New Ecologies is an Indo-German collaborative exploration blending field recordings of animals and birds from the scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Germany with music from producers and DJs from India & Germany.

Artists:

• Anant Rohmetra
• I7hvn
• Murthovic
• Vinayak A
• Peter Carey
• Firat Yildiz
• Bangalore Computer Club

This record was produced with the kind support of Akademie Schloss Solitude as part of Yashas Shetty’s fellowship in 2023, which took place in the framework of the transdisciplinary residency program »Field Trip« - a cooperation between Akademie Schloss Solitude and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Konstanz.

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde.

By the time they made Love Is Slow Poison, Emergency Kiss had already survived years of misfortune, including a fire that destroyed their first synthesisers — the only ones they had. The album was recorded in a friend’s garage and released through a label whose infrastructure and reputation were as non-existent as the band themselves.

Recorded in weekly late-night sessions between December 2021 and December 2022, Jeet Thayil (guitar, vocals) created the soundscapes of Speak, Amnesia in controlled bursts of improvisation and release.

The sounds seem to emerge as a response to the isolation and anxiety of the years that immediately preceded its creation.

They sound like ‘future ghost music’ or soundtracks to imaginary films. The truth lies of course with the recipient. Ghosts sometime indicate where the future lies. We are supposed to scare. I was not scared. If it was late-night labour that created them, then it was beholden that I listen at the same witching hour. What I heard left me disturbed and stirred in equal measure. There is a reason a record is called a record. It is the documentation of a moment, a snapshot that fades into time’s brutal regime at the very moment of its creation. By the time you click on play, it’s over, all that’s left is the hieroglyph of a gone emotion. But like a photograph, a letter, or a scar, a piece of music is always there to take you back, even as the moment and the memory of that moment melts away. Thus, speaks amnesia.

🏳️‍⚧️🌈எதிரொலி: மாற்றத்தின் பொருள்🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🏳️‍⚧️🌈ಯೆತಿರೋಲಿ: ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆಯ ವಸ್ತುಗಳು/ಅರ್ಥಗಳು🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🏳️‍⚧️🌈yethiroli: objects/meanings of transition🌈🏳️‍⚧️

இடத்திற்க்கு message செய்யவும்.

\-\ஒலி-பொருட்கள்\-\சேர்ந்து-ஒலித்தல்\-\queer-கவனங்கள்\-\மாறொலியை-வரவழைத்தல்\-\

\-\ಧ್ವನಿ-ವಸ್ತುಗಳು\-\ಸಹಕಾರಿ-ಧ್ವನಿ-ತಯಾರಿಕೆ\-\ಕ್ವೀರ್-ಓರಿಯಂಟೇಶನ್‌ಗಳು\-\ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆ-ಧ್ವನಿಯನ್ನು ಕರೆಯುವುದು\-\

\-\sound-objects\-\collaborative-sound-making\-\queer-orientations\-\techno-sonic-transitionary-summonings\-\

மாற்றத்தின் ஒலியை கேட்பதெப்படி? பால்புது ஒலிகளை மையப்படுத்துவதெப்படி? ஆதிக்கச்செவியை வீழ்த்துவதெப்படி?

ಪರಿವರ್ತನಾ ಆಲಿಸುವಿಕೆಗಳ ಕಡೆಗೆ ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಓರಿಯಂಟ್ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು ಎಂದರೆ ಏನು? ಲಿಂಗದೊಂದಿಗಿನ ನಮ್ಮ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಮಾತುಕತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕೇಳುವುದು ಎಂದರೆ ಏನು?

what could it mean to orient oneself towards transitionary listenings? what could it mean to listen to our relationships and negotiations with gender? what could it mean to listen outside normativity?

October 16, The Indian Sonic Research Organisation hosted a workshop & performance with composer, live coder, and sound artist Alexandra Cárdenas. From 18:00 to 20:00, participants joined an introductory workshop in creative coding with the Strudel programming environment, exploring basics of live coding (patterns, sound synthesis, real-time control. The workshop was followed by a performance from 20:00 to 20:45. The event was open to everyone — artists, musicians, coders, and curious beginners.

August 21, The Indian Sonic Research Organisation hosted an evening at OTJF Record Store, featuring an ISSAI label showcase of Emergency Kiss and New Ecologies.

Emergency Kiss began in the late 90s with three friends experimenting with instruments they barely knew how to play, writing Hindi lyrics drawn from Bollywood and television culture. The result is music that is raw, loud, unpolished, and deeply affectionate.

New Ecologies is a collaboration between artists in India and Germany, transforming animal field recordings from the Max Planck Institute into layered sound works. Birds, bats, frogs, and other species become the basis for immersive sonic environments that reframe ecological listening as musical form.

College is a series of lectures, workshops, and performances by practitioners working across sound, text, visual media, computation, and performance.

The first session took place on August 08, 2025.

Speakers & Contributors

Chitra Ganesh Chitra Ganesh spoke about their practice encompasses drawing, painting, comics, installation, video art, and animation. Through studies in literature, semiotics, social theory, science fiction, and historical and mythic texts, Ganesh attempts to reconcile representations of femininity, sexuality, and power absent from the artistic and literary canons.

On May 31, The Indian Sonic Research Organisation presented the release of Jeet Thayil’s new album Speak, Amnesia at Shambhala Woodfire Kitchen & Pub in Frazer Town.

The evening featured performances by Jeet Thayil, joined by Hollis Coats, The Burning Deck, and Yashas Shetty.

Graphics by @podishred.

About the Album — Speak, Amnesia

The poet and novelist Jeet Thayil ventures into interdisciplinary art with his second studio album, Speak, Amnesia, released through ISSAI. Deeply rooted in his literary practice, the album draws from Thayil’s long-standing relationship with language and sound.

On January 30, (Art)ScienceBLR hosted an open afternoon exploring immersive sound design and interactive programming.

Paris-based artist and composer Eric Raynaud, in residence at the Indian Sonic Research Organisation in 2025, led a workshop focused on real-time sound spatialization using Max/MSP and XP, his immersive sound design tool for Ableton Live.

Participants experienced live demonstrations and contributed their own sounds for real-time spatial manipulation inside the auditorium. The event drew artists, musicians, technologists, and others interested in spatial audio practices.