain-robbe-grillet-the-art-of-fiction-no-91-alain-robbe-grillet
Giles Round
RENÉ SCHÉRER, Émile perverti (1974) - http://www.ina.fr/video/I14036845
Gertrude Stein
Surrealist authors:  André Breton, René Crevel, Benjamin Péret, Jacques Prévert, Raymond Queneau

Suite (212) Extra

EXTRA: It is Forbidden to Forbid: The liberation of desire in France after May 1968

Despite decades of censorship and neglect, Peter Watkins (http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/) has created a body of work that marks him out as one of the UK’s greatest filmmakers. Born in Surrey in 1935, Watkins began his career pioneering the ‘docu-drama’ in two works for the BBC: historical drama Culloden (1964) about the final battle in the Jacobite rebellion, and The War Game (1965), speculating about a nuclear attack on the UK. The BBC refused to broadcast the latter, and after his feature film Privilege (1968) had a poor commercial and critical reception, Watkins spent the rest of his career in exile.

In his theoretical writing, teaching and filmmaking, Watkins has challenged the ‘monoform’ – a standardisation of Mass Audio-Visual Media that barrages its audience with a rapid flow of changing images and sounds, with the intention of preventing any real contemplation. Joining Juliet to discuss Watkins' work is Gareth Evans, former editor of Vertigo magazine and adjunct Moving Image Curator at Whitechapel Gallery.

Watkins on the monoform and the global media crisis: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/library/documents/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-the-global-media-crisis/

SELECTED REFERENCES

FILMS BY PETER WATKINS
The Forgotten Faces (1960) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-forgotten-faces-1961-online
Culloden (1964) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkxW-nB0nNU
The War Game (1965) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy7nt/the-war-game
Privilege (1966) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-privilege-1967-online
The Gladiators (1969) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-gladiators
Punishment Park (1971) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/08/4
Edvard Munch (1974) - https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/art-of-the-real-edvard-munch-by-peter-watkins/
The Journey (1987) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsYLt9bSRbw
The Freethinker (1992-94) - http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2012/01/freethinker.html
La Commune (2000) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1S18jsyyw

WILLIAM BLAKE, ‘Jerusalem’
Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
BERTOLT BRECHT, The Days of the Commune (1955) - http://daysofthecommune.com/pages/play.html
A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
GUY DEBORD, ATTILA KOTÁNYI & RAOUL VANEIGEM, ‘Thesis on the Paris Commune’ (1962) – http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Pariscommune.htm
End of Days (dir. Peter Hyams, 1999)
Future Revolutions: New Perspectives on Peter Watkins (2018) - https://wolfberlin.org/en/wolf-shop/book-new-perspective-on-peter-watkins-future-revolutions
If … (dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
It Happened Here (dir. Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo, 1965) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/it-happened-here-kevin-brownlow
Jubilee (dir. Derek Jarman, 1978)
V. I. LENIN, ‘Lessons of the Commune’ (1911) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mar/23.htm
The Living Dead (dir. Adam Curtis, 1995) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoM6-1SWl4
Manfred Mann
KARL MARX, ‘The Civil War in France’ (1871) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm
Ralph Miliband - https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/index.htm
The New Babylon (dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOhcTuFYe0
O Lucky Man! (dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
Stanisław Przybyszewski - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Przybyszewski
Role of a Lifetime (dir. Deimantas Narkevičius, 2003) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EREtDfYoM
August Strindberg
Threads (dir. Mick Jackson, 1984)
West of the Tracks (dir. Wang Bing, 2002) - https://theartsofslowcinema.com/2017/05/16/west-of-the-tracks-wang-bing-2003/
Who is America? (TV series, 2018)
ÉMILE ZOLA, La Débâcle (1892) - https://readingzola.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/la-debacle-the-downfall/

Peter Watkins: Filmmaking against the global media crisis

Around 2003, at the start of her yet-unformed music research, Bengali singer and writer Moushumi Bhowmik was randomly listening to things at the British Library’s Sound Archives. It was there she first encountered the work of Arnold Bake. The first recording she made a note of was C52/1761, a Baul song sung by Acintadasi, recorded at Joydev Kenduli in January 1932. Between the lines of that catalogue entry and beneath the unfamiliar sounds of the wax cylinder seemed to lie a whole mysterious world and she felt totally drawn to it. Over the years, Moushumi’s own research and her collaboration with audiographer Sukanta Majumdar (www.thetravellingarchive.org), have both moved in many directions to produce the most fascinating sonic maps of Bengal. Arnold Bake has been one of their fixed destinations; a place to leave from and return to. In this presentation, Moushumi will talk about these maps and also about their process of map-making, tracing contour lines from listening, to recording, to listening to recordings, to recording the act of listening. An endless exercise, where we cannot sometimes remember what was at the source of the motion: the Bake-in Bengal archives scattered in many places, or what lies beyond? 
Moushumi Bhowmik is a singer, writer and music researcher based in Kolkata, who works in India, Bangladesh and the UK. She is co-creator, with audiographer/sound artist Sukanta Majumdar, of ‘The Travelling Archive: Field Recordings and Field Notes from Bengal’ project. Moushumi is currently researching on ‘The Politics of Archiving: Arnold Bake in Bengal’. She performs, publishes and lectures in both Bangla and English. She works with artists and scholars across many disciplines. Forthcoming is her collaboration with the Welsh poet Sophie Mckeand.

The Bake-in-Bengal Archives, and Beyond

Nightcleaners and '36 to '77 - Panel Discussion(4.30pm)

In this episode, host David Giles and guest host Melinda Hinkson(Deakin University) are joined by Elizabeth Povinelli, Lorraine Lane, Linda Yarrowin, Cecelia Lewis, Sandra Yarrowin, members of the Karrabing Film Collective to talk about their films and their Country. Karrabing is a community of Indigenous Australians who make films that analyse and represent their contemporary lives, and also keep their country alive by acting on it. In the process, they seek to integrate their parents and grandparents ways of life into their contemporary struggles to educate their children, create economically sustainable cultural and environmental businesses, and support their homeland centres. The Karrabing Collective have produced and tour internationally with films such as Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams, The Jealous One, and the winner of best short film at the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival, When Dogs Talked. In addition, Povinelli is Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She’s the author of books such as Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism and Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. She has been working with Karrabing people in Northern Australia for over twenty years. For more about the Karrabing Collective, you can follow them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/Karrabing-Indigenous-Corporation-140878209304639/

Pt. Bhimsen Joshi - Hridayobasona Purno Holo (Rabindrasangeet)

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