Tell us how long you will be gone, Tell us how long you'll keep away,  
Is God going to be your refuge, Now that you've chosen to stay away...

Credits: CM practitioners (Delhi), Bernadette Hengst (Hamburg)
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"Encounters". This 13 minute section of a half hour radio programme is on the nature of encounters in the city. From strangers holding hands to cross a road, to discovering the Qutb Minar and also a short radio play.

"Radio FM". The programme is about encountering radio in different places in the locality with a script that is mainly associational. The script guides the listener to the different ways in which we perceived radio's presence in the locality and city as well as has a reflective function. Radio alias FM, and where it roams in the scheme of things... seems to be what we came up with!

A soundscape made in 2002 from scratch recordings at the LNJP Lab. The sound work begins with the voice of a young woman, "I am about to share something with you." It then moves through conversations in lanes, in public places, lectures, conversations and singing at a rally, self recordings of a young man. A vivid sound sketch of a locality and its neighbourhood that ends abruptly with an unwelcomed encounter with the dictaphone. The work was part of the installation, "Before Coming Here, Had You Thought of a Place Like This?", N5M4, 2003. Soundscape edited from recordings at LNJP lab by Ashish Mahajan.