coming up in 2021 Jan-Feb The Nomadic Listener
The Nomadic Listener (Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, 2020)
Launch of the book in The Netherlands with a performative reading and live sound
January/February 2021
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
A live performance and reading from The Nomadic Listener launches an augmented book on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation. The book, published by Errant Bodies Press, Berlin (2020), is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of major contemporary cities through situated writing and field recording. Each text is an act of contemplative listening, where the author records his surrounding environment and attempts to attune to the sonic fluctuations of movement and the passing of events. What surfaces is a collection of meditations on the minutiae of life movingly interwoven with the author’s own memories, associations, desires and reflections. The reading and performance draws up a tender map of contemporary urban experience, and the often lonely, surprising, and random interactions found in traveling.