70. AITC: The Intersections of Music and Urbanism with Tanya Wells of Seven Eyes
Tanya Wells and Paulo Vinícius Photo by Zeeshaan Jamal
“…as humans we’re not rooted, with our movement we are nourished by different things, places, people…”
- Tanya Wells
This week, in our ongoing series Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus, we sit down with Tanya Wells of the musical act Seven Eyes to discuss the intersections of music and architecture. We ask about her catalogue of experiences during this global pandemic, the cross-culturality of their music, and her transnational upbringing that informs her craft now.
Timestamp Outline
2:00 The Road is My Song video explaining Mumbai Night Drive
4:48 Seven Eyes monthly singles
7:44 “[Between Rural Switzerland and Mumbai] How do you negotiate between these two places? Between the idyll around Geneva and the density and sweat of a place like Mumbai?” VP
10:45 “There’s a positive and a negative to both places...I would say in Geneva, there’s a lack this pulse [that is found in Mumbai]...Geneva is called the city of peace...so it doesn’t have that buzz of a conventional urban environment.” TW
11:45 Start of discussion of Transnationality
12:30 How can a city inspire music?
13:20 “The city itself provided a music video for me.” TW
13:50 Ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan
14:13 Parsi community of mumbai
15:38 TRIMS music video
15:45 Colaba area in Mumbai
16:36 Gateway of India, built for King George V
18:45 Rhapsody on a Windy Night, T.S. Eliot
19:18 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
27:35 “I would assume myself as a political act that goes against that [closed borders] ideology. What is national identity? I don’t think there is just one fixed identity to any one person. We are all multiplex and we all have multiple facets that make us who we are.” TW
32:16 “Let’s go to the foothills of the Himalayas to Dharamshala, where you grew up.”
33:00 Discussion of experiences in Dharamshala and the International Shaja Public School
