The "RIYAZ MAS­TER PRO­JECT" is an ex­per­i­men­tal non nar­ra­tive road movie filmed in In­dia by Um­abeecroft
This video ap­proach­es an ab­stract and fu­tur­is­tic vi­sion of the com­plex ma­trix called in­di­an na­tion.
From Au­roville to Kolkata, from Varanasi to Bhopal, look­ing for the con­text in pro­duc­tion of the RIYAZ MAS­TER, the elec­tron­ic tabla ma­chine which in­spires the whole RIYAZ pro­ject.
Our for­mer re­search around the old in­dus­tri­al land­scapes and the fer­tile and dirty en­vi­ron­ments led us to imag­ine the pos­si­bil­i­ties of the de­vel­op­ment of a fu­ture In­dia, play­ing with fic­tion­al and re­al el­e­ments -​in­spired by the lo­cal cul­tur­al, eco­nom­ic and spir­i­tu­al con­text that we dis­cov­ered on our voy­age .

LOOP­CEN­TU­RY will pro­duce a 45 m DVD with the im­ages shot by Um­abeecroft and the orig­i­nal elec­tron­ic mu­sic com­posed by Sig­moon with some low tech in­di­an elec­tron­ic mu­si­cal ma­chines & cin­e­mat­ic sounds.

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RIYAZ MAS­TER PRO­JECT has been pre­sent­ed :

16th De­cem­ber at Tri­postal, Lille 3000 Fes­ti­val.
21st De­cem­ber OPA-​ Paris.
30th March. Sin­cro­nia Fes­ti­val, at Niu (Es­pai Artis­tic Con­tem­po­rani), Barcelona.
25th May. Cin­coechegaray, Mála­ga.
29th June, Trien­al de Ar­qui­tec­tura de Lis­boa.