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The concept behind the joint-venture consisting of d.b.h and the two turntable wizards Chrisfader and Testa is quite simple: Take a specific genre of music, sample and flip it into danceable beats. 

In the case of their second EP "Dabkeh", named after a popular Mediterranean form of line-dancing, the subject of the musical explorations is the Arab world. The three guys from RLS spent quite some time mining old vinyl or cassettes to create the tracks on this EP, in the hopes of getting some wild Dabkeh moves started on dancefloors worldwide!

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This is a 66 minute audio essay on The Travelling Archive, an archive of field recordings from Bengal, written and presented by singer and writer Moushumi Bhowmik. The essay was written for presentation on Baba Betar, an internet radio, that partnered Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography 2021 and was hosted by Arfun Ahmed. The theme of the festival was Shunyo, which could mean both zero, emptiness or the point from which to start all over again.

In this essay, Moushumi remembers people and places by listening to voices from past and continuing journeys within and around Bengal. Bengal is both a physical space and a space of the mind in this story. Wistfully told, it draws the listener into a very personal field of listening by weaving song with sound and sound with silence. Moushumi sits in her room in Kolkata, and as she talks, recording herself, the night moves towards dawn. Dogs bark, the last trains pass through the station, a plane goes swimming in the sky, people call out, they open and shut doors and windows, while slowly in the dark a map unfurls.

This soundtrack has been mixed by Sabyasachi Pal. 

The voices we hear come in the following sequence:
1. Chobi MelaX team, hawa mithai sellers and others at the Dhanmondi Lake tea stall area. Recorded by Moushumi Bhowmik on a Redmi phone in February 2019
2. Aseer Arman’s song playing through speakers during The Travelling Archive installation at  Abdur Razzaq Biddapeeth, Dhanmondi. Recorded by Moushumi Bhowmik on a Redmi phone in February 2019
3.Barindra Das recorded at Shankar Hotel, Silchar on a PD150 camera by Sudheer Palsane in August 2005
4.Naseema recorded in Dhaka on a Sony minidisc recorder by Moushumi Bhowmik in December 2004.
5.Binoy Roy recording from cassette Pranto Prantarer Lokgaan Volume 8 of series Shikorer Sandhane, produced by Bhromora, Kolkata in 1993.
6.Putul Sarkar recorded in Gouripur, Assam by Sudheer Palsane on a PD150 camera in August 2005.
7.Deben Bhattacharya voice from interview with Aly Zaker for Ekushey TV, Dhaka in February 2001. 
8.Muhammad Safi recorded by Deben Bhattacharya in 1971, released on album Echoes of Bangladesh. (Fremeaux, 2008) 
9.Munda women of Munshigonj, Sundarban, Bangladesh in conversation with Moushumi Bhowmik recorded by Sukanta Majumdar on a Sound Device 633 recorder with a Sennheiser 418 mic in January 2018.
10. Abdul Hamid Jalali and others recorded in his home in Sylhet by Moushumi Bhowmik on a Sony minidisc recorder by Moushumi in December 2004
11.Ranjit recorded in Rajghat Tea Garden, Srimangal, Bangladesh by Moushumi Bhowmik on a Sony minidisc recorder in December 2004. 
12.Naren Hansda and Chapalabala recorded in Jahajpur, Purulia on a Sony minidisc recorder by Sukanta Majumdar in February 2007.
13. Sultana and Jadab Sarkar recorded in Sonai, Cachar, Assam on a PD150 camera by Sudheer Palsane in August 2005.
14. Nityagopal Das Baul song from album Inner Knowledge released by Real World Records in 1997. 
15. Chintamoni recorded by Soumya Chakravarti on a Sony TC D5M cassette recorder in Santiniketan in 1984.
16.Hajera Bibi recorded in Faridpur on a Sony minidisc recorder by Sukanta Majumdar in April 2006.
17. Bhaktadas recorded by Sukanta Majumdar at home on a computer in Kolkata in 2010 (mistakenly remembered as 2009 in the essay).

Songs   Grow  Out  Of  The  Land

Recientemente nos hicimos de un micrófono AMBEO VR de Sennheiser, y obvio que nos salimos a jugar con él a distintos lugares. Aquí algunas pruebas de las grabaciones en Formato B.

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Tre Fontane

As a composer one of the most rewarding activities is teaching people about soundscape composition. In my workshops participants learn about the soundscape and take part in field recording and composition activities. These workshops bring a variety of people together all with an eagerness to learn something new while sharing their own creative experiences. Their own experiences of their sonic environment and connections to place offer the composer a fresh insight into a new place, such as Trafford, Manchester.

This piece is a celebration of cultural diversity, a showcase of creative ideas through the exploration of our sonic environment. The recordings gathered from these activities have been used to create a new soundscape, one in which is inspired by the creative explorations of the participants during the workshops.

I would like to thank all of the participants who attended the workshops and the staff at Seed Studios for making this happen. I would also like to thank Gemma Bass and Gary Farr for inviting me to collaborate with them on this project.

Sowing Seeds

This composition is an multi-faceted exploration of food as a material, a commodity and as a sounding substance. It also aims to explore  the many  relationships between food and sound from their basic ephemerality to the links and metaphors that tie them as materials to be processed and transformed - from ideas of "mixing", "chopping", "cutting" and "blending".

Mixed, cut and blended together in this 'ear-piece' are sound recordings, from both the UK and India, of  food being prepared and cooked, of the places where food is grown and sold, of people and companies selling food and food products and of people talking about food that reminds them of home and childhood and foods that they like to cook and how to prepare them. 

The research for this piece into personal and  global food culture  included looking into how food, spices and materials have been and are still central to colonialism and how political exchanges have influenced food, food preparation and taste. This seems particularly pertinent in India where battles  between small producers and agribusiness which have, by and large, been long lost in Western Europe are very much current and where strong regional food cultures seem to still be holding up  against  and possibly enriched by cultural invasions from Europe and the US.  I am also interested in people's emotional investment in food - as a carrier of memory and of ideas of "home". 

Much of the composition of this work has been made using Deja Vu a software program designed in collaboration with Oliver Bown originally  for dealing with recorded spoken word material. Deja Vu (an interface built on to OMRAS)  takes short section of sound as a "material text" and search through sound files to find other sounds in the recording mentioned above, that are sonically similar in their texture or pitch shape disregarding of context, subject or origin.  Composing with spoken word material and with 'real world' recordings have been long held practices of mine combined with an interest in memory and how this can be both triggered and preserved in sound. 
The work was originally made as a composed installation for a group show called  Material Texts at Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi, India in early 2009. 
This track can also be found as part of Issue 6 at Soundwalk Editions. Soundwalk Editions features artists and composers who use environmental field recordings as a point of departure in their work. (http://www.soundwalk.com/blog/category/editions/)

Thanks to all the interview participants, Srishti College of Art, Bangalore, London College of Communication, Sujata and Anurag at Rainforest Retreat.

The pickle jar is her home

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Cathy Lane is a composer, sound artist and academic. Some of her  work uses spoken word, field recordings and archive material to explore aspects of our listening relationship with each other and the multiverse.

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