What’s the deal
with Bengalis & Ray?
I love this city, and I
never want to leave it
This project was a while ago, and was not documented with active care intially. Parts of the track was scraped from in-built sounds from FL Studio, looped to create this soundscape.
An accompanying video surfaced upon more thinking on the final packaging of this experience. During our student documentary project in film school, snippets shot by my batchmate, Saptarshi “Turjo” Ghosh, was discovered to be the perfect visual coating, with further finishing touches brought the entire idea to life. Foley sounds in the videos create a diegetic angle, merging the two and forming a melting pot.
I am unsure if this project was to show me some kind of mirror to my own culture and heritage. As a creative based out of Bengal, I like all my circles idolized Ray. Only in retrospect, this project was an exercise of one Ray hidden bents, his use of sound. Satyajit Ray masterfully used sound and music to enhance the emotional depth of his films. His minimalist approach, often collaborating with Ravi Shankar, created immersive atmospheres, allowing the music to subtly underscore the narrative and evoke powerful emotions.
