UAL Sound Art Lecture
Background
Singer, writer and practise-led researcher based in Kolkata, India. Her work is a collection of field recordings called the Travelling Archive. She’s also a published author in Bengali and English.
Education
PhD from the School of Culture Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata for her research on wax cylinder recordings from Bengal made by Arnold Bake.
The Travelling Archive
Holds an archive of not only her work but also other practitioners. Unfortunately, war is a huge part of Moushumi Bhowmik’s work because it’s part of her life and the history of her home and family. Prisoners of War is an example of her archive to capture the history of a city.
Archaeology of Sound
“The two ways to think about the archaeology of sound, 1, removing sound and 2, adding sound”
Conclusion
I would like to take away the importance of archiving content and the accessibility to recordings showcasing the history of a place. A basic feild recrding can captures a the world though a sonic perspective which tells its own story. Every individual remembers there own sonic experice difrently. How we process information and what sounds we relate to on a emtional level differ from one person to another, this could be becasue of nostalgic sounds become emotional therefore rememberable.
Anyway my personal takeways was arcival importamce and on a more peronal level how lucky I have been to grow up without the world of war. As I am 19 I am discovering the world still and the university has brought many people from all over the world together from compleatly difrent up bringings. So convisation and inetraction are so widespread and differnt to anything I am used to its giving a bigger perdpetive to the world I live in. Real face to face interation gives you the realist form of infomaiton to the reality of the world and todays genrtaion compared to a world you persive online.