If everything is energy, then vibration is our most raw of materials. This is the foundation of Amit Chaudhuri’s elucidations in the novelist and vocalist’s 2021 book, Finding the Raga. After sharing his quest to make sense of Hindustani classical music with the West and other parts of India, Amit Chaudhuri brings his research on the raga back to Kolkata.

Joined by Hiranmay Mitra on harmonium, Ashoke Mukherjee on tabla, and Dabbu on guitar, Amit Chaudhuri will guide audiences through the improvisatory process of the performed alap, showcasing the raga as a tool of resonance rather than representation — as a creative framework that becomes expressive form.

An extension of the preceding program, Mortar & Memory, this lecture performance examines the architecture of sound to investigate site specificity as the origin of all creative vibration.