The Nomadic Listener by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an augmented book and sound art project exploring migration, urban experience and sonic alienation.
A series of selected recordings from Chattopadhyay's book The Nomadic Reader is commissioned for this edition of Parabol. The piece is curated in response to Juliane Zelwies' Reading Out Loud and Camille Norment's Triplight.
The Nomadic Reader stems from psychogeographic explorations of a number of contemporary cities through situated writing and field recording. Each text is an act of contemplative listening, where Chattopadhyay records his surrounding environment and attempts to attune to the sonic fluctuations of movement and passing of events.
What surfaces is a collection of meditations on the minutiae of life interwoven with his own memories, associations, desires and reflections. The project draws up a tender map of contemporary urban experience and the often lonely, surprising and random interactions found in the quotidian.
The book version of The Nomadic Listener is available to read in Lydgalleriet's listening library.