samādhāna, Urban Feedback & Resonance, Galerie D., Romainville, France
samādhāna explores the entanglement of speech, devotion, and environment. Rooted in field recordings of a Malayali Hindu ritual at the Sree Krishna Swami Temple in Pattam Thuruth, Kerala, India, the work transforms chants into extended sonic textures.
As voices are slowed and stretched, they dissolve into breath, vibration, and elemental resonance. The piece considers how sound itself can entwine ecology, ritual practice, and human longing in fragile but enduring harmony.
The title, samādhāna — literally “putting together” — becomes both method and meditation: an inquiry into how traces of ritual and environment converge in resonance.