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Esi Tabu’s Venom
Sound Design and Music for –
‘Esi Tabu’s Venom’, an animated film, that tells the tale of an ancient feud between Esi Tabu, the checkered keelback, and Barta, the Kaulback’s lance-headed pit viper, based on Nyishi folklore. The film is supported by the Wellcome Trust India Alliance, created by Canopy Collective and the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru.
‘Esi Tabu’s Venom’ highlights the importance of telling stories that portray snakes as more than just threats, emphasising their cultural symbolism and vital roles within local ecosystems.
Watch the film, and visit the link to read an article by Nandini Velho and Shradha Rathod, the film’s scriptwriters, where they discuss the objectives of the film and their journey in crafting this unique narrative.
Film Credits
Storyboard and Illustrations: Shashank Shekar
Animation and Compositing: Yathi Kiran
Voice Artist: Manisha Halai
Music and Sound Design: Salil Subedi
Special thanks: Dr. Tana Takam and Tallo Dibo
Script: Shradha Rathod and Nandini Velho
Official Release by Sanctuary Nature Foundation
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Ongoing Exhibit
Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now
Music Curator for
The Rubin Museum of Art in New York is currently exhibiting ‘Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now‘. I have curated around 130 minutes of music from across the Himalayan Region for this exhibition. My focus remained on the poetic and deeply felt human feelings.
“For Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now, Salil Subedi curated a playlist that acts as a musical caravan transporting the cultures of Nepal and Tibet, amplifying their respective musical histories across generations of musicians from the region.” – Rubin Museum
Live at Patan Museum
3 May 2024
Springtime concert at an ancient courtyard in the beautiful city of Patan in Lalitpur.
What more perfect than to play an annual didgeridoo concert among a warm audience in the 17th century old courtyard from the Malla period – the golden age of Nepali art and architecture from the high spiritual art of the Newar cultural heritage. “This concert is a tribute to the ancestors who called upon the gods of rain from this courtyard and to the ancestors from the Australian dreamtime who preserved it for thousands of years”, said Dr. Junu Maiya Basukala, a Buddhist art scholar. who gave an introduction to the concert.
Namaste, I am Salil a musician, sound healing practitioner, performing artist, writer and an educator from Kathmandu. I live and work in Nepal and India and travel the world for performances, sound healing and workshops.
MUSIC PORTFOLIO
Since my early days a vocalist of a rock band, Ionica covering the 1970s and 80s rock, to my current genre of electro-acoustics, sound art and Himalayan Singing Bowl sound healing, I’ve traversed a long way into music.
I give my audience an experience of participatory music. And sound healing is a way of my life.
Listen Now
RSVP Full Album→
- HilliBilli (feat. Manice Gandarva)
- Ant Song (feat. Jagannath Dhaugoda)
- Over the Tones
- Love Light (feat. Sujata Verma)
- Langtang Himal
- Desert Dreams
- Soul Sisters (feat. Sujina Bajracharya)
- Breath and Beat (feat. Navaraj Gurung)
Educational Works
Wildlife & Nature Conservation Drama
Telling stories through lively drama performance is a wonderful tool to bring the stakeholders together and take meaningful actions related to nature education and conservation. I have collaborated with props and costume designer, Sandeep Dangol since 2009, training youths and staging plays in Nepal and Northeast India. We have worked independently and also partnered with ZSL (London Zoo, IUCN World Conservation Congress Barcelona), WWF Nepal (National Conservation Day), NTNC (Bardia, Chitwan National Park), Aaranyak (Assam), Dept. of Forest Pakke Tiger Reserve (Arunachal).
Workshops and Field – Based Teachings
Workshops on nature are intense and need to be designed and conducted in a lively, doable, and meaningful manner. Each participant needs to emerge from it, carrying meaningful and deeply felt experiences. Trainers also need to consistently work on their craft and creativity. Of recent, I have taken workshops on Nature Education (with Dr. Pranav and Sangeeta Trivedi at Pakke Tiger Reserve) for my own refinement of the practice. I am facilitating emotional intelligence workshop at the annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (By Canopy Collective) as a part of my field-based pedagogy.
Seminars and Labs
Immersive labs are a great way to communicate the idea of nature and culture with students. Seminars can equally be lively. It encourages two-way knowledge building system. I’ve co-run mini labs and taken classes on subjects ranging from social ecology to creativity through the arts and presented papers in seminars on Sarangi (Nepali fiddle), singing bowls, didgeridoo, education in Nepal, creativity at different times and venues ranging from ethnomusicology department of University of Toronto, Nepal folklore society, Don Bosco Academy Kathmandu, Green Hub Assam, Nepali environmental writing seminar as such.
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What people are saying
After all his adventures and experiments in sound and space, Subedi feels that people most close to nature have the ability to “accept the world for what it is.”
“We followed the didgeridoo. Or rather, we followed artist Salil Subedi as he produced long, gentle thrums from the wind instrument, leading a crowd down an alley. We were in Bungamati. We had been summoned to the old Newari town that afternoon by artists from Kathmandu University’s Center for Art and Design (KU).”
The body and paint encounter each other in a later performance by Salil Subedi as well, where he characteristically smears himself with paint as he sings an invocation to a river — dredging up a queer blend of the primeval and the aesthete in us.
– Kurchi Dasgupta, The Hyperallergic Mag
“On my recent visit to Nepal, Salil organised a concert for us. It was a powerful evening of didgeridoos, singing bowls, sitar, dance and folk tales. What an amazing performer. He captivated our audience of Canadians, Americans, Germans and Nepalis and blew us away. I can’t wait to see him perform here in Canada.”
VP Emeritus George Brown College, Ontario Canada
Chief Organiser of Salil Subedi Canadian Tour, 2019
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