Soumik Datta: Borderlands

Winner of the Aga Khan Music Award, Soumik Datta reveals an immersive in-the-round experience in partnership with Loss><Gain led by long-term Sigur Rós manager John Best and veteran Sound Designer David Sheppard.

Airports: gateways, crossroads, places of fleeting encounters and untold stories. Imagine these liminal spaces, the hush of a departure lounge, the echo of announcements, the questions asked at immigration, all translated through sarod, contemporary music and cinematic soundscape.

Winner of the Aga Khan Music Award, Soumik Datta reveals a brand new immersive in-the-round experience in partnership with Loss><Gain led by long-term Sigur Rós manager John Best and veteran Sound Designer David Sheppard. Weaving sarod, personal stories of migration, video design and cinematic textures in epic surround-sound, Borderlands bridges Indian music with pioneering immersive technology.

Borderlands is produced by Soumik Datta Arts in partnership with Loss Gain, d&b audiotechnik, Aga Khan Foundation, G5A Warehouse, BNP Paribas,The Space, SVA, Goods Shed Immersive Productions, Southbank Centre Studio, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hawkwood College and Arts Council England.

Production Credits: 

Artistic Director, Composition, Sarod – Soumik Datta
Double Bass – Nina Harries
Tabla – Gurdain Singh Rayatt
Surround Sound Design – Loss >< Gain
Video & Set Design – Simon Daw
Dramaturg – Zoë Svendsen