CREDITS, COLLABORATIONS, CONTACT

The Travelling Archive is like an open room filled with songs and stories, with doors and windows on all sides; people come, stay, go out for a smoke, come back, or they don’t.

The Travelling Archive has been supported through the various stages of its development by various institutions.

India Foundation for the Arts , Arts Research and Documentation grants, 2004-06, 2007-09. British Library, small acquisition grant, 2006

Charles Wallace India Trust, for project ‘Migration, Memory and Music’ in London. 2006.

Ford Foundation, For initiating website. August-November 2009.

Prince Claus Fund for project Songs Unbound, to further develop website. 2013-14.

India Foundation for the Arts, Archival research grant for exhibition on Arnold Bake, 2015-16. British Library Sound Archives, for TTA in East London exhibition, 2015.

Helen Hamlyn Trust, for TTA in East London exhibition, 2015.

Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London for TTA in East London exhibition, 2015.

Creative Research into Sound Art Practice (CRiSAP) of the University of Arts, London for TTA in East London exhibition in 2015.

Scaliger Fellowship to Moushumi for library work on Arnold Bake at Leiden University, 2015.

There are many others who have significantly contributed to the building of The Travelling Archive, including Sudheer Palsane, cinematographer; Rangan Momen, music collector and field recordist; Ali Ahsan, sound recordist; Dipak Pakrey, website developer; Indrajit Das, film editor; Ronny Sen, photographer; Nida Ghouse, curator; Satyaki Banerjee, musician; Oliver Weeks, musician; Margot Cohen, journalist; Robert Millis, collector and sound artist; Debjani Das, teacher; Jan-Sijmen Zwarts, Dutch translator. Support in the field has come from too many people to mention individually, yet we must acknowledge the contributions of those who have given us place in their homes and taken us to the field over the years.  Ambarish Dutta and Suman Kumar Das in Sylhet; Debdas Baul in Birbhum; Milan Mitra Thakur in Mainadal; Pradip Kumar Pal in Cachar;  the late Salamot Khan, Sanjoy Shikdar, Sayeed Masud and Milon Khandker in Faridpur; the late Tareque Masud for his overall support; Catherine Masud in Dhaka; Shah Alom Boyati in Dhaka; Uday Shanker Biswas, Shoikat Arefeen, Subrata and Dipali Majumdar and Tapas Majumdar in Rajshahi; Indranil Bhattacharya in Indian North Bengal; Ershad and Mamun in Rangpur; Supriyo Datta in Barisal; Amitava Chowdhury in Sundarban India; Anu Muhammad, Saydia Gulrukh and Nasrin Siraj in Sundarban Bangladesh; Amitabha Pal, Robinbhai, Leninbhai and Prokash Dutta in Mymensingh; Wakilur Rahman, Syeda Tanzeena Imam and Farzana Wahid in Dhaka; Renee Lulam and Indrani Chaudhury in Shillong; Amulya Kumar and Bishu Dasgupta in Purulia; Apurba Roy in Kolkata; Julie Begum, Peter Cusack; Daisy Hasan, Rosie Thomas and Steve Brookes in London; Amal Chatterjee and Susan Ridder in Amsterdam; Yasmin Hossain and Axel Klein in Faversham, Kent; Sumita Samanta in Kolkata and Santiniketan; Swati Ganguly in Santiniketan; Soumya Chakravarti in Santiniketan; Achyut Chetan, Father Salomon and Sushant Soren in Dumka; Sudheshna Sengupta in Gurgaon.