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Mithi River Walk Project My friend Rajivan Ayyappan is out on the road – mapping a river that starts outside of Bombay and passes through the city – check out his personal blog above. Here is his description of the project: Sound mapping Mithi river: a sound creation as part of an exhibition SOAK: Mumbai’s [...]

again – the contrasts continue… back from snowy vermont – resettling in brussels, belgium – and thinking about one year ago – when i began my collaboration with shumona goel (see Family Tree) in mumbai… the visit to future east, chor bazar, working out at the ‘intuitionalist’s den’ of nagaon, and visits further down the [...]

out visiting family in indianapolis – i am shocked (even more than from brattleboro) at the difference between here and there (where i was a year ago now) – i will be shortly doing a posting about this frozen ‘empire of stuff’ that i see sprawling around in this so-called ‘homeland’ part of the united [...]

this time a year ago – i was travelling down the west coast of india with my friends be and vio. strange to think about that – trying to stay warm here in vermont. the contrast is extraordinary. have a look (and listen): [audio:NOV-INDIA-MIX.mp3|autostart=yes] a note about these sounds: this mix was simply a gathering [...]

This past March – I found myself in Varanasi just in time for the Dhrupad Mela and simultaneous Maha Shivaratri. I have just now found a series of documents on YouTube that show highlights of the three night (all night) event that quite literally blew me away because of the sublime beauty. From the evening [...]

January and February of 2008 I was in Bombay and Nagoan in the state of Maharashtra, India working with Shumona Goel. She was preparing an ‘inside-out’ film where the components of film-making were going to be displayed as an installation for a site specific work. My role was to help her sound-design the space as [...]

A fascinating Indian movie – about the 6th Century philosopher/mystic who is connectted to the root lineage of Advaita thinkers. I particularly like the section around 1:20:32 – reminds me of root elements of Brakhage.