Sukanta Majumdar

Sukanta Majumdar is a sound designer who specialises in field recording and sound design for films and theatre. A graduate of SRFTI (Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute) of India in Kolkata, he has worked with many renowned filmmakers at home and abroad.

He recorded the sound on location for the documentary film, ‘Nocturnes’ (2024) by Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta which owns the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Craft at the Sundance Film Festival, 2024 and he was nominated for the Cinema Eye Honors 2025 in the Outstanding Sound Design category. His recent work, a quadraphonic sound composition, ‘No-country for Aurality’ was shown in the Dystopia Sound Art Biennial 2024 in Berlin.

Among his other completed film soundtracks are Cat Sticks (Ronny Sen, India; premiered at Slamdance 2019), Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown) by Naeem Mohaiemen, premiered at Yokohama Triennale 2020 and a few short films by Amit Dutta including If I go, where do I go? (2020) and The Scent of Earth (2021), Anynadin… (Another Day…) (2021) by Kamar Ahmad Simon, premiered at IDFA 2021, Nine Hills One Valley (2022) by Haobam Paban Kumar, A Home for My Heart (2022) by Sankhajit Biswas, Before Life After Death (2022) by Anshul Tiwari.

Notable works-
Exhibitions-

https://www.dystopia.berlin/2024/sukanta-majumdar/
https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2020/a_slightly_curving_place/start.php

Albums-
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/track/rites-of-labour
https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/record-label/

Recent publications-
Ways of Listening, A Slightly Curving Place, Volume 1 ed. Nida Ghouse, pp. 129-139, published in July 2022 https://www.archivebooks.org/a-slightly-curving-place/
Meghe Dhaka Tara: Bharatiya Cinemar Soundtracker Ekti Milestone (Meghe Dhaka Tara: A Milestone Soundtrack of Indian Cinema), Bengali, Pratirodher Cinema, year 6, Jan, 2019, pp. 19-27
Komol Gandhar: Dwidha Bibhaktir Cholochchitre Miloner Soundtrack (Komol Gandhar: A Soundtrack of Union in a film of Divided Thoughts), Bengali, Pratirodher Cinema, year 7, Jan, 2020, pp. 22-32
Subarnarekha – NoiShabder Dike Jatra (Subarnarekha- A Journey towards the Silence), Bengali, Pratirodher Cinema, year 8, Jan, 2024, pp. 76-90