Dear Sourya

"Sourya's recording from the balcony of her grandmother's soon-to-be demolished house in Kolkata struck me sonically as a conversation between the different sounds on the street - crows, cars, bicycles. 

"It also moved me as a story - at some time in our lives, in some circumstances or other, we all have the experience of saying goodbye to a place full of memories. I tried to combine these responses in my piece, exaggerating and enhancing the sonic conversation and weaving in a letter to Sourya too."

Kolkata balcony recording reimagined by Maria Margaronis.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration