Aishik works for SOR4D as a project manager and post-PhD fellow. He has completed his PhD in Indian Musicology. His research interests span across Historical Indian Political Musicology (HIPM), Ethnomusicology, Sound Ecology and Cultural Sustainability. He explores the changing ecologies of soundscapes, studying rhythms and ruptures shaped by (non)human interactions within sonic urban palimpsests. His action research is anchored with an advocacy for an auditory sustainability addressing community resilience in South Asia. He is presently involved in global partnership projects, mainly focusing upon and executing wide spectrum of visualization techniques to depict and disseminate real-life scenarios from coastal-deltaic contexts.
His focus in this project is to explore the situated cultural practices (ritualistic and oral tradition) and pathways to cultural sustainability in Indian Sundarbans; organize and facilitate research and training workshops; capture photographs and video footage to produce a thematic/full-length film.