Sound//Democracy

"Sound // Democracy"
Resetting the Audiovisual Story of a Nation

This film explores the growing intertwined relationship between the '12000W mobile sound system on a truck' and the musician creating 'Dj songs' -

and the effect they have, together, in providing a soundtrack to a hostile mob, and in creating more, on their path.

In light of the recent, growing spate of mob violence incidents throughout India, this exploration attempts to follow the journey of a song - made to enthuse and then found to instigate people- as a pattern emerges on the constituents of a violent mob.

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"The failure of certain ways of doing politics are based on (manipulating) two principles of modernity :
- 'the autonomy of symbolic processes' and
- 'the democratic renewal of the cultured and the popular'
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-Nestor Garcia Canclini
in 'Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers'