Return To Innocence

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Random Tandem Influences

ridiculous timing, irudan.

Sound Workshop, Concept Note

The location we have chosen is Malleswaram in Bangalore. More specifically, the flower market, Sampige road, Mantri mall and the government offices we find in that area. The reason we have chosen this location for our Sound Project is because we are investigating this space for our main project, getting a better idea of the sensibility of the space and the public; using this knowledge to make a soundscape that reflects the genesis of our main project.

The theme that we are interested in, are the questions, a wide array of questions that would come from the people we interact with in Malleswaram. We are also planning to record the noise from a market, government office and public spaces and then overlap it with questions that are never voiced and are contained as thoughts.
Beneath this, would lie our theme of oppressed identities, where there is thought but no speech, voices but no cries, fists but no air. Opening our eyes and hoping to uncover the troubles people have gone through that are completely unreasonable; we want to record the frustration of unanswered questions. Some of the emotions that we may deal with are anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness and hopelessness. In terms of the soudscape, we will be putting in different kind of effects to add an appropriate emphasis on the emotion of specific questions.

Why? How? Where? When? Who? Which?
Nobody reads minds, voice these questions through RTI

We will be using multiple methods, one being hidden recorder so that we get exactly what a person feels without making them conscious, other than that we will talk to different people and constantly keep the recorder with us and keep recording and then pick out what we want. This method makes sense for the project because we understand the limitations of certain public dysfunctions in terms of recorders and cameras and we would not want them to be scared of us being reporters.

We would like to put back the sound piece in the space that we collected the data/audio from. And also broaden the listeners by posting it online and publicizing it by other means.
It will be very relevant to any kind of audience as it we will (try our best to) make it in such a way that it leaves the listener thinking about its content after listening to it and also make a sustainable impact because we will be addressing real issues/problems of real people.

list of slogans, some need to be translated.

even Rajnikanth gets his info from the RTI!

jab tak hai sawaal, jaane-jahaan, RTI file karungi!

rights? what rights? (file an RTI!) exercise your power as a citizen.

ASK and you shall be INFORMED.

Halla Bol! Attack! Not with guns but with the RTI.

Ask for Answers. Because you are worth it.

Jaago aur sawaal karo, RTI file karo!

Stop waiting on the world to change - ASK WHY. RTI.

Someone demanding extra money? File an RTI.

Nothing being done about your stolen bike? File an RTI.

Roads not being repaired? File an RTI.

Frustrated with corruption? File an RTI.

Disgusted with bribes? File an RTI.

slogan ideas: some stuff that was missed out in the earlier photo.

stats :|

The figures that have come out after the research show that India has moved up on the index of Corruption in the year 2010, despite there being a transparency ensuring Act- Right to Information Act, 2005.

In the Transparency International's annual survey India slipped from 84th position to 87th in the corruption index. The corruption is measured on a scale of 0-10, where zero means highly corrupt where as 10 means lesser corruption. India scored 3.3 on the corruption perception index. The cause for concern is that India has become more corrupt than last year, despite the RTI Act, whose main aim is to bring transparency and accountability and in turn check corruption.


-http://www.merinews.com/article/india-getting-more-corrupt-despite-rti-act-show-stats/15834346.shtml

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rti4empowerment


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