Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an artist and researcher critically engaged with sound and listening. Working at the intersection between research and artistic practice, he incorporates field recording, video, and text generating a diverse range of sound-based artworks for exhibition, publication, installation and live-performance. Graduating in Sound Recording from one of the two National Film Schools in India, he completed Master of Arts in New Media with a dissertation in Sound Art from Aarhus University, Denmark. Among other awards, he was nominated for a Prix Ars Electronica in Digital Musics & Sound Art in 2011. Currently he is involved with a PhD project at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, working on perception and cognition of sound.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay indulges in field recording as a phenomenological development of the act of in-depth listening at place. The outcomes are varied, from experimental music and electro-acoustic compositions to sited installations and performances based on digital manipulation and multi-channel spatialization of sound.