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[Renee Lulam]

Hi all,
We are Renee Lulam and Julius Basaiawmoit both based in and working out of
Shillong. Jules specialises in sound for films and television and has just
started up his own audio post-production studio. Renee moves from one
research based project to another which includes research for the
audio-visual media.
Our project attempts to explore the common person's notion of democratic
spaces and history through an exploration of the cosmopolitan and the
indigenous in Urban cosmopolitan Shillong.Through audio recordings of
testimonies from people of various backgrounds, we hope to garner their Oral
Histories of the urban spaces in and around Shillong. The spaces referred to
include both abstract and physical spaces.
We have begun the preliminary process of meeting and talking with
individuals, briefing them on the project and our intentions, a necessary
and crucial stage before we can introduce any recording equipment into these
conversations. The response has been really exciting, and we look forward to
really getting into the process.
We have also started collecting printed materials and articles to compare
and contrast the testimonies with that of the established histories of
Shillong.
Cheers!
Jules and Renee
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