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Cloud Burst: With Elia & Friends On April 3rd, after wrapping up the Signal to Sound workshop that I am conducting (link in bio), we will be gigging at Mool from 7:00 PM onwards. We’ll sit around and play some sounds we’ve been making, jamming to, and listening to lately. We'll be joined by our friend Elia who's visiting from Berlin, big ups to @prohelvetia_newdelhi for bringing him here. What will we play? Is it experimental? Is it music? Well, come and find out. The lineup (not in any order) for the night: - delmore fx is an experimental electronic producer from berlin who processes sounds, noise, synth, and field recordings into something you really just have to hear in person to understand. Words don't quite do it, so just show up. - Ba is a Delhi-based transdisciplinary artist who works with polyphones and Mongolian throat singing layered with electronics. It’s like the 13th century met a motherboard, and honestly, it works. - bloop is another aberration in Delhi who will be manipulating melodies, voice and text into uncanny loops. Imagine talking to yourself but with others? bloop will be in the bloop company of delmore fx and @plan17music - aasma is a multidisciplinary artist using Pure Data and samples. She brings the flavor of hip-hop into her grooves, which is a nice break from the rest of us. - beatnyk is a noisemaker whose performance mostly consists of him staring intensely at his screen and offering a silent prayer to the tech gods that his laptop doesn't have a mid-life crisis and crash. It’s going to be a chill, fun evening with prolly a lot of "what's going on?" and "where's that sound coming from?". Which is what we want. Everyone and anyone reading this is welcome (even otherwise, you are welcome). It’s a BYOB situation—bring your own beverages. Or bottles. Bottles are better for holding the beverages, usually. Entry: 500 INR at the gate (200 INR for students). Come come come!!! #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #BerlinToDelhi #DelhiEvents #MoolDelhi #SoundArt #LiveElectronics #DIYMusic #DelhiArtists #mool #Delhi #byob

Surge, Live at @oddbirdtheatre 28th June 2025 What if concerts didn’t always have the same upward graph? What if there was no headliner and we all flowed into each other’s sets? At Surge, four acts appeared and reappeared - with modular pulses and ambient textures melting into field recordings, drums collapsing into drones and moments of full-blown sonic chaos. A sound steeped in Delhi’s experimental spirit. Check out the full show on our YouTube or download the audio over at @bandcamp - Link in bio. Performers: Moss @kaldi_moss @mandakinicables @palebluedotter @sirfpaudhon.sepyaar @fun_tzu @pranavnigam06 [MIA] @songsforatiredcity @shivahuja and @abhishek_is_on_insta @bloop.ing @suvanisuri Sound Engineer: Varun Tanwar Mix and Master: @sirfpaudhon.sepyaar Special Thanks: @geetanjalikalta @singrour005 @ashishart_92 Camera: @tricky_click @tulikaaasma @infrasonic Lights: Adrian K Pradhan @kokocccoccco Titles: @head_on_stick Edit: @shivahuja

The best part about @synth.hang has been meeting people who are just as obsessed with the weird world of synths and experimental music as we are. After Playdate #1, we realised there are soooooo many more people who are also tired of the usual and want to experience something new - and we want to bring you into the fold! Surge will begin with hidden sounds and listening stations tucked away upstairs in the mezzanine, before flowing into two-hours of Moss, Mandakini Cables, Bloop, and Songs For a Tired City presenting their worlds to you - acts will appear and reappear, mixing all our different sound worlds and practices. Think modular pulses…electric forests….ambient textures melting into field recordings….drums collapsing into drones and ofc moments of full-blown sonic chaos. Come through for a one-night-only experience @oddbirdtheatre on June 28 at 5:30 PM. 
Ticket link in bio. 
Poster by @head_on_stick

nowanights, said the ear, the daylights keep me awake

‘A Splitting’ will mark the second incident as part of the project ‘On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there’*. The narration takes off from one of the objects in the catalog of the inaudibles and opens up the sonic unit into its many constituent frequencies diffracting across timespans, media genealogies and affective arrangements via notes, screenshots, readings, speculations and connections-in-the-making. The stream goes live on the YouTube live stream of @goetheinstitut_india at 5pm. Link in Bio - *The project is realised within the framework of Five Million Incidents 2019-2020 conceived by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective. - @goetheinstitut_india @goetheinstitut_kolkata @raqsmediacollective - Background visual credits @manavkhadkiwala - #fivemillionincidents #occupationoftime #catalog of@ #inaudibles #sonicindex

One of the items of the sonic catalog is entered into and expanded upon in the second incident performed as part of the project ‘On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there. The lecture teases apart the unit of the scream into its many constituent frequencies diffracting across timespans and corporealities. ‘A Splitting’ will mark the second incident as part of the project ‘On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there’* The audio stream goes live on the YouTube live stream of @goetheinstitut_india at 5pm - *The project is realised within the framework of Five Million Incidents 2019-2020 conceived by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective. - @goetheinstitut_india @goetheinstitut_kolkata @raqsmediacollective - Background visual credits @manavkhadkiwala - #fivemillionincidents #occupationoftime #catalog of #inaudibles a #splitting

The closing hour of the cloudburst, the final Moments before the Fall* open up to a drop of the infinite list of that which cannot be heard. An index of excavations of auditory phenomena that remain obscure. A sonic catalogue of instances, objects, artefacts, arrangements and utterances to bring the inaudible into the fold of the thinkable. ‘An Index’ will mark the first incident as part of the project ‘On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there’* The audio stream goes live on the youtube live stream of @goetheinstitut_india at 8pm - Link to listen on youtube and soundcloud <<in bio>> Tune in! -- *Moments before the Fall– a project by @naypruhnay is a simulation of ecological conditions generated by numbers and codes. It stages the generation of a cumulonimbus cloud that eventually deteriorates into a cloudburst. The incident unfolds over 36 minutes of simulated time expanded into 72 hours in real time. - **The project is realised within the framework of Five Million Incidents 2019-2020 conceived by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective. - @goetheinstitut_india @goetheinstitut_kolkata @raqsmediacollective - Background visual credits @manavkhadkiwala - #fivemillionincidents #occupationoftime #catalog of@#inaudibles #sonicindex

A sonic catalogue of instances, objects, artefacts and excavations of an inaudible kind. Structures, arrangements, phenomena and utterances inhabiting fictional histories and the dissonant present have been selected, re-arranged, enumerated and vocalised to bring the inaudible into the fold of the thinkable. The drop of this audio-list on the 4th of November, will mark the first incident as part of the project ‘On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there’–a project by @suvanisuri that takes on concerns around the various modalities, registers and politics of frequency frequently associated with disquiet, the weird and the eerie. Through a series of sonic happenings, the proposition examines the limits of audition, sense and sensibility through a movement from the perceptible processes of hearing towards an ‘uncanny listening’. - Link to audio will be updated in bio tomorrow - The project is realised within the framework of Five Million Incidents 2019-2020 conceived by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective. @raqsmediacollective @goetheinstitut_india @goetheinstitut_kolkata #fivemillionincidents #occupationoftime #sonic #index #catalog of #inaudibles

• the case against loitering • ▫️ i. when did we ever? ▫️ ii. google dawdle “anti-loitering” ▫️ iii. lurking around the #playstore ▫️ iv. ‘Lose this day loitering’, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, passage from Faust, two centuries ago ▫️ v. loiter, on loop ▫️ #onminingtheearforthenearlybutnotquitethere #sonicfiction #fivemillionincidents #actant #incident #occupationoftime #raqsmediacollective #loiter #antiloitering #themosquito #playstore #appstore #wolfgangvongoethe #ultrasonics #humansoflatecapitalism #sinisterresonance #maxmuellerbhavan @goetheinstitut_india

• ▫️ /extract/ The Sound-Sweep, J.G. Ballard, 1960 ▫️ #onminingtheearforthenearlybutnotquitethere #sonicfiction #speculative #fivemillionincidents #actant #incident #occupationoftime #raqsmediacollective #thesoundsweep #jgballard #ultrasonics #maxmuellerbhavan @goetheinstitut_india

• ▪️ #onminingtheearforthenearlybutnotquitethere #fivemillionincidents #actant #incident #occupationoftime #raqsmediacollective #theabsurd #maxmuellerbhavan @goetheinstitut_india