The Archive Project.

In 2021 Rajivan Ayyappan received a grant from Luxembourg’s Ministry of Culture to document and catalogue a selection of his recordings. The TILT website is an online platform designed to enable sharing these resources with a broader public.

Rajivan Ayyapan aims to develop this resource further by creating a community of collaborators whose contributions will expand the nature and scope of this project. The archive will primarily comprise recorded audio documents supported by text and images, investigating cultural identities and geographical locations.

“The archive will primarily comprise recorded audio documents supported by text and images, investigating cultural identities and geographical locations.”

In its initial phase, TILT was conceived by Rajivan Ayyapan, a sound artist with creative inputs from Ramu Aravindan, a photographer and communication designer and Kiran Sahi, who works with community engagement projects.

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The TILT Project is a community engagement project, an interactive resource that will be developed around a central motif—the creative expressions of conversations.

The project will use conversational narratives to explore thoughts and expressions on Identity, Location and Time against the backdrop of our rapidly evolving world. TILT’s goal is to listen to a range of voices in conversation and to make the recordings of these listenings available to a wider audience.

The TILT Project will curate an arena for interactive creative conversations and
differentiated listenings. The architecture of the tilt project scaffolds thoughts and ideas in relation to both individual and community identities, located in both physical and cultural geographies, through past and present times.

“The TILT Project actively listens and records, with the belief that conversations are creative compositions.”

The TILT Project actively listens and records, with the belief that conversations are
creative compositions. Through a process of triangulation the ideas in these
conversations are understood in relation to the identities they describe, the contexts that they are located in and their relevance through time.

The TILT Project recognises that in our constantly evolving world, conversations bear witness to its changes and development. The arena the TILT project proposes to develop is an experimental virtual space which will explore many layered conversations by listening and enabling others to listen to its listeners.