Pratyay Raha  

Pratyay Raha is a sonic arts and music practitioner whose work explores ecological awareness through field recording, sound art, and critical sound studies. His practice seeks to foster dialogue and encourage action towards the preservation of endangered environments. He holds a Master of Arts in Composition and Creative Music Practice from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and is currently undertaking a PhD in Fine Art at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Alongside his research practice, Raha is a singer and songwriter interested in both traditional and contemporary approaches to composition. A collector of stories and songs, he engages closely with the diverse Adivasi cultures (Indigenous communities) of India. He has also composed music and sound for numerous documentary and short films in India.

Raha first exhibited with Mangroves from the Water at the 2026 exhibition held at Barwon Heads Arts Hub. He presented Intertidal Echoes, a non-narrative experimental sound work that emerged from attentive listening to mangrove ecologies across India and Australia. Accompanied by a series of photographic images, the work unfolds as a layered collage of sounds, inviting intimate encounters with sonic environments that are often overlooked or rendered inaudible.

Constructed from assembled field recordings, Intertidal Echoes brings together the sounds of geophysical processes—including tidal movement, rainfall, and water flow—with the acoustic presence of insects, birds, crustaceans, and submerged organisms. Rather than following a linear narrative, the work allows sounds to coexist, overlap, and interrupt one another, reflecting the intertidal zone as a dynamic space of continual exchange between land and sea, and between human and more-than-human life.

Through this sonic assemblage, Raha foregrounds the complex ecological relationships that sustain mangrove environments and invites audiences to engage with these fragile ecosystems through practices of deep listening.

Website: www.pratyayraha.com