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kala collective: consultancy and services in Indian arts
Our Work
Kananda, in collaboration with Indian hoardings artist, M Ishaq, is creating a training programme in which artists and designers of all disciplines and inclinations will be invited to take part and learn this fascinating skill.....more Becoming BollywoodKananda is currently devising a touring event - Becoming Bollywood - which will combine the screening of extracts from classic Indian film with live performance....more Bhunga House Construction 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....more The Bombay Picture Palace is a unique and exciting new venue, showcased in 2006 at the WOMAD Festival, Reading, and is set to become a key venue / attraction at the UK’s leading music and arts festivals....more Rolf Killius has recorded, produced, and mastered eight CDs in UK, Switzerland, France, and Netherlands featuring South Asian music cultures. At present he is working CDs featuring Adivasi (original people of India) music styles for the Musée d’ ethnographie in Geneva, Switzerland....more Cinema Hoardings: Collection and Exhibitions We invite proposals from organisations who might wish to utilise this collection in the form of an exhibition, film festival or cultural event. Events can be planned according to the specific needs of the client, and we welcome all proposals. Add-on events and back-up material can also be arranged, if required....more Cultural Centre and Museum Project in Orissa, India At present Rolf Killius, in discussions with local NGOs and the management of Engineering College ‘Centurion School of Rural Enterprise Management’, is in the process of designing a cultural centre for the Sora Adivasi (original inhabitants of India) in southern Orissa....more For more than ten years Rolf Killius has been a regular producer and writer of radio broadcastings and articles about Indian, Romanian and Arabic music for different Swiss (DRS), German (HR, SWR, and BR) and UK radio stations (Resonance FM)....more During the research within the Tradtional Music in India (TMI) project Rolf Killius produced around 300 hours of digital sound recordings documenting religious rituals, festivals, and traditional music styles. As founder of the EasyAction soundsystem, Andy Jupp AKA Charity Shop DJ, holds an extensive collection of classic 'Bollywood' soundtracks on vinyl which he plays and mixes live using DJ decks and sound equipment....more During the research within the Tradtional Music in India (TMI) project, Jutta Winkler and Rolf Killius produced around 100 hours of digital film material documenting religious rituals, festivals, traditional music and dance. Documentary, Shorts and Animation: Screenings Working closely with the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), New Delhi, Comet Media, Mumbai and the Short Circuit, Mumbai, Kananda is able to make available new and cutting edge shorts, documentaries and animations by young and up and coming Indian directors....more Gengkuli (Chakma) Documentation and Research Project The anthropologist Wolfgang Mey and Rolf Killius plan a research and documentation project comprising traditional music and dance and ritualistic practices of the Chakma people in Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) in Bangladesh), Mizoram, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh (three Indian states), which are related to the Gengkuli ballads sung and performed by hereditary experts....more In May 2006 Kananda screened the original black and white version of the classic 1961 Indian film, Mughal-e-Azam at the Guardian Hay Festival FilmFour Cinema. A pre-screening introduction was given by broadcaster, novelist and journalist, Jameela Siddiqi....more Kananda has an array of Indian decor and props. This, combined with our collection of "Bollywood" memorabilia, printed material, "Bollywood" posters and original painted artwork means that we are often busy decorating festivals, events and parties....more Rolf Killius is in the process of preparing a project to record, document and research the disappearing folk, devotional, ritual and Adivasi musics of the tea garden communities in Assam, North-East India....more Kananda encourages a participatory approach to South Asian film, and is interested in the many artforms, especially music and dance, which can be showcased by a film production....more 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....more Rolf Killius is an occasional writer for the SONGLINES world music magazine. Screenings: Documentary, Shorts and Animation Working closely with the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), New Delhi, Comet Media, Mumbai and the Short Circuit, Mumbai, Kananda is able to make available new and cutting edge shorts, documentaries and animations by young and up and coming Indian directors....more In May 2006 Kananda screened the original black and white version of the classic 1961 Indian film, Mughal-e-Azam at the Guardian Hay Festival FilmFour Cinema. A pre-screening introduction was given by broadcaster, novelist and journalist, Jameela Siddiqi....more Traditional Music in India: Research Since November 2000 the British Library Sound Archive (BLSA) in London and Rolf Killius (partly with Jutta Winkler) have been working on a project – Tradtional Music in India (TMI) – to record, document and research folk, devotional and ritual musics of India. The work is done with assistance from the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) in Delhi and with Indian researchers and musicians based in the project areas....more Traditional Music in India: Musical Instruments Collection at Horniman Museum, London 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....more The Bombay Picture Palace is a unique and exciting new venue, showcased in 2006 at the WOMAD Festival, Reading, and is set to become a key venue / attraction at the UK’s leading music and arts festivals....more
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