released December 3, 2020
[NT005]
Featuring: Mochu, Pallavi Paul, Gagan Singh, Suhail Yusuf Khan
Conceptualisation, Interviews: Abhishek Mathur, Suvani Suri
Arrangement, Editing, Sound Design: Abhishek Mathur, Suvani Suri
Additional Mixing: Gaurav Chintamani, Quarter Note Studios
Additional Samples, Recordings: Suhail, Mochu, Pallavi
Trailer Voiceover: Nana Akosua Hanson
Mastering: Adi Flück, Centraldubs
Graphics Cover: Šejma Fere
Abhishek Mathur
Abhishek Mathur is a music composer and producer based out of Delhi, India. He has provided music for Documentaries, Films, TV Shows, Art Installations, Theatre and Ad Films for clients such as National Geographic, NDTV, WWF, ITC, and Deepa Mehta Productions amongst others. He has been a part of many successful bands on the Delhi music scene, most prominently as the guitar player and founding member of the contemporary fusion band Advaita. More recently he has launched his solo synth pop project titled Plan 17 where he dabbles with analog synthesisers, drum machines and samplers. Abhishek is also an educator and is the facilitator and course designer of a short term program in music production at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communications, New Delhi.
linktr.ee/Plan17
Suvani Suri
Suvani Suri is an artist and researcher based in New Delhi, India. Her interests and inter-media experiments have been tethered to the field of sound and listening, encountering and speculating its multi-fold possibilities. She has been a component of several trans-disciplinary practices, alternating between the roles of an artist, assembler, designer, researcher and educator. In recent years, her work has been exhibited at KHOJ Studios, Mumbai Art Room, Soundreasons Festival and the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018. She currently teaches at the Master’s programme in New Media Design at National Institute of Design, India and has been conducting courses in digital sensoriums and interdisciplinary creative practices in several other universities and educational spaces.
www.suvanisuri.com
Mochu
Mochu works with video and text arranged as installations, lectures and publications. Techno-scientific fictions feature prominently in his practice, often overlapping with instances or figures drawn from art history and philosophy. Recent projects have explored mad geologies, psychedelic subcultures and Indian Modernist painting. Exhibitions include 9th Asia-Pacific Triennial, Sharjah Biennial 13, 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and Transmediale BWPWAP.
themochu.com
Suhail Yusuf Khan
Suhail Yusuf Khan is a Sarangi player, vocalist, composer, and a PhD candidate in the department of music at Wesleyan University. He brings together expertise from a performance career that has already extended over twenty-years, creative ability, and academic research to find new modes of expression in Hindustani music, contemporary rock fusion, pop, folk, jazz, and experimental music. His ethnographic scholarship draws on personal experience as an eighth-generation musician belonging to a lineage of Hindustani musicians. He has been featured on more than fifteen albums and is currently signed to Domino records, U.K.
www.khamira.net/suhail-yusuf-khan
Pallavi Paul
Pallavi Paul works with video, performance, and installation. Her practice speaks to poetic exploration of cultural histories, questioning the limits of speculation and facticity and evidence. Paul is also engaged in thinking about ideas of the archive, tensions between document and documentary and the implication of trace within these openings. She has received her PhD in Film Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Paul’s work has been exhibited in venues including Tate Modern, London (2013); AV Festival, New Castle (2018, 2016), Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon (2018), Savvy Contemporary (2019), Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017), New Alphabet School, HKW (2020). She currently lives and works in New Delhi.
project88.in/selected-work/82
Gagan Singh
Gagan Singh is a Delhi-based visual artist, whose experiments with drawing have involved engaging with illustration, cartoons, storytelling, memory mapping, site specific installations, wall art and artist books. Gagan brings an element of flaneury to his work, both in the literal sense of walking through the city, but also via the mental act of constructing visual narratives in landscapes drawn from memory and observation.
chatterjeeandlal.com/artists/gagan-singh/
TIMEZONES – A PODCAST SERIES
The TIMEZONES podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: What does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages.
The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The TIMEZONES series endeavours to create new artistic forms of storytelling, listening and exchange across the boundaries of geography, time zones, genres and practices.
The TIMEZONES Podcast Series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute.
All Episodes:
norient.com/timezones
