REProduce Bangalore | Session One

On Friday, September 22nd, New Delhi based music collective REProduce Artists will debut a new series in Bangalore as a means to present a different take on evening programming. Inspired by their Listening Room series, REProduce Bangalore will focus on longer explorations over the course of three artists and three hours; a more bounded exploration of the spaces where ambient, drone, and tonality meet.

The underlying context aims to fill a gap in the ever iterating and increasingly varied community of live music in India by showcasing the talent that might not get heard in the more mainstream-oriented venues. REProduce Listening Room has focused purely on the music – in a space where an audience can absorb sound on their own terms. REProduce Bangalore is an extension of this ethos.

This iteration of the series will showcase three artists; two local, and one visiting, all embedded in the primary studio that the Shoonya – Centre for Art and Somatic Practices presents as a canvas – a large room, tall ceilings, wooden floors – an ideal space to breathe, adapt and succumb.

Hemant SK (Bangalore, India)

Recently transplanted from Delhi to Bangalore, Hemant’s work can be traced back as far as the 90s in Delhi, where he and some like-minded peers would find spaces in North Delhi and explore sonics on their terms for small groups of others. Over a career spanning working for advertising agencies, academia, and programming in C++, his work with sound and vision has remained, ultimately finding its most regular showcase over the course of a series he would produce an curate in Delhi called Disquiet. As an experience, Hemant’s work can be somewhat overwhelming in its scope; the sonics are drawn from algorithms that the codes, which are depicted visually to those within the area, with the corresponding audio often pushing the boundaries of what a commercial PA can sustain. A true original.

The Indian Sonic Research Organisation (Bangalore, India)

For over ten years, Yashas Shetty has built a sort of singular legacy that somehow manages to incorporate biotechnology, open source technologies, and, most pressing in this context, where these seemingly disparate worlds meet to create sound. Given his tenure at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore, these explorations have gone on to inspire many, giving rise to a sort of collective effort known as ISRO, or the Indian Sonic Research Organisation. This performance will see him bring this body of work to a public, something he does with a certain regular tenacity, but in the opinion of this observer, not nearly regularly enough.

Laszlo | Wisp Kollektiv (Leipzig, Germany)

Felix Deufel AKA Laszlo is a Leipzig based audio artist and organiser. Immersive audio and the human sense of spatial hearing has built the main focus of his work for the last year. As part of the Wisp Kollektiv – an interdisciplinary platform for artists, technologists, designers and programmers working in digital art projects – he has produced and created several audiovisual installations and workshops, He is also one of the founders of the Wisp Festival for Arts, Technology and Communication, bringing together over 60 international artists working in the field of digital arts to his hometown of Leipzig, Germany. He is currently visiting Bangalore and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase his work here