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. At first we must express our deepest gratitude to all those voices that fill the space of this ‘room’ and make it sing with life.

Those who have built The Travelling Archive

Sukanta Majumdar, sound recordist, sound designer, co-created the website with Moushumi Bhowmik and was directly involved with it till 2019.
Subhadeep Ghosh, film editor, was with us during the initial planning.
Manojit Chattopadhyay, programmer, wrote the first version of the website.
Sunayan Roy, designer, created the first look of the website, which we have been more or less following.
Sudheer Palsane, cinematographer, to whom we are grateful for the logo. It comes from a video of our first field trip in Birbhum in 2003.
Dipak Pakrey, website developer, who oversaw the transition of the website from one stage to another.

The Travelling Archive has been supported through its stages of 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 individuals who have directly and indirectly contributed their art and ideas to this archive. This exponentially-growing list includes:

Rangan Momen, music collector and field recordist
Ali Ahsan, sound recordist
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
Cathy Lane, sound scholar and sound artist.
Debjani Das, teacher
Jan-Sijmen Zwarts, Dutch translator.
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, sound scholar and sound artist
Britta Lange, historian.
Sarker Protick, photographer
Arfun Ahmed, artist
Veerangana Solanki, curator
Dibakar Saha, sound designer
Anokh Somuddur (Labani Jangi), artist
Alakananda Guha, educator…

Many have given us place in their homes and taken us to the field. Some have passed. As the years go by, the list grows longer.

Ambarish Dutta and Suman Kumar Das in Sylhet; Debdas Baul in Birbhum; Milan Mitra Thakur in Mainadal; Sudheer Palsane in Mumbai; Pradip Kumar Pal in Cachar; Salamot Khan, Sanjoy Sikder, Sayeed Masud and Milon Khandker in Faridpur; 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; Samik, Chewang and Sumendra and other members of Laali Guraas across North Bengal and Sikkim; Sophie Mckeand, across Wales; 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; Baul Syed and Shumona Parvin in Berlin; Shammi Haque, Mohiuddin Ahmad and Katja Spory, in Wunsdorf, Brandenburg; Debjani Das, Henner Knorr and Duniya Das in Wahlwies, Germany; Jan-Sijmen Zwarts in Utrecht; Dinah Bird and Jean-Philippe Renoult in Paris; Alok Som in Kalapukurdanga village, Birbhum and Jalpath, Kolkata; Lalmoni, Nizam and other members of the Jadupetia family in Jabardaha village, Dumka; Devkumar Trivedi, Ashoka Trivedi and Kem Trivedi in Delhi.

We would like to also thank

Anita Bhowmik, Sipra Roy, Jnansankar Roy, Jeanne Openshaw, Ben Rogaly, Vandana Palsane, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Shirshendu Nandy, Anirban Dasgupta, Priyanka Bhaduri, Subhajit Dasgupta, Priyanka Basu, Sabyasachi Pal, Papia Khatun, Tithi Bhattacharya, Vikki Gaikwad, Suzanne Aspden, Leesa Gazi, Abhijit Mazumder, Sekhar Mukherjee, Mita Datta, Annu Jalais, Dolon Gupta, Prashid Gupta, John Prabhudan Biswas, Rajan Nandi, Rasheda Yeasmeen (Lovely), Shakil Arman Chowdhury, Dhali Al Mamoon, Dilara Begum Jolly, Mashfiqur Rahman, Faisal Aziz (Sojib), Satadru Bhattacharya, Simon Chambers and Jayanta Suter for their support — every bit of help allows us to keep this work alive.