Bari women chanting

While artist-in-residence at the Alice Boner Institute in Varanasi, India, I was lucky to hear chanting every day - nearly all day. The chanting is sacred - but it is also joyous. I wanted to capture that.Women singing reimagined by Paul Beaudoin.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Explore the full project at citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds