Award-winning composer Soumik Datta brings an immersive concert to Mumbai

Titled “Mone Rekho”, which translates to “remember” in Bengali, the performance is inspired by recordings of interviews with dementia patients in South Asia.

the performance sees the Aga Khan Music award-winning composer moving between various roles, from student to storyteller and master musician. (Instagram/soumikdatta)

London-based musician, composer and sarod virtuoso Soumik Datta is bringing an immersive concert to Mumbai as part of G5A’s In Residence programme.

Titled “Mone Rekho”, which translates to “remember” in Bengali, the performance is inspired by recordings of interviews with dementia patients in South Asia. The multidisciplinary concert, which weaves Indian music with electronic hybrids, visual collages and personal anecdotes, is an artistic interpretation of scientific research in response to personal and cultural memory loss, identity and erasure.

A production in two halves, the performance sees the Aga Khan Music award-winning composer moving between various roles, from student to storyteller and master musician. Each role also marks a shift in the space, which transforms from concert hall to classroom, from care homes to the streets of Kolkata, his birthplace.

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“Script is banter with the audience but there is a journey, that those points of conversation take the audience on, to make them understand what it means to remember,” said Datta who hopes to trigger the imagination of viewers by pushing them to remember the memories they lost on the way.

The production premiers on Friday evening at G5A Warehouse, Mahalaxmi.

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