A creature soaked in the myriad frequencies and vibrations of the planet. Desperately struggling to listen.
Sourav Saha is an anthropologist and music practitioner from India. He is a doctoral research scholar at the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, India. His doctoral project investigates the relationship between religion, technology and the body, with a particular focus on sound and listening. Previously, Sourav served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. He also served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Gottingen, Germany. Currently, he works as a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, India, for a project titled Digital Religion in India.
In an effort to bring together sciences and arts together, Sourav tries to spend adequate time in both research and practice-driven activities that help to explore multiple possibilities of learning through sound and listening. Songwriting has been an integral component of this pursuit. Almost like an indispensable bodily organ, songwriting has served as an intimate tool-kit, a consort, and a device through which he learns to absorb and inhabit the world. While deeply committed to exploring innovative techniques of song-writing, Sourav has recently ventured into the domain of audio engineering and sound designing, as a music producer certified by the Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts, USA. Cumulatively, these engagements enable him to forge endeavours that are committed to blending sound, music, history, and politics into a cohesive craft of exploring life and the world.