The Score Magazine November 2019 issue | Page 50

MUKESH AMARAN ALBUM ARTicle DEBJYOTI SAHA 1. Hello, a little bit about yourself and your background in arts and music? I am a Visual Storyteller. I studied Animation Film Design at NID Ahmedabad. I am a fond believer in the magic of Animation Storytelling and enjoy all things motion. Like many artists, I want my work to pan across various directions, styles, platforms and narratives. At this time of experiment, I simply am in search of interesting work.  2. At this point in your career, what role did music have to play in you getting to where you are? Good work resonates, no matter where you come from. My connection to Hip-Hop dates back a few years in a different form of the same genre. Back in my school and college days I and a bunch of friends would take Breakdance (an element of Hip-Hop) quite seriously. That's when I was introduced to this genre of music. We would listen to them all the time. With time, things started getting more serious, I started to develop a knack of other things, and now I'm here; but what stayed with me throughout is the music. 3. Tell us about your collaboration with Seedhe Maut from conception to creation and the end product.  Honest confession: When Seedhe Maut first got in touch with me on Instagram, I thought it might be some fake profile. This might have been too hard for me to believe that Seedhe Maut actually got in touch. They shared with me a sample of their song "101" and a brief idea about it. We wanted to keep it Desi. We wanted something Hard. Thus, came the idea of the two of them, Calm and Encore, driving an old Contessa across a Delhi Highway, escaping a band of cops, cash flowing out of their stuffed car. They were quite happy to see a rough draft and we rolled with it. 48 The Score Magazine highonscore.com 4. What are your thoughts on how other art apart from music is perceived in our music scene? (Like visual arts, album arts, photographers and the likes) I believe, in the digital world of music, everything is quite visual. An album art gives the music a visual identity. Just like one song is different from the other in terms of narrative, flow, composition and style, it needs to be catered to differently. A good artwork (static or video) only adds to the visual identity of the music and does justice to what the music has set out to do. 5. Tell us a little bit about the process that is involved in making a piece by Debjyoti. Every work of art is different and thus, treated differently. There's no fixed way of approaching a project. Usually I start off with a brief idea of what the song is about and what is the artist's thoughts on it. Then, we try to understand how the song makes us feel. Once we stumble upon an idea that does justice to the vibe and the content of a song, we go ahead with it. 6. Tell us about your art style and the concepts behind your artworks.  There is no particular style of work I limit myself to. But there will be an emerging pattern in my work if we look into it, definitely. Most of my work deals with people; what they stand for, how they feel, where they come from and where they go, how they act and react. I think across platforms, that is what I'd like to stick to. Eventually, whatever we are doing is to understand us and our environment better.