A note from the artist-
Priyesh Gothwal

A found sound rendered in the narrative of The Stranger/Outsider, a work of fiction by Albert Camus. The sound moves back and forth to read the story, forming a soundscape which unfolds the events of the story as we hear it.

The nature of Meursault, a man distant from society, becomes analogous to the sound cut off from its original order and returned in the sequence of the story. We hear what Meursault hears, in the order that he hears.

Hearing Meursault/ Priyesh Gothwal

https://soundcloud.com/kaushal-sapre

Recorded excerpts of a conference phone call to the subscribers of the project– a five minute long window of unanticipated connections. 106 people shared the conference, and the lines were populated by accidents, discoveries and coincidences that produced some overwhelming images.

Time to Talk/ Kaushal

https://soundcloud.com/suvani-suri

–[Set-1, Repetition 0]–

Alvin Lucier’s wrote his seminal composition 'I am Sitting in a Room' in 1969. This is an attempt to re-enact the work over the communication circuit of the mobile phone. Lucier’s text was modified and recorded to be heard over an automated call. Each of the calls was algorithmically recorded over the one that came before. Each repetition cloaks the words in the peculiarity of the telephonic space(s) where the call was being received and every successive act of listening contributes to the voice slowly losing its shape until it becomes a composite of all the rooms-in-the-phones that were dialed in to. 

Listen to the disintegration unfold here –[Set 12: Repetition 32]–
https://soundcloud.com/oflineout/i-am-sitting-in-a-phone-post-repetition-suvani-suri

https://soundcloud.com/suvani-suri

I am Sitting in a Phone/ Suvani Suri

https://soundcloud.com/suvani-suri

–[Set 12: Repetition 32]–

This piece contains the outcome of repeated re-recordings over the calls of the original message. 

While it took Lucier 32 re-recordings of his voice to carve out the philosophy of ‘sound as space’, here it took ten sets of 32 calls each, iterated upon one another for the utterances to finally get drowned in all that they encountered, piling on the layers rather than stripping them away. The allusions to his work are clear, but the departure is in the absurdity presented in the image, grammar and semantics of sitting in a phone, and the splitting of inner projections from outer messages that takes place as a consequence. In an investigation into the telephonic uncanny, only the calls that were heard all the way through were relayed to the next. Participation foregrounded listening, to all that is being said, to the Kafka-esque splitting of dialogue, to one’s own voice and its proxy flourishing between the two termini of network. The stutter, at the very heart of Lucier’s work, smoothens out at the end. Here, the ‘regularity of the speech’ is blurred out, as it is turned into a register of acoustic events.

To hear the original call –[Set 1, Repetition 0]–
https://soundcloud.com/oflineout/i-am-sitting-in-a-phone-suvani-suri

I am Sitting in a Phone (last call) / Suvani Suri

A note from the artists-
https://soundcloud.com/shivahuja
https://soundcloud.com/jayant-manchanda

'Songs For A Tired City' is a live/improvised sonic exploration of the nth avtaar of a city that has been a power centre in this part of the world for over 800 years. The project is an attempt to lift a few of its layers and see what they might reveal. Listen to these sounds when you're alone and on the move, while negotiating a city that is growing like an itch that you just can't scratch enough...

This piece is sonic exploration of Gurgaon, more specifically, of Golf Course Road where India’s only private metro service operates. The sound piece is meant to be heard while in transit on the Rapid Metro, with a view of the rapidly shrinking Aravalli range.
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In February 2019, The Govt. Of Haryana has made amendments to the Punjab Land Preservation Act that effectively de-notify most of 60,000 acres of Aravalli forest and open them up for real estate development. There is a citizen campaign underway. Please check #aravallibachao and visit healingourcities.org for more information. 

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https://soundcloud.com/shivahuja
https://soundcloud.com/jayant-manchanda

Songs For A Tired City/ Shiv and Jayant

Hello...
...anyone there?! ⠀⠀
Chapter 0: The Medium
https://soundcloud.com/windowness

Musings in two parts on what it would be like to hear from life forms beyond our earthly abode and how the proliferation of our communication networks could play a vital role in this.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Voyager space probes are the farthest human-made object in space. In 1977, they carried with them on board two Golden records, each contained snippets of information about our pale blue dot - songs, images, scientific information, our location in the universe and instructions on how to decode the messages on the records. This celestial message in a bottle was a romantic gesture, with the hope that it would one day be found by other non-human life forms or perhaps even human civilizations in the distant future.

What if we were to hear back from beyond the limits of our earthly abode? What cosmic songs would we hear? What new medium would the confluence of our proliferating communication networks and space probes yield? What if we’ve already heard some of these messages lurking somewhere within the spectrum of noise...could we tell if what we are hearing is 'unearthly'? The prompt for this call is a simple message hand-etched on the Golden Records which reads - ‘To the makers of music, all worlds, all times.’

For Chapter 1, 
https://soundcloud.com/oflineout/helloanyone-there-chapter-1-the-message-manav-khadkiwala

https://soundcloud.com/windowness

Hello...anyone there?! Chapter 0: The Medium / Manav Khadkiwala

Hello...
...anyone there?! ⠀⠀
Chapter 1: The Message
https://soundcloud.com/windowness

Musings in two parts on what it would be like to hear from life forms beyond our earthly abode and how the proliferation of our communication networks could play a vital role in this.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The Voyager space probes are the farthest human-made object in space. In 1977, they carried with them on board two Golden records, each contained snippets of information about our pale blue dot - songs, images, scientific information, our location in the universe and instructions on how to decode the messages on the records. This celestial message in a bottle was a romantic gesture, with the hope that it would one day be found by other non-human life forms or perhaps even human civilizations in the distant future.

What if we were to hear back from beyond the limits of our earthly abode? What cosmic songs would we hear? What new medium would the confluence of our proliferating communication networks and space probes yield? What if we’ve already heard some of these messages lurking somewhere within the spectrum of noise...could we tell if what we are hearing is 'unearthly'? The prompt for this call is a simple message hand-etched on the Golden Records which reads - ‘To the makers of music, all worlds, all times.’

For Chapter 0,
https://soundcloud.com/oflineout/hello-anyone-there-chapter-0-the-medium-manav-khadkiwala

https://soundcloud.com/windowness

Hello...anyone there?! Chapter 1: The Message / Manav Khadkiwala

–Out-of-Line–

receptator/ -ool-2.0

Sound on phone-call & immersive hemispheroid

People who had registered in the first -ool- iteration were called with a narrative piece, asking them a question about their current surroundings, the call was recorded. Everyday the different recordings of people revealing their surroundings were played into the exhibition space inside a sound shower in the shape of a hemispheroid.

receptator-in-call/ sonam

receptator-responses-1/ sonam

A virtual sound exhibition that uses the medium of the mobile phone and the act of calling to showcase sound works by artists

–out-of-line–

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