[Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 44, Issue 58

[Vijender chauhan]

Oh welcome Mrityunjay,

Strange simplification. we should not protest because those who died wer NOT
victims, they were either "goons" or simply instigated, scape goated
individualsm they don need support. I thank you for not saying that it is
Budha who is teh victim. Have shame man. Why is that when some one get
political affilliation his/her empathy too get that muchh politicised?
We don protest only to support victim, instead whenever I attend a protest
it is more to assure myself that I'm not dead, to assure myself that look
there are so many peoples who have not sold themselves to parties.

BTW Mrtuanjay, what is the party brief? Are you going to shoot at this
protest rally or just have mercy with "mild" lathi charge.

best
Vijender

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>   1. resending my first posting (sayandeb mukherjee)
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>      (Shuddhabrata Sengupta)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: sayandeb mukherjee <sayandebmukherjee at yahoo.co.in>
> To: reader-list at sarai.net
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:03:11 +0000 (GMT)
> Subject: [Reader-list] resending my first posting
> Dear friends,
>
> I am Shri Sayandeb Mukherjee. I hail from Kolkata,
> West Bengal . Having graduated in science stream with
> Mathematics Hons from Kolkata University I completed
> 3yrs post graduate diploma in sound recording from
> Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. I
> have special interests in evolution of sound - an
> introduction to soundscape, psychological acoustics,
> soundtrack designing and film & music appreciation.
> Professionally I am a sound recordist presently
> working as a recording engineer in Mix Facility1 ( a
> Dolby Digital/SR and DTS film Re-recording set up ) in
> a recording studio complex - Symphony, Ramoji Film
> City . Passionately, I practise
> paintings,scriptwriting, penning down my observations,
> photography and ambience recordings.
>
> For a long time I have been passing through corridors
> of different places. Sometimes while consciously
> walking through these spaces I thought about the
> differences in my social conditioning. In an
> architecturally similar space this subconscious
> transformation of the 'self' interested me immensely.
> And as a sound recordist, everyday I am handling with
> the aesthetics of sound in my studio. I have gone
> through many pre-recorded sound files in our
> Fx-library. Sometimes while using this library,  I
> have listened to the  long reverberated sound of huge
> elevators recorded by some sound recordist in a big
> corridor. These sounds synthesizes in my mind as a
> musical expression.  Next is the vivid application of
> these spaces in many films.  My research will also
> gaze into the intricate properties of the
> corridor-like spaces to rationalize their application
> in this media.
>
>
> Name of the project:  CORRIDORS - THE NEW PATHWAY
>
> An abstract:
>
> The project is about the contemporary symbiotic
> relationship between the urban individual and various
> kinds of corridor spaces s/he encounters in everyday
> life.
> Corridors are the 'natural caves' of modern
> civilization. With decreasing individual space of
> existence and increasing pressure of influx on
> cities...corridors or vestibular constructions have
> become more and more indispensable thus providing a
> common pathway/interface to the multitude of flats,
> offices and know-not-what. As one walks down the
> corridor, s/he finds the sense of owning a
> familial/familiar space gradually dwindling and fading
> away along the length of the long corridor. The
> project delves into the psychological domain, plotting
> the emotional contours of an individual and will try
> to envelop the dynamics of consciousness ranging from
> the pleasure of anticipation to the anxieties of
> uncertainty. Another important aspect lies alongside -
> the acoustics of corridors. This contemporary
> architectural design which may appear simple
> structurally possesses a complicated and sometimes
> convoluted auditory space due to reflective and
> diffractive properties of sound. The project attempts
> to enlighten the variability of these acoustic
> qualities/characterestics of corridors integrated in
> different urban spaces like - hospitals, prisons,
> libraries, educational institution, courts and many
> other public spaces which are vibrant in terms of
> psycho-acoustics. The research would also borrow
> references from ancient mythological texts, films,
> paintings and literature to discern the mystic and
> seemingly improbable destination of corridors and like
> spaces.
>
> Methodology, work procedure
>
> The process of research includes a vivid physical
> involvement and exploration in the corridor like
> spaces, taking notes in a descriptive way in the spot
> itself, acquiring photographs and live recordings of
> the acoustic environments at different spots of the
> same space. The recording process may also involve
> time stamps (i.e. recordings of the same space over
> the different parts of a day) for the analysis of the
> soundscape in a particular space.
>
> The process also includes the collection of films,
> texts or any other form of art, where one can notice a
> conscious application of such corridor-like spaces. A
> critical analysis of these texts and footages would be
> attempted to find its role in building up the
> emotional contours of the narrative characters and the
> contribution of those spaces to the narrative
> trajectory of these films or texts.
>
> Visuals from VIDEOGAMES (where the stalker intruding
> through endless geometry of corridors) also would be
> incorporated for analysis and reflection.
>
> The Formulation of postings:
>
> I would like to split each posting into three columns
> for a better formulation. They will be continued
> throughout the project with some new/added
> informations, developments and analysis.
>
> 1. THE MAINFRAME:
> This includes the main content, the thematic writings,
> the derivations, the historical outline/references and
> the phenomenology.
>
> 2. THE INTERFACE:
> The interviews/ the interactive sessions with
> theoreticians, educationists, artists, psychologists
> or any person experienced in this field. It will also
> include feedback/responses to the project-concept and
> its progress.
>
> 3. THE DATABASE:
> This will be including all references drawn from
> journals, articles, discourses, websites and media.
>
> The end product
>
> As the end product, this project would generate the
> following materials for archiving in Sarai.
> 1. Images of the new urban buildings and the
> integrated corridor-like spaces.
> 2. Some data about the acoustic behavior and response
> of such structures.
> 3. A body of audio recordings in the corridor-like
> spaces under the scrutiny.
> 4. Textual interviews of some corridor users.
> 5. An audio CD containing specially designed ambience
> tracks using the audio recordings in the
> corridor-spaces.
>
>
> The first posting:
>
> This is a very brief outline of the reconnaissance I
> did for the past few weeks. As I have mentioned above,
> I will present the posting in three columns followed
> below:
>
> THE MAINFRAME:
>
> Evolution of urban spaces
>
> For the past two centuries, every city throughout the
> world has seen a gradual remodeling of the SPACE
> concept. The utilization, manipulation and
> multi-occupation of space has got an immense impact on
> the changing façade of urban civilization.
> In earlier days, cities were meant mainly for the
> well-to-do especially for Rajas, Maharajas, Zamindars,
> high-posted Government officials and also for
> commuters who used to diurnally arrive at their
> working space located in the city and return to the
> outskirts. These people were very few in count in
> comparison to the land mass; if the dwellings or
> work-spaces in an urban domain are mapped as elements
> in a matrix of the city-scape, one could notice the
> dispersed, unclustered  spatial distribution of these
> elements. Explicitly speaking, a topographic map of
> the city in olden days would feature the quantity of
> space that used to remain uninhabited.  For this
> abundance, space was never thought to be consolidated.
> On the contrary, it was considered to be horizontally
> extensible. This property was always exploited for the
> exhibition of the dwellers' hierarchical position in
> the society. They used to stretch their living space
> to the highest extent making an establishment for a
> lavish-livelihood. Within an allocated space, the
> dwellers through their authority, power or position in
> the society would always get an opportunity to give an
> individualistic expression in the architecture of
> their houses (this exhibition of architectural
> splendor is rarely visible today). These factors
> rendered the emergence of Palaces, Havelis, Kuthris,
> Mansions, Bungalows in the early period of urban
> civilization... (continued)
>
> THE INTERFACE:
>
> Regardless of its omnipresent nature, corridor or like
> spaces evoke a numerous shade of emotions in human
> mind. Flickers of which we came across, when we
> visited the Osmania University 's psychology
> department. Mrs. Beena, the head of the department had
> few experiences/informations  to share with us.
> She emphasizes on the fact that corridors are like
> built-in-spaces --- and she generally feels deserted
> in them. Long and vacant hotel or hospital corridors
> are suffocating for her. She reasons it out with very
> interesting explanation --- human beings like other
> animals are essentially related to nature. Proximity
> with nature gives them a sense of re-assurance.  That
> is why the concept of windows opening outside a house
> has come in. whenever one is shut off from nature, the
> link gets snapped and the sense of time vanishes.
> Parallely, she provides a counter-point. Corridors of
> universities and colleges which are vibrant with the
> noise of teachers, students and illuminated with
> bright sunlight give a positive vibe to her. Temple
> corridors which have three sides enclosed and the
> other side opening to the temple courtyard or
> surroundings are also very charming. They endow an
> onlooker with a close contact with nature as well as
> with beautiful paintings, murals and sculptures on the
> other three sides.
> While summing up her views, Mrs. Beena says that this
> sense of suffocation is a resultant phenomenon of the
> general traumatic experience of human birth. Every
> human baby undergoing this struggle in the birth canal
> gets an immediate relief when it is out of the womb.
> The birth-cry is the self-assertion of a new human in
> the outer world. The birth canal which is similar to
> that of a dark corridor threatens the life of a human
> baby at the time of its birth and s/he inherits this
> experience for the subsequent period of his/her life.
> German psychologist Otto Rank and Sigmund Freud has
> told a great deal about the birth experience. It is
> also noted that human beings are more confident to top
> and bottom perspective than to their left and right
> orientation giving a general creeping sense to human
> beings.
>
> THE DATABSE:
>
> I would like to share the following treatise that I
> received from a close friend, Debkamal Ganguly, who's
> also interested in the project.
> http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/jameson_futurecity.htm
>
> http://www.blackjelly.com/Mag2/features/planetporn.htm
> Modern urban life is increasingly experienced within
> the non-spaces of (to use a cringe-inducing term)
> "supermodernism." Examples include not only elevators,
> airports, corridors, subway stations and hotel rooms,
> but also the invisible architectures of the
> information economy: the digital realms which lie on
> the other side of the modem. Hong Kong is a perfect
> example of a metropolitan node comprised of many
> layers, folding back onto itself like a moebius strip.
> Bricks and mortar provide the skeleton, fibre-optical
> cables the nerves, and people the bits of data moving
> around the system. Which explains my recurrent dream
> in which I become a figure of "incessant circulation"
> (to use a favourite phrase of Jean Baudrillard's). A
> figure who hasn't actually been anywhere at all. Not
> in a tangible sense, anyway. Hong Kong 's amnesiacal
> momentum is less a case of an imaginary community than
> an imaged community: a technotopian megalopolis which
> understands the pornographic logic of advanced
> capitalism. While Australia passes laws to ban
> pornography on the Internet (making itself the
> "village idiot of the global village" in the process),
> and Giuliani's Brave New York cleans up Times Square,
> Hong Kong thrives in the ambiguous spaces obscured
> behind digital pixelation.
>
> I will be continuing the discourses in the next
> posting.
>
> Thanking you and keeping in touch with you
>
> yours sincerely
> sayandeb mukherjee
>
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> From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net>
> To: announcements at sarai.net
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:34:48 +0530
> Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Rally to Protest Nandigram Killings
> Dear All (Especially those on the list who live in Delhi)
>
> There will be a rally to protest the killings in Nandigram at Jantar
> Mantar (Parliament Street/Sansad Marg, New Delhi, tomorrow, Monday, 19th
> March at 3:00 PM in the afternoon. Please come and circulate this notice
> widely.
>
> best
>
> Shuddha
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