May 2, 2026 · Arjun Rao
The Language of the Forest: Designing Our Soundscape
Live percussion, field recordings, and the silence between them.
The forest is never silent. Our score layers live mridangam and edakka with recordings gathered from the Western Ghats — cicadas, rain, the distant call of a hornbill.
Sound design is its own act of storytelling. We wanted the audience to feel surrounded, as though the stage had grown roots into the hall.