This is a post by Nakul Krishnamurthy

CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK (FOR THEMSELVES)? 

INTRODUCTION TO THE ART WORK
This work is a collection of sounds recorded from four of the many different surroundings where the economically underprivileged find shelter to sleep at night in Chennai, India. The surroundings are

1. The Marina Beach
   
2. Koyambedu Bus Station
   
3. Pavement at Vadapalani
   
4. Chennai Central Railway Station
   

The name is a reference to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s article ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, which presents the problems of the Western academics investigating a different culture based on “universal” concepts, which are defined by the West. Hence, she argues, the subaltern rarely enter the political and academic discourses of the West.
The artist understands his inability to represent this segment of the subaltern as he does not belong to this community, but rather merely takes up the role of a mediator between the privileged creators and connoisseurs of high art and the Other, in an attempt to make their voice heard. 

This post is by Diploma 2 student at KMMC Sukanyan Sunthareswaran: Soundscape - Poverty In Chennai - A Street Tailor: 

This soundscape has been recorded on a street in Chennai, India on 18th of November 2015. This audio is about a street tailor who walks on the street everyday with his portable sewing machine looking for people to bring him clothes to saw. When he was walking on the street with his machine, with his permission I have followed him and got this fabulous sound recording. Once he got called by a woman to repair some of her cloths. When he was sewing that cloth the sound was more interesting as you can see from the recording. When I was going with him he started enquiring about me and my family.

 

This post is by Diploma 2 student at KMMC Sukanyan Sunthareswaran:

This post is by Diploma 2 student at KMMC Sukanyan Sunthareswaran:
Soundscaping- After Chennai Flood 2015:

This recording has been made after the heavy flood that happened in Chennai in November 2015. I got this recording from the surroundings of my house in Madipakkam. Due to the flood, the entire Chennai was in water. There was a lake near my house. That got filled and water came into our houses. So I thought I would be interesting to capture the sound of flowing water in the streets and lake and the sound of water dripping and bullfrogs crying in my house compound. I recorded this soundscape at 2 am in the morning. One interesting thing was that when I was recording at the lakeside with my MacBook, headphones, microphones and etc. a police patrol vehicle came near us. Few police men came out of he van and started to chase me out of that place. Then somehow I convinced them to do the rest of the recording. I started the recording from the lake and walked till my house. In the recording there will be frogs creeping, dogs chasing a mouse on the street, water flowing in the street, vehicle pass by, fishes jumping in the water accumulated in my house compound, and other sounds.