Sukanta Majumdar

Sukanta Majumdar is a sound designer who specialises in field recording and sound design for films and theatre. A graduate of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute of India in Kolkata, he has worked with many renowned filmmakers at home and abroad.

Sukanta’s recent work includes a soundtrack for artist Moad Musbahi at the ongoing Singapore Biennale 2022

soundtracks for an exhibition, A Slightly Curving Place at HKW, Berlin in 2020. https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2020/a_slightly_curving_place/start.php, which travelled later to Alserkal, Dubai in 2021, and a soundtrack for a recently released album, Anthology of Exploratory Music from India. https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/track/rites-of-labour.

Among his recently completed film soundtracks are Cat Sticks (Ronny Sen, India; premiered at Slamdance 2019), Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown) by Naeem Mohaiemen, premiered at Yokohama Triennale 2020 and a few short films by Amit Dutta including If I go, where do I go? (2020) and The Scent of Earth (2021), Anynadin… (Another Day…) (2021) by Kamar Ahmad Simon, premiered at IDFA 2021, Nine Hills One Valley (2022) by Haobam Paban Kumar, A Home for My Heart (2022) by Sankhajit Biswas, Before Life After Death (2022) by Anshul Tiwari.

One of his recent publications includes an essay, Ways of Listening in the Volume 1 (A Slightly Curving Place, ed. Nida Ghouse, pp. 129-139) of the series An Archaeology of Listening by Archive Books.https://www.archivebooks.org/a-slightly-curving-place/