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Sundarbans - Intertidal Echoes

This sound piece is a layered composition that weaves together geophysical and biophysical forces shaping life in the delta. Somehow these forces which shape the formation and evolution of the landscape go unnoticed in the cacophony of human-animal-plant-machine tapestry.

The deep conversations between wind and rain, the high and low tides becoming and unbecoming every single day, the river holding deep geological history, the voice of insects and small critters affects the present and the future in myriad dimensions — these are all critical to the health of the landscape.

It is almost impossible to represent or transmit encounters of this mysterious place without thinking of the co-evolution of geophysical and biophysical forces at play. The constant tension evident in the sounds showcase affect in non-representational ways, where the listener and the landscape affect and impact each other in complex ways. The becoming of a place is on a more-than-human sphere, each of the million radius of that sphere has their own stories to tell making up a massive interconnected web of encounters, events, situations.

Commissioned and presented at the Sundarban Tramjatra Festival in Kolkata.

You can read more about Sundarban Tramjatra Festival here: sundarbantramjatra.net/en/about

Thanks to Mick Douglas and Neal Haslem for their invitation for me to be part of this festival.

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released July 16, 2025

Supported by Sundarban Tramjatra Festival & RMIT University, Melbourne

Field recording and composition: Pratyay Raha

Album Art Photograph: Dipanjan Mishra

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