User:Rolfkillius
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Rolf Killius, is a member of kala collective – consultancy and services in Indian arts
kala collective website: http://www.kalacollective.com
website (Hindu rituals and ritual music styles in Kerala/India): http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wtmkeralacontents.html
Rolf’s latest work: http://www.mvl-grassimuseum.de/spezial/webcam/index.php
Rolf Killius is a consultant (museums, exhibitions, media), ethnomusicologist (MMus SOAS, London University), sound recordist, and radio journalist whose work appears in a variety of contexts. He was born in Germany, has lived in Germany, Switzerland and India, and divides his time between London, UK and New Delhi, India. In 1996/7 he has spent 18 months in Kerala and parts of northeast India, where he has recorded and documented about hundred hours of traditional music on DAT. During this time he worked and has been working since with nearly all bandleaders and solo artists in Kerala. This research, recording and documentation project was conducted in conjunction with the British Library Sound Archive (BLSA), London. Since 1996 he has worked with the British Library Sound Archive on a project – Traditional Music in India (TMI) – to record, document and research folk, devotional and ritual musics in India. Part of the project is to collect and document more than 100 musical instruments for the Horniman Museum in London. The work is done with assistance from the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) in Delhi. In 2003 Rolf produced the first academic website for the British Library Sound Archive featuring Hindu rituals and ritual music styles of Kerala. The publisher BR Rhythms has just issued Rolf’s book Ritual Music and Hindu Rituals of Kerala. This study explores the relationship of the Hindu religious rituals to the percussion dominated music genres in the south Indian state Kerala. For more than ten years he has been a regular producer and writer of radio broadcasts and articles about Indian, Romanian and Arabic music for different Swiss, German and UK radio stations and publications. He also recorded, produced, and mastered seven CDs in UK, Switzerland, France, and Netherlands. Rolf facilitated the documentation and construction of a Bhunga dessert farm (from the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, western India) on the premises of the anthropological Grassi Museum in Leipzig, Germany. Presently he works as a consultant and co-curator for Utsvavam – Music from India, a major Indian musical instruments exhibition at the Horniman Museum and prepares a documentary film and cultural research project on the tea estates in Assam, north-eastern India. Further he has started a research and documentation project comprising traditional music and dance of the Chakma people in Bangladesh (Chittagong Hill Tracts) and India (Mizoram, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh).
Source: From: Killius, Rolf. 2006 ’Ritual Music and Hindu Rituals of Kerala.’ New Delhi: BR Rhythms. ISBN 81-88827-07-X; with author permission
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