Delhi Polyphones

At 8:20pm this evening – queer transdisciplinary artist and writer duo from New Delhi, Riya Raagini & Pratyush Pushkar a.k.a. Bariya present a series of multichannel compositions, performances, and rituals, composed of Delhi’s undertones, overtones, and many other polyphones.

Where must the prayers hide in the sound of the city so that clouds could reach them and water?

An undertone of the city? An overtone? A polyphone?

Millions of them in a cosmic float?

After recording soundscapes from around Delhi, including tombs, railway stations and tracks, lakes, atmospheric virtual tones, parks, industrial areas, bridges, underpasses, universities, and ultrasonic environments, using inverse notch filters and new pure data devices, the collaged soundscapes were synthesized in their polyphony to return to the city as a natural body and hear its many paraphonic polyphonic voices- interdependently making up our sonic environments -to access aural auroras of the city which reach out to the skies in feebler, nobler intonations and gestures.

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