Concert From Bangladesh

2021, HD Video with 3D animation, 44:16

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Concert From Bangladesh is a mixed reality music concert, using cutting edge technology to take audiences on a virtual audio-visual journey through Bangladesh past and present, encompassing mystical Baul singers from rural Kushtia, experimental electronics and hip hop from the streets of Dhaka, interspersed with archival and contemporary documentary footage.

UBIK Productions (London) and Samdani Art Foundation (Dhaka) supported by the British Council Digital Collaboration Fund commissioned Shezad Dawood to create a virtual reality stage for a concert released on 1 August 2021, expanding on the 50 year legacy of Concert For Bangladesh: the original charity concert by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison of Beatles' fame, in aid of the relief effort and refugee crisis during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

Artist/Director/Visual Concept

Shezad Dawood

Curator / Concept Designer

Diana Campbell Betancourt

Co-curator

Enayet Kabir

Producer

Miranda Sharp

Assistant Producer

Inês Geraldes Cardoso

Assistant Curator, Research and Archive Producer

Ruxmini Choudhury

SAF Production Lead

Sazzad Hossain

DOP

Amit Ashraf

Line Producer

Himel Tariq

Assistant Curator, Audio Coordinator

Shoummo Saha

Recording Engineer, Dhaka

Adittya Arzu

Visual interpretations and code

amoeba

Editor

Mikayl Dawood

Audio Mixing and Mastering Engineer

Rupert Clervaux

Graphic Design

Fraser Muggeridge studio

Translations and Subtitles

Ruxmini Choudhury

Commissioned / Supported By

Concert From Bangladesh is a project by UBIK Productions and Samdani Art Foundation in collaboration with Shezad Dawood and in partnership with Pioneer Works, Yorkshire Sculpture International, Chisenhale Gallery and Friendship. It is supported by the British Council Digital Collaboration Fund, which supports UK and overseas cultural partnerships to develop digitally innovative ways of collaborating.

Exhibited at

Pioneer Works (Online), 1 Aug 2021, https://pioneerworks.org/programs/concert-from-bangladesh

Yorskhire Sculpture Park (Wakefield), 1 Aug 2021

Pioneer Works (NYC), 8 Aug 2021

In the Neighbourhood (London), 31 Aug 2021

Leeds City Varieties Music Hall (Leeds) by Yorkshire Sculpure International, 16 Sep 2021