Sinha’s research publications span genres and platforms from radically experimental audio works and performances to academic artifacts such as book chapters, conference presentations, etc. Gathered here are a selection of works that find home in the academy.
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the archive of silences // home for various research projects incl. sshrc-funded podcast ontologies of silence, a series of 1-on-1 conversations with a wide variety of researchers in the arts and sciences about the how silence – auditory, visual, political, social – manifests in their research
Book Chapters
Sinha, Debashis, and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay. “Debashis Sinha.” Sound Production Practices in the Global South: Co-listening to Resounding Plurilogues, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2021, pp. 365-380.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Sinha, Debashis. “Algorithmic Mythologies: Failure as a Cultural Tool.” Seismograf, vol. 32, 2025, https://doi.org/10.48233/69. Audio paper.
Sinha, Debashis. “Small Gestures: Generating Radical Sonic Futures in an Algorithmic World.” Organised Sound, vol 30, no. 1, 2025, pp. 24–31. doi:10.1017/S135577182500010X.
Sinha, Debashis. “Field Recording, Autoethnography, and the Entanglements of the Heard.” Performance Matters, vol. 9, no. 1, 2023 (link) . Audio paper.
Pillai, Shanti, and Debashis Sinha. “Discovering New Stories in What AI Doesn’t Know: An Interview with Audiovisual Performance Artist Debashis Sinha.” Theatre Journal, vol. 73, no. 3, 2021, pp. E15-E19.
Sinha, Debashis. “In the City the Body Rests.” Entanglements, vol. 4, no. 2, 2021, pp. 50-65.
Conference Proceedings
“Offering 1: Oranges / The Embedded Stories of the Urban Soundscape.” Research Centre for Music, Sound and Society in Canada Conference: Reflections on the Legacy of R.Murray Schafer, YouTube, February 25, 2023 (link).
Manuscripts Submitted for Publication
Sinha, Debashis. Untitled essay. The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies, vol. 3: Audible Futures, Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
Sinha, Debashis. “Zehn Tage im April and Listening to What Listening Reveals.” R. Murray Schafer’s Ecologies of Music and Sound Revisited, edited by Dr. EllenWaterman, McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming. Book chapter
Beecher, Lambert, Ben Caplan, Sean Mayes and Debashis Sinha. “Sounding Moscovitch.” Making Moscovitch: A Feminist Theatre Scrapbook, edited by Michelle MacArthur and Sasha Kovacs, Playwrights Canada Press, forthcoming. Book chapter.