Sumathi, a student
of Hindustani classical vocal Music has been learning music for 20 years
under late Pandit Ramarao Naik, Pandit D.S Garud, Pandit Yaeshwant
Buva Joshi, and Smt Lalit Rao.
She started
performing Hindustani classical vocal at the age of 12 and has performed in
prestigious festivals like Savai Gandarwa festival at Hubli, Flights of Fantasy
Ganjam Nagappa festival at Bangalore, Devanandam Ubhayakar youth festival, etc.
She is now
mostly involved in experimental programs. She is also a music composer working
for documentary films and theatre.
Floy
Krouchi aka DrFloy, a french sound artist, bass guitar player and
electronic composer and performer,
involved in the electronic and experimental music scene and in the female
collective Mafucage, has been performing
since 1994 in France, Uk, US , Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland,
Tchequia, Russia, China, and India.
She produces
and releases sound art and pieces for diverse supports in various art
forms such as CDs, vinyl EPS, internet web art, videos, installations of her
own projects and collaborates with
various artists, collectives and queer groups in Europe and India.
Founder of the organization “ Le Cri du Silence
“, ( The Cry of Silence) : Women arts and technologies, dedicated to producing,
training and promoting female musicians
in the field of electronics.
"SAKHIRI" is an electro-acoustic,
multimedia performance crossing genders.
A musical
creation built out of a poetic research exploring gender issues, human rights
andsexual minorities’ rights, making space for our multiple voices; exploring
pain, joy, love and celebrating our lives through multimedia artistic
expression.
Five shows of
“Sakhi Ri” were presented at the Alliances françaises of Bangalore, Pune, and
Bombay, India, in March-April 2005. The performance toured along with the
involved artists and participants to the workshops.
An interaction between
electric, electronic, and traditional music...
Electronic treatments, beats,
experimental soundscapes , Hindustani classical alaaps and ragas, sculpting
themes and emotions, and building ,around an intimate fluid relation between
sound compositions and video art, intricate narratives dealing with the
particularity of the hijra context, dissonance and gender de/construction as
well as universal emotions.
The show
includes a live performance of audio and video pieces.
After
collecting material through various meetings and workshops with members of the
Hijra community (traditional transexual community of India) and gender variants
individuals for the time of a residency in Bangalore, the artists present
different music compositions where live electronics treat and transfigure the
collected sources, testimonies and poems, while poetry is performed and sung,
interacting with video.
How can
experimental soundscapes, treatments and classical vocals deal together?
How can music,
poetry, and video reveal, attract or repel each other?
What kind of
meaning or sensations appear through?
How is gender
constructed by artists, art, music, electronics, visuals, poetry, images, by
people,
by mainstream
people?
What about
people who transgress the borders?
Has Creation to
do with creating one’s own life, one’s own gender?
What creative
potential lies in being “in the margins”?
