Listening Journal - January 2025 - Mumbai

Tinkers surrounded by piles of different coloured soles, pots of polish and assorted tools, sit at the end of each platform tapping small wooden sticks to gain attention from passing passengers. The combined tapping is spatially pleasing, woodblock polyrhythms moving back and forth along the ends of the platforms. A huge air horn blast adds a dramatic counter and now crow caws join the wooden…