City Sound: Kolkata

Composed and conceived by Ignaz Schick with Dr. Subir Ray, Sukanya Chattopadhyay, Dipyokamal Mitra, Varun Desai, Ankit Malik, Debjit Mahalanobis and Somnath Roy

The City Sound Project in Kolkata draws a sonic portrait of how the city of Kolkata sounds on several layers, putting a focus on different aspects of this dynamic town combining materials from the urban sonic environment with both its unique soundscape but also its musicians and practitioners.

The Berlin based sound artist and composer Ignaz Schick spent the month of April 2022 in Kolkata to explore, research and connect with the city and its musical scene. Many extensive field trips and meetings with different local musicians were conducted, many hours of field recordings, conversations and pictures collected. Inspired from this massive and manifold archive he compiled Schick selected materials which are the base for different compositions, sonic structures and installative displays.

Presently this collection of materials is being revisited. In an intense eleven-day rehearsal and workshop bringing together seven musicians from different musical styles & backgrounds, various strategies are being developed on how to make the different sonic layers of the city audible.

You are invited to an open rehearsal for experiencing the working process in which this unique sonic creation is being developed.
 
The final performance is planned to be presented on January 27 and 28, 2023 which will be a four hours long durational concert and installation with an exciting mix of electro-acoustic music, field recordings, projections, contemporary and Indian Classical Music, jazz and improvisations performed by an outstanding ensemble of Kolkata based musicians.

CITY SOUND: KOLKATA is part of the City Sound project in Kolkata, Colombo and Dhaka, which is conceptualized, initiated and co-produced by the Goethe-Institut South Asia.

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