Post-immersive Listening: Perspectives on the Mediation of Sonic Environments

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

doi:10.33871/vortex.2024.12.9663

Autores/as

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay University of Bergen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2024.12.9663

Palabras clave:

artistic research, sonic ecologies, recorded sound, soundscape composition, field recording, film sound, audiovisual media

Resumen

Unplanned meetings can stem from complex movements across geographies, with serendipity playing a key role. Media artist Budhaditya Chattopadhyay unexpectedly meets researcher Budhaditya Chattopadhyay at a café in Budapest. This is their eighth meeting, following previous encounters in Copenhagen (2017), Den Haag (2021c), Kolkata (2021b), Berlin (2022a), Beirut (2022b), Basel (2023), and Rampurhat (2024). Each interaction has fostered a reflexive exchange of ideas, merging their artistic and theoretical perspectives on sound, listening, migratory experiences, and decolonial activism. Despite the differing lenses they bring, their conversations generate new insights. In the bustling café, surrounded by disengaged students emblematic of the isolation in European universities, the two engage in thoughtful discussions on acoustic ecologies, sonic environments, field recording, and audiovisual media. Their dialogue embodies a spirit of camaraderie, underscoring the value of interdisciplinary exchanges in nurturing knowledge and understanding across artistic and scholarly domains.

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Biografía del autor/a

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, University of Bergen

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay es artista multimedia, investigador y escritor. Chattopadhyay produce obras para instalaciones a gran escala y actuaciones en directo en las que aborda cuestiones de medio ambiente y ecología, migración, raza y descolonialidad. Sus obras se han expuesto, representado o presentado en todo el mundo. Chattopadhyay cuenta con un amplio corpus de publicaciones académicas sobre investigación artística, teoría de los medios de comunicación y estética en destacadas revistas especializadas. Es autor de cinco libros. Chattopadhyay es doctor en Investigación Artística y Estudios Sonoros por la Universidad de Leiden, y actualmente es profesor visitante en el Critical Media Lab de Basilea (Suiza) y becario postdoctoral Marie Curie en el Departamento de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Bergen (Noruega). Sitio web: https://budhaditya.org/.

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