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Traditional Music in India – Musical Instruments Collection

Related to the recording and documentation project Traditional Music in India is the musical instruments collection project of the Horniman Museum (London), where Rolf Killius (partly with Jutta Winkler) has till date collected and documented more than 100 musical instruments. At present the museum with the support of Rolf Killius is preparing Utsavam - Music from India, a major Indian musical instruments exhibition and conference with emphasis upon the rural and Adivasi instruments and music cultures.

Bhunga Farmhouse Building at the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig

At the beginning of 2005 Rolf Killius spent two months in the Kutch District of the Indian state of Gujarat. On behalf of the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig in Germany, he conducted research on the construction of a traditional roundhouse, a bhunga made of clay and reed, to be constructed for the museum's new permanent exhibition.

The bhunga building, along with its farmyard, is intended to reflect the cultural, social, religious, as well as the complicated ecological conditions in which its inhabitants live. Kutch shares a long boarder with Pakistan. Thus, over the centuries various sections of the population have mixed as people migrated to and from the area.

With the support of many local aides and the co-organizer Aarif Khatri, Rolf succeeded in engaging five Meghwar craftspeople (2 women and 3 men) from the village of Hodka. In summer 2005 these people had built a traditional bhunga farmhouse and a roofed kitchen, along with complete interior and exterior decoration inside the ethnographic museum in Leipzig.

The Kananda Collection of original Indian Cinema Hoardings

Nottingham South Asian Arts Festival 2005

July 2005 saw the first ever exhibition in the UK of the Kananda Collection of classic Bollywood Cinema Hoardings. The exhibition, held at the Royal Centre in Nottingham, was part of the Nottingham South Asian Arts Festival, organised by the Nottingham Asian Arts Council and City Arts. The two-week exhibition also featured a season of classic and contemporary Indian cinema, including Black, Mother India and the new colourised version of Mughal-e-Azam. Guest speaker was Broadcaster, Novelist and Music Critic, Jameela Siddiqi

WOMAD 2006

"A nightclub in an art gallery"....The Kananda Collection of Indian cinema hoardings became both decor and exhibition at our flagship venue, the Bombay Picture Palace, showcased at WOMAD 2006. The hoardings were displayed as if in an art gallery, and visitors could learn about the artform by watching a hoardings painter at work, as well as by reading the accompanying exhibition notes. By night, the hoardings provided a vibrant backdrop to live musicians and DJs, including Nerm from the BBC Asian Network.

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