22.09.24 | SAVVYZΛΛR meets DYSTOPIA

RADIO SHOW

Super happy about a two-part collaboration between Savvyzaar (the radio presence of Savvy Contemporary) and Dystopia Biennial, the sound art festival that has been happening in Berlin since 2018, organized by Errant Sound. This year’s edition, directed by Nida Ghouse and Georg Klein, dives into sound art from across the Indian subcontinent and Europe.

🔊SAVVYZΛΛR meets DYSTOPIA & ERRANT SOUND🔊
@savvycontemporary + @dystopiabiennial + @errant.sound
→ Sun 22.09.24
16:00 [Berlin]
→ ON AIR in Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM reboot.fm and on SAVVYZΛΛR

On the first Sunday I will wrap up the first week of the festival with a mix of sounds, artist interviews, and recordings from the events including concerts and the „Sonic Futurisms“ symposium (curated by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay). The artists featured in conversation, or in sound, include: Hemant Sreekumar, @alifiyahimani, @slowspinspace and @sarathykorwar.

In the second part of this collab we will learn about the thoughts behind Nida Ghouse’s curatorial work in the exhibition „Often enough I tried language, often enough I tried song, but they didn’t hear you“, as well as the vision behind the Symposium „Sonic Futurisms“, curated by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay. Visiting the HAUNT gallery with microphones and recording the presentations and talks by the invited scholars and artists Moushumi Bhowmik and Nikita Dhawan, we will try to listen to the listening act itself. Musically, this edition has the generous collaborations from Nakul Krishnamurthy and Jasmine Guffond.

Credits Part 1

Interviews with Hemant Sreekumar, Slowspin, Alifiyah Imani.

Tracklist:
– Akashvani – Recordings of Hemant Sreekumar´s concert at the Galiläa Church on Sep 7th 2024, based on his installation, to be seen at the Galiläa Church
– ~an entropy of one´s own~ – Recordings of Alifiyah Imani´s and Vladimir Rhazev´s installation at Errant Sound@Miss Read
– Lilt and forget (Slowspin – TALISMAN)
– Hamari (Slowspin – TALISMAN)
– Apnay Mahal Ma (Audio from Zeerak Ahmed´s installation at the Galiläa Church)
– That Clocks Don’t Tell But Make Time (Sarathy Korwar – KALAK)
– Utopia Is A Colonial Project (Sarathy Korwar – KALAK)

Credits Part 2

Interviews with (in order of appearance):
– Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (curator of the Symposium Sonic Futurisms)
– Nida Ghouse (artistic director and curator of the Dystopia Sound Art Biennial 2024)

– Recordings from inside the installation by Suvani Suri at HAUNT/frontviews: Lossless Transmissions: The Errant Earplugs (2023)
Suvani Suri is an artist and researcher based in New Delhi. She works with sound, text, and intermedia assemblages and has been exploring various modes of transmission such as podcasts, auditory texts, sonic environments, objects, installations, fictions, experimental workshops, and live interventions.

– Excerpts from Moushumi Bhowmik´s presentation Unfinished, Unbegun, during the Sonic Futurisms Symposium.
Moushumi Bhowmik is an Indian singer-songwriter, writer and researcher based in Kolkata, she is known to perform Bengali folk songs, as well as her own compositions.

– Nikita Dhawan has been recorded during her talk On the Materiality of Inaudibility, at HAUNT/frontviews on Sep 22nd 2024
Nikita Dhawan is the chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Technical University Dresden

Music by:
– Jasmine Guffond: Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity is a poetic inversion of muzak’s traditional role in stimulating seamless workplace productivity.
Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures.

– Nakul Krishnamurthy: Anudhatthamudhatthassvaritham from the album Tesserae
Nakul Krishnamurthy is an Indian artist who works with Indian Classical music and explores new ways of conceiving it at the intersection of Western Classical, experimental and electronic music traditions.